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Domestically and there is a question about privacy. but dna database, surveillance outside a building where the suspect is running through a field, we dont know anything about the phone lines. how crucial is that surveillance information to catching this guy? >> reporter: it is very crucial. it is what i think the law enforcement investigators relied on. they had a video and had a warrant to get this guys cellphone records and because of that they were able to track this movements and i believe ...

Clues. there was evidence that the family might have been held under duress but evidently, nobody thought of that. you know, after the fact were thinking of it. but, again, al this was one more reason why we need a national dna database. atf and the d.c. police were able to identify this guy, based upon a burnt piece of pizza that he left laying there. thats a real csi in real life. >> no doubt about it. clint van zandt and jim cavanaugh, thank you both for your time. >> thanks reverend al. st...

>> i never saw remorse. not one time. the only time i saw remorse was when he came to court and he pled guilty, and a judge sentenced him to life. he didnt care about diane. >> diane maxwells father lived long enough to see her killer brought to justice. >> this database has been such a boost to law enforcement, to be able to help solve these crimes that otherwise would go unsolved. and now with the dna database, and thats doing the same thing, i mean, its just been a tremendous boost to those o...

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After the jury finding you guilty and court in consideration of the crime for which you now stand convicted, you are punished by imprisonment for a term of not less than 2 1/2 years to not more than 3 years committed concurrent with the life sentence imposed on count a. on the charge of unlawful possession of ammunition, after being convicted by the jury, you now stand convicted and in consideration for the offense of which you are convicted, you are sentenced to the house of correction for a pe...

Safe to go out on that trail. >> but that wasnt the only possibility. >> there are numerous access and exit points to this canal trail, either by the public roadways, by individuals using adjacent fields, and access gates. >> the murder weapon was a broken piece of metal fencing. >> this perpetrator actually broke off a piece of metal fence post and it appears that they waited for her to return from her walk and then dragged her off the trail. >> there was blood, but no prints on the murder weap...

Away in 1992. in the twilight of her life, she thought eddie lowery was the man who brutalized her. she couldnt know that the real rapist was still on the loose. >> thats always been a hope of mine, too. besides being exonerated was, you know, to completely convince everybody that i didnt do this, whether they believe in dna or not was to find the real perpetrator and convict him. >> for that, eddie lowery will have to wait six years. in may 2009 the fbis dna database of convicted offenders turn...

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...

Transient and homeless people on that trail previously and a lot of folks just felt it wasnt safe to go out on that trail. >> but that wasnt the only possibility. >> there are numerous access and exit points to this canal trail, either by the public roadways, by individuals using adjacent fields, and access gates. >> the murder weapon was a broken piece of metal fencing. >> this perpetrator actually broke off a piece of metal fence post and it appears that they waited for her to return from her ...

To examine diane maxwells clothing. >> if we could do the dna for the sexual assault and to get that and put it into the database, because now all the offenders as they go to prison theyre taking dna samples. and were getting a lot of cold hits on the dna database. >> but dianes clothing was gone. to their shock and dismay, it had been thrown away. >> over a period of years, i guess folks in the property room just had to make room for new property coming in. >> next, ramsey tried to interview th...