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what happened that weekend, the mystery of it was in a file on boyd underwood s desk. and a family was thinking back, trying to piece together those incomprehensible events. starting with that first call. called at home, slowly before ten on saturday morning. did you pick up? no, i thought nothing of. it just gone for the day already, i missed it. she was supposed to come on saturday night, we never heard from her, she did not come. older brother joe remembers how she figured she was just busy with her move. from anaheim up to l.a., no cause for alarm. it was not until sunday night when they decided to check on her. so joe says he and the boyfriend drove down to anaheim to kit s house. there were lights on in the house where we could see, it s who we started to walk away thinking everything was fine. then, as we turned to leave and walk off the porch, we looked into the garage.
you discharged me. but boyd did not charge him, couldn t. the prosecutor told him, he just did not have enough to make a case. the interview, and search, did produce a few diaries. gregory never threw them away, but it was not enough. did you think about giving up on it? no. there is something there? i always thought so. i don t think we would never give up. summer of 2007, boyd and one of his guys felt like they had a case, but how could he sell it to the d.a. s office? then, well, boy it has been around for a long time. more than dna science has changed. i call them propeller heads. there are a step or two ahead of me with computers. he suggested, when you do a powerpoint? i said, what is a powerpoint? he learned, fast. and, finally, the evidence
waist band of her tights. he pushed gregory to explain, how could it have gotten there? remember, it was not true. his dna was not found on her clothes. but, listen to what gregory says. what really happened that day? what happened when you went back in there that second time? why did you go back in? i took the kids out of the car and forgot the birthday present. what happened when you got back in the house? that s where the crux nothing, i picked up the president and. left there, you heard it. gregory changed his story. just enough. he put himself in the murder scene, alone, with kit. and with that, a quarter century after the murder of his estranged wife, gregory was arrested, and charged, with first degree murder. boyd called kit s brother, joe. i think he said, we ve arrested him, and i did not know what for. honestly. i had given up. why did you arrest him? why indeed.
identified the evidence on the plastic bag as being human blood. it was not the same type of blood from the victim. in fact, in the early 80s it is all science could tell them. the blood on the bag was a different type than the victims. but silently, patiently, the dna waited. in 1999, it was a whole new scientific world. in 83, they had obtained a blood sample from the husband. we got a match and it was his blood found in the plastic bag. inside of the closet? inside of the closet. though, of course, that was also gregory s closet for four years. he had only been out of the house for a few months. boyd decided to have all evidence retested, and, now, gregory s dna turned up in several places. a tiny spot on the closet doorknob, on a rear sliding glass, and, in a powder room sink. but the amount was miniscule. so, perhaps, it meant nothing.