BRIDGEPORT, Mich. - Michigan State Police runs and operates seven crime labs throughout the state.Inside these labs, there are scientists examining evidence.Som
we saw some in the sink, so there s a good chance that he or she has washed their hands in some point, and possibly got the victims blood off their hands. the killer had also cut themselves, and the killer s blood was mixed with meghan s. there was no shortage of physical and formation left behind. you ve got your killer indian a form, practically, you just do not know who he is. we had his touch dna, his blood and dna, his semen, we had his fingerprints. so, the so forensically, we had what we needed. it fell on the detectives, at
i open the cabinet, i see the tourist, case and i remember the incident with debbie from about a year earlier. i fully, iowa state reading, and just on free time, just reading it a little bit. by then, the kathy tourist case had been cool for a good three years. i m know work had been done on it for the last two years. from the beginning, police had suspected kathy s one-time boyfriend sam lopez had something to do with her murder. but they had nothing connecting him with the crime. no witnesses, no dna, and some had that solid alibi. tina was still married to stems brother the two families intertwined, as kathy s family continued to search for answers. then in april of 1997, i had a phone call from kathy s mom, it would be their first conversation of many. mary told darrin, how she had seen reports about a new
this case and that s where we re at now. just when it seemed the case was buttoned up, darren got a surprising call. remember when the request for touch dna darren had submitted months earlier? the crime lab finally called back. the crime lab says what? hey, to be tell you that we found javier s dna on kathy s body? what? yeah, we found hovers profile on a sock on the back of her knee and under her right armpit. did we tell? you know, we didn t tell you. how long have they known then? a couple of months, at least. they what? forgot to call? yeah. i think the examiner that was doing it was looking for additional results and didn t realize she hadn t notified us. touch dna paid off? it did. but not quite the way they had all hoped. unbelievable that you would get touched dna evidence back that long after the fact.
sounds admitted jealousy, kathy doting on albert, a rejected proposal. all of it seem to add up to motive. but motives don t prove murder. there was still no physical evidence tying sam to the crime. all of the blood on the car had been dusted and it was all cafés. then, welcoming the case file, detective darren why it learns something shocking. there were blood and hair samples that had never been sent to the crime lab. and when those samples were analyzed, they pointed to a whole new suspect. coming up new dna. and a new man in the hot seat. he sat there and put his best in front of his mouth to keep himself from talking. when dateline continues.