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>> there were statements from barry bench and tammy heisner. tammy told police that barry behaved suspiciously when he got to the fire scene. >> why are we stopping here? >> look around and see if you see any evidence. >> like what? >> like, i don't know, just look. >> she claimed he wanted to search an area 100 yards from the farmhouse. >> we had parked down the street from the farm and he had mentioned to me that maybe we should go down by the car and start back up on opposite sides of the road, looking for evidence or something, you know, just to see if there was anything amiss or whatever....

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 leave when he realized that sabin...

>> they're still battling the blaze, you know, and he's not even up there helping. you know? he's walking down the road look way over here. if he was so concerned, why wouldn't he be looking up there? >> and barry claimed he had an alibi for the time the fire start. he said he was drinking in a local bar until 1:30 in the morning. but the bar patron claimed that bench left the bar around midnight. >> he was unaccounted for about an hour and a half. >> my reporting on barry bench showed that he had, as i understood, quite a temper. >> barry bench had a prior arrest and misdemeanor conviction fo...

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. global 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, offered to help out. >> his daughter was a very courageous young woman who said, i want the truth. i want to know if my father committed this murder. and if roy brown is innocent. she actually contacted us...

>> so taking matters into his own hands, brown wrote a letter to barry bench accusing him of murder. >> attention, barry bench, easily get a court order for samples from you for dna testing. after that [ bleep ] thing you did to sabina kulakowski and my false imprisonment 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 lick the envelope flat in effect, sending his dna sample. instead, bench walked in front of an oncoming amtrak train and kill himself. >> i was kind of tick off because i figured [ bl...