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blood stain pattern analysis where working together, the two show who the blood came from and provide a scenario about which it possibly got there. up next, a woman fears for her life. >> judy was afraid. >> she expected something to happen to her. >> he was waiting for her in the house! >> does she know who shot her? >> the evidence shows it was an ambush. was it someone she knew? >> possibly a murder-for-hire type situation. >> or a random attack, the hardest to solve? >> most screwed up in the head defendant that i have prosecuted in my 15 years as a prosecutor.
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>> it was the end of a long day, and judy southern returned home from work to what she thought would be an empty house. instead, she encountered something unexpected. judy tried calling her husband at work, but he'd already left. he got home a few minutes later. >> and i heard her call my name. i can't remember if i rolled her over. i think i said, "what happened?" and she said she had been shot. >> reporter: allen saw the but wound, carries her to his car and rushed her to the hospital. >> where is she bleeding from, sir? >> she's been shot! >> who shot her? >> i do not have a clue. when i got there, there's a bullet wound in her right lower abdomen. >> does she know who shot her? >> she gave me a name of somebody barely. he was waiting for her in the house! >> by the time they got to the hospital, there was little doctors could do. >> and then when they finally
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brought the gurney out and got her on the gurney, they started yelling "code blue, code blue!" and i know that stuff don't sound right. >> judy died on the operating table before her twin sister could get there. >> if i had been able to see her in that hospital, i would ask her, judy, were you afraid, and did you even think of us? because i would have been there for you. i would have so been there for you. i would have given any part of my body that you would have needed. and i would ask her, did she really, really know how much she was loved. >> at the crime scene, police found evidence that the killer spent time in virtually every room in the couple's house. >> i know he showered, i know he played with a child's video game, and i know that he used a sex toy on himself. i can't tell you the order in which he did it. >> there were cigarette butts everywhere, and they weren't the brand that either allen or judy smoked --
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>> which would lead one to conclude or at least need to investigate whether or not the assailant left those cigarette butts, because it was a different brand. >> there was no sign of forced entry. from shell casings at the scene, the murder weapon was a 9-millimeter handgun. in the yard near judy's body was a crumpled note. >> this is for my wife, melanie. i love you. sorry it had to end like this. i leave everything that i have to my loving, caring wife. >> the note was signed jonathan, but his last name was hard to decipher. it looked like benny or berry. judy had mentioned this name to her husband before she died. >> does she know who shot her? >> she gave me a name of somebody berry? he was waiting for her in the house! >> allen claimed he didn't know anyone by that name. in a search for suspects, police
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usually start with the spouse. >> any time a wife is shot, particularly at home, the husband is not only a suspect, but the prime suspect. >> allen said he was driving home from work when the shooting took place. >> i have to be honest, at that point, my suspicions were on allen. >> i had nothing to do with it. your hepatitis c.forget it's slow moving, you tell yourself. i have time. after all there may be no symptoms for years. no wonder you try to push it to the back of your mind
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no one knew the motive for judy southern's murder, but the evidence indicated the killer entered the home planning to do violence. >> the phone lines, they had been cut, so that someone entering the residence would not be able to call out for help, 911, or for any matter. >> it appeared that the killer was inside the house, waiting. >> she comes home. it is an average day for her. there is nothing to indicate that there is someone in the home. >> it appeared that the killer fired twice. one bullet hit judy in the abdomen, the other missed. >> the shot that took place in the hallway traveled across the
