he was just released. >> the way in which linda schlueter was attacked really lent itself to the policestacey stites was attacked. >> rodney reed surfaced as a suspect wholly and exclusively because he tried to abduct linda six months after stacey's murder and a detective told the ranger about the case. and the ranger heard it and said, oh, my god, that sounds like the stites case. >> rocky wardlow, the lead investigator from the texas rangers, he's wondering, do we have rodney reed's dna on file? and it turns out, they did have a sample of rodney reed's dna in the system. >> because he had been involved with a woman in 1995, in some sort of a relationship. >> and she alleged that rodney reed had sexually assaulted her in her apartment. i responded and conducted a crime scene investigation. >> she ultimately declines to pursue charges against reed. and that case is kind of dropped, but the police retain this biological evidence. >> texas ranger rocky wardlow, he requested that the serologist take the dna off a washcloth and various other items collected in october 1995 and compare it to