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Tara munseys autopsy showed she was most likely killed the day she went missing. she had been shot four times at close range. >> this child was executed. i firmly believe she was shot in the chest. and while she was on the ground the rifle was held next to her head and three shots were fired. >> blood found under taras fingernails showed she had fought her attacker. even though taras rape kit came up negative, investigators found seminal fluid on her body. all of the biological evidence was sent...

Assault, during an attack. >> the hairs were dyed brown. 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 t...

Is, she said, sure. and she scrounged around the courthouse. >> a few days later in the back of a walk-in vault, the clerk gets on her hands and knees to reach an envelope hiding in a back corner. >> she called me and she said, i found an envelope tucked in the back of the vault where it has been sitting for 20 years. and in that envelope was a rape kit. it had everything we needed. >> in so many cases, we have initially been told, oh, that evidence is lost or destroyed because nobody had a syst...

>> the hairs were dyed brown. 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 ti...

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 ...

>> but this profile was so weak, it would be inadmissible in court. >> it was a partial match, which told law enforcement and told me we were on the right track. we just needed to get a good dna sample from drew planten. >> since planten worked for the state, investigators got permission to search his workplace. mark bodet swabbed his computer keyboard, his radio and other items he handled. dna from those skin cells was compared to the biological evidence from stephanie bennetts rape kit. >> the...

Behind. the dna from renees rape kit and the single hair from tammys bed ultimately tied him to both crimes. rudy gaytan was convicted of second degree murder in the death of tammy tatum and first degree sexual assault of renee dulany. >> he chose to kill her, and i got to live. i felt responsible to make sure i, you know, live a good life because hers was taken from her. >> gaytan was sentenced to a total of 72 years for both crimes and will not be eligible for parole until hes 103 years old. >...

Kind of shut it out. theres not a whole lot you can do. you cant really absorb whats happening to you. >> the attack happened shortly after renees grandmother left for work around 5:00 a.m. both renee and police were convinced the perpetrator had planned this attack carefully. the assault lasted for two hours. even though renee was blindfolded, she could tell her attacker was going back and forth to the bathroom to wet a towel and wipe down surfaces in the room. >> i knew he was trying to not ...

>> this was huge. having an investigative lead develop nearly ten years after the sex assault, that hadnt happened before. >> the dna profile from renee dulanys rape kit matched rudy gaytan, a 48-year-old auto mechanic who was married with two children. coincidentally, he also lived in renees apartment complex. >> it was shocking, upsetting to find out that it was someone that had lived right next door. >> in fact, renee had identified gaytan as a possible suspect the night of her rape. >> i don...

They still contained rust-colored stains. despite being washed and dried, analysts were able to obtain dna from the stains and generate a profile. >> they could not exclude rebecca barney from being a contributor to that profile and only one in 12,000 individuals in the general population would match that profile. >> but was kidwells dna at the crime scene? the profile from saliva on rebeccas body was very weak, so analysts returned to the dna from rebeccas rape kit. because she was menstruating...