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hall and actually lodged in an adjacent bedroom in the box spring. and we believe that is the shot that struck judy. >> when investigators searched through the crime scene, they discovered something unexpected in allen southern's private office. >> once inside the house, we discovered a recording device on the phones. >> allen had been recording phone conversations on the home phone out of his suspicions for an ongoing affair. >> police soon learned that relations between allen and judy southern were extraordinarily strained. >> marital discord was well documented between judy and allen. recorded phone calls is unusual. it is a sign of a troublesome marriage. >> judy's twin sister said both partners were having affairs, and that judy knew allen was recording her phone calls. >> we kind of figured we were being recorded, so there was some things that we completely
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fabricated, just to see if it would come back, and it did. and at that point, knowing my sister and knowing how bull-headed she is, at that point, it was almost like a game. >> he had had at least two affairs in the past that she knew of, and that she had an ongoing affair at the time this occurred. >> allen and judy slept in separate bedrooms. they told friends they only stayed together for the sake of their 5-year-old son. >> jacob loved his daddy, and judy wanted that love to be preserved. she didn't want to separate the two of them. >> but their relationship became increasingly tense. two days before her murder, judy told her sister she and allen had decided to separate. >> she was very afraid that day. she was afraid that day that allen was going to kill her, because it had gotten to the point where their relationship was maybe a little more hostile,
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not in a violent way, not in a hitting way, just in a verbal way. >> we were learning from her friends that if anything happened to her, that allen had something to do with it. >> allen denied any involvement in judy's murder. however, he clearly had a motive. judy was seeing another man. and if judy were to die, allen would gain sole custody of their son in addition to her life insurance. but he had no history of violence and didn't own a .9 millimeter handgun. >> i understand people's suspicions. there was nothing other than a husband and a wife who are having troubles. lord knows if every marriage that i just described resulted in homicide, we'd have to build a lot more cemeteries than we have. >> investigators were perplexed and turned to the note found at the murder scene. although the signature was
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illegible, the name at the top of the note was clear, melanie binney. since the note was addressed to "my wife, melanie," investigators checked marriage records and identified the woman's husband as 26-year-old jonathan binney. the binneys lived just three miles away from the southerns' home. allen southern said they didn't know the binneys. >> they're not any more neighbors than people who live a mile apart in manhattan are neighbors. >> investigators needed to know whether this might have been a murder-for-hire, with jonathan binney as the shooter. >> the cell phone records, and trust me, we checked, looking to see whether allen southern had called jonathan binney, no -- not an scintilla of connection, other than both were members of the same public library, along with the rest of spartanburg county. >> investigators decided to pay jonathan binney a visit.
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to, "my wife, melanie binney." and on the note was her address, just a few miles from the southerns' home. a background check revealed melanie's husband, 26-year-old jonathan binney, had recently been arrested. >> jonathan binney is out on bond for the rape of his 3-month-old daughter. >> in the suicide note, binney said he planned to kill himself because the thought of going to prison for the rape of his child was too much for him to bear. >> "the pressure i am or was under was intense. i couldn't deal with it. >> certainly found it to be a vital piece of evidence in the case. knew that we would be able to get handwriting analysis. >> document examiner gail heath compared the handwriting on the note to jonathan binney's handwriting samples.
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>> in this particular case, we were looking at handprinting. and handprinting can also be extremely identifiable back to an individual. most individuals when they first learn to write do learn to write from something called copy book style, which is printed letters within a textbook. >> there were a number of clear similarities. the lowercase "g," especially at the end of words, was unusually open. the lowercase "f" was almost always tilted at an angle to the rest of the letters in the word. >> in examining the question to the known, i pretty much was able to account for each and every pen movement and pen characteristic that i saw in the question. >> gail heath concluded that jonathan binney most likely wrote this note. >> on the nine-point scale, this was at the first position, a total identification of the handwriting. that's pretty much it. that's top of the -- top of the scale. >> and prints on the note matched binney's.
