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Two months after kevin's acquittal and more than a year after nona's death steffy's police chief told him to question a suspect in a recent burglary, a man by the name of gary dunn. steffy's eyes widened at that. >> my chief looked at me and i said do you know who he is? he said yes. he was one of the neighbors to nona dirksmeyer. >> gary dunn, a neighbor of nona's. he was among that handful of men who'd been questioned, then cleared by police. steffy knew that dunn certainly would have had the opportunity to kill. his bedroom window looked directly across a small parking lot at nona's bedroom...

>> an odd combination. >> oh, i used to say it's the ultimate good guy. >> and right away stephie knew there was a key piece of evidence that demanded a closer look. that condom wrapper found in nona's apartment. it held somebody's dna, but whose? steffey wondered if police cleared those male friends and neighbors of nona too quickly in the early days of the investigation. >> do they have a valid alibi? because either i'm missing something or, you know -- and so i began to feel like that some of those people maybe needed to have their dna compared. >> so kevin's legal team rolled up its sleeve...

Copies of receipts from those stores to back up the alibi. >> so this is the store where supposedly gary dunn came to do some shopping. >> this was one of the places we had to check out in his alibi. the store had boxes and boxes of records, of receipts. it was the old-fashioned sign the slip kind of receipt. >> he's not kigd. boxes going back years. steffy rooted through piles of forgotten paper. >> how many boxes did you go through? >> i have no idea. >> hours and hours? >> i think i have tried to forget that. >> and just when steffy thought it was all a wasted effort, he pulled out this scr...

>> but there was a problem. to get that sample tested steffy needed the cash-strapped jones family to pay for it. at first kevin's mother hesitated. the test would cost about $600. but the investigator insisted. >> what did she say? >> eventually, she just kind of said something like oh, shucks, it's just money. >> so she paid for it. and what a good investment it turned out to be. because weekends later steffy got a call from one of kevin's lawyers. the dna tests were back. and wouldn't you know. >> i said it matches, doesn't it? he said, well, it matches gary dunn. >> the results strongly su...