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Involved in the artis case and they didn't make the connections. >> the police knew about this other suspect, but they did not carry out that fingerprint comparison, and the question is, why? >> the request to cancel the fingerprint comparison was made after trial, so after henry mccollum and leon brown were convicted. >> the fingerprint had sat in evidence for nearly 30 years, and stellato discovered that it was too degraded to test. however, the cigarette butt found at the murder scene could be used for testing. >> then we went back, and we pulled the extracts from the testing that had been ...

>> from the very beginning, the confessions of henry mccollum and leon brown were suspect. the police wrote the confessions, but also, there wasn't a single piece of physical evidence that put henry mccollum and leon brown at the crime scene. >> rose learned that there was evidence that could be tested with newly available dna technology. >> there was evidence from a cigarette butt. the significance of that is it was the state's theory that whoever committed this crime had smoked that cigarette. so we sent that to a dna company. >> the results would open a new door for leon and henry. ♪ whoo...

Craig, and mr. craig said roscoe artis had given him details about the crime that sonny felt only the person who had committed it would know. in sonny's opinion roscoe was telling him in so many words that he was the perpetrator. >> ken and i went to see henry to tell him about the new evidence, and we sat in the biggest booth in the visiting area at central prison. henry behind the plexiglass and bars on the other side. ken told henry that they had run the dna on the cigarette butt and that it had matched someone and that person was roscoe artis. >> i said, no. i don't believe that. he said y...

That would back up murder charges against both of them, no matter who pulled the trigger. quisenberry was interviewed first and said he knew nothing about the crime. as the interrogation wore on, he started blaming the man in the other room. >> why don't you tell me why you killed her. and how he did it. >> i wasn't there. but i know he did it. >> but detective arnold knew something quisenberry did not. after his first interview, rick had scooped up his smoked down marlboros for dna testing. bingo, they matched a cigarette butt. >> he claimed he wasn't there but you have dna. >> i collected th...

Anna's car was missing. cops suspected whoever killed her had taken it. twelve hours after anna's body was found. >> one officer's was drivin' through the neighborhood, and he got a hit on the plate. >> i get a phone call from patrol, advising they located anna moses' car just a couple streets away from her house. >> reporter: the officer on the scene told detectives tschudy and ranger mankin he could see what appeared to be a bloodstain inside the car. >> how many bloodstains in all did you find inside the car? >> three areas where blood was located. the seat bottom, the seat back, and the ce...