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Washington March 2003 a 17 year old girl
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kidnapped from home and taken to a
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remote location
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she had duct tape hanging from her hair
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she was obviously traumatized by what
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had occurred investigators from Gray's
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Harbor County Sheriff's Office
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discovered she's been tied up by an
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attacker and viciously sex attacked
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anybody can do that to somebody and
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afflict that kind of trauma for the rest
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of someone else's life that's a good
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classification of monster
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search for the perpetrator of this
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violent attack on a teen girl we
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probably had four or five detectives at
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different times that had looked into
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this case
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just about every Deputy that worked the
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patrol area in that area took some
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ownership of it and was trying to track
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down as many leads as they could
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despite their very best efforts police
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cannot ID the rapist but can a
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revolutionary DNA technique finally
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reveal her attacker I'm Nancy Grace this
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is bloodline detectives
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Washington State March 6 2003 dispatch
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in McCleary west of Olympia receive a
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call from a dad reporting his
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17-year-old girl is found tied up in the
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family garage
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the girl says an intruder took her to an
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unknown location where he viciously
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raped her
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somebody
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had grabbed her Tighter and took her
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away
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when I arrived I was the first officer
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on scene and I was greeted by the father
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at his house and led into the dining
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room or foyer area and that's where I
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met the father and his daughter she was
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17 years old at the time she was a high
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school student and duct tape was around
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her neck her hands were bound with zip
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ties and that she also had zip ties
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around the leg she was bleeding from the
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nose and had red marks on her face
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extremely distraught about what happened
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to her
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she had like a hoodie on that looked
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like it was partially wet or soiled from
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being on the ground she would
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occasionally be lifting her hands in
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front of her face and sobbing
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occasionally
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the teen girl gives details of the
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traumatic event Tim McCleary police
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officer Jay Porter
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the victim worked a little coffee stand
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that's in between a big door plant in
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McCleary and where she lives
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drove home like she normally did parked
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in her detached garage
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she was going to meet a boy she was
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dating they were going to go to the YMCA
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I think and work out
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she exited the door of her detached
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garage
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to a short little path which led to the
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side of her the home that she shared
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with her father
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and as she was coming out that door
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somebody grabbed her she was wearing a
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hoodie
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a hooded sweatshirt he pulled the hooded
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sweatshirt over her eyes duct taped the
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hoodie over her eyes
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then he zip tied her hands behind her
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back zip tied her legs and then also
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duct tape her legs at the knees to make
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sure she couldn't either fight back or
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get up and try and escape from him he
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tried to stuff her in the trunk of her
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car but she wouldn't
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she wouldn't lay down she wouldn't
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cooperate so he bonked her head a couple
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of times on the hood and finally gave up
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and stuffed her in the back seat
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it took him a while but he eventually
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figured out how to open the garage door
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she told me that she said that you had
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to go inside the house to open the
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garage door hoping that he would get out
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of the car and she could Escape but he
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told her he wasn't stupid he managed to
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open the garage door using the automatic
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door opener in her car
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she thought he didn't know how to drive
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a stick shift because he kept killing
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the car she said but he eventually
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managed to get it out
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of the garage
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pull out and she tried to keep track of
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Where She Went she tried to follow the
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turns but like anyone who's ever played
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that game with kids where they blindfold
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you and spin you around you know you
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can't keep track
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he drives her to probably a Logging Road
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there's lots of logging roads in our
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area some place secluded like that and
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he sexually assaults her
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then he drives her to another location
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fire hall and he leaves her there and
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tells her if you tell anybody I'm going
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to kill you your family and burn your
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house down
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she's able to drive back to her house
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still Bound by the zip ties and when
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she's able to drive into her driveway
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she starts honking the horn and Dad's
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home at that point and comes out find
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out what's going on and and releases her
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takes her into the house she tells what
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happened and within minutes he calls
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9-1-1
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after officer Porter's initial review a
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team of investigators from Gray's Harbor
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Sheriff's Office arrive on the scene
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once we get on scene we you know
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basically tape off the scene to where no
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one else will go in there so we can look
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for evidence you know we're looking for
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physical evidence you know did the guy
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drop a wallet or you know did he leave
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anything behind that we could figure out
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who he was
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we took the tape off of the young lady
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and collected that as evidence and I
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took possession of that
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you're kind of evaluating where's the
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crime scene but there's other scenes too
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that I may need to preserve such as the
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garage where she was abducted from the
