we received a report back from the fbi that the hair recovered from her vehicle was consistent with john taylor. at the time, mitochondrial dna testing of human hair was still years away, so it was impossible to know for certain if this was taylor s hair. we could can never get that one key piece of evidence that could place him with laura salmon on the day of the murder. and the men s jeans found at the murder scene had a waist size of 30 inches and a 36-inch inseam, too big for taylor. ultimately, investigators concluded a single hair was not enough to charge him with murder. though all of that evidence pointed to him, there was still no smoking gun and nothing to actually tie them together. and there were other suspects, too. in all, police investigated over 100 other suspects, with no
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at the time, mitochondrial dna testing of human hair was still years away. so it was impossible to know for certain if this was taylor s hair. we can never get that one key piece of evidence that can place him with laura salmon on the day of the murder. and the men s jeans found at the murder scene had a waist size of 30 inches and a 36-inch inseam, too big for taylor. ultimately, investigators concluded a single hair was not enough to charge him with murder. though all of that evidence pointed to him, there was still no smoking gun and nothing to actually tie them together. and there were other suspects too. in all, police investigated over