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Involved in the fight. >> and we were not leaving easton, maryland, until we got his dna. >> this proved to be harder than investigators anticipated. denny smoked during his interrogation but always made sure to keep the cigarette butts. detectives offered him a bottle of water, but he wouldn't touch it. finally, they asked him to sign a document, saying he refused to provide his dna. >> we asked him to put the letter into envelope and seal the envelopes. he refused to seal the envelopes, and basically told us, look, you tried three times to get my saliva on something. first, the cigarette but...

>> the results left no doubt. the unknown dna from corey parker's apartment belonged to robert denny. >> the fact that he denied ever having been in her apartment made this evidence all the more incriminating. >> and there was one other piece of evidence that implicated denny, the gold-plated lighter found in corey's bedroom. he said it wasn't his, but a former girlfriend told police it was his lighter. >> she was able to identify the emblem on it. she was positive that was his lighter. >> prosecutors believe robert denny was obsessed with his beautiful neighbor, corey parker, and monitored he...

Prosecutors believe denny saw corey get ready to go with her friends on the night before thanksgiving. then, armed with a knife and wearing gloves, he entered corey's apartment through the kitchen window. the evidence suggests he hid somewhere, possibly in her closet, and waited for her to return. corey had no hint that anyone was inside and went to bed. that's when denny attacked. but corey fought back. in the process, she pulled out some of his hair which contained his dna. his lighter slipped from his pocket during the struggle. he stabbed her repeatedly. at some point, he cut himself

And bled inside his glove hand. as he left the apartment through the kitchen window, he left a blood smear on the windowsill, providing his dna. robert denny went on trial for first-degree murder. the jury deliberated for 45 minutes. >> we the jury find the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree as charged. we the jury further find the killing was done with premeditation. >> since he was only 17 years old, a minor, when he committed the crime, denny was sentenced to life in prison without parole. >> methodical in cleaning up, he was careful and he almost got away with murder but for th...

Interviews. to generate new leads, police offered a reward for any new evidence which would lead to a conviction, and it generated a lead. some employees of a local steakhouse a few miles from corey parker's apartment called police to report that a co-worker, robert denny, behaved suspiciously after corey's murder. >> he just seemed to be upset, was crying, had come into this restaurant one day and told them that his child had been killed in an automobile accident in texas and that he needed to get back home. >> denny's co-workers responded generously by raising money so he could return to tex...