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
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 they 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