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Two months after kevins acquittal and more than a year after nonas death steffys police chief told him to question a suspect in a recent burglary, a man by the name of gary dunn. steffys eyes widened at that. >> my chief looked at me and i said do you know who he is? he said yes. he was one of the neighbors to nona dirksmeyer. >> gary dunn, a neighbor of nonas. he was among that handful of men whod been questioned, then cleared by police. steffy knew that dunn certainly would have had the opport...

>> an odd combination. >> oh, i used to say its the ultimate good guy. >> and right away stephie knew there was a key piece of evidence that demanded a closer look. that condom wrapper found in nonas apartment. it held somebodys dna, but whose? steffey wondered if police cleared those male friends and neighbors of nona too quickly in the early days of the investigation. >> do they have a valid alibi? because either im missing something or, you know -- and so i began to feel like that some of tho...

Copies of receipts from those stores to back up the alibi. >> so this is the store where supposedly gary dunn came to do some shopping. >> this was one of the places we had to check out in his alibi. the store had boxes and boxes of records, of receipts. it was the old-fashioned sign the slip kind of receipt. >> hes not kigd. boxes going back years. steffy rooted through piles of forgotten paper. >> how many boxes did you go through? >> i have no idea. >> hours and hours? >> i think i have tried...

>> but there was a problem. to get that sample tested steffy needed the cash-strapped jones family to pay for it. at first kevins mother hesitated. the test would cost about $600. but the investigator insisted. >> what did she say? >> eventually, she just kind of said something like oh, shucks, its just money. >> so she paid for it. and what a good investment it turned out to be. because weekends later steffy got a call from one of kevins lawyers. the dna tests were back. and wouldnt you know. >...