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Melissa had been wearing a sterling silver ring, diamond earrings, and a $5,000 watch. she also had an expensive prada handbag and an iphone. could very well be a target of some opportunistic grab and run. at the point we find her vehicle, we have no clues, no leads, and we dont have any suspects identified. dennis murphy (voiceover): police did find a tiny drop of melissas blood in her car and on a tile in her house, but there were no fingerprints other than melissas in either place. dna testin...

Dna testing. >> took us 27 years to bring closure to the victims family. >> reporter: tonight, the victims son, joe, who says he saw the clown drive away that day in this white convertible, says, "im happier than ive been in many years." as for his step-dad, michael warren, he says, "theres no doubt he was involved." however, police are not saying michael warren is a suspect. david, keen-warren is behind bars in virginia tonight. she will soon be extradited to florida, where she faces charges of...

Justice, for example, people thrown in jail on bad dna testing. >> go ahead, please. >> well, the president stemmed into the middle of a judicial proceeding to pardon sheriff joe arpaio? why did he do that? the president doesnt care about him. to apiece his racist zbleen ohphobic base. two get the media and the public ready that he can just issue these pardons without there being a proper adjudication of justice, particularly when it comes to what i think is going to happen in regards to his fam...

Nightmare. i cant imagine what its like for marcellus, his family, the victims family. its really been chaotic. but thank god weve got some breathing time and i hope the board of inquiry will look very seriously at the new evidence. >> so, he was set to be executed tonight, and then this new evidence is brought to light by his defense team. you were waiting for the supreme court to weigh in. then the state weighs in and issues a stay during the final hours as the clock is ticking. why do you bel...

Corrections center in bonn bonne terre, missouri. why did it take so long? >> reporter: lawyers in this case will tell you theyve been trying to get this dna evidence entered into the rofecord and io this case for years and years and theyve been stopped by the state at every single turn. this case is nearly two decades old. felicia gayle was murdered in 1998 inside her own home. she had more than 40 stab wounds and that knife was actually left inside her body. you mentioned dna testing was allow...

Decides to spare a mans life and in this case, thats exactly what hes done. >> right. that request went to justice neil gorsuch. just to give us some background on this case. what are his lawyers relying on to stay the execution in terms of the dna that has been uncovered? >> reporter: yeah, so, there was never any physical evidence linking marcellus williams to the actual crime scene in this 1998 murder of a local newspaper reporter who was stabbed more than 40 times in her house. in 2015, a ju...

They were exonerated through dna testing and trump still doubted their guilt. and as michael also pointed out. he used birtherism to hound barack obama during his entire presidency. in each of these events trump had no reason, particularly in the central park 5 case and with obama and birtherism to insert himself into these moments other than to create publicity for himself or to take advantage of sensationalism and race baiting. and i think the matt lauer interview is an anomaly. i think what t...

Commit. >> its a fascinating case. i understand that carolyn warmus says she has something that will clear her name. >> okay. anderson, i think we were talking about this a couple weeks ago, a bloody glove. but the glove a couple weeks ago was around o.j. simpson and the fact that that helped acquit him. in her case a bloody glove, she says, if it is tested, she believes that will exonerate her. and that was a big piece of evidence that helped convict her originally in the case. >> the original ...

Immunity in the first place? a prosecutor declined comment, but professor bennett ger issueman said immunity is up to a prosecutors discretion. >> immunity forces people to testify, but theyre testifying knowing theyre not in trouble. sometimes prosecutors give immunity to the wrong people. >> gershman is an author of a textbook, prosecutor misconduct. >> there are people in jail around the country who are innocent. >> he thinks warmus >> i 7016 years in prison for a murder and rape which i did ...

Testing for dna, then it will be tested. >> but the westchester courts have turned down all warmuss requests for dna testing of the glove. >> they refused. they wont do it. why? >> why? the westchester d.a.s office declined comment citing warmuss ongoing appeal. and that appeal will have to overcome compelling evidence that convicted her, like this. warmus was accused of driving to new jersey the day of the murder to purchase bullets. the name on the receipt? elle katia. prosecutors contended sh...