>> daniel clay. >> had you ever heard of daniel clay before? >> never.come up at all. >> not in this case. >> who was daniel clay? >> daniel clay is a guy that lives in -- in monroe county and doesn't really have a permanent address. he just kind of flops around from house to house, girlfriend to girlfriend. he has a few -- a few kids. but he just kind of does his own thing. >> someone that's not doing very well in life? >> unemployed. >> oh, boy. >> and we had found out that he had actually been arrested a month or two prior -- i believe it was in may of 2016 -- by the monroe city police for a larceny from a person where he stole a backpack with some tattoo equipment off of somebody. >> a petty crime, essentially. >> but it's a felony. >> and unfortunately for daniel clay, the law in michigan had recently changed. under the old law, only dna from convicted felons was entered into the national database, codis. the new law included the dna of anyone arrested for a felony. >> so upon his arrest with the new law in michigan, they took a dna sample from him