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A detective on the case and a victim’s mother believe police pursued the cases less aggressively because the victims were all Black women.

Charlotte police suspected Henry Wallace of a handful of murders. But when he started compiling a list of his victims, he kept adding names.

It took persistent investigators, skilled genealogists and more than two decades for DNA technology to advance to solve a series of sexual assaults in the '90s.

In all the years detectives spent investigating these cases, the name David Edward Doran never came up. It took DNA analysis and genealogy tracing to find the suspect known as the Myers Park rapist.

>> thats the way youre brought up, whether you talk about hey, can you fix my roof or can you kill my husband, its just natural. >> we knew that if she did a, b, c, and d, we were going to make the arrest that day. >> charlotte, mecklenburg police detective sergeant darrell price is part of the task force with the atf, monitoring the meeting from the other parts of the shopping center. >> we had a pickup truck parked with a camper shell on the back, there were several of us in the back of that t...

And live just outside the city in the town of matthews where she works in the preschool at the first baptist church. >> if you listen to her story, preschool teacher, married, kids, shes everyones next door neighbor. >> her 40-year-old husband, jimmy, comes into the marriage with a job as a cable splicer at the telephone company, as well as a life insurance policy. >> basically from her descriptions of jimmy crowell, good hearted working guy who, other than the fact that she wanted the insurance...

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