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By this time he couldn't take her body back into the farmhouse. the fire was too advanced. so he dragged her body to the footpath 100 yards away and left her there. >> why are we stopping here? >> this explains why barry searched that area later after firefighters arrived. he wanted to make sure she was dead. >> i had never had a case where the client solved his own crime from behind his prison cell using nothing but a pen and paper. he really did all the hard work. >> they locked me up and they made me turn a cell into an office, a bed into a desk, and a mattress into a chair. and law books, ...

According to this woman. >> so taking matters into his own hands, brown wrote a letter to barry bench, accusing him of murder. >> "attention, barry bench, i will easily get a court order to obtain samples from you for dna testing. after that [ bleep ] thing you did to sabina kulakowski and my false imprisonment for over a dozen years, i pray you confess your sins as you read this. merry christmas, but don't count on a happy new year." >> brown hoped that bench might reply, and licked the envelope flat in effect, sending his dna sample. instead, bench walked in front of an oncoming amtrak train...

But the question remains, why did barry bench murder sabina kulakowski? barry bench and sabina were acquaintances. sabina lived with barry's brother, ron, until they broke up a month before the fire. according to friends, barry bench was in financial trouble and may have wanted to sell the farmhouse where sabina was staying. no one knows what happened that night. but the forensic evidence shows barry went to the farmhouse to speak with sabina. >> what are you doing here? >> there was an argument, and things turned violent. the theory is that barry set fire to the farmhouse and was about to lea...

Florescent stains on the t-shirt, and some of them were made by the markings of the previous examining. >> not surprisingly, the stains were near the bite holes, an indication they were left by the person who bit the victim, presumably her killer. goebel removed the fabric, and performed str dna testing which is a more advanced form of pcr testing. the result, the dna profile from the saliva on the t-shirt did not match roy brown. but whose was it? barry bench's daughter, katharine exstat, offered to help out. >> his daughter was a very courageous young woman who said, i want the truth. i want...