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 required the construction of one of the most sophisticated systems of state highways in the country.

unfortunately, increased traffic often means increased fatalities. and one of those tragic cases was that of a teenage boy found one morning near highway 281. >> no one deserves to die on the side of the road alone even, if their last breaths are those that are shared with a stranger. >> it looked to investigators like he had been hit head-on by a motor vehicle. >> the abrasions to the person, the absence of socks on the feet, appeared to have rolled down the roadway, conducive to being hit by a motor vehicle. >> the boy's shoes were discovered up the hill on highway 281 along with a sock and a broken neck chain. but there was no evidence to show how fast the vehicle had been going. >> cannot generally tell that by the force of the impact that the individual's knocked out of his

shoes. for some reason it's a common occurrence with motor vehicle and pedestrian accidents. >> police identified the victim as 17-year-old rafael garcia, a football player and standout student at south side high school in south-central texas. >> i was shocked. i thought it was just a dream, i was going to wake up from it because honestly, you know, you just talked to the person the day before. he said, yeah, i'll be there at football practice, this and that. then all of a sudden he's gone? >> rafael was one of six children raised by a single mother. his family was poor, and rafael worked weekends to help support his family. mike harrison was rafael's football coach. he broke the news of rafael's

death to the rest of the team. >> one of the hardest jobs as a teacher and coach is to look at a group of young men that you've grown close to and tell them one of their teammates is not going to be there anymore and it just devastated our kids. they -- they cried so hard and just for the next week to ten days, it just was pure emotion for them. >> from body temperature and degree of rigor mortis, investigators estimated raphael had been killed around midnight. since no one reported the accident, it was officially listed as a hit-and-run fatality. on the highway, investigators found evidence of where rafael was standing when hit. >> it was clear from the debris field that rafael was, in fact, on the side of that road. there's no evidence at all that rafael was walking in the lane or even close to the lane of travel. >> there were no skid marks, indicating the driver had not tried to stop before or after the crash. they did find broken pieces of glass and plastic as well as seven tiny red paint chips on the shoulder of the road and in

the grass. they also found a broken side view mirror. >> all the deposited parts were clean. they didn't have a lot of dust on them. they hadn't been rained on, it didn't appear. we believe they are all linked to the same crash. >> to be able to find these at a busy road intersection where the crime was committed is a task in itself. >> but investigators weren't optimistic, since most hit-and-run accidents go unsolved. >> anything that involves a motor vehicle, and almost everybody owns a motor vehicle, it's almost like finding a needle in a haystack.

hundreds of people turned out for rafael garcia's funeral. he was remembered as an athlete who put his studies before sports. >> when it came to rafael, his education came first, even before football. i remember there was one time where he didn't go to practice because he had a late assignment. >> he was a good person, and there's a lot of people here, a

lot, and we're just going to miss him. >> we want to know that the person who did this is facing the consequences for that and not able to just get away with, you know, taking a life. >> the autopsy revealed that rafael suffered a fractured skull and other blunt-force trauma to the head. this suggested that he was facing the oncoming traffic when he was hit. the medical examiner also found large bar-shaped bruises on rafael's thighs. they looked as if they might have come from the front grill of a truck or suv. >> it was sort of a pattern injury. part of the grill hit the right thigh, and he was probably wrapped around the side of the

truck, and the other part of the grill hit the left thigh. >> toxicology tests for drugs and alcohol were all negative. but why was rafael walking along highway 281 late at night? investigators discovered that rafael's friend dropped him off at home around 10:00 p.m. but the friend said rafael didn't go inside. instead, he started walking toward highway 281. >> he was known to walk down to what they refer to as the corner store which is they're kind of out in the country so it's a ways down. he didn't have -- he didn't own a car. he didn't have his own car to drive, so he was usually walking out there. >> rafael was hit and killed on highway 281 just a quarter mile from his home. the only clues to the driver's identity were tiny bits of glass, plastic, and red paint. presumably from the vehicle's front headlight and turn signal.

