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>> we found that mr. greco talked to him a minimum of 38 times, using the cell phone records. >> 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 hi...

Proving there had been an intense struggle. >> our theory was that corey parker fought for her life in order to prevent a sexual assault. >> investigators found several foreign hairs in coreys hands. one had an intact root. >> the fact that the hair had root material on it and was not from her would allow you to at least presume that that hair had to be obtained forcefully. >> dna testing revealed the blood in the kitchen came from the same person as the hair in coreys hand. surprisingly this dn...

When the medical examiner makes a determination about what happened? >> we are being told that, that it is still being tested. we are not being given exact time by fox lake police. and, it is important, anderson, as you point out. the medical examiner has said we know he was killed from one devastating gunshot wound. but he is not ruling out anything. he is not ruling out homicide. suicide. accident. anything else. until he gets the lab, ballistic testing, fingerprints. dna testing, critical lab...

Dna testing, critical lab results that will help the medical examiner deter men whmi happened. >> who ever is shooting at cars and vehicles in phoenix still at large tonight and still at it. police say two more vehicles were hit by bullets or projectile tuesday. that makes at least 13 vehicles hit in 11 days. man of the shootings though not todays have been along a busy stretch of interstate 10. authorities dont know if theyre dealing with one gunman or more. sara sidner with the latest. two mor...

Two days later, she was gone and pat was dead. >> she stripped sunday night, danced sunday night at the outer limits, and then she and her boyfriend leave town. >> police issued an all points bulletin for laura england. in the meantime, at the crime scene, investigators made some important discoveries. first, there were bloody boot prints throughout the house. and they had been made at two different times and several hours apart. >> you could see that someone had exited the house and then, appar...

Murdered" or "stripper thrown off bridge." it was never her name or that she was a bucks county community college student. >> since rachel was found at the bottom of the bridge without shoes, wearing clean socks, investigators suspected she had been carried to the bridge and thrown over the side. >> up on top of the bridge, there were no shoes. there was no car. there was a lot of road debris and other dirt that would have become embedded in her socks if she was walking around up there. >> fiber...

Ballistic examination. so, the next step was to compare the spent shell casings from the scene to the casings from the test firing, looking at unique marks made by the firing pin as it struck the bullet. they were identical. also inside the barrel was a small drop of blood. dna testing proved the blood was ken maclennans. >> it made sense based on the soot on the hand that mr. maclennan had actually grabbed the gun before the shot was fired. because of that contact with the hand, some of his blo...

Been unjustly convicted. >> coopers defense told saunders that for years they had been unsuccessful in petitioning the courts for newly available dna testing which could exonerate cooper. >> kevin cooper kept saying, im not guilty. do dna testing now that you can do it. if it shows that i am guilty, you can go ahead and execute me. i walked out of there think, whoa, theyve really made a case. >> san bernardinos current district attorney michael ramos was handling coopers appeals. >> we felt that...

>> all these years that my case 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 alway 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. how fast are allegra® gelcaps?

The defense attorneys laid out this case about how this innocent man had been unjustly convicted. >> 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 r...