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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 texas to attend his son's funeral. >> after collecting that money, the own...

18 months after corey parker's murder, investigators found robert denny 800 miles away in maryland, where he was living with a 52-year-old married woman. >> robert denny had struck up an e-mail relationship with a married woman and eventually had convinced her to let him come up there and live with her and her husband. he and this woman had a sexual relationship right under the husband's nose. >> when police questioned denny, they told him they were investigating his possible involvement in a different crime, hoping he'd let down his guard. >> they told him they were investigating a potential ...

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 that one drop of blood and hair that he shed that he didn't ever expect to be discovered. >> this girl was a very likable, very ...

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 th...

>> when he smoked his cigarette, he would put out the butt and put the butts in his pocket so they could not be collected. >> two days passed, and investigators finally got a break. just after a brief rainstorm, denny came outside to smoke, but this time he did something different. >> he walked around and then all of a sudden began spitting on the sidewalk. not once, not twice, but six times. >> because of the rain, the saliva was sitting on top of the rain water making it easy to collect. and the barrier helped reduce contamination. >> it was very easy to designate where it was. >> the same a...