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Injury, a facial cut, or nosebleed. to identify the killer, dna samples were collected from the two suspects, bob johnson and curtis pope. dna testing revealed it was curtis popes blood at the crime scene. >> if darrell north had not taken some steps to defend himself, this case wouldnt have been solved. >> would have never dreamed that, you know, firing somebody, you know, would cause somebody to, you know, go postal. >> darrells family couldnt believe that the man whom darrell had mentored in ...

Paid money to download a book on how to beat it. >> as testing continued on the blood stains on the floor of the crime scene, investigators noticed one blood drop on darrell norths pants that they had previously overlooked. >> there was a vertical drop on the back left pant leg of darrell north, while hes laying on the floor. >> the shape of the drop was perfectly round, meaning that the origin of the blood was stationary, and hit the fabric at a 90-degree angle. >> the significance of such a dr...

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 blood then did blow back into the barrel of the %-p evidence, matt moeller admitted he was involved but insisted jason maclennan was the killer. >> he tried to talk me into going and ki...

Often for years. michael morton, a fairly celebrated case out in texas that kept asking and asking for d.n.a. testing and the prosecutors resisted it for years. i cant remember whether it was seven or eight years. something like that. then, of course, they do the test iting and they find out morton is completely innocent and, in fact, another person was guilty of the crime that andrson had gone out and killed another person. so, when you convict the wrong person, it not only puts an innocent per...

Exonerated who had been sentenced to death. >> i often read about the d.n.a. exxon her rating people on death row proving innocence. but, if you have been convicted of a crime and you have -- now you have gone through the appellate procedure and suddenly now you think i want d.n.a. testing. my first never thought of it and didnt have the money or whatatever, you want to get the d.n.a. testing. you find the lawyer who is willing to put up the money or someone else. i have seen that prosecutors wi...

>> she had dental records but they were ten years old. i couldnt find a dentist that kept their records that long. >> and initially scientists couldnt use dna testing either. >> they couldnt pull the dna from the remains from the bones. apparently the bones were too dried out. >> investigators were facing the very real possibility that their victim would never be identified. then forensic anthropologist dr. midori albert had an idea. >> id been familiar with a procedure called skull photo video ...

Place that stored this biopsy, and i was able to get it. >> incredibly, dna testing of that biopsy sample matched the dna profile from the victims tooth. >> when the dna came back and confirmed that my victim was scarlett wood, and that john boyer was the last person to be seen with her, we ended up going to augusta, georgia, and interviewing john boyer. >> at first, boyer repeated what he told investigators several years earlier. that scarlett grew impatient waiting for him to give her a ride. ...

Front of the robe. but then he looked on the back. he found hundreds of tiny specs of blood, high-velocity blood spatter, the type that would be created by a high-powered rifle. dna testing showed the blood came from both diane and alan johnson. this proved the killer wore the robe backwards. but investigators needed to prove that sarah wore the robe on the morning of the murders. to do that, they had to analyze the shirt she had on that day. >> sarah johnson had a blue cotton t-shirt with green...

>> several years later, dan left journalism and became a police officer. the first cold case he was assigned was laura salmons murder. >> i didnt become a law enforcement officer to work on this case. but it was always on my mind. so i was quite happy that i got to assist bill sharp on this case. >> one of the first things dan goodwin and bill sharp did was to send all of the evidence to the forensic lab for testing. >> obviously through the advancement in science, through dna testing, maybe we ...

On that day, gilley wouldnt have known anything about that, of course, since dna testing was still years away. a witness saw gilley driving lauras car away from the crime scene. why the original investigators gave this information less weight than gilleys alibi is yet another mystery. in september of 2006, kyle gilley went on trial for murder. his defense claimed the presence of another mans dna was proof that someone else was at the crime scene and that individual killed laura. >> the jury neve...