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Easton, maryland, until we got his dna. >> this proved to be harder than investigators anticipated. denny smoked during his interrogation but always made sure to keep the cigarette butts. detectives offered him a bottle of water, but he wouldn't touch it. finally, they asked him to sign a document saying he refused to provide his dna. >> we asked him to put the letter into envelope and seal the envelopes. he refused to seal the envelopes and basically told us, look, you tried three timeses to get my saliva on something. first the cigarette butt, then the water bottles and now the envelopes. se...

>> some poems talked about sexual activity with older women, sexual activity with dead people. >> i'm happy with my life. sharpening the blade of may unholy knife, this is where true hatred lies, screams of agony, my victim dies. >> police certainly knew they were working with someone who was very sick. >> gary dolan was unemployed and had no alibi for either murder. he also refused to take a polygraph test. and he wouldn't provide a dna sample. so police had to find another way to get it. >> we knew he smoked. we knew we could get dna from the cigarette butt. but we couldn't take the cigarett...

During one particular attack actually called the police department and started telling them that he was watching them actually investigate the crime. >> the audacity of the robberies mirrored the audacity of the rapes. police brought chad in for questioning. >> we then felt we had enough to get a search warrant for his dna, for his blood and that he understood that. there was nothing concrete to connect him to any of the sexual assaults and he basically denied everything. >> price also refused to provide his dna. >> the detective wanted to get price's dna legally without him knowing it. >> i h...

His dna sample for testing. but one of their scientific experts had a suggestion. >> i said we need to get a sample that was more intimate from him. we need to get a sample which he had touched or used, such as a cigarette butt or a toothbrush, or an item of clothing. >> but that wouldn't be easy. it seemed planten knew he was being followed. >> surveillance was conducted on drew planten for a week, at work and at home, and we could not obtain any dna from that week's worth of surveillance. >> ultimately, investigators followed planten to a restaurant. but planten was one step ahead of them. >...

>> you are a riot. are you seriously doing this? >> do you see me? >> it was actually kind of comical because she couldn't get the sign to stay up. >> oh, phooey. >> the sign post saga is the culmination of months of bickering between these neighbors in side-by-side bungalows. >> moved into the house in july of '07, and within a couple months we realized that there might be a little problem with her and how she perceived us because she brought to our attention that there was some trash and debris in her yard that had seemingly come from our side of the fence, including a cigarette butt, a beer...