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They also found bloody pieces of carpet and a blood-stained sweat shirt. >> it was a sweatshirt that had graphics on it of sign language. we knew right there there was a tie to the deaf community. >> testing proved it was darlene's blood on the sweatshirt, but someone else's dna was found inside the sweatshirt. >> i took cuttings from the inside of the sweatshirt hoping that one of them had transferred enough dna or skin cells inside. to get a full profile. i was fortunate and did get a profile and that matched daphne wright. >> by being able to put daphne wright inside a sweatshirt that had c...

Bottle of chainsaw oil and we found a receipt from ace hardware for a chainsaw. >> this is a time of year in south dakota where chainsaws are not in huge demand. >> but there was no chainsaw in daphne's house or on her property. downstairs the basement had been painted with blue paint. >> there would be a spot painted here and a spot painted there and different sizes, parts of the wall, not a whole wall, a three or four foot section of the wall but not all the wall, parts of the steps but not all the steps. >> a few feet away was a small room that once had been used to store coal. >> the floor...

Take care of it was to eliminate her from the picture. >> but investigators still had a problem. they didn't have darlene's body. >> a jury like as body. a jury likes a murder weapon, and you just never know. you get that one skeptical juror who doesn't see the body and there's enough doubt to say not guilty in case like that. >> in the search police checked the dumpster where daphne and her neighbors disposed of the trash. >> by the time the officers got there, the dumpsters had been dumped into the garbage truck and taken out to the city landfill. >> the police went out to the sioux falls la...

>> once there the investigators showed the store owner the lineup including daphne's picture. >> one of the clerks was able to say, yes, i sold the chainsaw to a woman and she was deaf. that matches the description of daphne wright to a tee. >> she came in a note that said tree-cutting machine and he took her to the wrong section at first because he misunderstood, and then he took her to the chainsaw section. she was very worried about the price and she picked out the cheapest chain saul available at the store. >> once scientists got into daphne wright's basement, they had no difficulty findin...

More incriminating evidence from the wooden walls of the coal storage room. >> we were able to see small pieces of bone and tissue. >> they compared those samples to the dna they obtained from darlene's tooth and hair brushes. that that day we were met by a couple of detectives and we were escorted upstairs, and when we opened the room -- when they introduce you to the chaplain and the chief of police and all the detectives are in the room and ask you to sit down, you know the news you're going to receive is not good, and it wasn't. >> darlene's dna matched the blood and tissue found in daphne...