would be examined, fingernail scrapings to see if there s any dna from the perpetrator which can occur during a struggle. once it s collected, it can be done within 24, 48 hours as would happen here because the fbi facilities are pinpointed here so the actual process can be done in 48 hours if they got fingernail scrapings. that will be done very quickly. it s finding the evidence, looking at all of the blood at the scene and seeing which if there s anything there that might have come from a different person. rachel: he also mentioned that the killer could have worn gloves. my question is, how could that alter the ability to find out who this was? well, yeah, that is an issue, certainly if the individual has essentially gloved their hands, you re not going to have the
spilled, it is impossible for this individual who perpetrated this horrible crime to have gotten out of there without having a copious amount of blood on them and there s a chance that they probably tracked through the house and i don t just mean walking through puddles of blood but it would be on their hands, they re going to be touching various surfaces, they re going to be leaving bits and pieces, bread crumbs if you will all the way through the house. that s what they re doing at the scene right now, it s very subtle. they have to be painstaking what they re doing. rachel: i spoke with dr. batten earlier today. i asked him because we had seen a clip earlier of the father saying that they had warned him they that it could take a while. i asked the doctor how long does it take to process dna and this blood. here s what he said. if there was a struggle, there are defensive wounds and any scratch marks, all of the fingernails of the four victims
the cases instead of investigating them. and i m talking with an agent. i said, tony, how about reopening this case as an assault on a federal officer case. all just because you never stopped thinking about it. exactly. i just i didn t like the the fact that you got a woman who has given her life, dedicated to the government murdered and just lying out there because nobody cares. and so i thought, well, let s give it another shot. so, eight years after the murder, fbi agent tony vasley called on inglewood pd and met detective russ inard who was a month shy of retiring. they started combing through the old files and were assisted by a new inglewood detective steve seyler. technology advances so quickly that in 2002 i said to tony vasley, hey, maybe there s fingernail scrapings, maybe there s something of that nature. in fact, there were fingernail scrapings in this case. there was also a drop of blood on marie s saab, but at
the time of marie s murder, dna analysis was still in its infancy. those samples had never been tested. in 2004, detective seyler called john lewin, a prosecutor with the l. a. da s office major crime division. lewin specializes in cold cases. they had collected originally the fingernail scrapings. they had collected the blood, and the detective had been unable to get the lab tested. so when i first got on the case i started trying to cash in favors at the crime lab to get it done. but a ten-year-old cold case was not a priority. three more years passed before those samples were tested. finally in november, 2007, the fbi crime lab came through. what we got was the information that would break this case wide open. a new clue triggers a bold move from the cold case prosecutor, and someone close
blood on marie s saab, but at the time of marie s murder, dna analysis was still in its infancy. those samples had never been tested. in 2004, detective seyler called john lewin, a prosecutor with the l. a. da s office major crime division. lewin specializes in cold cases. they had collected originally the fingernail scrapings. they had collected the blood, and the detective had been unable to get the lab test it. so when i first got on the case i started trying to cash in favors at the crime lab to get it done. but a ten-year-old cold case was not a priority. three more years passed before those samples were tested. finally in november, 2007, the fbi crime lab came through. what we got was the information that would break this case wide open. a new clue triggers a bold