detective jose trevino worked in the auto industry before going into law enforcement. he was particularly interested in the passenger side mirror with a built-in heating element found near rafael's body. >> i recognized it as a chrysler emblem, so therefore it led me to believe it was a chrysler vehicle. >> by checking the part number, investigators learned that the mirror came from a dodge ram pickup truck manufactured between 1999 and 2002. >> most people outside the auto industry, those numbers wouldn't mean much. to an engineer, these codes are much like identifications, such as your social security number or even dna. >> although this narrowed the search considerably, these trucks were extremely popular. >> seemed like a needle in a haystack because now it's a dodge pickup truck, very commonly used in texas. it narrows it down to have the

year range, but still, there's so many. i thought maybe it was impossible to find it. >> but investigators could narrow it down further since they knew the dodge ram pickup truck was red. police used local media outlets to ask vehicle body shops as well as concerned citizens to be on the lookout for a red dodge pickup truck with damage to the front end. strangely, none of the local body shops reported a red truck coming in for repairs. police also issued a bulletin to all police departments nationwide in an effort to find the red truck. but the first tip that came in was from one of rafael's classmates. >> he said that his mother's

boyfriend came home that night of the accident, of the crash, and had said that he hit a deer on the highway and the police were going to get him and that he took off and hasn't been seen since. >> the man's name was robert huffman, a 49-year-old construction worker. vehicle records indicated huffman drove a red dodge pickup truck made in the year 2000. according to huffman's girlfriend, he disappeared the morning following the accident and she had no idea where he went. >> time is of the essence when you're trying to solve these crimes. knowing the truck is your big piece of evidence knowing it's out there driving around in the elements which means you're losing physical evidence. >> making matters worse, huffman didn't have any credit cards or an atm card, so police couldn't track his whereabouts. >> we should never lose hope on these cases because you just never know what information may come forward, who may call in, what could be found, even years later. the prime suspect in the hit-and-run death of 17-year-old rafael garcia was robert

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the prime suspect in the hit-and-run death of 17-year-old rafael garcia was robert huffman, a construction worker who owned the type of truck police were looking for.

a background check revealed huffman had two previous convictions for drunk driving and he had just finished serving a two-year sentence for a weapons offense. the media attention prompted an anonymous tip. someone told police that huffman was at a local bar on the night of rafael's death. >> the media put out the description of the truck. she phoned in, she said that she knew he had been at the bar that night. he had left between 10:30 and 11:00 and he was driving this huge red truck in the direction where rafael garcia was ultimately killed. >> huffman left town immediately following the accident and his whereabouts were unknown.

>> i have to say, it's kind of heartless, you know? i mean, knowing you killed someone and just running. you don't -- i guess he really wasn't, like, the fact there's a family involved. >> for weeks, there was no progress. then, almost three months later, investigators got another tip. this time from a police officer 1,000 miles away in sumner county, tennessee. he noticed a red pickup truck with texas plates in the parking lot of a seedy motel. a man matching huffman's description was registered in the motel under a different name. >> he gave the name of robert hokam, which later he admitted to the authorities was not really his true name. so initially they had him detained for providing a false name. >> huffman denied any involvement in the hit-and-run death of rafael garcia and, once again, claimed he hit a deer. when police looked at his vehicle they noticed that the passenger side headlight was intact as was the plastic cover on the turn signal.

>> after all this time that had passed, 2 1/2 months, the trip to tennessee yielded no evidence, no forensic evidence. >> but investigators had the seven chips of red paint from the crime scene. was it possible that they were from huffman's truck? martinez measured the seven paint chips. each one was approximately a half inch in length. martinez and his colleagues noticed something. there were places on the front bumper of huffman's truck where the paint was missing. so martinez started the painstaking process of trying to match the paint chips to the truck scratches. >> i wasn't sure exactly where it was going to match up specifically, so it was almost as if it was a game, trying to

