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Then wrote the inmate's name on the vial containing his blood >> when samples are taken, there is a fingerprint that goes with the vial of the sample of blood. the individual who gave this blood obviously put their fingerprint on this vial. >> so prison officials compared the print on chad price's blood vial to chad price's fingerprint. >> the expert said that's not chad price's fingerprint on the vial. great. the next step. whose fingerprint is it? >> the unknown print was run through afis, or the automatic fingerprint identification system and there was a hit. the print belonged to 36-year-o...

Then wrote the inmate's name on the vial containing his blood >> when samples are taken, there is a fingerprint that goes with the vial of the sample of blood. the individual who gave this blood obviously put their fingerprint on this vial. >> so prison officials compared the print on chad price's blood vial to chad price's fingerprint. >> the expert said that's not chad price's fingerprint on the vial. great. the next step. whose fingerprint is it? >> the unknown print was run through afis, or the automatic fingerprint identification system and there was a hit. the print belonged to 36-year-o...

Price and in each pod, there must be 50 or 60 inmates. two jailhouse informants told prison officials how they -- how chad price switched the dna samples. >> they admitted to me that they witnessed and have personal knowledge of the conspiracy between chad price and derek perry to switch arm bands for the blood sample. >> the medical staff does not look at faces. they don't know chad price from derek perry. they call the name chad price and instead of chad price standing up and walking forward to give blood, it was derek perry who came forward. >> i another dna test confirmed what investigator...

Whole trial. i think that's why i felt so robbed. is because i wanted him to admit it. i wanted him to say yes, i did this. >> derek perry, who was due to be released from prison the day after he switched wristbands with price was charged with fabricating evidence and got an additional five years in prison. the galveston county jail has since changed its procedures for drawing blood but the lesson for investigators and for chad price was that criminals may lie but forensic technology doesn't. >> without that mountain dew can to link him to the sexual assault cases, they might not have ever bee...

In the galveston county jail on unrelated charges. he was in the same pod as chad price and in each pod, there must be 50 or 60 inmates. two jailhouse informants told prison officials how they -- how chad price switched the dna samples. >> they admitted to me that they witnessed and have personal knowledge of the conspiracy between chad price and derek perry to switch arm bands for the blood sample. >> the medical staff does not look at faces. they don't know chad price from derek perry. they call the name chad price and instead of chad price standing up and walking forward to give blood, it w...