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Mcrae visited on the night of his murder. des moines police learned andrea morris was recently released from prison in nebraska after serving two years on a drug charge. >> she is required to give a dna sample as part of her release. and so, i find out who her probation officer is, i call her up. she says, you know what, i just had to take her dna the other day. >> and it matched the dna from the blood found in pat mcrae's bedroom. andrea morris was arrested at her apartment in lincoln, nebraska. >> and i introduced myself and told her who i was and that i was from des moines, iowa. when the b...

Years earlier, he was involved with a 24-year-old stripper named andrea morris. andrea was working at the outer limits club in des moines. one night around closing time, mars picked up andrea after work and she said she'd promised to give a bar patron a private dance at his house. >> it wasn't entirely out of the ordinary, but it wasn't exactly something that happened all the time, but yeah. and money was pretty tight, so i was -- and she didn't ask me, you know? she just said, this is what's happening. and i said okay. and how do we get there? >> davis said he dropped andrea off and then went...

>> they later checked into a motel, took showers and got some sleep. several hours later, andrea panicked when she realized she left her wallet in pat mcrae's home. she insisted mars drive her back to des moines so she could retrieve her wallet. >> everything in her wallet was coated with blood. i mean, it was like, you know, it had been sitting in it, you know? it was -- >> but how could police determine if mars was telling the truth? >> mars davis gave us a ton of information that would not have been known to anybody other than who was at that house. >> but how did they know he wasn't involv...

For five years, the murder of pat mcrae went unsolved. investigators had the dna profile of the killer and boot impressions from the scene. what they didn't have was a viable suspect. >> i just kind of gave up worrying about whether or not it would get solved. i mean, i didn't like that it wouldn't, but i had that feeling that there was probably nothing we could do. >> then detective judy stanley got a call from her counterpart in lincoln, nebraska, 200 miles away. lincoln police had just arrested a man named mars davis on a drug possession charge, and davis offered them a deal. he said he was...

Return for leniency on his drug charge. >> i felt tremendously guilty for a long time. i didn't want to think about it anymore. it bothered me every time i closed my eyes. >> unfortunately, davis didn't know the name of the victim. he did, however, remember the neighborhood where he lived. >> he only knows that he lives at a house someplace off of harding road. he knows it's by a convenience store. he knows there's a couple car washes nearby, knows the guy works for a tv station, knows that he went to the outer limits and knows that he's killed in his house. >> mars davis was describing pat mc...