will never go away. i m never going to have my son back. i don t get to go to his high school graduation. or see him go to college. i had no idea what had happened! it was like a meteor hitting. potsdam rescue, need an ambulance. a 12-year-old kid. loved to ride his scooter everywhere. lost his life at the hands of a killer. he s a soccer coach! great person on and off the field, a great role model. there is absolutely nothing connecting him to this case. they don t have the fingerprint. they don t have blood. they don t have the witness. there s a darkness that s at work here. you believe nick hillary killed your boy? yes. people call me a murderer. i m 100% innocent. you could have heard a pin drop in that courtroom. way upstate new york. a small speck on the map on the road to the canadian border. that they like to joke up there that there s more cows than people, and i don t think they re joking. in this sleepy place, with a main street from th
I am never going to have my son back. I dont get to go to his High School Graduation were see him go to college. I have no idea what happened. It was like a meteor hit. A 12yearold kid, loved to ride his scooter everywhere, lost his life at the hands of a killer. Hes a soccer coach. Great, on and off the field, great role model. They dont have a fingerprint. They dont have a witness. There is a darkness at work. People call me a murderer. I am 100 innocent. You could have heard a pin drop in that courtroom. A small speck on the map on the road to the canadian border. Upstate new york, a small speck on the map on the road to the canadian border. They like to joke that there are more cows than people and i dont think they are joking. In a sleepy place, you would think nothing happens that could interest the outside world , but an epic story has unfolded. A murder case, for sure, but so much more. Its a little bit fargo. Jesse mckinney, reporter for the new york times, was drawn to it. It
so it s in championship season again. this is this is more than a ring now. this is more than a ring. you know, this is, this is, this is life and death. but first, both sides braced for a summertime fight that could tilt the balance. it was over dna. did it exist? was it nick s? and whatever it was, was it even admissible? no hair, tissue, or fingerprint belonging to nick was found at the crime scene. and testing on that tiny mix of dna under one of garrett s fingernails had been inconclusive. the initial sampling of this, the initial testing of this, showed that it could neither include nor exclude nick hillary. so with traditional dna chemistry not implicating nick, prosecutors opted for something revolutionary, a new kind of computer-driven dna analysis from a company in new zealand. whereby you take samples of dna that previously would have been cast aside because they were too small, they were too
the initial sampling of this, the initial testing of this, showed that it could neither include nor exclude nick hillary. so with traditional dna chemistry not implicating nick, prosecutors opted for something revolutionary, a new kind of computer-driven dna analysis from a company in new zealand. whereby you take samples of dna that previously would have been cast aside because they were too small, they were too difficult to analyze properly. you take those samples and attempt to make sense of them using a computer algorithm. prosecutors said the new tests came back a match for nick. not so fast, argued the defense. too unorthodox. too unreliable. after every reputable organization or testing sites told them, look, there s nothing connecting this guy, they went to a different continent, to new zealand, to try to get something to stick, and it didn t stick. in the end, the judge agreed with the defense.
no hair, tissue or fingerprint belonging to nick was found at the crime scene. and testing on that tiny mix of dna under one of garrett s fingernails had been inconclusive. the initial sampling of this, the initial testing of this, showed that it could neither include nor exclude nick hillary. reporter: so with traditional dna chemistry not implicating nick, prosecutors opted for something revolutionary, a new kind of computer-driven dna analysis, from a company in new zealand. whereby you take samples of dna that previously would have been cast aside because they were too small, they were too difficult to analyze properly. you take those samples and attempt to make sense of them using a computer algorithm. reporter: prosecutors said the new tests came back a match for nick. not so fast, argued the defense. too unorthodox. too unreliable. after every reputable, organization or testing sites told them, look, there s nothing connecting this guy,