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Loreck went for a walk, as she often did, along a jogging trail near her office. >> that was something that she just kind of did on her own as her own kind of meditation throughout the day. i know that sometimes she would use that opportunity to, you know, make some personal phone calls. >> kathy was an executive secretary, married with children. on this day, she spoke with her husband who was in europe on a business trip. >> her husband reported that suddenly she made a loud -- a groan or a gasp and the phone went dead. >> kathy's husband knew immediately something was wrong and called her co...

And paying attention to detail in my opinion is what you have to do in each and every case to make sure that you don't miss anything. >> nothing you put on a computer is going to disappear unless it's at the bottom of the lake or somehow destroyed in the fire. it's going to follow you even if you think you have destroyed it. up next, a woman is murdered in broad daylight. >> this is the monster jumping out of the bushes and grabbing you and killing you. >> cell phone records and search dogs provided some leads. >> they were able to track a scent trail to a residential area that was close to ...

From kathy's body. >> there was only one individual, in our mind, who could have had that cell phone and that would have been the individual who attacked kathy. >> but sanchez denied he was the killer and denied seeing the blood on the trail near the cell phone. investigators knew right away this would not be a routine murder investigation. >> this was shocking. we're talking about a woman close to her office going for a walk on a trail frequented by many people in broad daylight, and to have this kind of thing happen to her, it would be like being struck by lightning.

>> a total of 42 dna profiles were tested against the killer's dna. >> this was actually, in fact, the most referenced samples that i had ever tested, that the laboratory had ever tested. >> but there were no hits. then nine days after the murder, investigators got a potential break. a mountain biker called police to say he recognized the man in the composite sketch. he'd seen him on jogging trail on the day of kathy's murder. >> could i get one of those? sure. >> he said the man asked him for a cigarette and they had a short chat, although he didn't know his name. >> the mountain biker smoked...

Killer's trail right to his front door. several eyewitnesses chose his picture from a photo lineup and it appeared he committed suicide just as police were about to arrest him. after fisher's suicide, scientists took a dna sample in the morgue and compared fisher's dna profile to the biological evidence from kathy loreck's rape test kit. shockingly, it didn't match. >> we strongly believed that mark fisher was responsible for kathy's death. all of a sudden, he's not. what that means to us is we have an individual still out, walking about, who can do this again. >> it basically meant we had to ...