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The reporters. during one particular attack actually called the police department and started telling them that he was watching them actually investigate the crime. >> the audacity of the robberies mirrored the audacity of the rapes. police brought chad in for questioning. >> we then felt we had enough to get a search warrant for his dna, for his blood and that he understood that. there was nothing concrete to connect him to any of the sexual assaults and he basically denied everything. >> price...

One of stephanies neighbors saw this person looking into stephanies window. a police artist drew a sketch and released it to newspapers and local television stations. >> the phone calls began pouring in. because it was a high-profile case here at that time. numerous leads came in. >> but after tracking down hundreds of leads, only one appeared promising, a convicted sex offender who lived in the area. >> we were able to go out and make contact with this individual. it looked very promising early...

Court. >> it was a partial match, which told law enforcement and told me that we were on the right track. we just needed to get a good dna sample from drew planten. >> since planten worked for the state, investigators got permission to search his workplace. mark bodet swabbed his computer keyboard, his radio and other items he handled. dna from those skin cells was compared to the biological evidence from stephanie bennetts rape test kit. >> the dna profile that was obtained was an exact match t...

Im not interested. you have a suspect right there. if you return 30 or 40 no thank yous in a week, and trust me, women get inundated with that many requests. well, youve got 40 suspects. >> investigators interviewed all the men sarah spoke to from the site. each provided a dna sample and all were eliminated. by this time, several weeks had passed. and the trail of sarahs killer was turning cold. then unexpectedly, nelson villavicenzio, the husband of another realtor, came forward with some new i...

>> police even tried to get a court order for jonothan vicks dna, but the court refused on the grounds that driving a vehicle like the one seen near the crime scene was insufficient probable cause. >> wheres the probable cause on jonothan vick at this time? it doesnt exist. >> so police dropped their investigation of jonothan vick. >> there was a time i figured, well, maybe they have cleared him, but there was something inside that said it still aint right, somethings just not right. >> so now, ...

For vicks dna sample. >> michael pace is the probable cause that allowed us to get jonothan vicks dna. >> jonothan vick was still living in south carolina after serving two years in the marines. >> i love my wife and daughter. thats all that matters. >> he had had well over 15 different jobs, was getting fired or asked to leave because of his inability to get along with his co-workers or his supervisors. >> vick also had some brushes with the law. >> he had two arrests. one was a domestic violen...

Going until we get suspects. >> the first person on their list was daniel woloson. he was originally a suspect, and worked close to the murder and ran away when police tried to question him. by now, he was divorced with one child and did not want to talk with police. >> he said he had provided hair samples back in 1981 and he was not interested in cooperating with their investigation. >> investigators wanted a dna sample. woloson refused to provide one and the courts refused to order one. siting...

Tissue and put it into a detergent that dissolved everything but the complex molecules. a pcr dna analysis once again provided useful information. >> the majority of the dna appeared to have male gender characteristics. >> the last step was to collect a dna sample from sam freeman. >> when we first informed mr. freeman of why we were there and who we were, it was like at that instance he had just went into shock. his demeanor totally changed. that, i couldnt describe, only other as maybe the fac...

>> but like his brother, justin denied any involvement in the murders. he said he had an alibi, that he was with friends at a nightclub, which they corroborated. then investigators asked their third suspect, william deparvine, for a dna sample. he said no. >> we dont have any probable cause at this point in time in the investigation to indicate that mr. deparvine is involved in the murder. therefore, we dont have enough information to draw a search warrant. >> without a warrant, police couldnt g...

Based on dna testing and blood spatter analysis, investigators believe richard van dusen was pulled from his jeep and shot outside the vehicle. his wife karla was sitting in the passenger seat and was shot through the windshield. but on the steering wheel, investigators found blood which did not come from karla or richard. >> the samples that were tested from the steering wheel were consistent with being human blood. those samples were tested to develop a dna profile. >> perhaps the killer nicke...