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Only way it could have happened if he had had a vasectomy before 1974 and then had it reversed. >> the defense called one of the nation's leading experts on male reproduction to back up the claim that ferris could not have been the killer. >> if he's fertile today, would you expect that in 1974 he would have been infertile at any time? >> if he's fertile now, he almost certainly would have been fertile then. >> the original medical examiner had concluded that whoever raped cheryl miller was sterile. >> the problem with that turned out to be abbass esfehani is not sterile. tony alverez is not s...

>> i don't. >> that was the one piece of physical evidence they had. the problem with that piece of physical evidences that fingerprints last. that fingerprint could have been left there any number of prior occasions. >> the defense's argument was simple -- there was far less reason to believe that ferris had committed the murder and more reason to believe that someone else had done it. first, the defense brought up the original suspect, abbass esfehani. you'll recall he was the victim's former boyfriend, described as hot-tempered, who made a hasty return to iran in the days after the murder. ...

Ferris said they had sex all over the bedroom and fingerprint analysts forced to admit they couldn't prove the prints were left the night of the murder. >> you said you could not place a time on it, correct? >> that's true. >> so you don't know when it was made? >> i don't. >> that was the one piece of physical evidence they had. the problem with that piece of physical evidences that fingerprints last. that fingerprint could have been left there any number of prior occasions. >> the defense's argument was simple -- there was far less reason to believe that ferris had committed the murder and m...

And driving 65 miles for a rendezvous with ex-girlfriend, cheryl miller, a meeting that ended in murder. >> over time, years, evidence keeps pointing to gabe ferris. not tony alvarez. not abbass esfehani. gabe ferris. >> but the defense disagreed and insisted that the prosecution's theory made no sense. that even though admittedly ferris has been a scoundrel, sleeping with cheryl miller in the days before his wedding to another woman, there was no evidence that he killed her. >> it's a sleazy thing to do. but it doesn't amount to murder, people. >> soon the fate of gabriel ferris was in the ha...

Is, of course, probably someone that knows her. >> now-retired police detectives ron hersburg and tom reeder worked the case. and in the days after the murder, a clear picture of a suspect emerged. an exchange student from iran, a former boyfriend named abbass esfehani. >> interviewed the parents. and they had had a conversation with their daughter a couple days before this homicide that she did not want to see him anymore. that she was scared of him because of his temper. >> two critical pieces of evidence linked esfehani to the crime scene. his fingerprint on a rail leading upstairs to the r...