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To the house, they lifted the washing machine, human follow tested it, you know, for any type of dna. and they came and testified in our trial and said, if this story was true, what she said, it would have been there, i would have found it. >> after months of testimony, the case went to the jury. but after three days of deliberations, the jury was deadlocked. >> what they didn't have is they didn't have any physical evidence. they didn't have any dna, they didn't have any fingerprints. they didn't have any of that thing that juries want. >> witness stories had also changed since the murders. f...

That was pablo aybar. i'm saying, this is great. this is the guy. >> gary foye, butch casey's neighbor, came in and positively i.d.'d aybar as the man he saw driving the mercedes the morning of the murder. >> he doesn't pick alex hernandez as the passenger, he says he looks pretty similar, but he does pick aybar, he says, i'm sure that was the driver. >> aybar seemed a good match for the moustached killer. and he soon got a second id from his roommate, john clemesco. >> were you sure right away that was pablo on that tape? >> yeah. >> clemesco also claimed to recognize the other man on the vid...

>> the detective paul manzella denied it under oath twice in front of a jury. and john clemenco, i asked, did you ever get a reward, no. no. no. i called paul manzella to the stand and i put those documents in front ofim. i said did you pay a crimestoppers tip? it's your handwriting. it's your notes. and he says yeah. so when that testimony finished watt jury realized is that paul manzella and john clemesco were prepared to swear under oath to something they were lying about in order to have seth panelva convicted. >> our theory at trial obviously was it was aybar and either rincon or hernand...

The persuasive value of the case now was much stacked against me. >> and this time seth's defense tried an unconventional strategy with the crime scene video. >> we approached it much, much differently. we embraced the video and didn't run from it. >> we decided we were going to make the video our ally, a giant board way picture of the intruder, and put it next to him and say this is not this guy. >> our defense was it's a case of mistaken identity. you definitely have the wrong person. and we also argued how law enforcement manipulated and tricked and pressured people. >> the defense also pre...

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