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For seven year, ways told. i spoke to the doctor that did the operation on her, and he advised me i could go to the 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...

Bottom, nothing. >> analysts now turned to the pink bathrobe found in the garbage the morning of the murders. family members said the robe belonged to sarah. as rod engler examined it with a pro scope, a high-powered microscope capable of 400 times magnification, he was shocked to discover no blood spatter on the 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 tes...

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. global 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, offered to help out. >> his daughter was a very courageous young woman who said, i want the truth. i want ...

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, that maybe we could find the donor of the...

>> so taking matters into his own hands, brown wrote a letter to barry bench accusing him of murder. >> attention, barry bench, easily get a court order for samples from you for dna testing. after that [ bleep ] thing you did to sabina kulakowski and my false imprisonment 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 lick the envelope flat in effect, sending his dna sample. instead, bench walked in f...

>> brown also told his lawyer, im learning a lot from tv shows. >> i studied law books, appeals in other cases, forensic science. anything i could do to try to utilize to prove my innocence. >> brown petitioned the court for dna testing of saliva found on sabinas t-shirt, but this request, too, was denied. >> i dont know who said the wheels of justice turn slowly but they are flat and im fixing to jack them off changing tires and throw a new spare in the trunk. >> it had to be discouraging and i...

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 jeffrey lamb struck the fatal blows. and blood spatter expert stewart james found one more thing. >> he just happened to reach into one of the pockets, just checki...

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 house. >> it appeared the killer cut himself while stabbing the gi...

Tying the knot. >> dna specialist jason wycoff swabbed the stocking looking for any of those skin cells. >> the swabs were treated with a solvent to free possible dna. and then replicated so the sample was large enough for dna testing. just as they suspected, they found a dna sample. >> i noticed that the profile was characteristic of a mixture of at least two individuals and the mixture had male and female gender characteristics. >> the female dna was that of laura wynn. the source of the males...

>> 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. investigators also found two foreign hairs in lauras living room. >> these were sent to the lab and found to be pubic hairs of an african-american. >> but this didnt match the description given by the eyewitnes...