also 30 minutes to the north an update in the hunt for harmony montgomery. she hasn t been seen in more than two years. local investigators are working with the f.b.i. have searched a residents where the father and stepmother lived. news cameras capturing items being removed including a refrigerator. investigators explore sewer pipes with a camera. her father is being held without bail since january facing child abuse and other charges. she was 5 years old when she went missing. a tip line dedicated to finding her. here is the number. 603-203-6060. dana: we hope they re found. thank you. bill: a man accused of randomly pushing a 62-year-old woman down a flight a stairs. a state is being forced to pay him more than $17,000 in taxpayer money. why would that be? dana: i don t get it.
the mysterious dna found under carol s fingernails after she was murdered. one thing for sure, it was not steve. we exhausted so many man hours and looked at any and all alternatives. reporter: and then it was during the long months of waiting for a new trial to begin, the prosecution had an idea. what if that 603 sample was a simple mistake. what if something just got mixed up in the lab? so investigator mike sechez looked up the autopsy done just before carol s. and submitted a sample from that for re-testing. and? nearly three years after carol s murder, a call from the crime lab. the sample dna that we sent had matched the dna under carol kennedy s fingernails. we finally were able to discover and verify who mr. 603 is.
examiner found under carol s fingernails? turned out it wasn t steve s. or jim knapp s. police called the dna, evidence item 603. but to defense investigator rich robertson, it represented much more. evidence item 603 became mr. 603. it was a male s dna that was found mixed in with carol s blood under the fingernails of her left hand. and this wasn t a small amount of dna. a reasonable person i think would think, this probably could have gotten there during an attack. reporter: jim knapp. the anonymous e-mail. mr. 603. steve s family and attorneys thought investigators should focus more on all of those things. instead, it seemed to them, prosecutors had already made up their minds, and steve would go on trial for murder. summer 2010. two years after carol kennedy s
i m dara brown. pentagon officials have confirmed the explosions and fire board the russian flagship were the result of a ukrainian missile strike. it ultimately sunk. and more than 150 palestinians were injured following clashes with israeli police friday at a holy site. violence taking place over the ramadan and easter. now back to dateline. reporter: it had always been an issue in the case against steve democker: that one fascinating clue that could break the case wide open. who was mr. 603 ? that s what people were calling