Jefferson County

ACTIVE CASE

ARRESTED 2025

CURRENTLY OUT ON BOND

YVONNE "MISSY" WOODS

2025CR136, 1st Judicial District, Judge Graham Peper 

Missy Woods is facing more than one hundred charges (120 at last count) related to the mishandling of DNA data while working as a forensic scientist for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. 

Woods worked as a forensic scientist at CBI for nearly 30 years. An internal investigation into her work began in September 2023 and its results were announced by CBI on March 8, 2024. She left the agency in November 2023, just before CBI publicly announced that it had discovered the anomalies. Results from the investigation determined that Woods intentionally omitted material facts in official criminal justice records, tampered with DNA testing results by omitting some results, and violated CBI’s Code of Conduct and CBI laboratory policies.