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"I hope Cheri and her family will finally get the justice they deserve and have waited so long for," District Attorney Mike Hestrin said in a statement.
>> absolutely. i think dna would be valuable. i know they had physical altercations but the evidence such as maybe a bite mark or dna under the skin or fingerprints on her person, if it be her neck or other areas, just provides and builds the case for that substantial evidence for that case. >> trace: so it appears police will go back to the carlton reserve today, an area mostly water. 75%. 83 miles in hiking trails and so forth. do you think they are going there because of science? have they gleaned something, or is this a shot in the dark and another chance to clear this area and move on? >>...
This was a burglary or a home invasion gone wrong. >> sherri's purse was missing, as was her new bmw, an engagement gift from john. there was no sign of the murder weapon, but detectives did recover two.38 caliber slugs and something else that caught the detective's attention. >> on the inside of sherri's left arm, they found a bite mark. a crime scene analyst went ahead and she swabbed that for saliva that could pertain to the killer. >> saliva that contained dna from whoever bit sherri. remember, this was 1986, years before dna technology testing would arrive, which could link a suspect to a...
Parents offered to have the saliva sample the bite mark for dna, and even pay for it, but the lapd declined. >> she said we don't have a suspect. if we had a suspect we would have something to match. >> the case sat for another decade. but then in 2004, the lapd was conducting cases on cold cases and one of them was the murder of sherri rasmussen. it took two months to find that saliva sample -- buried in a refrigeration unit. the envelope was tattered, label torn, but the saliva was still inside and the dna was just enough to blow this case wide open. >> in that lab report, it indicated that ...
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