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when police went looking for jonathan binney at his home, he was gone. >> we used a helicopter, which has a flare during the night, trying to get thermal imaging of anyone that would be out in the woods, as well as continued with the k-9 team, trying to track the suspect, jonathan binney. >> the next morning, investigators returned to binney's house, and this time, found him hiding in the basement. he was shirtless, with six nicotine patches on his chest. >> jonathan binney indicated to us that he had applied numerous nicotine patches to his body in hopes that he could overdose and eventually commit suicide. >> if you would have bought six boxes and put on 50 nicotine patches, then i'll hear you out on your bona fide effort to kill yourself. four? i know people studying for exams that do that just to stay up. >> they were bringing him out of the basement, and jonathan
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binney made what we refer to as a spontaneous utterance of "she's dead, isn't she?" and the deputy just replied "who?" and he said, "the woman i shot." >> but without saying anything more, jonathan binney asked for an attorney and he recanted his confession. the cigarette butts at the scene were given to analyst ken bogut. he cut them open to extract any cells that might be present from saliva. >> there usually is no problem in extracting dna from cigarette butts. it's just usually a matter of how much dna is deposited on the cigarette butts. >> the saliva on the cigarettes came from jonathan binney, proof he was at the scene. investigators found a .9 millimeter weapon in the open field in between the binneys' home and the crime scene. scientists fired a test bullet
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and compared it to the bullet from the crime scene. >> just like looking through a pair of binoculars. you're actually looking at one specimen on the left stage, one specimen on the right. and you're looking for commonality of markings between the two items. >> the test left no doubt. the gun found in the field was the murder weapon. investigators discovered evidence in binney's room that proved the gun was in his possession. >> we found blue jeans that had one unspent, .9 millimeter bullet in the pocket. we found a holster, magazine holders, and a security badge, as well as some other items that related to the possession of a gun. >> all the evidence pointed to binney, but what was his motive? >> we looked for every
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conceivable connection. the closest we could ever find was that they may have both had public library cards at the same library, which is not very close at all. >> but there was someone who had a motive, judy's husband, allen. >> some domestic problems that they were having in their relationship. we immediately began to investigate that aspect of it, as was jonathan binney the go-between to end judy southern's life for allen southern? >> did binney and allen southern know each other? as police attempted to answer that question, they got a call from the jail. jonathan binney wanted to talk. >> we were expecting him to tell us that her husband had hired him to do it and that he was just a paid hand to carry out this act for somebody else.
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but couldn't establish a connection between jonathan binney and allen southern. >> there was no phone records or anything to indicate any type of relationship between the two. allen actually took a polygraph test and was able to pass that. >> because of the evidence against him, jonathan binney was in jail. after several days, he told police he wanted to talk without his lawyer present. >> he wanted the death penalty. he was wanting to plea to the death penalty. he told us everything we asked. he told us, and even that and more. >> what binney proceeded to tell investigators ranks among the most bizarre confessions any of them can recall. >> he is the most sexually deviant, screwed up in the head defendant that i have prosecuted in my 15 years as a prosecutor. >> binney admitted to the rape of his 3-month-old daughter. he knew he was going to prison
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and it scared him into murder. >> he didn't want to go to prison as a child molester, because he said he would be somebody's bitch in prison, that he wanted to go as a murderer. >> binney said he didn't know the southern family and that allen had nothing to do with the murder. based on the forensic evidence and his confession, binney chose the southerns' home at random while driving down the street on his moped. he entered the empty home through an unlocked window, then cut the phone lines. since his intent was murder, he would have killed whoever came home, and he had no way of knowing whether it would be allen, judy, or their 5-year-old child. while waiting, the evidence shows he had some lunch, went through the family's personal belongings, and even took a shower. judy came home at 3:30 from her
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mail carrier job and probably found binney's suicide note. she and binney stumbled upon each other. as she tried to run, he fired two shots. one missed. the second hit her in the abdomen. [ gunshots ] binney got on his moped and fled through the fields. judy used her cell phone to call her husband, who arrived a short time later and rushed her to the hospital. since she saw the suicide note, she knew the perpetrator's name. >> she gave me a name of somebody, barry? >> she died later in the hospital. >> apparently, he felt like that he was not going to go to prison as a child molester. he decided that he was going to be a murderer. and from what i understand, he was supposedly going to be a mass murderer. me and my son just didn't come
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home at the right time. >> jonathan binney was convicted of judy southern's murder and for the rape of his infant daughter. he was sentenced to death. >> what is most troubling about jonathan binney's case is that he picked a total stranger. and that's what the jury and others and even judy's family members have such a hard time with. >> it ranks among the strangest and most senseless of crimes. despite the unusual nature of the crime and the lack of witnesses, science proved that jonathan binney murdered judy southern, despite having no connection to her whatsoever. >> they could prove without a doubt that yes, he was there. so, the science that's out there today is more than anybody can actually knows until you're going through it, because you never think about it, but you're
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way happy that it's there. you're glad that they do have that knowledge. >> we were genuinely concerned that we had too much evidence, that there were no missing links for the jury to have to -- you know, sometimes jurors like to connect the dots themselves. there was nothing to connect here. up next, the peeping tom goes one step further and commits an unspeakable crime. >> the scenario here, thankfully, is not a scenario we see very often. >> this was someone that was an avid window peeper and been there before. >> for 20 years, he eludes police and even returns to the crime scene. >> the kitchen is the brawl. the guy had made his way back to the sink to relive it. >> eventually, he goes one step too far. >> it's one of those ah hah moments that you get. >> we assumed that it would be, you know, a 14-year-old kid.
