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Sense to preserve something, whether it's going to turn into a piece of evidence or not, doing nothing to contaminate or screw it up before they get it to the people who do know what can be done with it. >> eric hayden was convicted and sentenced to 26 years in prison. after the trial, dawn fehring's friends and family set up a scholarship in her name for students who wished to do missionary work. >> there's been over $20,000 that's been working in the world that would not have been there if it hadn't been for her death. >> the technology used in dawn's case set a legal precedent and is now us...

With it. >> the partial palm print that emerged didn't look like it could be used for any kind of identification. the fabric was the real problem. >> you have to get in close and look for detail, ridge detail, friction ridge skin detail. so we look at it with magnification. as soon as you get in close, all's you can see is the weave of the fabric. you can't really see any detail because the weave is interfering with that. that's all you can see. >> the palm print now looked like a dead end. and detectives had to face the possibility that dawn's murder would never be solved. but investigators k...

All-american of events, which was making cookies for her mother for mother's day in the privacy of her own home. >> a background check revealed dawn was a very private person who did not date, drink or use drugs. she had been in town for only two weeks. >> one of the interesting things that you learn when you do this kind of work, the medical examiner and their observations that they make of a person and the remarkable observation that he made about dawn fehring was that she was so modest that she didn't even have pierced ears. >> investigators checked the whereabouts of all registered sex off...

>> dawn was very much interested in foreign languages, and she was an exchange student in paris first and learning french and then went to vienna, austria, and learned german. >> dawn was an accomplished violinist and dancer who had recently returned from japan where she was doing christian missionary work. she was living in this apartment building in kirkland for just two weeks when her neighbor, a local fireman, noticed her front door was left open and decided to investigate. so is he grabbed his portable phone, knocked on the door, called out to see if anyone was there, and when he didn't r...