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I guarantee you that that individual that had murdered reagan tokes is somehow connected to your case. >> were they connected? the attacks happened miles away from where reagan's body was found, in a different police district, so maybe not. lieutenant davidson had been on reagan's case nonstop for more than 30 hours when he thought about getting some rest. he'd barely been home when his phone rang at 10:30. one of his detectives was on the line. >> he had received a phone call from the dna lab, and we had a hit. >> that's incredible. >> it is. >> to get a hit that fast. >> yes. >> after findin...

You grown pretty close to pattie? >> uh-huh. yeah. >> she is a very special gal. i told her mother, i'm going to adopt her. >> before she left, wade sent one last, small batch of samples to the dna lab. no point, really, in waiting for the results. >> we are down to the last 18. i'm doubtful that we're going to get a match. >> so, she said good-bye and went on with her life. and 25 days later. >> my phone buzzed, and i looked down. >> it was her replacement on the cold-case unit. >> i answer the phone, and he said, there's a match on jennifer bastian. i asked, who -- who is it? what's the name...

To a dna lab in texas and waited. >> it was almost 15 years late whern the call came in and there was a match. >> they have identified his hair. him and only him to the exclusion of all others on the dead body of carmen smith at the time she was found. >> you had your smoking gun? >> absolutely. >> i got a call. i was very happy but it was hard for me to have to go back and tell the stories. >> she dreaded the thought of testifying in open court in front of daker but she knew there would be no avoiding it. he was arrested and charged with murdering carmen smith and stabbing her son nick. his t...

>> all that evidence from the van was added to items recovered from the dumpster outside atlanta where hilton was recovered. a georgia cop on blood mountain had found the bayonet wrestled away from gary hilton. now investigators in florida had a theory. >> what was interesting about that knife is, before we knew of mr. hilton, before he had killed ms. emerson and been caught, our analyst in our lab showed us, this is the style -- this is what the knife's going to look like. >> cameras and memory cards were found inside the van. the techie detectives in the fdle computer lab were working overti...

From the dumpster outside atlanta where hilton was recovered. a georgia cop on blood mountain had found the bayonet wrestled away from gary hilton. now investigators in florida had a theory. >> what was interesting about that knife is, before we knew of mr. hilton, before he had killed ms. emerson and been caught, our analyst in our lab showed us, this is the style -- this is what the knife's going to look like. >> cameras and memory cards were found inside the van. the techie detectives in the fdle computer lab were working overtime trying to unscramble deleted material from the evidence. and...