giving the indication this was a home invasion gone wrong. sherry s purse was missing as was her new bmw, an engagement gift from john. there was no sign of the murder weapon but detectives did recover two slugs and there was something else that caught detectives attention. on the inside of her left arm i they found a bite mark. the crime scene analyst swabbed the arm for any possiblesa rye va that would belong to the killer. remember in was 1986. so back then the dna wasn t much help but the swab was carefully packaged and bundled with all the other evidence. for now detectives haven t have much more to work with.
los angeles condo. the trail kept getting colder. in 1993 sherry s parents offered to have the saliva sample from that bite mark tested for dna, but the lapd declined. they said we don t have a suspect. if we have a suspect and we had their dna we d have something to match. but in 2004, the newly formed cold case unit was conducting dna cases and one of them was sherry s. it took two months to find that saliva sample buried in a refrigeration unit. the vile was poking out, but the saliva was still inside and the dna was just enough to blow this case wide open.
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for three to five hours a nurse swabs the mouth, breast, bite mark, scrapes under finger nails, inserts a speculum inside the body, photographs taken of every injury. it s almost like a continuation of the assault itself. reporter: eight years later christine saw her police report for the first time. what had been done to investigate? nothing. not an interview, not follow-up questioning, nothing. reporter: as was the case with 85% of kits destroyed in fayetteville, christine s evidence was never tested. do you look at what happened to people like christine and think this is on us, we dropped the ball? yes, absolutely. we could have done better and we should have done better. reporter: eight years later police tried to do better.
door. as if somebody was about to steal them? yes. given the indication that this was a burglary gone wrong. there was no sign of the murder weapon, but detectives did recover two .38 caliber slugs and there was something else that caught detectives attention. on the inside of sherry s left arm they found a bite mark. a crime scene analyst at the time went ahead and swabbed for any possible saliva that could belong to her. saliva that could contain dna for whoever bit sherry. this was 1986. years before dna testing technology would arrive. so back then the dna wasn t much help. but the swab was carefully packaged and bundled with all the other evidence. for now, detectives didn t have