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He was casing the house before the murder. that was in their file. in 1987. they knew. >> once we got the dna results and we knew a, it was christine mortons blood and b, that it wasnt michaels blood -- or skin cells i should say on the ban dana, none of his dna, that was terrific. >> the dna of this other person was intermingled with christines dna. it really places the bandanna at the murder scene. >> so the next step was to work with the texas state crime lab to get it entered into the databa...

With the texas state crime lab to get it entered into the database to see if it matched any convicted offenders or unsolved crimes. fortunately, there is now a vast database of dna profiles from convicted offenders and unsolved crimes plus codus, a national database run by the fbi which all states enter. you can put night a big computer in the sky and within hours be able to tell whether it matches one of 8 million or more profiles in the system. >> and they got a direct hit on a man with a know...