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21-year-old christopher attended the university of rochester, a three-hour drive away. both had alibis for the night of the attack. but why did joan porco tell police her son, christopher, was responsible? >> your mother is communicating. shes saying you were there at the house. >> i dont know why she would say that. >> she knows what happened. >> i hope she does. i was not there. >> he was cooperating. he let them take a dna sample. he let them look at his body to make sure there werent marks o...

His murder. des moines police learned andrea morris was recently released from prison in nebraska after serving two years on a drug charge. >> she is required to give a dna sample as part of her release. and so, i find out who her probation officer is, i call her up. she says, you know what, i just had to take her dna the other day. >> and it matched the dna from the blood found in pat mcraes bedroom. andrea morris was arrested at her apartment in lincoln, nebraska. >> and i introduced myself an...

>> gorton denied he was ever inside margarette ebys home. when he did, investigators confronted him with fingerprint evidence. >> do you know where that fingerprint came from? >> no. >> it came from the bathroom in the upstairs bedroom where margarette eby was found. >> mm-hmm. >> the house that you said you had never been in. so, right now, jeff, theres no question that youre the person thats responsible. the question that needs to be answered is why and what can we do to help you? >> well, the...

Conduct in the first degree. >> jeffrey gorton was tried and convicted for the first-degree murder of both nancy ludwig and margarette eby. he will spend the rest of his life in prison. >> im afraid of him. im glad hes locked up for the rest of his life. he is the absolutely most frightening person that ive ever encountered because he was random, because he was so secretive, because he was so ordinary. >> walter tom henderson wrote about this case in "blood justice" and thinks there are other vi...

Smiling, having fun with her friends, having no idea that she would be dying at the hands of someone i believe was truly evil. >> during stephanies autopsy, the medical examiner found signs of sexual assault and recovered a dna sample. this sample was compared to dna samples of all criminal offenders in both the state and national dna databases. there were no hits. >> there was not a lot of other evidence that was found at the crime scene. it appeared almost like what the suspect brought with hi...

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 also refused t...

Of agricultural. >> very reclusive individual. we went and interviewed people. he was very much to himself. very few friends. >> when police spoke with planten at his workplace, he claimed he never before heard the name stephanie bennett. >> wasnt many people within a 50-mile radius that was not familiar with the case. >> planten refused to go the police station so officers made an appointment to meet him at his apartment the next day. >> we told him we would see him at 5:00 and drew planten sta...

His dna sample for testing. but one of their scientific experts had a suggestion. >> i said we need to get a sample that was more intimate from him. we need to get a sample which he had touched or used, such as a cigarette butt or a toothbrush, or an item of clothing. >> but that wouldnt be easy. it seemed planten knew he was being followed. >> surveillance was conducted on drew planten for a week, at work and at home, and we could not obtain any dna from that weeks worth of surveillance. >> ult...

Sketch. so they couldnt get a court ordered dna sample. for now, it appeared police had hit another dead end.

>> but this profile was so weak, it would be inadmissible in court. >> it was a partial match, which told law enforcement and told me 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 kit. >> the...