did belong to gary dunn. but that made them wonder too. if this guy was supposedly so careful to not leave no other dna or no other fingerprints in this whole crime scene, then you d think he would have been smart enough to take the condom wrapper with him. so there it was. dna evidence against dunn. interesting if perhaps not proof. circumstantial evidence which was compelling. they took a poll, guilty or not. several polls, actually. and then on the last go-round they knew they were finished. they went back to the courtroom and looked at nona s family. coming up and being in front of her parents was the hardest thing for me. i was it made me very sad because i knew that they were waiting to see if there would be closure. we couldn t do it. we couldn t give them closure. once again the case of arkansas versus gary dunn ended
out to be no alibi at all. in short, it was hard to see how dunn s public defenders, bill james and jeff rosenzwag, could argue against their client s lies and dna. but that s exactly what they did. and with gusto. what you re saying is the state was simply wrong. the state was simply wrong. what s more, they told jurors, they could prove it. for starters, they said, the state wasn t being honest about the dna on that condom wrapper. it was only a mixed partial match to gary dunn, they said, which meant any thousands, millions, billions of people are also not excluded. let me ask you, then, is what you re saying, gary dunn didn t touch that condom wrapper? that s what we re saying. he never was anywhere near that condom wrapper well, he was across the parking lot in his apartment. minding his own business when nona was murdered. it s true, the defense said, dunn was not out shopping as he first claimed to police.
first impression and decide kevin wasn t the killer the prosecutors had painted but a grief-stricken young man who was innocent. so what to believe? in the courthouse the jury wrestled with its verdict. 50 miles down the road in russellville the town cried for justice. if that meant conviction, well, so be it. would jurors convict kevin jones of murder? and whose dna was on that key piece of evidence? coming up i said it matches. he said, well, it matches gary dunn. who was gary dunn, and what if anything did he have to do with nona s murder? when dateline continues. er when dateline continues. everyone says i should fight my cravings. no. you know what i do?
crime. but that s my belief. based upon what i saw in this trial. dunn s trial opened in april 2010. hiram jones listened as the state, which had already tried his son, now argued that dunn was a sexually violent man who d been stalking the young beauty queen whose bedroom window he could see across the parking lot. his own wife testified he was violent in bed with her and that weeks before nona s death she d caught him hanging around nona s front door in the middle of the night. so, said the prosecutor, the jury could be sure dunn killed nona after entering her apartment with the intent of forcing a sexual encounter. and the condom wrapper proved it. this condom wrapper that was found that had the dna on it that did not have kevin s dna on it, that had his dna on it. so dna evidence, a disturbing background, an alibi that turned
gary dunn s fate weigh the evidence. coming up the verdict. he don t have no alibi. and then that looks really bad. it looks really bad. will there be justice for nona and her family? i knew that they were waiting to see if there would be closure. when dateline continues. s and real superfoods new protein shake new snack break new emergen-c protein fuel & superfoods emerge & see. -[ scoffs ] if you say so. -i m sorry? -what teach here isn t telling you is that snapshot rewards safe drivers with discounts on car insurance. -what? -or maybe he didn t know. [ chuckles ] i m done with this class. -you re not even enrolled in this class. -i know. i m supposed to be in ceramics. do you know -room 303. -oh. thank you. -yeah. -good luck, everybody.