A man was arrested Friday, suspected in a kidnapping, rape, and sodomy that happened more than 20 years ago.A juvenile reported to the Auburn Police Department
That was a full profile, what we call a majorminor. The profile on the Candy Wrapper was a great quality profile. Narrator investigators knew that killers who resort to the kind of overkill seen in Sierras Murder have usually killed before or have at least committed violent crimes, so they were confident theyd find a Dna Match to their killer in codis, the national dna database. Well, i think were going to solve it immediately. I think, okay, if we put this in codis and we get a hit, then case solved. Narrator but it was not to be. Despite the high quality of the killers dna profile, there were no matches. I was very aware there was not a hit in codis. That was very frustrating for us, and i know its frustrating for the detectives, as well. Narrator now investigators backtracked sierras final hours, and true to her freewheeling lifestyle,
understand how she was feeling? the grueling pain, the unrelenting terror, humiliation, loss? amber smith was a mess. i don t even know how to describe that feeling. reporter: black, darkness? yes, a place i never want to go again. reporter: if they could only find her attacker, arrest him, put him where he couldn t get at her anymore. investigators watch the clock for the dna results, and speculated. an attack like this is not somebody s first rodeo. they have had to have done something in the past. in my mind on a case of this gravity, we will get an answer within days. if we have the offender in codis. reporter: quotas, the national dna database that houses dna profiles of people who have been arrested for or convicted of felonies. detective senior also submitted
those picture perfect days, the kind that draw people to life in colorado. it was four years since the attack on amber smith. detective siobhan seymour was hiking with her kids. up in a place called hooter canyon, west of town. and her phone chirped. text message from her boss. she was like uni took all cbi there has been an update in your duck tape case. reporter: at that moment, what are you thinking? i was like we got him. reporter: if you get an update, it must be that? i couldn t imagine what also would be. reporter: she dialed melissa grass at the cbi. i picked up the phone and was really excited to say to her, you aren t going to believe what happened today. melissa was like, we got him. reporter: we have a codis hits on this case, we were screaming on the other side of the phone. it was elation.
enough, morales thought, to solve the case. that is, until he got the lab results. the fingerprints found on the shovel, knife and tape were incomplete. dna from a male was found on the shovel and the knife, but it was so intermingled with brittani s blood, it was impossible to develop an individual profile. but on a shard of broken glass, police found a drop of blood that looked promising, because it was pristine. when he jumped out of the window, he cut himself. the blood drop was analyzed and a complete, male, dna profile was generated, which morales uploaded to the national criminal data base, called codis. to see if it would match anybody that s already in the database. did you get a match? no. no match? morales couldn t believe it. he was convinced brittani s attacker had to be a repeat offender. you d have to figure that somebody that s done something in that extreme has done