find and put the piece of the jigsaw puzzle back to match that area where it came from on that vehicle. >> the pieces were jagged, and so was the exposed metal on the truck. unbelievably, martinez discovered that the paint chips did come from huffman's truck. they fit perfectly. >> a physical fit is the only for sure thing in forensic science. its probabilities are astronomical. there were no statistics that can calculate or duplicate the odds of tearing any two pieces identical. it is the only thing that's in forensics that is the for sure thing and, in fact, better than dna. >> here's this pain chip that plugs in perfectly, that's hitting the home run in the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded. >> but investigators still wondered if huffman's vehicle hit rafael garcia, why wasn't there any damage to the headlight and turn signal?

they found the answer to that question in his storage shed back in texas. >> we went to robert huffman's house, and in the back shed we saw a '95 maroon dodge truck that was missing the passenger side turn signal light. >> apparently, huffman owned a second pickup truck, a 1995 dodge ram. interestingly, the 1995 model was similar to his red 2000 model. so much so that the headlamps on both trucks were dimensionally identical. >> the length, the width, the depth, all those features, the mounting points, they are all in the same location. we took a 2000 model year truck, remove the headlamp module and inserted the 1995 module and the two fit perfectly. >> but even with this evidence, the case wasn't over. prosecutors now had to prove to

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although investigators could prove that robert huffman's red truck was the vehicle that killed rafael garcia, they still needed to prove to a jury that huffman was driving the vehicle. to do that, investigators had to tie huffman's whereabouts on the night of the fatal crash to rafael garcia's. rafael's friend said she dropped him off at home around 10:00 p.m. rafael didn't go inside. instead, he started walking back toward highway 281, presumably headed to the country store a short distance away. patrons of a local bar indicated that huffman was there drinking that night and left the bar sometime between 10:30 and 11:00

p.m. a bar patron said that huffman got into his red pickup truck and headed south on route 281 towards his home. rafael was walking north on route 281 at approximately the same time. the forensic evidence proves that huffman's truck swerved off the road, onto the shoulder, and hit rafael, sending him flying 40 feet down the embankment, killing him instantly. there were no skid marks. prosecutors say huffman kept driving. but tiny pieces of glass, plastic and paint, along with the passenger side mirror, were left behind, identifying the make, model, and color of the truck. when he got home, he told his

girlfriend that he had hit a deer and removed the broken headlight and replaced it with the headlight unit from his other truck. he fled the state the next day, driving 1,000 miles to tennessee, hoping the case would blow over and be forgotten. but by this time, too many law enforcement agencies were looking for him. >> all the planets were aligned because it was every single little piece of evidence together that made this such a strong case. and it just -- everything fell into place. >> the paint chips at the scene fit perfectly to huffman's truck. and the truck's grill also matched rafael's injuries. >> you could almost compare the height of the grill on that truck to the height of where the bruises were located on rafael and they matched up almost perfectly. >> in february of 2006, robert huffman was tried and convicted of failure to stop and render aid after an accident.

because of his previous drunk driving offenses, he was sentenced to the maximum, 20 years in prison. >> he never confessed, never showed any remorse, and was rather indignant about the fact that he was being tried for this offense. >> investigators say that without the science, this case, like most hit-and-run accidents, would probably have gone unsolved. >> to be able to establish a physical match is a rare find. to be able to actually solve a case and to obtain a conviction is even rarer. >> it just, to me, shows the determination of law enforcement to leave no stone unturned and to really look at the scene, and they did a great job, obviously, of evidence collection in this case and it -- it really, really

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and she was blind in one eye from the incubator at that time and she also had paralysis on her right side. >> as laura grew up in poplar bluff, missouri, she slowly overcame these physical challenges and emerged as a gifted student. >> she worked that paralysis nearly completely out, and she never let that disability blindness ever hold her back from her desires of what she wanted to be and what she wanted to do. >> laura's dream was to work in health care, to help others as she had been helped. and she achieved that by becoming a hospital pharmacy technician. >> she was a sweetheart. the people that she associated with there were pretty much her friends as well as her co-workers. nice girl.

