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Transcripts for MSNBC Dateline 20211121 06:46:00

so, dna evidence, a disturbing background, an alibi that turned out to be no alibi at all. in short, it was hard to see how dunn s public defenders could argue against their clients lies in dna. but that s exactly what they did. and with gusto. what you are saying is that the state was simply wrong? the state was simply wrong. what s more, they could prove it. for starters, they said, the state wasn t being honest about the dna on the condo rapper. it was only a mixed, partial match to gary done, they said, which meant many thousands, millions, millions of people are also not excluded. let me ask you, then, is what you are saying that gary dunn did not touch that condom wrapper? that is what we are saying. gary was nowhere near that condom wrapper? while he was across the parking lot, in his apartment. minding his own business when nona was murdered. it is true, the defense said

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Transcripts for MSNBC Dateline 20211121 06:39:00

That was his alibi. so stephanie went looking for copies of receipts to back up the alibi. so this is the store where supposedly gary down to came to do some shopping? one of the places we had to check out his alibi. the store had boxes and boxes of records, the old-fashioned sign slip kind of mercy. he s not kidding. boxes going back years. steffy rooted through piles of forgotten paper. how many boxes did you go? through i have no idea. i don t remember. hours an hours? i think i ve tried to forget that. and just when steffy felt it was all a wasted effort, he pulled out this scrap. did you find it? i found it. i found it. there it was. a receipt that showed gary and his mom route shopping, all right. on december 13th. not the 15th, when they said

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Transcripts for MSNBC Dateline 20211121 06:56:00

A high probability that it was kevin. the defense did a really good job. once again, don s defense had retried kevin jones for the murder of nona dirksmeyer. the jurors eventually came to peace with that. it was gary s trial, when you look at the evidence that is against or before him. once they did, they were troubled. on the witness stand, the jogger described how brutally dunn had attacked her, just as nona had been attacked. that was a really big factor in thinking about whether he was guilty or innocent, kind of like everything else. because that s what happened, all those things. it showed that dunn was a brutal man, and also a convicted felon when nona died. he even lied about where he had been that day. he had no alibi, and that looks really bad. it looked really bad. they also talk about the dna on the condom wrapper found in the apartment. some believe the dna probably

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