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Only way it could have happened if he had had a vasectomy before 1974 and then had it reversed. >> the defense called one of the nations leading experts on male reproduction to back up the claim that ferris could not have been the killer. >> if hes fertile today, would you expect that in 1974 he would have been infertile at any time? >> if hes fertile now, he almost certainly would have been fertile then. >> the original medical examiner had concluded that whoever raped cheryl miller was sterile...

>> i dont. >> that was the one piece of physical evidence they had. the problem with that piece of physical evidences that fingerprints last. that fingerprint could have been left there any number of prior occasions. >> the defenses argument was simple -- there was far less reason to believe that ferris had committed the murder and more reason to believe that someone else had done it. first, the defense brought up the original suspect, abbass esfehani. youll recall he was the victims former boyf...

Ferris said they had sex all over the bedroom and fingerprint analysts forced to admit they couldnt prove the prints were left the night of the murder. >> you said you could not place a time on it, correct? >> thats true. >> so you dont know when it was made? >> i dont. >> that was the one piece of physical evidence they had. the problem with that piece of physical evidences that fingerprints last. that fingerprint could have been left there any number of prior occasions. >> the defenses argumen...

And driving 65 miles for a rendezvous with ex-girlfriend, cheryl miller, a meeting that ended in murder. >> over time, years, evidence keeps pointing to gabe ferris. not tony alvarez. not abbass esfehani. gabe ferris. >> but the defense disagreed and insisted that the prosecutions theory made no sense. that even though admittedly ferris has been a scoundrel, sleeping with cheryl miller in the days before his wedding to another woman, there was no evidence that he killed her. >> its a sleazy thin...

Is, of course, probably someone that knows her. >> now-retired police detectives ron hersburg and tom reeder worked the case. and in the days after the murder, a clear picture of a suspect emerged. an exchange student from iran, a former boyfriend named abbass esfehani. >> interviewed the parents. and they had had a conversation with their daughter a couple days before this homicide that she did not want to see him anymore. that she was scared of him because of his temper. >> two critical pieces...

Proven that ferris was a man capable of leaving his honeymoon bed on the shores of lake huron and driving 65 miles for a rendezvous with ex-girlfriend, cheryl miller, a meeting that ended in murder. >> over time, years, evidence keeps pointing to gabe ferris. not tony alvarez. not abbass esfehani. gabe ferris. >> but the defense disagreed and insisted that the prosecutions theory made no sense. that even though admittedly ferris has been a scoundrel, sleeping with cheryl miller in the days befor...

>> you said you could not place a time on it, correct? >> thats true. >> so you dont know when it was made? >> i dont. >> that was the one piece of physical evidence they had. the problem with that piece of physical evidences that fingerprints last. that fingerprint could have been left there any number of prior occasions. >> the defenses argument was simple -- there was far less reason to believe that ferris had committed the murder and more reason to believe that someone else had done it. firs...

Been the killer. >> if hes fertile today, would you expect that in 1974 he would have been infertile at any time? >> if hes fertile now, he almost certainly would have been fertile then. >> the original medical examiner had concluded that whoever raped cheryl miller was sterile. >> the problem with that turned out to be abbass esfehani is not sterile. tony alverez is not sterile. gabe ferris is not sterile. so even of the pool of suspects that the defense argued could have committed this crime, ...

That knows her. >> now-retired police detectives ron hersburg and tom reeder worked the case. and in the days after the murder, a clear picture of a suspect emerged. an exchange student from iran, a former boyfriend named abbass esfehani. >> interviewed the parents. and they had had a conversation with their daughter a couple days before this homicide that she did not want to see him anymore. that she was scared of him because of his temper. >> two critical pieces of evidence linked esfehani to ...

After millers murder, he had sold his car, left many of his belongings in saginaw, and a week ahead of schedule got on a plane in detroit and flew home to iran. a warrant was issued. esfehani was arrested. although he denied committing the murder, hair samples were sent from iran to michigan. the hair samples, said to have come from esfehani, sent by the police were examined and found not to be similar to the hairs found on the victims body. but something strange was going on because the hairs s...