Last updated on October 17th, 2025 at 12:34 pm
Cybergenetics’ TrueAllele technology was deployed to play a crucial role in the high-profile case of State of Hawaii v. Eric Thompson. Acupuncturist Jon Tokuhara was found dead in January 2022. He was shot in his Waipahu clinic.
Footage gotten from surveillance revealed a suspect who wore a Quicksilver bucket hat, which later fell off while he was running away from the scene.
While scientists first deployed the traditional DNA analysis, it proved difficult to interpret the complex mixture that was seen on the Quicksilver bucket hat, but the deployment of Cybergenetics’ TrueAllele Casework successfully linked the case to Thompson after it produced a strong match statistic of 16.4 trillion, while taking away other people who contributed to the tragedy.
Lawyers who represented the defendants challenged the reliability of TrueAllele DNA Technology while pretrial hearings were ongoing, but the court had earlier, on December 3rd of last year, ruled the technology evidence admissible.
Among those who testified during the retrial is a cybergenetics analyst. He testified in February 2025.
Eric Thompson was convicted of second-degree murder on February 25, 2025, by a Honolulu jury. He was also convicted of a related firearm offense, which cemented TrueAllele’s rising contribution in forensic DNA analysis.
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