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Nearly 30 suspects are cleared, other a dozen through dna testing. the case goes cold. police have a dna sample and no match. then months after stacey stites is murdered a break. >> he opens the door says thanks for the ride he gets out, and sits down quick and said dont i get a hug? and i said what? did i get a hug? i was like what do you want from me and he replied i want to [ bleep ]. and i said youll have to kill me before you get anything from me, and his words were "i guess ill have to kil...

>> did it feel real to you? >> it was a feeling, you know, it really was unbelievable. i just, it felt like i was in a dream. it felt like it wasnt real. it wasnt real. like this cant be happening. >> to this day, reed maintains his innocence. >> all of that evidence has been out there, it has always been out there. it has been in the states hands all this time. decades old institution in over 300 wrongfully convicted people through dna testing. they believe there is enough new information to cl...

Have no adequate dna testing and yet you want to execute a person. everything that is wrong with criminal justice shows up in this case. >> he was scheduled to die by looeting injection today and now his case is back in court. but it rodney reed did not kill stacy stites then who did? reeds lawyers think they know. >> the states case against rodney reed in 1998 was so persuasive it took a jury six hours to convict him of the rape and murder of stacy stites. >> am i being charged with something? ...

Authorities speak to nearly 30 people, who are cleared. a dozen go through dna testing. the case goes cold. police have a dna sample and no match. then months after stacey stites is murdered, a break. >> he opens the door, says thanks for the ride, he gets out, and sits down quick and said dont i get a hug? and i said what? did i get a hug? i was like what do you want from me, and he replied i want to [ bleep ]. and i said youll have to kill me before you get anything from me, and his words were...

You have no adequate dna testing and yet you want to execute a person. everything that is wrong with criminal justice shows up in this case. >> he was scheduled to die by lethal injection today. his case is now back in the hands of a texas court. reed says hes on death row for a crime he did not commit. but it rodney reed did not kill stacy stites, then who did? reeds lawyers think they know. the states case against rodney reed in 1998 was so persuasive it took a jury six hours to convict him fo...

You have racial discrimination, you have misconduct by the state, you have ineffective assistant of counsel, and you have no adequate dna testing and yet you want to execute a person. everything that is wrong with criminal justice shows up in this case. >> he was scheduled to die by looeting injection today and now his case is back in court. but it rodney reed did not kill stacy stites, then who did? reeds lawyers think they know. >> the states case against rodney reed in 1998 was so persuasive,...

Mistake. he licked the envelope flap and left enough saliva for dna testing. police now had the dna profile of the zodiac killer. the letter also included another clue. >> i knew it was a code. it was a nine towers because there were nine victims. and i wrote down all the different symbols. and i think i had 23. very close to an alphabet. and then i did something called a frequency count. which is, you write down how many times each letter is used. because, for example, e is the most commonly us...

There was visible blood. and lumenol revealed that more had been cleaned up before police arrived. >> the blood evidence in front of the sink indicated to us that someone had bled -- had stood there in front of the sink for a significant amount of time bleeding and not moving around. there was blood drops on top of blood drops on the floor in front of the sink. >> dna testing revealed the blood belonged to darlie. prosecutors suspected that it was here where darlie cut her neck and arm. >> if th...

The stamps when she removed them for dna testing. as a lifelong stamp collector, she has experience distinguishing glue stick residue from regular stamp adhesive. >> i know gum from knowing stamps. it looked to me just like the gum on recent u.s. stamps. it is smooth and glistening and it looked just like that. there was no outward evidence that a glue stick had been used. >> the trial lasted five days and it took the jury less than two hours to reach a verdict. they found paula nawrocki not gui...

>> the cost of the dna testing, approximately $7,000, would have to be paid by paula nawrocki. blood samples from both paula and her husband were sent to a local dna lab along with the threatening letters and the envelopes. >> the amount of dna that winds up on the back of a stamp or an envelope flap depends on how hard you lick the envelope, how much cells that you shed from the inside of your mouth. there are variables thats hard to predict exactly what the value would be. but it is there. in ...