But that information is just coming from the dna. Narrator of course, you cant tell how a person parts their hair or if they have tattoos or scars or their exact age. But in dozens of cases, snapshot has used dna to put a face where none existed before. If you reflect on what were doing, it shouldnt sound like science fiction. Narrator the chief suspect in Sierras Murder was a mexican construction worker. But investigators were in for a shock. This was the image snapshot created of the man who killed sierra bouzigard. He wasnt hispanic. He was caucasian with blue eyes. This meant they had been looking for the wrong man for six long years. Mancuso it was a stepback moment. It was literally, holy crap, what just took place here . Were not even looking in the right direction. Mcgee when you first see that sketch, it just its unbelievable, and youre like,
i wasn t there for her when she needed me. when i found that she wasn t alive, it s like, why her? why not me? should ve been me. narrator: sierra s lifestyle might or might not explain what looked like a sex crime. mancuso: she was using prostitution to help support her drug problem. i don t want to use the word gypsy, but she really just kind of lays her head wherever she can find a spot. mcgee: sierra lived a high-risk lifestyle. her background may have affected me a little different than it does others, because i grew up in a community where people ended up like sierra. and so i saw myself in sierra, and it became more personal to me. narrator: and now investigators got another possible break. sierra had been released from jail on a minor drug charge just three days before her murder. mcgee: so her background helped in a way and hurt in a way. it helped because we only needed
to sierra s family or to investigators. they wanted the case to go to trial. they have no doubt this revolutionary piece of dna technology would have put blake russell behind bars for a long, long time. quaal: the nice thing about this is that it will create a picture of this person, and not based on someone s memory, but actually based on the dna in the case, which doesn t change. mancuso: it was everything. it was her fighting and giving us the evidence. it was the coroner swabbing the dna. it was our analyst monica running the dna and staying on it. i m just very proud that we have people that are dedicated like monica who are willing to challenge new technology. to challenge new technology it s still sometimes unbelievable how awesome technology and scientists and how we were able to solve this
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