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He was facing unrelated charges, and during his lunch break, when thomas tossed a cigarette butt, detectives got the break they've been waiting for. it was right out of a scene from "law & order." >> your son smokes? >> no. i do. >> thank you. >> the lab pulled mark duffy's dna off his cigarette. it's going to take at least a week to run it for a match for our suspect. >> reporter: but in this case analyzing the saliva on the cigarette butt took only a day. >> dna was collected and subsequently matched by the connecticut state forensic sciences lab, confirming that thomas was the east coast ra...

East coast rapist. after 14 years of scouring crime scenes, police had little evidence. victims' accounts led to these sketches and reports he had a low voice and chipped tooth. in that time a six-inch knife was the only object police were able to recover. hungry for new leads, authorities one week ago put up electronic billboards in seven states up and down interstate 95, directing people to a website that resulted in tens of thousands of tips. one of which pointed to aaron thomas. police tracked their suspect to a connecticut courthouse, where he was facing unrelated charges. and during his ...