The investigation found that Woods did not falsify DNA matches or fabricate DNA profiles. Rather, the report said she deleted and altered data in case records, tampered with DNA testing results and deviated from standard testing protocols and cut corners.

I couldn’t understand what the difference between her “tampering with DNA testing results” but not “fabricating/falsifying DNA profiles/matches” was … so I went looking.

CNN has a better description of what was done.

The agency said its forensics team discovered Woods deleted and altered data that served to conceal evidence of her tampering as well as her failure to “troubleshoot issues within the testing process.” The agency said Woods’ manipulations “appear to have been the result of intentional conduct.”

So it seems she was simply being lazy and had to cover her tracks.

There’s this as well …

As part of this process, the agency said it discovered a separate case in which an analyst with the Weld County Sheriff’s Office at the Northern Colorado Regional Forensic Laboratory may have also manipulated testing data. The sheriff’s office announced last month it fired the DNA analyst as the result of an internal investigation.