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And it's all going to be a case of now dna you get yourself in. you get a doctor to get you a rape kit, you get some dna and let's nail these serial rapists, which we can do now if we can get the statute of limitations lifted. we have the capability to do that. obviously we've got stigmas attached. women don't want to go in. they feel like they are to blame somehow. i know that's a classic victim mentality. for quite awhile you feel like what did i do? what did i do wrong? and the idea that you have been victimized doesn't occur to you. so i think for me the message is going to be it happens. ...

In 2010, timothy hennis went on trial for a third time for the murders of katie eastburn and her daughters. but a scandal rocked the state lab that identified hennis' dna. the lab had been skewing results to help prosecutors. >> the woman who handled the sample back in the '80s got in trouble for mixing up some dna samples in another case. and almost put an innocent guy in prison. >> think didn't do a good job of preserving evidence. three people had been arrested for evidence tampering. >> hennis' lawyers asked for a postponement to investigate the lab. the judge refused. meanwhile, military ...

I didn't understand they were trying to help me. i was still in shock from everything that had happened and i was cussing and screaming at anybody that tried to come close to me, i was swinging at them. >> brad dennis of klaas kids who helped to rescue shauna said the staff misread the situation. >> what i saw was a very scared, terrorized girl. that's what i saw. someone that had immediately put up her defenses because here's a situation that maybe she had a little bit of control over. >> it was just a nightmare. the hospital got angry because shauna wouldn't let them do a rape kit at first. ...

He pulled up his turtleneck to cover his face. >> when police arrested 40-year-old jonathan graham for peeping into the the window of a teenage girl, they suspected he was more than just a voyeur. in his possession were items for a more violent crime. >> a bag was found with several different kinds of knives, three pair of handcuffs, flex cuffs, condoms, sex lubricants, sex toys, lock picking tool, bandanna, black clothing, which in our business, that's a rape kit. >> police now suspected graham was responsible for the murder of gary elwood and the sexual assault of janet haynes, crimes that o...

The physical characteristics of the dye and the hairs themselves were consistent with hairs collected from ginger hayes. >> the hairs recovered from the tire rim exhibited the same microscopic characteristics as the known head hair samples coming from the victim. >> during police questioning, investigators noticed some dark brown stains on edwards' shoes and clothing. those stains were blood, and the dna profile of that blood was compared to the blood found on the tire at the crime scene. the results left no doubt. >> certainly, the presence of the victim's blood on the subject's clothing is s...