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>> on a stifling, hot night in oklahoma, gary ellwood went to bed early. his girlfriend, janet haynes, stayed up for a while and went to bed later. just after midnight, they heard a noise coming from the living room. gary went to investigate. >> she heard him scream for help. she heard noises. she heard sounds of a struggle. this, of course, brought her to fully awake almost instantaneously. >> janet ran to help, but without her glasses, couldn't see clearly. >> she was able to tell us that he was wearing gloves and had underwear on. >> the assailant chased janet back into the bedroom, where she was assaulted. >> he would try over the course of that attack to knock her unconscious, to suffocate her to a point where she would lose consciousness. >> she kept saying, you don't
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have to kill me. he says, "yes, i do," and i think pretty much she just managed to talk him out of that possibility. >> after several hours, the attacker left. that's when janet discovered gary's lifeless body. >> gary! >> now in a state of shock, she managed to call police. >> she was asking me, "is he dead? is he dead? i know he's dead. he's dead." >> gary ellwood had been stabbed to death. police found his body near the front door. he was only 27 years old. >> gary was evidently surprised in the dining area of the house, which was in the front. i noticed a crack in the sheetrock on the wall. that was obviously done by the force of being driven into the wall. and it was almost an outline of his body, where he had crashed into the wall. >> gary was divorced, a successful businessman with no known enemies.
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>> he was a first-class guy. smart, intelligent, knew exactly where he was going, the things that were important in life, cared a lot about people. >> gary and janet had been dating for only a short time, so she didn't know whether gary knew his killer. >> her eyesight had some limitations, and the darkness of the room contributed a great deal to that, even though she had spent a significant amount of time with him in the room. >> she said the attacker was in his early 20s, had blond hair, was just under 6 feet tall and had a scraggly beard. police across oklahoma were looking for a man who fit this description, but some members of the police department began to question janet's story. >> we always questioned how a guy that may be carrying his clothes and stripped down to his underwear and carrying a knife and blood all over him, where's he going to go and how's he
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>> gary elwood was brutally murdered by someone who broke into his home in the middle of the night. but the motive didn't appear to be robbery. nothing of value was missing. and the victim's girlfriend, janet haynes, survived the attack. >> what i found fascinating about that was the fact that he did not resort to physical violence towards the victim. he was simply trying to subdue her. he didn't beat her, he didn't use profanity toward her, he didn't attempt to stab her, even though he could have very easily done that. >> investigators started to question whether janet haynes might have known the perpetrator, or perhaps the perpetrator knew her. >> we thought it was possible that it could have been an ex-boyfriend or at least someone who had either tried to date her or something like that. it was almost like he's trying to remove the object between him and the girl.
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>> yet another unusual detail was janet's description of the killer. she said he was wearing only his underwear and a pair of gloves. >> it just didn't ring right to any of us. we really wanted to just verify that she was being up and up with us. >> so janet was given two extensive polygraph examinations, and she passed both times. police looked for evidence to corroborate janet's story. at the time, luminol was just becoming available, so investigators decided to try it. >> their reaction was, whoo, because they were amazed at what it was revealing. from that scene, it got the nickname locally here of whoo juice, because it was such a weird feeling to be watching what's going on, and we realized what great potential this luminol has. >> the luminol was further proof that everything janet told investigators was true.
