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Kim Ancona's body was found on the floor at the bar where she worked in Arizona in 1991. The mom-of-one, 36, had been stabbed six times with the killer leaving behind a slew of evidence.
WARNING DISTURBING: In December 1991, Kim Ancona's lifeless body was found on the floor of the men's bathroom in the bar she worked at, covered in wounds and distinctive bite marks
Creates a database to hold the dna information of known criminals. it takes some time for the system to get up to date with all the cases. in 2002 defense attorney plourd submits the crime scene evidence to the phoenix police department crime lab for new dna testing. >> the forensic biology screener initially took three samples from the breast area of the tank top because we knew that the victim was bit in the breast area, and i ran dna on all three of those samples. >> there is a hit. >> i had no information as to the whereabouts of the suspect that was identified. i just knew his name was ke...
Somebody totally disassociated with the case and somebody who's recognized nationwide as an expert in this area. and those people are going to have to come up with some answers to some serious questions i have. >> the defense attorney asks mcelroy to bring the case back into court. >> i agreed with the defense attorney that patricia stallings would be entitled to another trial. at that time, however, i still felt very confident that it would be a conviction if we tried her again. >> the judge grants a new trial. >> patty, how do you feel? >> patricia stallings is allowed out on bond. >> are yo...
Ray krone, branded the snaggletooth killer by the press, is in his seventh year of incarceration for the murder of kim ancona. >> now i'm sentenced to 25 to life, i go to what they call the walls. it's about the toughest place to survive. this was maximum security but you weren't isolated. you actually had contact with other inmates. every day had you to watch your back. >> chris plourd, krone's lawyer, continues to fight for his release. >> we were waiting for the science to sort of catch up with what we needed the science to do. >> that same year the fbi