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He walked through residential areas where the mail carrier first noticed him. edwards stopped at the same strip mall where jeremy and ginger hayes stopped to get snacks. edwards saw the car running with the door open and decided to steal it. he probably didn't know that there was a baby in the back seat until later. edwards drove to a store 45 miles away and forced ginger to withdraw 100 from her debit card. investigators believe edwards may have had an accomplice watching the baby in the car at the time. edwards drove to a secluded field, assaulted ginger, then beat her to death with a discar...

Stocky build and about a medium height. >> police con verged on the home and took evans in for questioning. >> he claimed that he didn't have anything to do with the car. that he was asked to watch the car for someone else. >> evans led police to andre edwards, the man he claimed left the car in front of his house. inside, police found edwards, along with several others. >> there were four other people taken into custody besides timothy evans. they had no idea what this black male may have looked like. so they took everybody in, trying to sort things out. found on elizabeth pitman was a cellul...

The physical characteristics of the die and the hairs themselves were consistent with hairs collected from ginger hayes. >> the harris recovered from the tire rim exhibited all the same microscopic traits as the hair coming from the victim. >> during 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 tire at the crime scene. the results left no doubt. >> certainly, the presence of the victim's blood on the subject's clothing is suggestive of certainly an interaction between thes...

The mailman said every time he thought he got far enough ahead of the man he seemed to catch up. >> the fact that the mailman is doing his route. he's stopping several time, and he keeps seeing this person is odd. red flags are going to start to go up. and that's what happened with this mailman. >> initially the mailman was concern thad he himself could potentially be a victim because at each stop he made the black man would always catch up to him. >> so the mailman saw this man's face before the incident in the parking lot. but police still needed forensic proof. so investigators examined the...

>> yes. this is just the beginning. showers out of the main front and it looks as the main frontal system makes its way through we are going to see the rain picking up. lightning strikes embedded in some of the cells, you can see one making its way into san francisco and also into concord, parts of the north bay, as well. we have more on the way. it's going to pick up through the day and a larger storm for the weekend. we'll talk about that coming up in a few minutes. right now, let's check traffic with elizabeth. >> at least we are not seeing any major accidents because of the rain ...