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car that she was placed in and driven to
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an unknown location where she was
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dropped off which I believe we
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determined and was a local fire
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department
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he had an altercation with the victim
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maybe she struck him in a way where he
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got a bloody nose or a cut or something
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like that so we're looking for blood on
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the floor it was a blood droplet on the
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concrete floor in the garage at that
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point her mother had arrived to the
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house the mother and father were living
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separately and I explained to the mother
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please don't hug your daughter right now
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we're going to go to the hospital and
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collect her clothing as evidence
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obviously her person is the number one
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crime scene everything on her is
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relevant as possible evidence but we
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found out that the small Hospital in
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McCleary did not have a specially
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trained nurse to systematically collect
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the evidence she wasn't trained in
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proceeding with her or processing a rape
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kit so we made contact with another
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hospital in Olympia and was going to
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transport her there where I had a
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detective that's entrained in
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interviewing sexual assault victims
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respond to the Olympia location
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you have to be really compassionate with
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the victim because they just went
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through a major life event you feel so
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safe in your world and then this happens
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to you you got your parents next to you
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and you know so you feel like you're
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disappointed you know your parents
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because you you got put in a situation
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where this happened to her but you know
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you tell them you're confident we're
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going to find this person who did this
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to you but we need your help you know he
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sexually assaulted you we need the
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evidence to help lock him up and that
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way we can collect that evidence and
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send it off the lab just try and find
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out who he is we sent the sexual assault
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kit to the state lab for testing and it
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came up with a male DNA profile and it
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didn't match to anything in CODIS to see
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if there's any hits and you know CODIS
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is a combined DNA information system and
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so that profile did not hit on anything
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so at that point we did a John Doe
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warrant you know we had a person by DNA
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profile just didn't have his name so we
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did a John Doe warrant and that just
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kind of freezes that crime in time time
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so the statute of limitations don't run
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on on that crime so if we found the
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person later and it passed the statute
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of limitations because we had that
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warrant in the system we could still
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prosecute that crime it was very
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important to stop the clock ticking for
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the statute of limitations because
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once those limitations have passed
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you can't charge anybody for the crimes
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they've committed
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detective Ed McGowan goes to the Olympia
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hospital to interview the young girl
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she was in the quiet room that they have
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set aside and she was there with her mom
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a lot of the the questions are just
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open-ended
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you know I just started to ask her to
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talk to me is fast or as slow as she
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wanted to it was just I just needed to
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try to put the pieces together and I
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didn't really want her to be concerned
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on how what order she told them to me is
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just what she remembered
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she would make a statement I said well
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you know what happened next or what do
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you recall to do you see anything
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and just let her tell the story as she
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became more comfortable
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a teen girl kidnapped outside her own
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home becomes the victim of a violent sex
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attack police know the clock is ticking
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on their investigation and a rapist is
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on the loose that's next on bloodline
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Detectives
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March 6 2003 McCleary Washington a 10
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year old manages somehow to drive her
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car home even though she's been tied up
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with cable ties telling Dad she's been
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kidnapped and raped by a man who
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attacked her first in the family garage
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investigators actually have a sample of
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the perpetrator's DNA they got it from a
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rape kid but it does not provide a match
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to any name in the National DNA database
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Police Issue a John Doe warrant for the
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unidentified man's arrest that's a
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tactic to keep this investigation alive
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meanwhile they continue talking to the
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victim
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she thought it was a joke At first she
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thought maybe her boyfriend was playing
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tricks on her you know just playing a
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game until she got slammed down to the
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concrete she was not able to see
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who who that person was but she compared
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him to her boyfriend so height wise he
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was about the same height as her
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boyfriend which is I think her
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boyfriend's five six she was recalling
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and sizing him up she was going more by
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what she felt that it was stubble and
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she kind of thought that it may have
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even been like a goatee
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but described him that he was a little
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bit bigger but he wasn't very strong you
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got to give this girl some credit
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she was pretty well aware of her
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surroundings and trying to just think of
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anything
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the boyfriend was never really
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considered a suspect for a couple of
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reasons number one is he showed up
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at her house while it was occurring
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after the victim was taken from her
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garage her father got home very soon it
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was unusual for him to not be home he
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had just had to run an errand after work
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and while he was sitting there waiting
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her boyfriend showed up and knocked on
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the door and said hey where is she we
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were supposed to go do this we were
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supposed to go to the the gym together
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and they were both worried together and
