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That van by now. he was in a brown sedan that he shot out of the trunk. when my son, adam, was missing, a couple of witnesses thought a horrible pedophile jumped into a blue car. and when they caught him, he was driving a white cadillac. i say the car might bay red herring. use your resources on something else. i hope theyve interviewed every sex offender in the counties around there, every peeping tom, every rapist, et cetera. and dna -- you and i have talked about dna for years, anderson, and ...

Targeted by the nature of the wounds and each person which hasnt been released. and now, the time is coming to analyze what was collected. and because it was a party house my fingerprints stay around until they are wiped off. so months, there will be fingerprints in the house. each of the fingerprints has to be analyzed to see if an odd person there that shouldnt have been there. the blood samples from dna or touch dna, and whatever swabs have to be analyzed. dozens of dnas that they are finding...

Phone during the call. two surviving female roommates have been cleared as suspects, as well as the man in the photo with kaylie and madison. the parking lot and forested areas are now considered to be part of the crime scene. it is hopeful that d.n.a. testing will give answers. >> d.n.a. can be gotten by touch d.n.a. if a person is not wearing gloves or by the person cutting himself on the bloody knife that hes stabbing people with or by the fingernail scraping from the persons who are receivin...

Department. i was there every day. and we were all collaborating. we had a list, a to do list, if you will, and it was every day, day in and day out, it consumed all of us. >> another look at the house gave them greater insight, according to crime scene investigators suzanne and karls acquire, the attack appeared unsophisticated, the killer tried to clean up quickly. >> we saw some -- in the cenk, so theres a good chance that he or she has washed their hands in some point, and possibly got the v...

Prosecutors agreed to his release, thats a notable aspect to this. lets talk about potential new evidence here. at the top of the list is new dna tests, they have improved a lot, dna was involved in the original conviction, but they have improved a lot since then. so tell us about the role of new dna testing of evidence now in any further legal steps or upcoming decisions about whether he is fully exonerated, or not. >> yeah, so, jim, dna evidence is critical. its critical really in two regards,...

Perhaps theres an innocent explanation. she indeed was, right, his girlfriend at some prior time, not suggesting his dna was, but i think the dna will be very valuable to suggest whether it could be other people who did this. prosecutors believing there is at least two other suspects that were not disclosed to the defense that should have been so that the defense could have made an assessment and cross-examined them as we look at the timeline, jim. >> that was going to be my next question. tell ...

Investigators eye notorious serial killer Robert Garrow, others in teen Ruth Whitmans unsolved 1959 killing.

Materials that didnt exist before. >> reporter: genetic genealogist thinks the case could be solved under hours if the boulder police would allow labs like hers to have access to the dna in the case. it could track down a family member of a suspect and that could leading investigators to her killer. >> weve been doing this the last four years. weve been able to help solve, on average, one crime per week using this technology. >> reporter: jonbenets family says they hope keeping the pressure on w...

Agency outside the boulder police department. >> the latest technology exists and those really cutting-edge laboratories that are using state-of-the-art techniques to analyze dna samples. thats where this needs to go. >> reporter: if government officials do not respond after the petition is submitted, ramsey says he will absolutely seek legal action. investigative genetic genealogy could be the answer to finally solve this decades-old case that haunted the family of jonbenet ramsey who was only ...

John bennet ramsey murdered. laura ingall has an exclusive interview with her father about his hope of finding his daughters killer but eyeing advances in dna technology. >> reporter: shannon, the case of jonbenet ramsey is one of the most high profile murder mysterys and pushing officials to come together and use cutting-edge dna technology to find answers in this case. >> theres evidence thats never been tested for dna, never been sampled for dna. and the latest technology to be deployed. >> r...