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He then took her to the marshy field near the trucking company where he worked. the evidence shows he used some sort of sharp object and repeatedly stabbed her, going so far as to mutilate her. and then, he left her there. >> i learned a lot from her skeleton. and i believe in death, she made significant contributions. >> in april of 2007, john boyer pled guilty to a charge of second-degree murder and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. scarlett's family still have problems accepting the enormity of the crime. >> he never gave a true story as to what really happened, so i don't guess we'll ev...

Wayne boyer. >> john boyer is a truck driver who actually worked at a couple of different locations here in wilmington. >> boyer no longer lived in the area. he had been interviewed by police after scarlett disappeared. >> they were partying and drinking, scarlett wanted to leave. and he said he didn't want to leave and she left. >> boyer said she left around 3:00 a.m. on foot. at the time, no one really believed boyer's story, that scarlett would have walked home seven miles away in freezing cold temperatures. >> she was not equipped for the cold. it was about 17 degrees that night. i believe...

I spoke to the doctor that did the operation on her, and he advised me i could go to the place that stored this biopsy, and i was able to get it. >> incredibly, dna testing of that biopsy sample matched the dna profile from the victim's tooth. >> when the dna came back and confirmed that my victim was scarlett wood, and that john boyer was the last person to be seen with her, we ended up going to augusta, georgia, and interviewing john boyer. >> at first, boyer repeated what he told investigators several years earlier. that scarlett grew impatient waiting for him to give her a ride. she decide...

The house. all of the floors, walls and ceilings were sprayed with luminol, but they showed no signs of blood. >> after interviewing the tenants and the previous tenants, we were pretty much at a standstill. >> next, investigators interviewed all of scarlett wood's friends. and her best friend, lynn bolinger, said she knew where scarlett was headed on the night she went missing. she said scarlett spent every friday night at a local motel where there was usually a party. >> they were at a motel partying, drinking, having beer and just having a good time. i believe it was scarlett and three or f...

>> investigators also suspect that boyer was involved in the murder of 26-year-old rose marie mallet that took place a year before scarlett wood was murdered. >> when he saw the photo, he stopped everything and said, "i know her. she's a prostitute. i've had sex with her. i want an attorney." so based on that utterance, he is a suspect in this homicide, also. >> but john boyer is now behind bars because simple technology available to anyone identified the victim of his crime. >> we'd have never known that it was her. if it wasn't for the forensic evidence. we'd have never known. >> i'm glad we...