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After a ten-hour excavation the remains are brought back to the morgue and examined by dr. daniel spitz, the medical examiner for macomb county, michigan. >> were trying to fill in the gaps as to what actually happened. weve never got a confession on this case. the prosecutor still doesnt know what the cause of death is. we are hoping today to help determine how this girl died. >> ream claims he buried cindy after she accidentally fell down a warehouse elevator shaft in 1986. in addition to tryi...

Remains are brought back to the morgue and examined by dr. daniel spitz, the medical examiner for macomb county, michigan. >> were trying to fill in the gaps as to what actually happened. we never got a confession on this case, the prosecutor still doesnt know what the cause of death is. were hoping today to help determine how this girl died. >> ream claims he buried cindy after she accidentally fell down a warehouse elevator shaft in 1986. in addition to trying to determine the cause and manner...

Behind the deadly attack. >> reporter: across turkey, funerals and protests as the investigation continues into saturdays bomb blast at a peace rally in the capital of ankara believed tov have been carried out by two male suicide bombers, long at odds with the government. they have hinted at isis and kurdish separatists as possible suspects. >> translator: some dna testing is being done. a determination on the suicide bombers profile on how they reached the square and carried the bomb. >> they t...

Behind the deadly attack. >> reporter: across turkey, funerals and protests as the investigation continues into saturdays bomb blast at a peace rally in the capital of ankara believed tov have been carried out by two male suicide bombers, long at odds with the government. they have hinted at isis and kurdish separatists as possible suspects. >> translator: some dna testing is being done.a determination o bombers profile on how they reached the square and carried the bomb. >> they think it might ...

Was looking for when the texas court of criminal appeals granted dna testing. >> its good news. weve been fighting for it for five or six years. were trying to get some proof of male dna in the house relative to the crime scene. there was a fingerprint on the couch table and that dna would certainly be one. >> if dna shows that there was in fact an intruder that night, how can darlie ever be repaid for all of the years of her life that have been spent in a nine by six cell on death row, and how ...

Was in the appeals courts, i never got a fair hearing, i would always get denied for one reason or the next. so i felt very bad. very discouraged until dna testing came along, and i had a shot. >> the state would perform dna tests on blood sample a-41, taken from the ryens hallway and blood on the tan shirt thought to have been thrown from their stolen station wagon. the results would determine whether kevin cooper lived or died. when youre not confident your companys data is secure, the possibi...

>> coopers defense said for years theyd been unsuccessful in dna testing which could exonerate cooper. >> he kept saying, im not guilty, do the testing. if it shows im guilty, you can execute me. i walked out of there thinking, whoa, theyve really made a case ive got to think about. >> san bernardinos current district attorney michael ramos was handling coopers appeals. >> we felt that the ongoing request by defense counsel in this case was just another delay tactic. there was no evidence at all...

Kevins dna on a-41. >> but for hile, the dna results raised a red flag. >> back in 1983, the lab technician, daniel gregonis he testified that he had consumed a-41 during his testing. now gregonis was asked to make sure that a-41 still existed. we have a photograph of the envelope that shows the date that he took it out and when he resealed it. so we know that he had a-41 on his person for 24 hours before he returned it. hed also had nearby, in the lab, the vial of kevin coopers blood that was t...

Voice and i said, mom, i have cancer. i mean, that was probably one of the hardest things ive ever done in my life. >> you know, not being able to hold him. that was extremely hard. i didnt want to break apart for him. i wanted to be strong. >> drakes cancer still requires monthly chemotherapy, but his prospects for remission are positive. >> his bodys healing. he helps keep me fighting for sure. >> darlie, will you ever admit to having killed the boys? >> i am innocent. >> even today, i cant be...

>> the security camera outside the motel shows someone who resembles the bank robber being picked up by a man in a white suv. in the days following the robbery, greco is driving a white suv. police need one more piece of the puzzle to irrefutably link the men to the robbery. it comes from evidence found inside the car. a black knit cap is sent out for dna testing. when the results come back, theres a hit. the dna belongs to a convicted felon. >> ultimately a perfect dna match was identified on t...