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Check your speed. see how fast your internet can be. switch now and add voice and tv for $34.90. comcast business. built for business. ray k are rone spent 17 months on death row for the rape and murder of phoenix bar manager kim ancona. he continues to have hope he'll get out alive. >> i knew i was innocent. good god knew. my family and friends believed in my innocence. the question was how are we going to prove it? >> reporter: the answer comes with the help of a cousin ray's never met. >> i first heard about ray from my mother as a casual

Call him into the station. they have a search warrant. >> he brought me an interrogation. a hair sample and a cast of your teeth. then he took me into a room where there was a dentist chair. they had a dentist make casts, two upper and two lower. then had my lips spread open. had me move my chin around, snarl, grin, two hours of this. >> the forensic dentist compared his dental casts to the bite mark on ancona's breast and conclude it is a match. saliva are samples show his blood type is consistent with saliva collected off the bite mark. the detectives believe they have enough forensic eviden...

Ray crone is a 34-year-old bachelor in the prime of his life. after a serving seven yearses in the air force he's received an honorable discharge and has begun to establish himself. >> i like it out there. sunny. easy to meet people. i got a job with the post office, bought a home, doing well. living a good life. >> crone frequents the cbs is restaurant and lounge where he plays in a dart league. he meet it is bar manager, 36-year-old kim ancona. >> she was a nice girl. i talked with her at times. i guess she liked me and talked to her girlfriends about me. it never went any farther than that....

As the jury is polled, the victim's mother cries in relief. krone remains stoic. >> everything just dropped out of me. i mean, i have never been hit that hard. emotionally, physically, just to stop breathing. i'm like, whoa, back up, rewind. start this over. this didn't happen, did it? it was the hardest day of my life. >> reporter: judge james mac maddow gag sentences krone to life in prison. in light of the dna evidence admits to having doubts about the verdict. >> he said it was the most troubling case of his career. so even the judge recognized there may be problems. >> reporter: plord vow...