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Stopped, frisked, and arrested by one. and that's where these new dna powers run into some very old police practices. we already know about the systemic discrimination in our justice system. we talked about it today. african-americans make up 13.6% of the population, and in this dna area now 40% of the fbi's dna database is made up of african-americans. i think that has two consequences. at this rate the very first national database of dna will be of black america. one out of four black men are already in it. and second, the genetic pool for solving crimes will inexorably bend toward the peopl...

That part of the investigation. they did run his dna up against any other unsolved crimes in the state of ohio, didn't find any match there. however, they are continuing to make that run of all unsolved cases in the entire fbi's dna data base. it is called codis, throughout the united states, to see whether it's possible there might be a match between ariel castro and any other case. >> turning to the suspect in this vile, vile crime, to the survivors, how are they doing? one was released from the hospital today. tell us the latest on them. >> that's right, that's michelle knight. she is the e...

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, but i was wrong. >> as a young man, daniel brewer served in the army and was stationed in ft. riley in kansas at the same time eddie lowery was there. but he drank hard, was kicked out of the army and spent time in prison for a cocaine conviction conviction. today brewer suffers from advanced diabetes. he has lost both of his legs, his eyesight and he needs d...

Discovered a vial of his blood. it was entered into the fbidna database. how likely is it now that police will be able to reopen some cold cases linked to gacy? could it apply other cold cases? let's bring in forensic pathologist, michael baden and mary o'toole, author of, dangerous instincts. dr. baden, explain, i automatically assumed that a serial killer's dna would be in the dna database. and it wasn't? >> the dna database which is federally governed by the fbi and contains millions of inputs, each state sets its own standards on what to submit to the, to the database, code dis. -- codis. ...

Be cavalier. it seems like they've done and it haven't gotten anywhere. >> what they do have are latex gloves on the frontyard with dna on the gloves. the guy is not in jail. >> not yet. >> you know what's interesting about that? they looked at that dna glove and the latex. it doesn't match any of the men that apparently were in her life who all have alibis, and they not only ran it through the state dna database and the national database and it matches no one, which is more frustrating. >> therefore one of the possibilities is she is still alive. maybe she has amnesia. in 50 years i've been i...