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After years of dealing with a crippling DNA backlog, police minister Bheki Cele has announced it has finally been cleared.

Laboratory analysis very much like the defense team did in the o.j. simpson case which became template for dna cases. but look this is not los angeles 1995 a select defendant and a celebrity dream team and distress cops as they did in los angeles in the aftermath of the rodney king beating. this is moscow, idaho completely different people that actually do have faith in government and faith in police gathering techniques. so you know, that's going to be an up hill battle for the defense team to try to convince these jurors that dna evidence isn't the accused. >> yeah. i'm waiting for that defe...

Laboratory analysis very much like the defense team did in the o.j. simpson case which became template for dna cases. but look this is not los angeles 1995 a select defendant and a celebrity dream team and distress cops as they did in los angeles in the aftermath of the rodney king beating. this is moscow, idaho completely different people that actually do have faith in government and faith in police gathering techniques. so you know, that's going to be an up hill battle for the defense team to try to convince these jurors that dna evidence isn't the accused. >> yeah. i'm waiting for that defe...

Collection methods, the laboratory analysis very much like the defense team did in the o.j. simpson case which became template for dna cases. but look this is not los angeles 1995 a select defendant and a celebrity dream team and distress cops as they did in los angeles in the aftermath of the rodney king beating. this is moscow, idaho completely different people that actually do have faith in government and faith in police gathering techniques. so you know, that's going to be an up hill battle for the defense team to try to convince these jurors that dna evidence isn't the accused. >> yeah. i...

Los angeles condo. the trail kept getting colder. in 1993 sherry's parents offered to have the saliva sample from that bite mark tested for dna, but the lapd declined. they said we don't have a suspect. if we have a suspect and we had their dna we'd have something to match. but in 2004, the newly formed cold case unit was conducting dna cases and one of them was sherry's. it took two months to find that saliva sample buried in a refrigeration unit. the vile was poking out, but the saliva was still inside and the dna was just enough to blow this case wide open.