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And four years became six, eight, ten. the case faded from the public spotlight. and so around thanksgiving, 2006, 12 years after the murder when trooper hunyor answered the phone one day -- >> couldn't believe it. the director of the state crime lab contacted me and said that they just got information that there was a match through the codis system on the semen sample on bonnie craig. >> reporter: they got him. or the system did. codis is short for combined dna index system. it is a national database of profiles, provided by federal, state and local crime labs. and codis got a hit. >> everybo...

Felony murder, a murder committed in the course of a felony, in this case, rape. the question for prosecutors without semen, how could they prove that a rape even occurred? >> if you have a rape case, wouldn't you have a semen sample that you could use to tie the rapist to the rape? >> if the rapist doesn't ejaculate, you have no semen sample. in this case, our supposition was that mr. ferris was choking cheryl miller to get her to participate in this act, and he killed her. and in that instance, he may very well have lost the desire to complete the act. >> you can't tell us what he was thinki...

In order to do that, they had to convict him of what is called felony murder, a murder committed in the course of a felony, in this case, rape. the question for prosecutors without semen, how could they prove that a rape even occurred? >> if you have a rape case, wouldn't you have a semen sample that you could use to tie the rapist to the rape? >> if the rapist doesn't ejaculate, you have no semen sample. in this case, our supposition was that mr. ferris was choking cheryl miller to get her to participate in this act, and he killed her. and in that instance, he may very well have lost the desi...

They found a head hair in ms. eastburn's bed. and they found a pubic hair at the scene of the rape. they found fingerprints a all over the house. they had bloody footprints. they had a semen sample. they were certain that physical evidence would lead them to whoever killed this family. >> after walking through the house, gary eastburn also provided a tantalizing lead. they were going to move to england when he finished training in alabama. the family had decided to sell the dog, so they put an ad out in the local fort bragg and katy eastburn wrote a letter to her husband saying that a nice man...

>> there was evidence all over that house. they found head hair in ms. eastburn's bed. they found a head hair on kara's chest. and they found a pubic hair at the scene of the rape. they found fingerprints a all over the house. they had bloody footprints. they had a semen sample. they were certain that physical evidence would lead them to whoever killed this family. >> after walking through the house, gary eastburn also provided a tantalizing lead. they were going to move to england when he finished train ing in alabama. the family had decided to sell the dog, so they put an ad out in the local...