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Police say that his dna was found at the scene although were not exactly sure where. based on what you know, does this seem like a logical arrest, a legitimate arrest? >> it does based on what theyre saying about the dna, yes and it makes sense in a crime scene like this, the offender is going to leave their own dna. the best of circumstances we planned from the beginning to end, leaving dna at the scene of a quadruple murder is very, very likely because blood is slippery and your hand if gloved...

They did all the right things. they are the people who knew the town. knew the people. knew the likelihoods of different things and had the relationship and sourcing. i am not critical at all of the police department or the way they handled it. but this is also the cadence of a major case. when you walk into the crime scene and its harry killed sally, you still have to prove it in court but you have a great running start when you have a really good idea who did it. when you walk into a crime sce...

Offenders personality that is left behind at the crime scene. for example, if an offender goes in to a scene and treats the victims as callous, in a cold blooded way without any kind of empathy those are traits that in their every day life theyll have. theyll be calloused, come across as cold-blooded without empathy for people. if there is arrogance and grandiosity at a crime scene, that is the personality traits youll see in an offender, yes. so we make that transition. >> john, cnn is reportin...

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Unward. and secondly, when he checked into the hotel in new york city, arrived by himself and leaves by himself and has no visitors. toe appears hes working alone. but that is not the answer until they get through every computer and email and phone message and everything they could get access to in this investigation to determine was there anyone else that he was in contact with sharing information about this plot and so on. but stopping short of overturning every rock and looking underneath it,...

Be the foundation of the case. so when a case like this goes to court, goes to trial, the science will be attacked. and as a forensic scientist, you have to be able to defend what youve done in the forensic laboratory, that you followed all of the procedures, that you did it correctly, that you did it in the proper order, so i think unlike what we see on tv, where the forensic evidence is analyzed and reported back within an hours tv program, thats not the case. they had to look through just a w...

It can also include the offenders dna when an offender stabs repeatedly, even if theyre protected with gloves, its not unusual that their hand slips down on the blade, they cut themselves, and deposit blood. but they had to be very focused on where they were collecting this evidence, because it could be argued later on, well, there are hundreds of people that came into this house, you have to really focus on, yes, but this dna came from right next to the victims body. so that becomes again a ver...

Played a key role here in linking the murders to bryan kohberger. how would they obtain and analyze dna evidence in this case? >> first of all, the dna has to come from the scene. it has to be, the scene has to be the story. the offender is at the scene, the offender was close up to the victims, so that becomes really important. thats the first key piece of evidence. we have to put an offender at the scene. because that house was really occupied by six people, but there were people coming and go...

With the struggles we talk with two victims in a fight, fighting essentially for their life against the offender, they could have punched him in the face, gotten saliva off the front of their hands, something along those lines. who did the genetic gene ology which i think it was done. they would submit it under assumed name, im john doe, this is my dma up load it into the system. create a totally fictitious profile. you build family trees for the person you submit the dna for, all the way up to ...

Thats why im thinking at this point, its like ly someplace that only the suspect knows where it is. >> police have been tight lipped about whether this alleged criminal knew the victims. so what would you be looking into to start to dig into that question? >> i would start to look at -- and i know that they are looking at this, from social media to casual contacts, that the offender in this case, the suspect had with these victims. it could be very minor. it doesnt have to be an ongoing contact,...