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Transient and homeless people on that trail previously and a lot of folks just felt it wasn't safe to go out on that trail. >> but that wasn't the only possibility. >> there are numerous access and exit points to this canal trail, either by the public roadways, by individuals using adjacent fields, and access gates. >> the murder weapon was a broken piece of metal fencing. >> this perpetrator actually broke off a piece of metal fence post and it appears that they waited for her to return from her walk and then dragged her off the trail. >> there was blood, but no prints on the murder weapon. k...

Kathy loreck's rape test kit that frazier changed his story. >> the only thing robert was able to come up with is maybe he was down there in the treeline area where kathy's body was found previously and that he had urinated in the area and that would have been the only way. >> prosecutors believe kathy was walking along the jogging path, talking to her husband on her cell phone, when frazier first saw her. prosecutors think frazier chose kathy as his victim because he saw no one nearby in either direction. then he struck her with a piece of a metal fence post. he quickly dragged her from the j...

Police officer saw what looked like streaks of blood. >> the blood was like somebody had taken a paintbrush with red paint and simply drawn lines on the ground, like you see somebody dripping blood on the concrete. >> the officer followed the blood trail down an embankment to a heavily wooded area where he found kathy loreck barely alive in a pool of blood. >> he recognized with the way her clothes were arranged and disheveled that she had most likely been sexually assaulted and that she needed immediate medical attention. >> kathy was rushed to the hospital, but she died en route. >> kathy ha...

Could happen to this victim, that could happen to anyone. so i felt that i really wanted to do my best in working hard on this case to help catch this individual. >> fortunately for the scientists, it hadn't rained on the cigarette butts, and they were able to generate a dna profile and compare it to kathy's rape test kit. >> the person who had smoked the cigarettes was kathy's killer. >> scientists then compared the dna on the cigarettes to the dna on frazier's toothbrush. >> unfortunately, the toothbrush actually contained dna from at least three individuals, male and female dna. once i was ...

Occurred, investigators couldn't find it anywhere in the area near her body. when police checked her cell phone records, they discovered someone had used her cell phone after her murder. >> one of the numbers called, a person told us that subject juan sanchez had called them. >> investigators tracked 23-year-old juan sanchez to his residence, and there, they found kathy's cell phone in his possession. but sanchez claimed he found the phone on the jogging path. >> he explained to us that he was riding his bike on the canal trail and he found the cell phone. he decided to use it for his personal...