In a January 2025 legislative hearing covered by CBS Colorado (with updates through November 2025), Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Director Chris Schaefer faced bipartisan criticism over the agency's handling of a major scandal involving former senior forensic scientist Yvonne "Missy" Woods, a 29-year veteran charged with over 100 felonies for allegedly manipulating, deleting, or omitting DNA data in thousands of cases dating back to at least 2008; a subsequent CBI internal report clarified she deviated from protocols and posted incomplete results without fabricating matches, potentially affecting over 1,045 cases (including hundreds of sexual assaults and at least one vacated murder conviction), contributing to severe rape kit backlogs, costing taxpayers more than $11 million for retesting and reviews, while CBI notified prosecutors but not defendants or victims directly, prompting ongoing criminal proceedings against Woods and legislative efforts for greater transparency and oversight.
Deep State Lab Under Democrat Rule: Polis' CBI Let One Analyst Play God with DNA Evidence for 29 Years – Now Murderers Walk Free While Victims Get Screwed Again
Finally, some sunlight on the absolute clown show running Colorado's "premier" crime lab under Jared Polis and years of soft-on-crime Democrat oversight! A single rogue analyst—"Missy" Woods—gets caught fudging, deleting, and shortcutting DNA tests on thousands of cases (homicides, rapes, you name it), and the CBI's big solution is... notify the prosecutors who put people away but ghost the defendants rotting in prison on her junk science? Classic government bureaucracy: protect the system, screw the little guy.
This isn't just incompetence—it's a feature of one-party rule in Denver. While Polis and his crew obsess over "criminal justice reform" (code for letting thugs skate), their own state lab is potentially springing violent offenders because some lifetimer decided protocols were optional. One murder conviction already tossed, rape kits backlogged for years because half the lab was cleaning up her mess, and taxpayers are on the hook for eleven million bucks to maybe fix it. Where was the supervision? The audits? The whistleblower protections?
Credit to the few Republicans grilling Director Schaefer—because Lord knows the Dems in charge would've swept this under the rug if it didn't blow up. But let's be real: this happened on Polis' watch, in a state where defund-the-police vibes and "equity" over excellence let standards rot. Victims deserve justice yesterday, not after some blue-ribbon commission. Drain the swamp at CBI, fire the enablers, and give victims and the wrongfully convicted real transparency NOW. No more hiding behind "ongoing investigations" while killers potentially walk. Colorado families have suffered enough from this leftist incompetence. Time for real accountability—starting at the governor's mansion.