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Killer's trail right to his front door. several eyewitnesses chose his picture from a photo lineup and it appeared he committed suicide just as police were about to arrest him. after fisher's suicide, scientists took a dna sample in the morgue and compared fisher's dna profile to the biological evidence from kathy loreck's rape test kit. shockingly, it didn't match. >> we strongly believed that mark fisher was responsible for kathy's death. all of a sudden, he's not. what that means to us is we have an individual still out, walking about, who can do this again. >> it basically meant we had to ...

The potential to be a gold mine of evidence. >> the first hair that i glommed onto was probably the largest hair and it had a root. and had a root with some tissue on it. >> dumb luck kept that towel from burning up and burning the pubic hair with it. >> investigators now had dna evidence from both crime scenes. biological evidence from renee powell's rape test kit and the hair from barbara walsh's apartment. scientists compared robert parker's dna to those dna samples. >> robert parker's dna profile was compared to the profile previously generated from the vaginal swabs. it was a match. >> ro...

>> in the meantime, it didn't take long for investigators to eliminate julie's husband as a suspect. >> when he was perfectly willing to take a polygraph examination, kept in contact with the officers trying to work this case, i think all suspicion was erased. >> but julie's autopsy did provide some important information about the killer. the medical examiner found evidence of sexual assault. a rape test kit recovered biological evidence, presumably of the perpetrator. unfortunately, dna testing wasn't yet available. >> crimes in 1985 were a lot harder to solve, just based on technology.

Perfect match to the bloody palm print on christina's bathroom sink. and carlos' dna matched the dna from christina's rape test kit. when faced with this incriminating evidence, carlos made a startling confession. he now claimed he had a consensual sexual relationship with christina in the couple of days he had known her. he also claimed he found christina's body several hours before todd hale did but he got scared is and ran home instead of calling police. he insisted, however, he wasn't the killer. >> his reason for not calling 911 was because he was a black man and he would be framed for th...

>> carlos' palm print was also a perfect match to the bloody palm print on christina's bathroom sink. and carlos' dna matched the dna from christina's rape test kit. when faced with this incriminating evidence, carlos made a startling confession. he now claimed he had a consensual sexual relationship with christina in the couple of days he had known her. he also claimed he found christina's body several hours before todd hale did but he got scared is and ran home instead of calling police. he insisted, however, he wasn't the killer. >> his reason for not calling 911 was because he was a black ...