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Rape test kit gathered at danas autopsy, a 900 million to 1 match. >> i was relieved, because that particular case had been sitting on my desk for ten years. >> every time you see a poster or see an article or watch tv or on the news or anything about the case, it just, it bothered me. and now its over with, i feel a lot better. >> investigators believe dana satterfield was vicks first victim, but possibly not his last. there was another acquaintance of jonothan vicks, heather renee sellers, who...

Case, come hell or high water, theyre going to solve this. >> at the autopsy, the medical examiner concluded the cause of death was strangulation. and a rape test kit found evidence of sexual assault. >> once they were able to generate a profile, thats when everybody started looking for a possible suspect. >> investigators found a fingerprint on the water heater next to danas body. it belonged to danas estranged husband, mike. >> we had actually had a few problems, and she had actually been livi...

Final few moments. >> it was obvious that it was at least three different methods of murder there. because she had a wire that, around her neck. >> the medical examiner also found a bloody shoe impression on heathers shirt. and what looked like knife wounds on her neck, both were indications the killer tried to subdue her. a rape test kit found no biological evidence of sexual assault. >> one of the things that you try to do as a forensic pathologist is to try to tell the story as best you can o...

Perpetrator may have been. i also thought she very well may have been extremely lucky that things happened the way they did and she was not killed at that point in time. >> police used her description to create a sketch, which was distributed to the local media. an autopsy revealed that kathy woodhouse died from blunt force trauma to the head. >> she received three blows to the left side of her head because there was three separate lacerations to the left side of the head, so that the mop ringer...

Taylor confessed. >> he did not hesitate much about telling us that he did kill her. he told her that she was going to rob her and stated that he did take $3 from her purse, but first, he denied having sexually assaulted her. >> investigators discovered taylor was a nonsecreter, consistent with the biological samples from the rape test kit, and they told taylor they didnt believe him. >> at which point he looked down at the floor for several seconds and then he looked directly at me again, and h...

I felt that i really wanted to do my best in working hard on this case to help catch the individual. >> fortunately for the scientists, it hadnt rained on the cigarette butts and they were able to generate a dna profile and compare it to kathys rape test kit. >> the person who had smoked the cigarettes was kathys killer. scientists compared the dna on the cigarettes to the dna on frazers tooth brush. >> unfortunately the toothbrush contained dna from at least three individuals. once i was able t...

>> 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...

>> investigators now wanted to test the biological evidence collected from julies rape test kit to see whether james elmen was her killer, but there was a risk. the test would consume all of the evidence. >> unfortunately, sometimes you have to make a choice. you might have to run the entire bit of sample. but at the time, youre thinking this is the best technology available. >> investigators decided the gamble was worth it. >> they consumed all of the semen that was contained in those slides tr...

Walshs hairs. >> and one of those hairs had the potential to be a gold mine of evidence. >> first hair that i glommed and to was probably the largest hair and it had a root. and had a root with some tissue on it. >> dumb luck kept that towel from burning up and burn being the pubic hair with it. >> investigators now had dna evidence from both crime scenes. biological from the rape test kit and the hair from barbara walshs apartment. scientists compared robert parkers dna to those dna samples. >>...

Contacted police about his former roommate, bob johnson. >> someone who came forward and claimed that their roommate at that time in 86, johnson, had come home bloodied and said that he had killed somebody. >> johnsons mugshot looked remarkably like the composite drawing of the suspect. he didnt fit the fbi profile, but his background made him a likely suspect. >> his ex-wife told the investigators that mr. johnson had a significant drug problem, and he was conducting those burglaries to help su...