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>> all of a sudden, you start seeing footprints appearing in the dark. it's almost like you're walking in the footsteps of the person. and the hair stands up on the back of your neck, because at that moment, you're seeing the actual direction that this assailant had walked. >> and investigators found other evidence to corroborate janet's story. the screen in the dining room window had been cut, the likely point of entry. under the master bedroom window, in the soft dirt, were some bare footprints from an individual with a size 11 foot. and investigators discovered a faint fabric impression in the dirt underneath the window. >> it's a pretty good detective work, i think. you could tell that they see a buttocks imprint on the ground beneath the window that looked as though that person had spent quite a lot of time under that window. >> from that window, the killer had a clear sight line into the
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bathroom. janet told investigators she took a shower before she went to bed. to investigators, this told a story. >> the perpetrator in this particular case was a window peeper. window peepers look for victims of opportunity. and once he discovered that there was, in fact, a woman inside that residence, that's where he decided to commit his crime that particular night. >> because the killer entered the house wearing only his underwear and a pair of gloves, fbi profilers believed his target was janet, not gary. and he must have believed she was alone. >> it was our opinion that he wanted to rape her. that's the reason, the primary motive for entering that residence to begin with. >> hazelwood believes the perpetrator had never killed before. >> in this particular case, we felt it was panic stabbing.
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he had not expected to encounter gary at that particular point. >> the fbi created an entire profile of the person they believe perpetrated this crime. >> we estimated his age to be between, i believe, 22 and 27. his education, we said he had graduated from high school. he lived within walking distance of where the crime had been committed. >> hazelwood predicted that the killer would be so traumatized that his weight would fluctuate, and he would look for a legitimate reason to leave the area. >> this was a frightening experience for this person, because in our opinion, he'd never killed before, and he did not intend to kill when he went into that residence. >> but if the killer had left town, how would police find him? ♪
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the dermal patterns on your feet are unique to you, just as your fingerprints are unique to you on your hands. >> all police needed now was a suspect. >> i went from door to door, have you lived here? how long have you lived here? who do you know in the neighborhood? who do you associate with in the neighborhood? >> they found one promising lead, 18-year-old bill winters, who lived two blocks away from the crime scene. >> his parents had moved out of state and left him alone in that house. he wasn't a big guy. he would have been just the right size to get through the hole in the screen. >> as the profile predicted, shortly after the murder, winters left town to live with his parents in missouri. during police questioning, winters denied any involvement in gary elwood's murder and willingly provided a print of his right foot. it did not match the bloody print found in the victim's home. three years passed. then an inmate at the local jail
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contacted police about his former roommate, bob johnson. >> someone who came forward and claimed that their roommate at that time in '86, johnson, had come home bloodied and said that he had killed somebody. >> johnson's mugshot looked remarkably like the composite drawing of the suspect. he didn't fit the fbi profile, but his background made him a likely suspect. >> his ex-wife told the investigators that mr. johnson had a significant drug problem, and he was conducting those burglaries to help support that habit. >> janet haynes identified johnson in a photo lineup. >> so i'm sure at that point, edmond investigators clearly thought they had their man. >> by this time, dna testing was standard practice. so, johnson's dna was compared to semen from janet haynes' rape
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test kit, and his footprints were compared to the bloody footprints at the crime scene. >> it was just a matter of days that we got those results back, and conclusively excluded him as a suspect of this homicide. it was not his footprint. it was not his dna type that was left behind. >> the case went cold again. investigators never gave up, but they were running out of ideas. three years later, on a hunch, they revisited the scene of the crime, not even sure what they were looking for. >> we were just looking around, because it had sat there for several years, vacant. >> was there anything they missed, something they hadn't thought of? and then they found a potential clue. >> right on the floor in the
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kitchen area is the bra. >> it didn't look new, but it wasn't there the last time they were inside the home shortly after the murder. was it possible that this belonged to janet haynes? >> i verified the bra belonged to her. one of the things that is characteristic of a lot of rapists is that they will take a trophy. and one of the trophies that we felt that he took during the time was the female's bra. so i believe that the guy had made his way back to the scene to relive it. >> but if the killer had been back in the neighborhood, it might have been only for a visit. >> this guy has some direct ties to that neighborhood, somehow, some way. he either had relatives in the neighborhood or he had lived there.
