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look at an old lead. he just said it s a match a person no one would hav ever suspected of murder we were going to end this was suddenly suspect number one. perfect murder. almost hello welcome to dateline . she was a new bride marrie just three months, then she wa found murdered what happened to her remained mystery for decades partly because police told us the thief must have killed her during a break-in gone bad they discovered it wasn t murder, but a suspect whos trail right to their own front door here is josh mankiewicz with the smoking gun. february 1st, 2009. the detective arrived before dawn at the los angeles police department s van nuys station. i was tired i was tired. he had hosted a super bow party the night before and the beer had flowed freely that seemed to be a good da to have a cup of coffee an caught up on my reading. a couple of aspirin maybe he reached for a file sitting on his desk for months the file of sherri ....
This was a burglary or a hom invasion gone wrong. sherri s purse was missing, as was her new bmw, an engagement gift from john. there was no sign of the murde weapon, but detectives did recover two. 38 caliber slug and something else that caught the detective s attention. on the inside of sherri s left arm, they found a bit mark. a crime scene analys went ahead and she swabbed tha for saliva that could pertai to the killer. saliva that contained dna from whoever bit sherri. remember, this was 1986, years before dna technology testin would arrive, which could link a suspect to a sample like thi one. so, back then, the dna wasn much help. but the swab was carefully package and bundled with all o the other evidence for now, detectives didn t hav much else to work with. no eyewitnesses. no usabl ....