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>> who was backbone? david cam's attorneys were able to answer that question, when dna evidence linked exconvict, charles boney, with what turned out to be his prison nickname was on the tag. they were not sure it took cam off the hook just y here is dennis murphy. >> reporter: by 2005, david camm had been behind bars for more than four years. >> generally, from september through february were my darkest times of the year. >> you know, the times of the murders. and then you have the holidays and then the kids' birthdays in february. >> did you feel yourself becoming institutionalized? >> i had...

>> reporter: charles boney. a name that would change everything in the case against david camm. boney. his prison nickname was "backbone": the same name inked in on the sweatshirt's collar. >> who does this guy "boney" turn out to be? >> as brainy as ted bundy and as brawny as mike tyson. he's a sociopath. >> reporter: charles boney -- a criminal with a history of violent crimes against women. it began in the 1980's, when he was a student at indiana university. newspapers called him the shoe bandit, and followed his bizarre crimes. there'd been four separate incidents -- his early m.o.? he'd k...

Sweatshirt with the unknown male dna. prosecutors said there was no match when it had been run through a national criminal database. sam lo >> i wanted to show them the unknown dna. i said in case that this guy had been arrested now and you got new dna on this database would you run this? >> no, we can't take it. >> the attorneys tried. they asked the prosecutor. >> we start saying, please run the databana through the databa. >> lo and behold we find charles. >> does this name mean anything to you? >> didn't mean a thing. never heard the name before. was a complete shock to me. >> a name that ...

Had been arrested now, and you got new d.n.a. on that databank, would you run this?" "no, we can't take it." >> reporter: then the attorneys tried. they asked the prosecutor. >> we start saying, "please run the dna through the data bank." "please do it," and he refuses. >> reporter: the state finally ran the dna three months after sam lockhart first started asking about it. >> and low and behold, we find charles boney. >> charles boney. does this name mean anything to you? >> didn't mean a thing. i'd never heard the name before. uh, it was a complete shock to me. >> reporter: charles boney. a ...

>> i said "in case that this guy had been arrested now, and you got new d.n.a. on that databank, would you run this?" "no, we can't take it." >> reporter: then the attorneys tried. they asked the prosecutor. >> we start saying, "please run the dna through the data bank." "please do it," and he refuses. >> reporter: the state finally ran the dna three months after sam lockhart first started asking about it. >> and low and behold, we find charles boney. >> charles boney. does this name mean anything to you? >> didn't mean a thing. i'd never heard the name before. uh, it was a complete shock to m...