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Tara munsey's autopsy showed she was most likely killed the day she went missing. she had been shot four times at close range. >> this child was executed. i firmly believe she was shot in the chest. and while she was on the ground the rifle was held next to her head and three shots were fired. >> blood found under tara's fingernails showed she had fought her attacker. even though tara's rape kit came up negative, investigators found seminal fluid on her body. all of the biological evidence was sent for dna testing. the ballistic evidence provided a surprising clue. the murder weapon left an un...

Assault, during an attack. >> the hairs were dyed brown. 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 pres...

Is, she said, sure. and she scrounged around the courthouse. >> a few days later in the back of a walk-in vault, the clerk gets on her hands and knees to reach an envelope hiding in a back corner. >> she called me and she said, i found an envelope tucked in the back of the vault where it has been sitting for 20 years. and in that envelope was a rape kit. it had everything we needed. >> in so many cases, we have initially been told, oh, that evidence is lost or destroyed because nobody had a system of preserving the evidence. >> that's when i felt the whole weight lift from me for the very firs...

>> the hairs were dyed brown. 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 ...

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...