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According to this woman. >> so taking matters into his own hands, brown wrote a letter to barry bench, accusing him of murder. >> "attention, barry bench, i will easily get a court order to obtain samples from you for dna testing. after that [ bleep ] thing you did to sabina kulakowski and my false imprisonment for over a dozen years, i pray you confess your sins as you read this. merry christmas, but dont count on a happy new year." >> brown hoped that bench might reply, and licked the envelope...

Murders in 1987, which included lauras case. but all along, i knew i was more interested in police work. >> 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 ...

Which is why he left them there. but those jeans contained other biological evidence with his dna. 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 wa...

Florescent stains on the t-shirt, and some of them were made by the markings of the previous examining. >> not surprisingly, the stains were near the bite holes, an indication they were left by the person who bit the victim, presumably her killer. goebel removed the fabric, and performed str dna testing which is a more advanced form of pcr testing. the result, the dna profile from the saliva on the t-shirt did not match roy brown. but whose was it? barry benchs daughter, katharine exstat, offere...

Friends organized a candlelight vigil to keep attention focused on the case. >> the majority of the people we looked at early were ex-boyfriends, current boyfriends, co-workers that were very close to the girls, who would have had that type of ongoing relationship. >> then police got a break. dna testing found blood at the crime scene that wasnt from the victims. >> there was an "x" and "y" peak detected for some of the samples, so we knew we were dealing with male blood on the outside of the ho...

Jeans was in close proximity of impact at the time of impact. >> and dna testing confirmed the blood on the jeans was lauras. police tracked gilley down in florida, where he was twice-divorced and working for the manatee county public works department. he also had a police record with arrests for aggravated sexual battery, attempted burglary, and resisting arrest. when questioned by police in florida, gilley once again denied any involvement in lauras murder. >> during that interview, kyle admit...

Would have just been on the top of the weave, but rather down -- driven into the weave much more consistent with impact spatter. >> the blood spatter was the same size and shape as one would expect to find after inflicting a beating with a blunt object. dna testing of this blood revealed it was cathy lambs blood. >> we had impact spatters at the scene on the wall, and we also had impact spatters on the left interior thigh area of the dark jeans of jeffrey lamb. >> this was definitive proof jeffr...

Have done the job over a period of a few minutes if that was the intent, but that wasnt good enough. the emotions got high enough that he had to lay his hands on her neck and squeeze and crush two cartilages. >> she had also been sexually assaulted. investigators found no foreign fingerprints in lauras apartment. but underneath lauras body was a clue, a used paper tissue. there looked to be biological evidence on the tissue. unfortunately, at the time, the sample was too small for dna testing. i...

Blood. dna testing revealed the blood on the sandals came from the youngest murder victim, 17-year-old dustin wilson. ironically, the dumpster should have been emptied the day after the murders but the garbage truck driver didnt pick up that day. >> we spoke to the garbage collector, and he admitted that he often fibs on the document indicating that he did pick it up when in fact, he does not pick it up. >> mark wu was arrested and charged with three counts of first degree murder. but he would n...

He found it to be consistent. scientists found a fingerprint on the letter. it was sandys. and dna testing confirmed that sandy licked the envelope to seal it. now that sandy claimed the incident was an attack, investigators reviewed hospital medical records and discovered that the attending physician doubted a horse had done that damage. >> they were semi-circular in nature and there were a number of them, and they put lacerations in her head, which she had to staple shut. and he said it just d...