nice girl. >> laura's friends looked out for her professionally and personally. and when she didn't show up for work one morning, they called her mother. >> so her mother said, well, i'll go down and check and see. so the land lady opened the door and let her in. and when she went in, she found laura. >> laura had been murdered on her bed, strangled with her stocking. laura's eyeglasses were on the living room couch. without them, she was literally blind. it appeared she'd been attacked in her living room and murdered in her bedroom. >> this was a crime of power and control. and she was hit in the head on her blind side. >> at first, the motive appeared to be robbery. >> we discovered that there were several items missing from the apartment. her purse, her -- some of her underwear, some shoes, some

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laura wynn's autopsy yielded several surprises. a 2 1/2 inch constitution over laura's right ear indicated she'd been hit hard enough to incapacitate her. >> what could have caused it? it was blunt trauma, something that didn't lacerate the skin. so it was probably a smooth surfaced, hard object. >> but the cause of death was strangulation. and the amount of force was excessive. >> the ligature itself would have done the job over a period of a few minutes if that was the intent, but that wasn't good enough.

the emotions got high enough that he had to lay his hands on her neck and squeeze and crush two cartilages. >> she had also been sexually assaulted. investigators found no foreign fingerprints in laura's apartment. but underneath laura's body was a clue, a used paper tissue. there looked to be biological evidence on the tissue. unfortunately, at the time, the sample was too small for dna testing. investigators also found two foreign hairs in laura's living room. >> these were sent to the lab and found to be pubic hairs of an african-american. >> but this didn't match the description given by the eyewitness who said a caucasian followed laura into her apartment. >> if you know anything about hairs, hairs fall off of people all over their body every day. she also had a friend who was an african-american and had been in

her apartment and readied her apartment when she moved in. >> police interviewed laura's african-american friend. and he had an airtight alibi. he was with friends on the night of the murder. with no solid leads, police turned their attention to the bar laura visited before she returned home. when investigators questioned patrons of the bar, they found laura got into an argument with sam freeman, a 26-year-old veteran of the u.s. army. >> laura accused him of hustling these two young men playing pool. whatever happened wasn't something that came to blows, but there was a disagreement over a pool game, and laura had confronted him. >> candace shipman was working the bar that night. she said the altercation was minor.

>> just got a little loud. then they quit. then it seemed okay. normal stuff that would happen in a bar. >> several bar patrons said freeman left the bar about 20 minutes before laura did. and his parents said he came home a short time later and stayed there the rest of the night. investigators also discovered there was another man in the bar that night. laura's ex-boyfriend, robert mcswain. >> she loved him. she was head over heels in love with him. she was just smitten. he could do no wrong. you know, and it was an on again/off again relationship. >> friends said laura hoped to marry robert, but he wasn't interested. mcswain's friend said he went directly home from the bar on the night of the murder, and family members backed up his alibi. >> he stayed at the house the rest of the night, never left. his mother and sister were also there at that time. >> police now were at a dead end.

no one else at the bar that night matched the general description of the man presumed to be the killer. >> it was a hurt that there was just no closure to it. because we just kept thinking someone's out there and we just don't know who it is. and not only that, but it was the hurt of losing her and giving her up, when she was such a worthwhile person and she was so good to everybody. and we just couldn't see any sense in it. >> months passed, then years, and laura's family lost hope that her killer would ever be brought to justice.

when clifford morris turned in his badge after a 35-year career, one case haunted him -- the brutal murder of laura wynn that had gone unsolved for 12 years. on his last day on the job, he handed the case file to one of his most trusted colleagues, detective tim davis. >> i asked him to look into it

