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The bad news, we still dont -- cant give you a suspect. >> the dna profile of their killer did not match any of the known criminal offenders in the national database. >> the dna match didnt tell us who that person was. that was our job, to find him. >> but it wouldnt be easy. margarette ebys murder took place many years earlier, and nancy ludwig was murdered in detroit, over 75 miles away from flint. but investigators suspected that the killer drove a monte carlo automobile and had access to twi...

Automobile like the one a witness saw in the hotel parking lot on the night of nancy ludwigs murder. and there was another surprise. gorton worked for a water sprinkler company that serviced the sprinkler system in margarette ebys yard. >> that same company had been to margarette ebys residence several days before her death in order for them to blow out the sprinkler lines for the season. >> but that could have been easily explained why his fingerprint would have been inside ebys home. >> youre ...

At pam kinamores autopsy, pathologists found biological evidence that she had been sexually assaulted and it also contained the dna profile of her killer. naturally investigators wanted to know if this perpetrator had been apprehended before. >> we had already taken his dna profile and searched it into the fbi codis data bait which is a national database of offenders as well as evidence from other cases. and we knew then at that point he had not been linked to any other crimes. >> but this dna e...

Unfortunately, it did not match any of the dna profiles in the colorado state database of known criminal offenders. renees former boyfriends and her co-workers and fellow students willingly submitted dna for comparison. none matched. >> this case goes cold. no one is arrested. no suspects are named. >> you absolutely live in fear. i mean, you have this person whos told you that they were going to kill you, and theyve certainly shown you that theyre capable of it. >> it wasnt until ten years late...

And so there was so much of her dna that it was literally overwhelming the other contributing dna that we were finding. >> fortunately a quick-thinking paramedic at the scene had swabbed parts of rebecca body while others were trying to save her life. >> this is pretty heads-up. i know this is a crime, she was found nude, what if theres dna. it turns out, yes, there was saliva on both rebeccas neck and on her breasts. >> but when the dna profile was put in the national dna day pa base of known o...

I had done a lot of searches for outside agencies and the chances i thought would be very slim. >> but the database of known criminal offenders in maine turned up 30 possible matches. >> 30 came up for me to look at one by one, side by side, to see if they could be the print. >> for the side-by-side comparison stevens used the original hard copies made by the 30 criminals when they were arrested and inked by police. its time-consuming and exhausting. >> you want to do it when your eye is fresh a...

I handed it back to him. >> but enhancing it would come at a price. >> that would destroy the dna profile of the blood the fingerprint was left in. >> investigators decided the risk was worth it. the print was sprayed with amino black, a chemical dye that reacts with the proteins in blood. >> we worked on it a little bit more and we decided that was as good as the print was going to get. >> the result was a partial print of a fingertip. investigators entered the print into the nationwide fingerp...

Did not match the database of any known criminal offenders. police checked files for known sexual offenders living near the crime scene. one stood out. kenneth ray johnson had just moved to texas city after serving 25 years for rape. >> he was really a good suspect because he was new to the area. he didnt want to cooperate at first, but then he did. he had several alibis, if im not mistaken. >> johnson denied any involvement. since he was on parole he was wearing an ankle bracelet that tracked h...

Marriage. he was brought in and interviewed. we asked him for dna. which he voluntarily gave to us. >> its not a match for the dna found on beverly jackson. in fact, they cant find any match for the rape kit dna in the criminal data base. you can all watch the episode, see something say something 10:00 p.m. eastern on investigation discovery. today the pope issued his strongest comments yesterday on recreational marijuana. its one of the things we thought you should know. actor eric dane joins...

Female. >> the male dna belonged to the victim, pat mcrae. this meant the killer was a woman. >> its not uncommon for people when theyre stabbing someone else to stab themselves accidentally. maybe have their hands slip on the knife, cut the inner sides of their fingers. its really quite common. >> then police located laura england, the dancer last seen with pat mcrae on the night he was murdered. but she denied seeing mcrae that night and said the club manager must have been mistaken. >> she al...