we looked at suspects after suspect after suspect. the crime was a mystery for decades. we re still with no answer. this poor family, we thought, we might be able to solve this case. could cutting edge science yield a new clue. this was a huge lead. absolutely. this wasn t somebody they had a reason to look at or talk to before. he was here, he was here the all-time. you are literally talking to chris s killer. right. face to face. evil comes in all packages. it certainly does. hello, welcome to dateline. kristie morocco always knew she wanted to be a teacher. her enthusiasm showed. colleagues marvel that are way with kids, but her life was cut tragically short. investigators eventually had a dead end. decades later, a crash course in dna analysis, gave them a picture of chrissy s killer, and revealed a stunning truth that he had been hiding in plain sight the whole time. here is andrea canning, with facing the music. they were having so much fun
death was the at the club that weekend, one of the places you went to? we did not know, we did not know him, he did not stand out, if he was there. yet, the da thinks it is likely that the two met. i think she was targeted, that she encountered him at some event before hand. my guess, she had spurned him, and he saw her out there, at that apartment at some point the damages. connection to christy seemed tenuous, but stedman says the dna proved that rowe killed her. in fact, the odds of the killer being anybody other than him on the entire planet were not just one in 1 million. 9 million top chilean, 1000 trillion trillion, things like this, you can conceive of a number with 30 zeroes, which is what we end up getting. remarkable. i have never heard of a case with this much. remember that composite from the killer s dna? it turns out, it was a pretty good match to rowe. even then, it was hard for someone in lancaster to believe that rowe could commit such a horrible cri
start to fingerprint me. i think, what? they think i did this. i am mourning the loss of our teacher, and our friend. all of a sudden, i m being interrogated. why do you think they zeroed in on you? i found her. that s it? yeah. that one moment in time? i found her. actually, there was a bit more. the da said investigators found harry s drive to check on his employee that morning very strange.
right. this might have approximately been what he looked like when the crime was committed. the da asked christie s family and friends to take a look. but when they actually saw the composite i did not see anybody i knew, i was like, this was a stranger. in october, 2017, the da made the composite public during a press conference. maybe somebody else would recognize the person in those images? there is no chance this could be a waste of our time. we got a lot of calls, some seemed hopeful at first. but ultimately, this led to nothing. oh, that is so frustrating! yes. this was kind of like we fought like it was our last, shot, our last thing we could do. the composite did not work. but it would not be their last shot. that is because, investigators working on an unrelated crime in california came upon another way of solving cold cases. police arresting a man they believe was the so-called golden state killer, discovered using dna. california detectives found
background. he was wrong. i walk in the door, they start to fingerprint me. i think, what? they think i did this. i am mourning the loss of our teacher, and our friend. all of a sudden, i m being interrogated. why do you think they zeroed in on you? i found her. that s it? yeah. that one moment in time? i found her. actually, there was a bit more. the da said investigators found harry s drive to check on his employee that morning very strange. a lot of bosses, when somebody s only 30 40 minutes late, they don t jump in their car, to go see if somebody is okay. why did you feel the need to do that? that s just who i am. i knew something was wrong. i thought christine might need help. he says police asked where he had been. harry recalled going to the gym, coming home to change, and heading back to work.