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the boyfriend eventually went out to
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look for he was very Cooperative he you
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know told us he gave his account for the
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day gave a great statement on that and
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then he provided a DNA sample to ensure
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that he was not the suspect in this
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crime
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immediately investigators rule out the
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girl's boyfriend as a suspect next they
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focus on the key evidence found in the
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garage where the girl was kidnapped
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I think the zip ties were fairly unique
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in fact for several months after this
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case one of the detectives went to just
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about every hardware store every Auto
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store any grocery store any place that
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sold zip ties trying to match that
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particular zip tie to where it may have
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been purchased and he checked for you
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know checked for months for those zip
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ties he was able to contact the
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manufacturer
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it's usually those were usually used in
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HVAC systems mostly commercial
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Now find very few clues that the crime
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scene they focus on the coffee stand
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where the young girl works could one of
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the customers be her attacker
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she worked as a barista in a stand-alone
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coffee stand and so it got quite a bit
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of traffic there but she worked in this
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stand pretty much alone
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she gave some possible people for us to
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look at that had acted strangely toward
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her at her coffee stand she was able to
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describe an incident where a customer
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had offered a CD of some music and also
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I think invited her to a concert that
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person was tracked down and talked to
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and eliminated
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they collected three dozen DNA samples
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from men all over the McCleary area
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anytime they heard about somebody who
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was a registered sex offender who had
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predilections that sort of seemed to
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match the what the perpetrator in this
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case would have had they would
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investigate
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frequently they'd do a search warrant
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they'd look all over the person's house
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for zip ties and frequently they would
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take a DNA sample and a lot of them were
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voluntary we have good communication
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inside our County with other law
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enforcement agencies but we'd reach
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across the the county line like Mason
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county is close to us they would have
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reached out to Mason County this age you
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have anything like this happen on your
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side of the woods or on your side of the
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county line in your cities where a young
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girl was kidnapped with their own
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vehicle raped and then brought back and
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we also did that with Thurston County
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we had several different agencies
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contact with similar type of events not
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necessarily like this but some that were
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violent and those were eliminated either
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by the offender was still in custody or
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you know just by the fact that DNA
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didn't matter it's a tough case for law
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enforcement to investigate but that
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doesn't even compare to what the victim
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has to go through for her to be totally
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traumatized by the scare and the ordeal
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I would imagine
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it's like dealing with a death in the
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family is you go through many different
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stages and for months and maybe years
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she may have not been able to function
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the way she wanted and and with time
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maybe there's some healing but I think
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she always in the back of her mind
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wonders about the stranger that just
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walked up to her and she's always
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skeptical she'd probably be always in
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fear of being alone
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every night when it starts getting dust
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she'll put the blinds down she'll lock
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the doors and kind of be in her own
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little cocoon in her house because that
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made her feel safe you know if she was
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outside the house she was constantly
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looking over her shoulder she eventually
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got married had kids
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so she kind of moved on we didn't have a
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lot of contact with her or her father
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and then when we did have a good lead or
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a good suspect I didn't want to
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you know tip that that's those scales
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back to make her relive this again
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unless we had a solid a solid person to
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uh talk to her about
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months go by and eventually
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investigators run out of leads the case
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goes cold for nearly 20 long years
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back in 2003 after the vaginal swab was
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sent to the crime lab the crime lab
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developed a DNA sample and they also ran
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it periodically against the National
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Database which is called CODIS
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the crime laboratory scientist in
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particular that did this case he's a
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system administrator for CODIS and every
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six months to a year he would go and
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look to see if there were any potential
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matches and there never were
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and and that's how the case remained for
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years and years and years until Chief
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Wallace came across this Grant from our
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attorney general's office for the
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genealogical DNA testing it was a number
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of years ago and there was a case called
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the Golden State killer in which this
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was utilized to solve
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a series of cold cases there and I
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remember having a conversation with my
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team the folks who work in my Criminal
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Division and
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we had a conversation about hey can we
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do something in this area let's start
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the conversation internally in our
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office to get to using these grants and
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helping out those prosecutions so we
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were informed of the details of the case
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a young girl who suffered a really
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unimaginable rate doesn't take you long
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when you're reading about a case like
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that to you have a very strong view that
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you want to do whatever you can
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to help bring Justice to that individual
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even if it's been many many years in
