forensic scientist alana williams took over from there. how long did it take you to see if there was a match? is it instant? no, so it takes several days to look at the item of evidence, swab the sample, extract the dna, see how much you have, and when it s on the instrument, you get a dna profile. at the end of all that did you think it was him? i thought it was a possibility got my hopes up. then i was very disappointed when it wasn t. the dna didn t match. a big let down. one of many to come. then another tip. gonterman took it seriously who it was from. a parent saying i think it s my son who did this. my son would visit the house right across from brittani s home and he looks like the sketch and this was considering this would be very difficult for a parent, i thought, wow, okay. but when she got the man s dna sample
he was excluded. another let down? yes. so she and thomson tried a different strategy, focusing on cases that bore some similarity to brittani s attack. they found one that was eerily similar. oh my gosh, the same part of town. it was at her own home. it was a shovel. they knew her. i thought how could it not be? but his dna didn t match, either. he wasn t john doe. the old school approach of working tips, leads and hunches wasn t paying off. so she went over the case file and came across a report about brittani s cell phone, in 2008, police didn t have the technology to break into the phone without erasing the data. so when it was first processed, there were only so many tools to get in it. brittani couldn t remember her pin. so years later, i took it down to the forensics
it certainly piqued my interest. carmello was extremely heart broken, anything she can do to bring heather bogle to justice, she was going to do. carmello s dna didn t match. when detectives asked her to take a polygraph. she agreed and passed. so she, too, was cleared. as soon as i passed the polygraph, the first thing i said, now will you do your job? for those who had been publicly named by o connell as heather s suspected murderers were no longer suspects was little reason to celebrate. what itself this all done to you? this has destroyed my life. it s hard for me to get employment. anybody ever apologize for sort of making you famous in a way you never wanted to be?
karen. they said no. the dna didn t match and he had a alibi. is step mom said he slept in that day. did you buy that? no. absolutely no. i said what if there were two people. it didn t have to be his dna. he could have been involved and it was somebody else s dna. did you make some noise about that? absolutely. but then months went by. years. no match. no justice for bonnie. no peace for karen or the troopers. then it was 1998. four years since bonnie is murdered, the trooper still working the case. one of them zeroed in on a former city bus driver. and he would fill in for the driver on bonnie s bus route and we just found out some strange, strange things about this guy. we had several reports about him trying to pick up young girls. one of them was the daughter of
someone else s dna, not kevin s. and probably, said the defense, the condom was used by the killer. but who? needed events or prosecution had an answer. the dna didn t match anyone in the database. and kevin s lawyers did have this, an alibi for their client. kevin s grandmother told the court he couldn t have killed nona, because he was with her. miles away in the town of dover, around the time the state said nonna died talk. and he is a genuine, levelheaded person, and credible witness on the stand. but there was one compelling piece of evidence in the prosecution s case. they wanted the jurors to see more of it. that police video of kevin. she didn t deserve this. she deserved a life. the defense had jurors watch all of it.