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Rejected, spurned, and he got the ultimate last say with laura wynn with this crime. >> during the trial, freeman's defense attorney pointed to the two foreign hairs in laura's 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 sem...

He stated no, no, no, to all these questions. >> but the dna from sam freeman's saliva sample matched the skin cells on the ligature and the mucus on the tissue. >> the only way possible that sam freeman's dna could have been at the scene in the home was the fact that sam freeman was there and was the killer. >> after 12 long years in september of 2005, sam freeman was arrested and charged with laura wynn's murder. posecutors believe the motive was clear. >> here she is, this woman -- small woman -- dressing him down in front of all these guys and here he is mr. military, mr. macho man. he was...

He then cut a tiny piece of tissue and put it into a detergent that dissolved everything but the complex molecules. a pcr dna analysis once again provided useful information. >> the majority of the dna appeared to have male gender characteristics. >> the last step was to collect a dna sample from sam freeman. >> when we first informed mr. freeman of why we were there and who we were, it was like at that instance he had just went into shock. his demeanor totally changed. that, i couldn't describe, only other as maybe the face of fear. >> before taking his dna sample, investigators asked freeman...

Again. i know he's a good forensic man. and told him to go ahead and reinvestigate that and see if he couldn't come up with something. >> and davis did just that, looking for anything that could be reinvestigated. >> it was never a closed case. up to that point, all the proper things that needed to be done were done. >> detective davis decided to go back and reinterview everyone who was in the bar with laura wynn on the night she was murdered. and his interview with candace shipman who was bartending that night provided an important lead. >> she informed me some things then she thought was per...

0 about the dna, the shoe prints, all the evidence they can gather from the crime place. that can help find out who did it. >> there's a lot of technology if things are done right, everything falls into place. and sometimes a little bit of luck helps. a small texas community mourned the tragic death of an outstanding high school athlete and scholar. at first, there wasn't much hope that the killer would be apprehended, but tiny paint chips and bits of plastic provided evidence far more accurate than an eyewitness. san antonio is one of the fastest growing cities in texas. which in turn req...