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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 rapist. >> and that's when we all learned that we had these connecting cases, was through dna. >> reporter: thomas is being held on $1 million bail and expected to undergo a psych evaluation. he faces multiple charges, including rape and sexual assault, and is due in court on monday. >> all right. so since his arrest we have some new information that has been gathered from the neighborhood and what folks are saying that know him...

East coast rapist. after 14 years of scouring crime scenes, police had little evidence. victims' accounts led to these sketches and reports he had a low voice and chipped tooth. in that time a six-inch knife was the only object police were able to recover. hungry for new leads, authorities one week ago put up electronic billboards in seven states up and down interstate 95, directing people to a website that resulted in tens of thousands of tips. one of which pointed to aaron thomas. police tracked their suspect to a connecticut courthouse, where he was facing unrelated charges. and during his ...

The only thing we have to see what he looks like. he's also featured on facebook as well. now, investigators say they caught up with him after an anonymous tip and a law enforcement source tells us that that tip originated in virginia. they called police and that led them eventually here to connecticut. his dna allegedly links him to rapes, 12 of them in all in connecticut, maryland, virginia and an incident in rhode island. police have been working on this case over the course of 13 years. >> recent information was developed in this case. dna was collected and subsequently matched by the conn...

Island, connecticut, maryland and virginia over the span of 13 years from 1997 through 2009. and another interesting little thing about the cigarette butt, local newspaper here reports that it was picked up after he made a court appearance. our source tells us that he did make an appearance in court on thursday of this week in an old, unrelated larceny case. is that a coincidence? well, as one source told me nothing is coincidence in this case and of course as you know that anonymous tip that came from police our source tells us in virginia led krort authoriti connecticut. >> you are in the ne...

California. bucks for butts. an environmental group calling on all san diegoens to help clean up cigarette butts. this organizer says folks picked up more than 11,000 of them around the neighborhood. >> all of them collected by volunteers who share our disgust in the bad habit of litter from cigarette butt. >> shepard: the group paying $3 a pound. each pound equals about 1500 butts. oregon. a great dane back with its family after it went missing for two weeks. a neighbor spotted the dog in a mud ravine and the owner's sister-in-law says she went in for the rescue. >> i got you. i'm going to ge...