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Was there more to the bloody clue than met the eye? forensic specialist anna cox was trying to unlock what her naked eyes could not see. when she did, her discovery would send the investigation in a completely different direction. here is dennis murphy with written in blood. >> the handwriting was on the wall and forensic specialist anna cox was intent on breaking down the three letters in blood, roc. you would spend hours looking at these letters? >> i did. >> you actually cut the sheet rock ou...

I used to tell her, what are you doing? he did not deserve her. she wouldnt listen. >> the fights got worse and police were called three separate times to intervene. one time roc allegedly broke down the front door. that was the last straw. karen filed a domestic battery complaint and roc moved out. tim says even a year later, he was still harassing karen about a rolltop desk he left behind. >> she was starting to get scared of him toward the end. >> the issue he had was i got a valuable piece o...

>> the evidence was overwhelming. karen pannell did not write the letters roc in blood. it was a huge turning point in the case and the best news possible for the ex-boyfriend roc herpick. >> they confirmed 100% she could not have done that. she couldnt have done it. she would have been physically incapable of doing that and it certainly wasnt me. i mean, why would you write your own name on the wall? >> police agree, implicating yourself in a murder just made no sense. roc got moore good news a...

38-years-old. >> to be a young, divorced woman, with this awful diagnosis, what do you think that did to her? thats a lot to put on your shoulders. >> right. i think that really affected herself esteem. frankly, i think it had an impact on the kind of men she was attracted to. >> karen came to rely on roc to take her to doctors appointments and injections. when she asked him to move in, her friends and family thought she was asking for trouble. >>ive think thats true. is it my place to say, well...

Stained with blood. roc. what was the murdered woman try to tell the cops? >> all these theories, what does that mean? is that a person, a thing? the clues pointed in so many different direction, it was a total mystery. >> reporter: theres a concept in the law known as a dying declaration. with those three letters scrawled in karens own blood lead to the apprehension of her own killer. >> coming up, investigators dig into that three-letter mystery. who or what was roc? when "dateline" the new co...

And he turned into not a very nice guy. he was a little creepy. >> he was tough on her? >> there were some unexplained bruises. i used to tell her, what are you doing? he did not deserve her. she wouldnt listen. >> the fights got worse and police were called three separate times to intervene. one time roc allegedly broke down the front door. that was the last straw. karen filed a domestic battery complaint and roc moved out. tim says even a year later, he was still harassing karen about a rollto...

>> i did call her on several occasions about myroltop desk. >> the desk. >> that stupid desk and it was bugging me. i mean, it was a nice piece of furniture and i wanted to get it back. she pretty much said, you left, youre not getting it. >> he never did get. >> that rolltop was still in karens condo on the night she was stabbed to death. now, detective holbrooke pointedly wanted to know if roc had been there, too. >> he says, where were you on such-and-such a day. im like, well, first of all, ...

Dying declaration, it bit him. >> it bit him very hard. he outsmarted himself and thats why hes in prison. >> roc is free to ride his harley these days, but it still eats him up that a man he never met tried to frame him for murder. >> what would you say to him? >> i am restrained, correct? i couldnt get to him. i would not be a good communicator in that conversation mode with him sitting there. i couldnt do it. >> mike pannel couldnt do it either. hed rather not think about tim permenter and th...

Hour-and-a-half away. >> you went over these alleged beefs he might have had with her when they were boyfriend, girlfriend? >> he had moved on. >> the detectives were able to move on, too. they officially cleared roc. it was a major development. karens exhad suddenly gone from being a prime person of interest to a victim himself. victim of the real killer who tried to frame him for the crime and was still out there somewhere. whoever killed her know somebody named roc. >> somebody knows my name....

Microscope, she did an analysis of the stains that stained the wall. >> that blood splatter served as a gruesome canvass with roc written over it. >> when the letters roc was over top of it. it skrimd over it and didnt disrupt it at all. >> here was her specialization, roc must have been written after they dried, how long after? >> i have a special machine i used to make some spatter. >> in her lab, she used animal blood to test how long for spatter to dry on a similar surface. >> when i came ba...