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>> police interviewed laura's african-american friend. and he had an airtight alibi. he was with friends on the night of the murder. with no solid leads, police turned their attention to the bar laura visited before she returned home. when investigators questioned patrons of the bar, they found laura got into an argument with sam freeman, a 26-year-old veteran of the u.s. army. >> laura accused him of hustling these two young men playing pool. whatever happened wasn't something that came to blows, but there was a disagreement over a pool game, and laura had confronted him. >> candace shipman w...

She just didn't seem interested at all. so i think there was a little jealousy. she just put him in his place. >> and shipman recalled something else that night that she never forgot. she remembered that sam freeman was drinking an italian liquor, galliano. >> he collected bottles, odd shaped bottles. when she poured the last of the galliano, he asked for the bottle because it's an odd-shaped bottle, and she gave it to him. >> witnesses reported seeing freeman leave the bar with the galliano bottle. this was significant because of the wounds on laura's head. >> just a pattern that was consiste...

Apartment as proof that someone else killed laura. and also reminded the jury that the eyewitness' description didn't match freeman either. >> i mean, they argued reasonable doubt which was a smart argument to make. >> but prosecutors maintained that the dna evidence was concrete proof. >> i think what happened here was that sam freeman didn't realize in 1992 he could leave a piece of himself at the scene other than semen, blood or fingerprints. but he did. >> in september of 2006, a jury found sam freeman guilty of first-degree murder. he was sentenced to life in prison without parole. >> i w...

Her apartment and readied her apartment when she moved in. >> police interviewed laura's african-american friend. and he had an airtight alibi. he was with friends on the night of the murder. with no solid leads, police turned their attention to the bar laura visited before she returned home. when investigators questioned patrons of the bar, they found laura got into an argument with sam freeman, a 26-year-old veteran of the u.s. army. >> laura accused him of hustling these two young men playing pool. whatever happened wasn't something that came to blows, but there was a disagreement over a po...

Freeman's home. freeman said this bottle was a recent addition to his collection, not the one given to him by the bartender on the night laura was murdered. but police confiscated it anyway. apparently freeman filled the bottle with colored water for display purposes. but he didn't fill it to the very top. a lab technician swabbed the entire bottle and, on the inside near the top, was a microscopic stain. a phenolphthalein test showed this was human blood. but after 12 years it had degraded. >> there was not enough to do a dna profile on. >> but why was human blood inside the bottle? investiga...