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>> the paternity testing showed that the john doe dna on the shirt came from the father of this young woman, kathryn, who is barry bench's daughter. >> unbelievably, when this evidence was presented to the court, the judge refused to grant a new trial. he said he had no proof that barry bench was kathryn's biological father. >> you would think you'd be home the next day. you wouldn't think people would drag this out. >> this is the kind of people i'm dealing with. >> with pressure mounting, the state of new york eventually exhumed barry bench's body and took a dna sample. it conclusively match...

To barry bench, accusing him of murder. >> please get a court order to obtain dna samples from you. i still pray for you. i pray not only that you confess to killing sabena, i pray you confess to all your sins, mark my words, they will eventually find out your guilt. have a merry christmas, but don't court on a happy new year. >> brown hoped that bench might reply and licked the envelope. instead, bench walked in front of an oncoming amtrak train and killed himself. >> actually, i was kind of ticked off, because i figured the [ bleep ]'s got away.

Blaze, you know, and he's not even up there helping. you know. he's walking down the road, looking 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 started. he said he was drinking in a local bar until 1:30 in the morning. but a bar patron claimed bench left the bar around midnight. >> he was unaccounted for for about an hour and a half. >> my reporting on barry bench showed that the, he had, as i understood, quite a temper. >> barry bench had a prior arrest and misdemeanor conviction for physically assaultin...

Indication they were left by the person who bit the victim, presumably her killer. goebel removed the fabric and performed dna testing, which is a more advanced form of pcr testing. the result, the dna profile from the saliva on the tee shirt did not match roy brown. but whose was it? barry bench's daughter kathryn offered to help out. >> his daughter was a very courageous young woman who said i want the truth. she actually contacted us after our papers were filed in court and said if you ever need me, i'll give you a dna sample. >> the dna analysis confirmed what roy brown already knew, that ...

Barry bench and sabena were acquaintances. sabena 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 sabena was staying. no one knows what happened that night. but the forensic evidence shows barry went to the farmhouse to speak with sabena. 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 sabena wasn't dead. there was another fight outside. by this time, he couldn't t...