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Safe to go out on that trail. >> but that wasn't the only possibility. >> there are numerous access and exit points to this canal trail, either by the public roadways, by individuals using adjacent fields, and access gates. >> the murder weapon was a broken piece of metal fencing. >> this perpetrator actually broke off a piece of metal fence post and it appears that they waited for her to return from her walk and then dragged her off the trail. >> there was blood, but no prints on the murder weapon. kathy's autopsy confirmed that she'd been sexually assaulted. the dna profile from kathy loreck...

Away in 1992. in the twilight of her life, she thought eddie lowery was the man 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....

Unfortunately, it did not match any of the dna profiles in the colorado state database of known criminal offenders. renee's former boyfriends and her co-workers and fellow students willingly submitted dna for comparison. none matched. >> this case goes cold. no one is arrested. no suspects are named. >> you absolutely live in fear. i mean, you have this person who's told you that they were going to kill you, and they've certainly shown you that they're capable of it. >> it wasn't until ten years later, after colorado officials were able to input all of the dna samples from past criminal offend...

Transient and homeless people on that trail previously and a lot of folks just felt it wasn't safe to go out on that trail. >> but that wasn't the only possibility. >> there are numerous access and exit points to this canal trail, either by the public roadways, by individuals using adjacent fields, and access gates. >> the murder weapon was a broken piece of metal fencing. >> this perpetrator actually broke off a piece of metal fence post and it appears that they waited for her to return from her walk and then dragged her off the trail. >> there was blood, but no prints on the murder weapon. k...

To examine diane maxwell's clothing. >> if we could do the dna for the sexual assault and to get that and put it into the database, because now all the offenders as they go to prison they're taking dna samples. and we're getting a lot of cold hits on the dna database. >> but diane's clothing was gone. to their shock and dismay, it had been thrown away. >> over a period of years, i guess folks in the property room just had to make room for new property coming in. >> next, ramsey tried to interview the only witness to the crime, willy bell. >> we tracked him out to an address in california. and ...