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fact maybe especially because it's been
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many many years
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next on bloodline detectives can
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groundbreaking forensic science finally
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unmasked an evil sex attacker
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18 years after the sex attack on a teen
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girl detectives at Gray's Harbor County
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sheriffs in Washington state are still
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no closer to iding the rapist but now a
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breakthrough could be close the State
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Attorney General is giving money
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providing funds for a pioneering new DNA
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technique called forensic genetic
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genealogy
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Washington State Attorney General's
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office sent out an email saying they got
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this big grant for conducting genealogy
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and sexual assault cases and this case
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has been weighing on the sheriff's
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office for years and so I immediately
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jumped on it and the day that email came
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out I sent a request to get that Grant
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the Washington State Patrice Andrew's
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office gave us that money to send that
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sexual assault kit semen sample to DNA
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Labs International and they conducted
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the genealogy for us
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my mom was the founder of the lab and
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back in 2004 my mom was very concerned
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about the mounting backlogs that we were
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all hearing about in the whole country
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it was taking over a year to two years
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to solve crime and as a mother that was
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appalling to her and as an entrepreneur
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she wanted to help so she wanted to
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start a DNA lab so she went about doing
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that and in 2005 we got our
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accreditation
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and since then we've just been growing
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growing growing processing crime with
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DNA Gray's Harbor reached out to us
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because they had a case that they wanted
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to do potential forensic genetic
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genealogy on
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forensic genetic genealogy is when we're
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developing a specific type of profile
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using single nucleotide polymorphisms or
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Snips so we think of DNA like G's A's
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T's and C's it literally just looks like
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a series of letters and if we're looking
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at one location and say I'm looking at
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position five if you're a g here or an A
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here that would be your single base
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change so we're trying to determine
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those locations and you will have
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commonalities between your family
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members with those locations and share
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similar DNA types so that's what we're
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essentially looking at
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so in this particular case we were
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actually only looking at a handful of
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names and what we're trying to do is
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connect the maternal and the paternal
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branches of this family tree so out of
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the few names that were identified as
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potentially good matches or what we
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would say high probability matches from
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close family members we might be looking
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out anywhere from third to fifth cousins
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and without fail a lot of those trees
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have a lot of people in it
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we build out two family trees and we
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were able to figure out where they
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connected so you have family number one
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family number two we want to figure out
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through marriage or through relationship
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where these two trees meet ultimately we
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were able to do that and then you build
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the family tree back down now to get to
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present time so in this particular
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instance we know we're looking for a
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male because this is a sexual assault
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there's semen involved in the incident
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and we know the approximate time for
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when this happened because we have the
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date of events we can Target generally
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age groups from that time period so
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we're saying here's potential Persons of
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Interest that you can investigate this
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is just an investigative lead additional
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research and investigation needs to be
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done and ultimately we need to take that
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DNA profile from that person of interest
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and have that then compared to the
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evidence profile and that's where the
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real confidence comes in that you've
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identified the correct individual
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it was huge both myself and the
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undersheriff you know we both got
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goosebumps when they came up with this
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investigative lead and three brothers
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that they
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gave us a lead for and through
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investigation you know I downloaded all
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their information figured out who they
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were then I downloaded all their
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driver's license pictures from back in
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2003 and
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and the Paul Beaker was five seven one
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sixty we discovered that he worked for a
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sheet metal company doing HVAC venting
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for I think he was working downtown
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Seattle at the time
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bound her
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with zip ties which back in 2003 were
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fairly uncommon they were 36 inch zip
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ties these are zip ties that are three
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feet long and what we found out
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is that zip ties that length
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are very specific to the HVAC industry
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those zip ties are used along with duct
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tape to fasten air conditioning ducts
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together the zip ties that are used in
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residential HVAC work are generally no
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longer than 24 inches but these were 36
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inches long and you know you didn't need
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a 36 inch zip tie to bind this girl all
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the detectors are like that's the guy
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that's the guy we're focusing on we
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surveilled all the brothers to kind of
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get a pattern alive and see you know
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what they do but we focused on him
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because we we were pretty confident that
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he was he was the guy we were looking
00:24:01
for every driver's license he had from
00:24:03
2003 to now he's always got a five six
00:24:05
day growth on his beard and he just fit
00:24:08
that description to a t that the victim
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gave us
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investigators identify a prime suspect
00:24:15
who fits the victim's description almost
00:24:18
perfectly but there's an extremely
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crucial Next Step
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they need to obtain his DNA and match it
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to see me collect it from the victim all
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the way back in 2003.
