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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 timeses to get my saliva on something. first the cigarette butt, then the water bottles and now the envelopes. seal it yourselves. is there anyt...

He also looked inside her apartment whenever he could. 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...

Corey parker, with a direct line of sight into her apartment. >> robert denny told some co-workers about this woman that lived in an apartment below him, and he began to talk about how he would watch her. and even went so far to graphically describe that he would masturbate while watching her. >> when police decided to question denny again, his sister told police that he'd left the area. >> she had actually kicked him out of the home she shared with her husband because of his odd behavior, staying up all hours of the night, his, what she described as an addiction to pornography. she told one l...