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>> over the next 18 years, police checked dozens of suspects from seven different states. none panned out. then, in the spring of 2004, tv viewers in edmond, oklahoma, saw this story. >> scott eggleston says he knew someone had been watching his family for months, even taking photos through a crack in the blinds. >> we assumed it would be a, you know, a 14-year-old kid. >> but it wasn't a kid. it was a grown man. >> the father came around the house and found the suspect dressed completely in black. he had arranged an outfit that was like a turtleneck, where he could pull it up over his face and he had just cut out holes for his eyes and a hole for his mouth so he could breathe. >> and the man was barefoot. >> i got a little adrenaline rush, and i said, where are we?
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he pulled up his turtleneck to cover his face. >> when police arrested 40-year-old jonathan graham for peeping into the the window of a teenage girl, they suspected he was more than just a voyeur. in his possession were items for a more violent crime. >> a bag was found with several different kinds of knives, three pair of handcuffs, flex cuffs, condoms, sex lubricants, sex toys, lock picking tool, bandanna, black clothing, which in our business, that's a rape kit. >> police now suspected graham was responsible for the murder of gary elwood and the sexual assault of janet haynes, crimes that occurred 18 years earlier in the very same neighborhood. at the time of gary elwood's murder, graham was living with
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his parents just a couple of blocks from ellwood's home, and that's where he was living now, after a brief stint in the army. with a warrant, police searched graham's home. on his computer, they found child pornography and pictures of women he'd secretly photographed. investigators took an inked print of graham's feet. >> i remember i was just sitting there thinking about that, just, yeah, yeah, i hope this one works out. >> analyst jim stokes searched for corresponding ridge detail on the crime scene footprint and the one taken from jonathan graham. >> i was able to isolate an area on the right side of the foot about midway down. >> stokes called investigators with the news. >> i was really quite surprised
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and excited. >> finally, graham's dna profile matched the biological sample from janet haynes' rape test kit. the fbi profile had been remarkably accurate in predicting the perpetrator's age, education, and where he lived. graham also admitted he lost weight after the murder and joined the army, where he worked in military intelligence. after he was discharged, he returned to oklahoma. >> i guess that was his best situation, to move back into an area that he was familiar with, the same old neighborhood that he once lived in a decade-plus ago. >> but why would graham return to the same neighborhood where he killed gary elwood decades earlier and commit the same crime of window peeping, knowing that if he got caught, he'd immediately be a suspect in
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elwood's murder? >> and the answer is simply that he was a window peeper, and he was driven to commit those types of crimes. that's what was exciting to him. and i believe that he felt he would not be caught. why? because he was so proficient at what he had been doing over all those years. >> prosecutors believe that graham stood outside gary elwood's home on the night of the crime and watched while janet haynes took a shower. graham thought janet was there alone, since he couldn't see gary from his vantage point. after janet went to bed, prosecutors think graham removed his clothes and shoes outside, then entered the house by cutting the window screen. he made enough noise that he woke gary, who went to investigate. the two fought.
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then graham stabbed gary to death, and for the next few hours, terrorized janet. graham left clear footprints in gary's blood, which later tied him to the scene, along with the dna evidence. facing a possible death sentence, jonathan graham pled guilty to first-degree murder and rape. >> i don't remember much of the incident, other than i pushed him against one of the walls. >> graham had no way of knowing that 20 years later, technology would eventually catch up with him. >> the forensic science behind this investigation is what sealed jonathan graham's guilt, even without ever stepping a foot in court. >> over my career, i've seen some amazing things, and that,
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coupled with good detective work, there's just no end to what we can do. >> we here in science, in forensics, we're here for the truth. we're not here for the prosecution, we're not here for the defense. we're here for the truth. >> he will spend the rest of his >> he will spend the rest of his life in a state penitentiary. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com vanished without a trace. this morning, still no sign of a malaysian jetliner with 239 people on board. clues turning into dead ends more than 48 hours after flight 370 disappeared. we are live with the very latest. russia not backing down as crimea moves closer to a vote on its future. angry protests on the streets and new support for secession from vladimir putin. we are live with an exclusive look at crimea's tense border. he calls his own son evil. peter lanza speaking out for the first time about the school
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