that he was the killer. so, here we have a 90 zero for bronco. this expert, an engineer that we can stretch crime scenes, showed us how the palm print would have been left by the shooter. it really is as simple as reaching into the vehicle like this, to make the shot virgil. and then for bradley, you would lean over a little bit more and fire a shot this way. i noticed that you braced yourself. here. this is where crime scene techs found the palm print. yes, they did. they found a pump print here in this particular era. it makes sense that if you are leading in this area, you have to stabilize yourself, especially for making a shot. now, defense had fresh, scientific evidence that when he put his hands on two of the victims. mounties story, of course, was, i ran in. i did this. i don t touch anybody. clearly, not true. there is something in the field of dna analysis called, touch dna. lab experts use human cells to make and identifying hit on the suspect.
the prosecutor says they knew if they could find a match, they could likely solve this crime. it s almost like it was the killer s calling card. it was his signature. the print specialist was able to compare that bloody signature with those of potential suspects detectives sent her way. you don t always know homicide s level of interest in somebody. you re going to compare these prints to anybody they ask. and one by one she checked for possible matches, helping police cross names of their list, like sarah s ex-boyfriend, d.j. his prints did not match. neither did brandon allen s. it was his house sarah had been at that night. he says once he was cleared, detectives started treating him differently. they just wanted to know what we knew. you could feel that. yeah. they re not really looking at me. they just want me to help. mm-hmm. and someone police had kept in jail for two days, the last known person to see sarah alive, jason flores was also cleared by his palm
was it a usable handprint? they weren t usable the way they were with just the white fingerprint powder. there weren t enough characteristics to compare it to somebody else. then they did a second test using a chemical called amido black. and this time, there was enough detail. one of the handprints was useable for comparison. and the test told them something else. so if there s blood on this palm print, it s now going to show up with this chemical. hopefully, yes. and what happened when you put the chemical on it? it did develop. so the palm print turned blue? yes. blue. which means that there was very likely blood in that palm print. correct. and that s a big deal. it s a tremendous deal. while oswald and her team examined the prints, other investigators tested the blood to see who it belonged to. the blood came back to sarah goode. oswald believed the killer had attacked sarah, got her blood on his hands, and then carelessly left his prints. so that s w
how did that feel to make that match? that now you ve potentially caught the killer. in one instance it feels great because you always want to be part of that team that gives the evidence that catches somebody who s done something this awful. but the reality is you never actually want to work a case like this. you never want to hear the story of what happened to sarah. you immediately think, you know, she met this guy at a party. that could have been me or any of my friends or my sister. but even with the palm print and the cellphone records all pointing to dante as sarah s killer, police didn t arrest him. there was a problem and a brand-new lead. coming up we received information that there might be another victim out there. another victim? he had a knife. he had it at my throat. he just kept saying, i ll kill you. when dateline continues. when dateline continues
suspicious of dante. when they called him while looking for sarah we talked to him twice. once at night, when we first started. and then in the morning. i think he just switched that either he did or didn t see her. i don t remember. he might not have gotten his story straight? yeah. police already had cell records linking dante to sarah. so what about his palm print? karen oswald remembers when dante came in to give his prints. he was a regular guy. he was polite, helpful. he was a nice guy. when someone acts like that, do you think, oh, it probably wasn t him? i don t make a determination on whether i think it was them or not. i ve seen enough people who have done really bad things, and to your face they re nice, they re polite, they re respectful. but demeanors change. oswald carefully compared the ridges from the bloody palm print to dante s. finally a hit. it matched to dante taylor.