she is the definition of grit. she didn t give up. he s hurting me. the details that she gave. it was unbelievable. she said, you did it. i said, no, you did. route 66 once stretched across the southwest from one horizon to the next, going from what america was to what it wanted to be. cities like albuquerque, new mexico, were celebrated stops along the journey. today buildings that once lined this part of the iconic highway faded and closed as the cotton wood mall became the new downtown. the mall was the big hangout. i met my husband at the mall. so did i. it has played a pivotal part in our lives. for the marcell sisters, all six of them, along with their brother, jonathan, the cotton wood mall in albuquerque was important in their lives. 17-year-old brittani worked at a sunglasses kiosk. she is this blue-eyed girl with a big eyes and a striking mile. everything was good, until september 11th, 2008, brittani just starting high school had planned
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enough, morales thought, to solve the case. that is, until he got the lab results. the fingerprints found on the shovel, knife and tape were incomplete. dna from a male was found on the shovel and the knife, but it was so intermingled with brittani s blood, it was impossible to develop an individual profile. but on a shard of broken glass, police found a drop of blood that looked promising, because it was pristine. when he jumped out of the window, he cut himself. the blood drop was analyzed and a complete, male, dna profile was generated, which morales uploaded to the national criminal data base, called codis. to see if it would match anybody that s already in the database. did you get a match? no. no match? morales couldn t believe it. he was convinced brittani s attacker had to be a repeat offender. you d have to figure that somebody that s done something in that extreme has done
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