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It s a scientific match. this time, the defense fights back. both dr. sperber and dr. campbell testify. i felt the evidence i presented was so overwhelmingly negative for the prosecution s side that i thought it had gone very well. reporter: the dna and a physical evidence excluding krone is also presented by krone s lawyers. the shoe prints, fingerprints and blood samples found at the scene. i was feeling good. the truth was coming out. the facts were told. the evidence was pointing to someone else. it wasn t matching me. reporter: after seven weeks, the case goes to the jury. they deliberate for three days. i said, i have a bad feeling. they have been out too long. reporter: april 12. the jury has reached a verdict are. their decision is a huge blow. ray krone is guilty, again. ....
in prison ray krone gets a phone call. his lawyer tells him that the court has ordered his release. everything just stopped running. my heart, my breathing. what did you say? he said, roll up, ray, it s all over. you re coming home. after ten years, three months and eight days, i was free to unite with my family, my friends again, start my life all over again as a 45-year-old man. outside the prison, the media wait to speak to the man they ve dubbed the snaggletooth killer. they want to know what s next. seafood. i m getting my teeth fixed. two months later, kenneth phillips is charged with the murder of kim ancona and eventually convicted. krone receives a $1.4 million settlement from maricopa county, and later the city of phoenix agrees to pay him $3 million in compensation. ....
Bite. the pliable nature of skin tissue makes it impossible to concretely match a biter to a bite. many, including sperber, feel it must be supported by other forensic evidence. i became convinced that what happened is this expert came into court and basically misrepresenteded the science of bite marks to the jury. and wrongfully convicted ray krone. reporter: plord filed a request with the arizona supreme court to re-open the case and allow him access to the dna and physical evidence collected at the crime scene. because the bite mark video was presented to the defense only one day before krone s trial, the court agrees to re-open the case and grants krone a new tile. the phoenix police department now must provide plord with all the evidence from the crime scene. the amount is sig is cant. significant. the dam broke and i got access to everything. he quickly found it wasn t just bite mark evidence in the ....
Conversation. she just said, you know, you have a cousin who is on death row. he s innocent. i got a letter from him interested in how it happened. wanting to know what it was about. i wrote three or four pages about what happened. at the end i said, i know you don t know me. everything is the truth and it can be verified if you re interested. in the beginning i thought if he s guilty, i don t have any real desire to see him. so i did my investigation first. reporter: having recently started his own medical billing business, he has knowledge about the dental field. he ab tans the trial transcripts and brings the bite mark video presented in court to independent bite mark expert dr. homer campbell in albuquerque, new mexico. while watching the video, campbell notices a technique he considers bad practice ft. throughout the examination, the cast of krone s teeth is shifted to match all of the teeth marks ....
she said, get out of here, i m cleaning up. and i can t remember. and i walked out. she mumbled something, you know, like in anger. i don t know what happened after that. i just kind of got upset, i guess. phillips stops short of confessing to murder, but the state is convinced by the evidence that krone is not guilty of the crime. prosecutors announce the stunning development to the public at a press conference. it was a tough case in which there was a victim here. the sciences weren t as sophisticated as they are today. and that an injustice was done. and we will try to do better. and i m sorry, absolutely, absolutely we should be saying we re sorry. ....