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>> but this profile was so weak, it would be inadmissible in court. >> it was a partial match, which told law enforcement and told me we were on the right track. we just needed to get a good dna sample from drew planten. >> since planten worked for the state, investigators got permission to search his workplace. mark bodet swabbed his computer keyboard, his radio and other items he handled. dna from those skin cells was compared to the biological evidence from stephanie bennett's rape kit. >> the dna that was obtained was an exact match to the profile from the dna that was obtained from the sp...

Behind. the dna from renee's rape kit and the single hair from tammy's bed ultimately tied him to both crimes. rudy gaytan was convicted of second degree murder in the death of tammy tatum and first degree sexual assault of renee dulany. >> he chose to kill her, and i got to live. i felt responsible to make sure i, you know, live a good life because hers was taken from her. >> gaytan was sentenced to a total of 72 years for both crimes and will not be eligible for parole until he's 103 years old. >> forensic evidence and the emerging technology of dna was critical in the solving of this case. ...

Kind of shut it out. there's not a whole lot you can do. you can't really absorb what's happening to you. >> the attack happened shortly after renee's grandmother left for work around 5:00 a.m. both renee and police were convinced the perpetrator had planned this attack carefully. the assault lasted for two hours. even though renee was blindfolded, she could tell her attacker was going back and forth to the bathroom to wet a towel and wipe down surfaces in the room. >> i knew he was trying to not leave evidence, and i was so afraid it was going to work. >> but incredibly, despite all these p...

>> this was huge. having an investigative lead develop nearly ten years after the sex assault, that hadn't happened before. >> the dna profile from renee dulany's rape kit matched rudy gaytan, a 48-year-old auto mechanic who was married with two children. coincidentally, he also lived in renee's apartment complex. >> it was shocking, upsetting to find out that it was someone that had lived right next door. >> in fact, renee had identified gaytan as a possible suspect the night of her rape. >> i don't want to say this because i'm afraid i'll be wrong, but it sounded kind of like one of the peop...

They still contained rust-colored stains. despite being washed and dried, analysts were able to obtain dna from the stains and generate a profile. >> they could not exclude rebecca barney from being a contributor to that profile and only one in 12,000 individuals in the general population would match that profile. >> but was kidwell's dna at the crime scene? the profile from saliva on rebecca's body was very weak, so analysts returned to the dna from rebecca's rape kit. because she was menstruating, the dna was predominantly female, but there were minute amounts of male dna too. this time anal...