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>> the paternity testing showed that the john doe dna on the shirt came from the father of this young woman, kathryn, who is barry benchs daughter. >> unbelievably, when this evidence was presented to the court, the judge refused to grant a new trial. he said he had no proof that barry bench was kathryns biological father. >> you would think youd be home the next day. you wouldnt think people would drag this out. >> this is the kind of people im dealing with. >> with pressure mounting, the state...

To barry bench, accusing him of murder. >> please get a court order to obtain dna samples from you. i still pray for you. i pray not only that you confess to killing sabena, i pray you confess to all your sins, mark my words, they will eventually find out your guilt. have a merry christmas, but dont court on a happy new year. >> brown hoped that bench might reply and licked the envelope. instead, bench walked in front of an oncoming amtrak train and killed himself. >> actually, i was kind of tic...

Blaze, you know, and hes not even up there helping. you know. hes walking down the road, looking way over here. if he was so concerned, why wouldnt he be looking up there? >> and barry claimed he had an alibi for the time the fire started. he said he was drinking in a local bar until 1:30 in the morning. but a bar patron claimed bench left the bar around midnight. >> he was unaccounted for for about an hour and a half. >> my reporting on barry bench showed that the, he had, as i understood, quit...

Indication they were left by the person who bit the victim, presumably her killer. goebel removed the fabric and performed dna testing, which is a more advanced form of pcr testing. the result, the dna profile from the saliva on the tee shirt did not match roy brown. but whose was it? barry benchs daughter kathryn offered to help out. >> his daughter was a very courageous young woman who said i want the truth. she actually contacted us after our papers were filed in court and said if you ever ne...

Barry bench and sabena were acquaintances. sabena lived with barrys brother ron until they broke up a month before the fire. according to friends, barry bench was in financial trouble and may have wanted to sell the farmhouse where sabena was staying. no one knows what happened that night. but the forensic evidence shows barry went to the farmhouse to speak with sabena. there was an argument. and things turned violent. the theory is that barry set fire to the farmhouse and was about to leave whe...

Undeterred, brown wanted to replace it using what little money he had. >> so he went and paid his, you know, 15 cents a page that hes entitled to under law and obtained these statements. >> brown requested duplicate copies of earn who gave statements to police during the murder investigation. >> it was like $28.50 i had to send them from jail. i only made like $4 every two weeks, $4.20. >> the sheriffs office sent brown a list of everyone the police interviewed. and thats when brown realized, th...