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Several states like virginia, connecticut, rhode island and neighboring states where the attacks occurred. these billboards went up last monday and would you believe, within five days, someone from virginia, an annon mistipster called police, led new haven police to find this guy walking on the street after he had an un-- unr-lt dollars larceny charge where he had to appear in court last week, he goes to court, smokes a cigarette, drops it on the ground, the kopps to a dna test on the cigarette butt and there was the match. here's the i.d. in prince william county, virginia. they held a news c...

Hi, everybody, i'm thomas roberts. here's what's topping the news now. wisconsin democrats are reaching out to governor scott walker asking for a meeting to resume negotiations on how to resolve the legislative roadblock on collective bargaining. the democratic's leader mark miller told reporters his side of the aisle is, quote, ready and willing to find a reasonable compromise. we're still waiting on a response to these latest comments from governor walker. a development to a story that we brought you last week. after more than ten years via cold case the aaron thomas, the man labeled the e...

Court this morning. we'll be watching this, of course, because police are saying they used zan from a cigarette butt to track down aaron thomas. he's accused of attacking 17 women from virginia to rhode island over a span of 12 years, rape and sexual assault is involved in this. police say thomas tried to hang himself saturday in his jail cell. expect to hear something today on that. then in michigan the fennville high school basketball team will play on. wes leonard died thursday after making the winning shot in overtime and then collapsing on the court. the decision to play in tonight's mich...

Details. >> this just coming in. there are reports the man known as the east coast rapist apparently tried to attempt a hanging. he tried to hang himself in his new haven jail cell this afternoon unsuccessful. he was taken to a local hospital and is undergoing a psychiatric exception. aaron thomas arrested after a break from a anonymous tipster? virginia. authorities quickly tracked down thomas in connecticut following him for days before getting the evidence needed. while he was in court for a larceny case detectives picked up a discarded cigarette butt and tested it. it was a match. he's res...

He was facing unrelated charges, and during his lunch break, when thomas tossed a cigarette butt, detectives got the break they've been waiting for. it was right out of a scene from "law & order." >> your son smokes? >> no. i do. >> thank you. >> the lab pulled mark duffy's dna off his cigarette. it's going to take at least a week to run it for a match for our suspect. >> reporter: but in this case analyzing the saliva on the cigarette butt took only a day. >> dna was collected and subsequently matched by the connecticut state forensic sciences lab, confirming that thomas was the east coast ra...