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>> in the meantime, it didnt take long for investigators to eliminate julies husband as a suspect. >> when he was perfectly willing to take a polygraph examination, kept in contact with the officers trying to work this case, i think all suspicion was erased. >> but julies autopsy did provide some important information about the killer. the medical examiner found evidence of sexual assault. a rape test kit recovered biological evidence, presumably of the perpetrator. unfortunately, dna testing wa...

>> this meant all the evidence at what may have been the murder site was compromised. >> somebodys been there, moving things around, and it just makes the investigation a lot more difficult. >> in the meantime, it didnt take long for investigators to eliminate julies husband as a suspect. >> when he was perfectly willing to take a polygraph examination, kept in contact with the officers trying to work this case, i think all suspicion was erased. >> but julies autopsy did provide some important i...

Time looking for the person that did. >> pope was distraught over darrells murder. >> he came through the receiving line crying, and i thought he was so touched by darrells death. and he said, i loved darrell. he was better to me than my own father. >> pope was 40 years old, married, with a young daughter. he did, however, have a police record consisting of arrests for petty theft. since he was the last known person to see darrell alive, he was automatically considered a suspect. pope agreed to ...

Lies, and sometimes big lies, to make ourselves feel more comfortable, and certainly when our survival is at stake, i mean, you can change your perception of things. >> this made her polygraph test useless. >> if she doesnt know in her own mind what is truth and what is fiction, how can she possibly react properly to a polygraph examination? >> there is a reason, and a very good reason that polygraph examinations are not admissible in courts of law. in this incident, tom brown passed the polygra...

When police asked michele harriss boyfriend of brian early to take a polygraph test, he willingly complied. he passed the exam anytime we needed him for dna, fingerprints, additional questions, no problem. >> the cook at the restaurant, michael hakes, a convicted sex offender, also took a polygraph examination. he too passed. but the lawyer for micheles estranged husband cal harris adamantly refused to allow him to take the polygraph. at least the one administered by police. >> we obtained a war...

The murder. >> the alibi wasnt sufficient enough, in my mind, to totally exclude him. >> but like curtis pope, he, too, passed a polygraph examination. >> the polygraph is just a tool. its not 100% reliable. thats why its not admissible in court. >> if it hadnt have rained, maybe we could have gotten fingerprints. but you cant focus on what you could have had. you got to find what you do have. >> investigators needed forensic evidence to solve this crime and hoped to find some of it at the scene...

Please, you know, spend your time looking for the person that did. >> pope was distraught over darrells murder. >> he came through the receiving line crying, and i thought he was so touched by darrells death. and he said, i loved darrell. he was better to me than my own father. >> pope was 40 years old, married, with a young daughter. he did, however, have a police record consisting of arrests for petty theft. since he was the last known person to see darrell alive, he was automatically consider...

Intense, he stopped cooperating. >> and at some point he was asked to submit to a polygraph examination, which he originally agreed to do, but prior to the scheduling of that examination he backed out. >> so investigators had no evidence linking bryant to the crime. >> he got away with it once, thought he would get away with it again. i make a lot of purchases for my business. and i get a lot in return with ink plus from chase. like 50,000 bonus points when i spent $5,000 in the first 3 months a...

>> we all tell ourselves little lies, and sometimes big lies, to make ourselves feel more comfortable, and certainly when our survival is at stake, i mean, you can change your perception of things. >> this made her polygraph test useless. >> if she doesnt know in her own mind what is truth and what is fiction, how can she possibly react properly to a polygraph examination? >> there is a reason, and a very good reason that polygraph examinations are not admissible in courts of law. in this incide...

>> this meant all the evidence at what may have been the murder site was compromised. >> somebodys been there, moving things around, and it just makes the investigation a lot more difficult. >> in the meantime, it didnt take long for investigators to eliminate julies husband as a suspect. >> when he was perfectly willing to take a polygraph examination, kept in contact with the officers trying to work this case, i think all suspicion was erased. >> but julies autopsy did provide some important i...