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And its all going to be a case of now dna you get yourself in. you get a doctor to get you a rape kit, you get some dna and lets nail these serial rapists, which we can do now if we can get the statute of limitations lifted. we have the capability to do that. obviously weve got stigmas attached. women dont want to go in. they feel like they are to blame somehow. i know thats a classic victim mentality. for quite awhile you feel like what did i do? what did i do wrong? and the idea that you have ...

In 2010, timothy hennis went on trial for a third time for the murders of katie eastburn and her daughters. but a scandal rocked the state lab that identified hennis dna. the lab had been skewing results to help prosecutors. >> the woman who handled the sample back in the 80s got in trouble for mixing up some dna samples in another case. and almost put an innocent guy in prison. >> think didnt do a good job of preserving evidence. three people had been arrested for evidence tampering. >> hennis ...

I didnt understand they were trying to help me. i was still in shock from everything that had happened and i was cussing and screaming at anybody that tried to come close to me, i was swinging at them. >> brad dennis of klaas kids who helped to rescue shauna said the staff misread the situation. >> what i saw was a very scared, terrorized girl. thats what i saw. someone that had immediately put up her defenses because heres a situation that maybe she had a little bit of control over. >> it was j...

He pulled up his turtleneck to cover his face. >> when police arrested 40-year-old jonathan graham for peeping into the the window of a teenage girl, they suspected he was more than just a voyeur. in his possession were items for a more violent crime. >> a bag was found with several different kinds of knives, three pair of handcuffs, flex cuffs, condoms, sex lubricants, sex toys, lock picking tool, bandanna, black clothing, which in our business, thats a rape kit. >> police now suspected graham ...

The physical characteristics of the dye and the hairs themselves were consistent with hairs collected from ginger hayes. >> the hairs recovered from the tire rim exhibited the same microscopic characteristics as the known head hair samples coming from the victim. >> during police questioning, investigators noticed some dark brown stains on edwards shoes and clothing. those stains were blood, and the dna profile of that blood was compared to the blood found on the tire at the crime scene. the res...

>> for dessert, planten ordered some banana pudding, which he ate with a fork. >> finally he picked up his fork and took two bites of banana pudding and took a napkin and wiped that fork for about five minutes and left that fork. and, of course, our undercover detectives recovered that fork. >> analyst mark bodet performed the analysis. >> i got a mixture of dna samples, meaning there was one strong profile and one weak profile on there as well. >> apparently, the restaurant hadnt properly clean...

In 2010, timothy hennis went on trial for the third time for the murders of katy eastburn and her daughters. but a scandal rocked the state lab that identified hennis dna, the lab had been skewing results to help prosecutors. >> the woman who handled the sample in the 80s got in trouble for mixing up some dna samples in another case, and almost put an innocent guy in prison. >> they didnt do a good job of preserving the evidence and three people had been arrested for evidence tampering. >> henni...

Place to be, but you have been on death row, and there were not a lot of employers who would take that on, and the army had to take him back, so he stayed in. >> after readjusting to army life, tim hennis built a successful 25-year career in the military. >> tim hennis served in somalia and desert storm honorably, and tims supervising colonel told me that he was without a doubt the best nco that he had ever worked with. >> he retired in 2004 and he and angela had a son who they would not have ha...

Woman student knocks on the administrations door saying i want to complain about a sexual assault, they just say go to the police? >> i hope thats not the case. and in fact, universities have a responsibility, when you think of the magnitude of student debt in this country and how much students and their parents are taking out in loans to provide a safe learning environment for students, it is unacceptable for universities to say were not responsible for creating a safe climate. >> i think they ...

At a lot of these universities are what are in question. are you going to be for the student or for the image. >> is it getting to the point where a lot of universities may simply say, just take themselves out of this completely and if a woman student knocks on the administrations door saying i want to complain about a sexual assault, they just say go to the police? >> i hope thats not the case. and in fact universities have a responsibility, when you think of the magnitude of student debt in th...