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 pertinent to the case that she wanted to share. >> shipman said there was more going on between laura and sam freeman that night than just an argument about the pool game. >> sam flirted with laura. he tried for her affections. she just didn't seem interested

at all. so i think there was a little jealousy. she just put him in his place. >> and shipman recalled something else that night that she never forgot. she remembered that sam freeman was drinking an italian liquor, galliano. >> he collected bottles, odd shaped bottles. when she poured the last of the galliano, he asked for the bottle because it's an odd-shaped bottle, and she gave it to him. >> witnesses reported seeing freeman leave the bar with the galliano bottle. this was significant because of the wounds on laura's head. >> just a pattern that was consistent with the size and shape of that bottle. >> and that wasn't all. eight years after laura's murder, there was another incident at the same bar involving sam freeman and a galliano bottle.

candace shipman was again the bartender. and sam freeman came in, ordered some galliano, and chose a song from the jukebox. >> he was sitting at the bar and staring me right in the eyes singing "only you know and i know." hairs stood up all over my body. ♪ only you know and i know >> i was convinced -- i was convinced that he'd gotten away with murder and was flaunting it in front of me. >> now, 12 years later, freeman was married with two children and worked as a supply sergeant for the national guard. >> he was even attempting to run for city council. i thought that all was a bit brazen with the way i felt and the things i knew. >> with a warrant, investigators found a galliano bottle in

freeman's home. freeman said this bottle was a recent addition to his collection, not the one given to him by the bartender on the night laura was murdered. but police confiscated it anyway. apparently freeman filled the bottle with colored water for display purposes. but he didn't fill it to the very top. a lab technician swabbed the entire bottle and, on the inside near the top, was a microscopic stain. a phenolphthalein test showed this was human blood. but after 12 years it had degraded. >> there was not enough to do a dna profile on. >> but why was human blood inside the bottle? investigators were determined to find out. when human blood was

when human blood was discovered inside the galliano bottle in sam freeman's apartment, investigators suspected he was responsible for laura wynn's murder. according to witnesses, sam

freeman and laura wynn argued on the night of her murder. laura accused sam of hustling some young boys in a game of pool. afterwards, freeman had a few more drinks and asked the bartender if he could have the empty galliano bottle for his collection. at 10:45 the bartender announced that it was the last call for drinks because the bar was closing at 11:00 p.m. according to witnesses, that's when sam freeman left the bar with the galliano bottle since he knew laura would have to leave at closing time. laura lived only a short distance from the bar. when she got home around 11:15, prosecutors believed that it was freeman who forced her inside and struck her in the head with the galliano bottle. he then took her into the bedroom, assaulted her, then strangled her to death with her own stocking.

the evidence suggests he used a tissue to blow his nose, but left it near laura's body. he then stole some items and fled. that was the prosecution theory, anyway. the problem was they had little in the way of forensic evidence. >> i'm a worrier. everybody that knows me will tell you i worry about every single case. i'm never a prosecutor who says this is a sure thing, slam dunk. >> so when investigators wanted to know whether any of the evidence contained dna that was too small to be tested when the crime occurred 12 years earlier. >> there has to be some type of skin cells embedded in these nylons, unless the suspect wore gloves. >> the knot was chosen as part of the dna analysis because i thought that there could be a

chance that he could have touched the knot while he was tying the knot. >> dna specialist jason wycoff swabbed the stocking looking for any of those skin cells. >> the swabs were treated with a solvent to free possible dna. and then replicated so the sample was large enough for dna testing. just as they suspected, they found a dna sample. >> i noticed that the profile was characteristic of a mixture of at least two individuals and the mixture had male and female gender characteristics. >> the female dna was that of laura wynn. the source of the male's dna was not yet known. wycoff analyzed the paper tissue found underneath laura's body with an alternative light source which revealed a bodily fluid, possibly mucus.

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 if he had ever been inside laura wynn's apartment. >> did you ever date her? had you ever had sex with her? had you ever kissed her? did you know where she lived?

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 wasn't going to put up with it. i think he was embarrassed,

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 semen, blood or fingerprints. but he did. >> in september of 2006, a jury found sam freeman guilty of first-degree murder. he was sentenced to life in prison without parole. >> i want people to have hope and never give up.

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