not just our innocence that the innocence of the whole town. it settled over the city. the thought that michelle s killer might never be caught. the seventies became the eighties, and then the nineties. the dawn of dna testing finally gave police new hope. in 1997, they sent scrapings from that gearshift of michelle s car off to a state lab. the lab was able to sort out all of those dna points and left a partial meal the any profile. at the time, it was an enough to match to a suspect. but in 2005, doug larsson took over the case. he wondered if anything else from the car might yield a more complete dna profile. he sent michelle s blood stained dress back to the state crime lab. got the phone call from the lab analysts that they had found a full dna profile on the dress, which was very exciting. that s a pretty exciting phone call? that s great.
she had been murdered, of that there was no doubt. her last moments had been very bad. but! in most homicide investigations, detectives burrow deep into the life of the victim. talk to every friend, interview the family. find out about scorned lovers. or past mistakes. that is often how murders get solved. but in this case, none of it was possible. we did not have a clue. what could you do? nothing. if we got tips, we ran them down. because we had no grounds to know who this could be a where she comes from. they read her dna profile did not match any person. not known anyways. but the autopsy revealed seamen in her body. and it did match someone. a known, local sex offender. so they called him in. and he admitted he had sex that
atlantic magazine. i like the fact that kevin was so invested in this case. passion like that was a story worth following. and she did. watching their process. her one thing, using the victim s skin, here are generated the dna profile. which they have little to a genealogy site called gen match. we get a whole list of dna matches that in all of these people share some amount of dna with our unknown person. it s important to understand the volunteers work with public dna data bases. and where it is all this dna material come from that you re able to get? so, these are all people who have taken tests with companies like ancestry dna or 23 and me. the consumer test. and who have given access to others to view their results. that s a relatively tiny percentage of the population, so the odds of finding an exact match? vanishingly small.
actual evidence. and caplan had one more surprise. she called crime lab analyst. i received or was able to develop a complete dna profile from the club portion that hits the ball and that dna profile matches samira frasch and the frequency was one and five in ten quintillion. and there it was, the story of samira frasch s murder, wrapped up in a tidy sum package. but did the doctor really confess? this was after all still a story coming from a jailhouse snitch. this was the golf club and the golf club with samira s dna on it, maybe not so obvious after all. defense attorneys were about to take on, dale fulsome and his story, and they couldn t wait.
peabody transfer station and at brian walshe s mother s home. investigators taping up the area near the dumpster, another area collecting evidence and in swampscott, and last at the home found blood stains and a damaged, bloody knife in the basement of the home. i wanted to speak to a forensic expert about what the next couple of days are going to look like as this investigation continues to unfold. here s what he told us. the analysis can be completed in a day or two. that s if it s a high-priority case. otherwise it would take several weeks, but since this is a high-priority case, my hunch is that the massachusetts state police lab already have the dna profile that they got from the blood on the various items of evidence. reporter: now, that last part