inside was a gun. however, that gun was a 22-caliber not a 40. that gun was not a match for any of the four homicides? it was not. meaning that if it s dwight jones, he still has that gun with him? right. and meaning they don t necessarily have enough yet to link dwight jones to these four murders. but there was still the dna. a detective who flew late sunday night to get dna samples from dwight s family now rushed those swabs back to the lab and within about four hours, we had a positive hit on mr. jones. we at dateline cover a lot of murders, some of which take years to solve. this case was not one of those. less than 84 hours after this homicidal rampage began, investigators were confident they had id d their killer. we knew who was our suspect and murderer. at the same time the dna was being analyzed, detectives were retracing dwight s steps.
was a .22 caliber, not a .40. that gun was not a match for any of the four homicides? it was not. meaning that if it s dwight jones, he still has that gun with him? right. and meaning they don t necessarily have enough yet to link dwight jones to these four murders. reporter: but there was still the dna. that detective who flew in the middle of the night to get dna samples from dwight s family now rushed those swabs back to the lab and within about four hours, we had a positive hit on mr. jones. reporter: we at dateline cover a lot of murders, some of which take years to solve. this case was not one of those. this was a homicide investigation, kind of, in overdrive, wasn t it? it was. reporter: less than 84 hours after this homicidal rampage began, investigators were confident they had id d their killer. we knew that he was our suspect and murderer. reporter: at the same time the dna was being analyzed, detectives were retracing