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Town by a hiker in a pretty steep ravine about a 400-foot ravine. >> the skull was that of a young caucasian female. >> the news came on, and the reporter was holding the skull, and was saying this body has been found, yada, yada, and all the details. and about, and this had happened to me so many times since she went missing. it's amazing how many bodies are found. >> dental records identified the victim. it was heather church. >> at the beginning, i didn't want to hear it. for like 24 hours, i kept on saying, "are you sure?" i must have said that 100 times. >> the autopsy revealed the manner...

Evidence technicians found three fingerprints on the outside of the screen's frame. >> the prints themselves were very fresh in this particular case on that particular screen, they were very distinct prints. >> but these fingerprints could have been left by anyone. dozens of people had been in and around the house. >> this was a busy household just like many of our households. there were hundreds of prints throughout the house. >> it was a process that would take day, perhaps weeks. and they were no closer to finding heather. >> what happened to heather dawn church became the mystery for this ...

Theft. >> he had a criminal history in both of those states. nothing for murder, but we knew he was a felon. >> brown's fingerprints didn't make it into the fbi's database, because his offense was comparatively minor. >> when louisiana notified us that they had matched the prints to a subject named robert brown, we immediately went into our files and our databases to find out where robert brown lived and we found that he lived just a quarter mile away from heather church. >> brown worked as a tree farmer and was married with one grown son. colorado officials put brown under surveillance and ar...

>> the plans for that night originally was to be at home and just do whatever we do, probably read them stories and that kind of stuff that moms do. >> then diane remembered her older sons had a boy scout meeting that night. diane's other children, 5-year-old sage and 13-year-old heather, wanted to stay home. >> heather didn't want to go and hang out with all those crazy boys, and so she asked if she could baby-sit that night, and so, we said sure, fine, whatever. and we took off and went to the cub scout meeting. >> heather had taken babysitting classes, so diane had no qualms about leaving h...

When he had difficulty removing the screen, he took them off and inadvertently left three prints behind. prosecutors believe heather heard the noise and went to investigate. when brown saw her, he realized heather could identify him, so he struck her in the head with a blunt object, killing her instantly. he carried heather's body out through the front door, which he left unlocked, loaded her into his vehicle and drove to the mountains where he dumped her body in a ravine. to avoid the death penalty, brown pleaded guilty to kidnapping and murder and was sentenced to life in prison with no chan...