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Who brutalized her. she couldn't know that the real rapist was still on the loose. >> that's always been a hope of mine too. besides being exonerated was, you know, to completely convince everybody that i didn't do this, whether they believe in dna or not was to find the real perpetrator and convict him. >> for that, eddie lowery will have to wait six years. in may 2009 the fbi's dna database of convicted offenders turns up a cold hit. the rape evidence matches daniel brewer, a 53-year-old man living in the bronx. >> you know, when i came back here to new york, i thought all this was over with...

A dna sample was obtained from phillips' bone marrow. it did not match the dna from the crime scene. >> i called and spoke with susan's mother, and she was very disappointed. but you know, i tried to assure her that we would continue to go forward and try to identify the suspect. >> i was angry at the time, because i felt we had closure, it was done with. >> and there was more bad news. the dna did not match anyone in the statewide database of known criminal offenders. if the killer wasn't phillips or anyone who committed a felony before the dna database was created, then who was it? >> you kn...

That the lieutenant interrupted. they could be from chicago or milwaukee. that whole region needs to be on alert to look for somebody who might have had three guys like this, might have had a lot of money, out late at night. think of the time of day it is, ten minutes to 8:00 a.m. in the morning. they are coming out of the woods or around that cement plant, what are they doing there at that hour? they are doing something criminal, they are scouting it and hiding something there. and they ran when they saw the lieutenant. so that's the big lead for the task force and they are looking at the cre...

>> a gruesome question, but is there a chance this that in these older cases would they exhume these bodies and look at them again? >> it's possible if the police didn't take adequate samples you might have to exhume the body. what you'll find the hair or skeletal remains or teeth and those all have denay very important information. but if you left see men behind, it won't be there for much time and we can't take advantage of that. >> thank goodness for the dna database, right? >> absolutely. >> an amazing tool. larry kobilinsky, appreciate it. nice to see you, thank you. accusers who say co...

And from the victim herself. and they will compare facts and evidence in their cases and we will be entering the case into a national data base which tries to connect the dots on cases like this where there may be a serial killer involved. as well as a dna database that linked sexual assaults and murders in another data base. >> lieutenant steve cooper thank you so much. >> coming up a spellman grad speaks out after the predominantly black women's college dropped bill cosby's big endowment. that story's straight ahead. terry, stop! it's quite alright... ok, you know what? we want to make a dea...