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he lived in Enumclaw which is a
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community in King County near Seattle
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it's about a two-hour drive from here
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they eventually got a Tracker warrant
00:24:43
and they attached a tracking device to
00:24:45
his car and then they could just watch
00:24:47
it on there Chief Wallace could just
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watch it on a smartphone from the
00:24:49
comfort of his office and they just
00:24:51
waited for him to leave his usual
00:24:56
pattern of where he drove
00:24:59
and then one day he was coming down
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towards Grays Harbor County coming south
00:25:05
Chief Wallace and the detective Sergeant
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for the county Paul Logan jumped in
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their cars and rushed up
00:25:13
and followed him to a car dealership
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where he had his car serviced
00:25:18
then down to his former home outside of
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McCleary they followed him there Paul
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Beaker picked up his daughter
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and then Paul Beaker and his daughter
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and Paul Baker's current wife all went
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to a park in Ruston which is near Tacoma
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after stopping at a Starbucks
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and
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Chief Wallace and Sergeant Logan just
00:25:43
followed him around until he threw away
00:25:45
the Starbucks cup in a public trash
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receptacle
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so they did a test I think they got it
00:25:51
back within a week and the number they
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came back with was 34 quadrillion to one
00:25:55
that Paul Beaker was the actual person
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who committed the kidnapping and rape of
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the victim
00:26:03
police now have enough evidence to make
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an arrest
00:26:08
we made the decision that we're going to
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arrest him and the day we made that
00:26:12
decision he was actually coming down to
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Gray's Harbor from Enumclaw so we
00:26:15
tracked him into Grays Harbor County we
00:26:17
assumed he was going to go to the Post
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Office
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followed him into the post office
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parking lot he parked his vehicle and as
00:26:25
soon as he got out of the car I got out
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of my patrol car and walked up to him
00:26:29
and and told him that he was under
00:26:31
arrest and he was very confused of why
00:26:34
he's being under arrest and we told them
00:26:37
that we're going to take him to the
00:26:38
Sheriff's Office and talk to him about
00:26:39
why he was under arrest
00:26:42
for 18 long years detectives had a DNA
00:26:46
sample but no suspect to match it too
00:26:50
but now thanks to genetic genealogy they
00:26:54
do and not only do they have a DNA match
00:26:57
they've got him in custody will Paul
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Beaker confess to the vicious Sex Attack
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of a teen girl back in 2003 that's next
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on bloodline Detectives
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oh
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McCleary Washington 2021 investigators
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from Gray Harbor sheriffs make an arrest
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in the kidnap and rape of a teen girl
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all the way back in 2003 but now
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detectives will face the suspect Paul
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Beaker so I had a stack of papers with
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the victims pictures and and what we did
00:27:45
so I sat him down I asked him if he knew
00:27:47
the victim he said he didn't know who
00:27:49
she was I then showed him a picture of
00:27:51
the victim and he about threw up
00:27:55
so you don't notice this lady at all she
00:27:57
does not look familiar okay so on March
00:28:01
6 2003 she reported that she was
00:28:04
Aston to basically someone tackled her
00:28:07
in the garage took her somewhere
00:28:10
or actually taped her up
00:28:13
and found her hand but
00:28:15
zip ties take it with duct tape whatever
00:28:18
her name car
00:28:20
remember to a separate location
00:28:23
breakthrough this is what I mean
00:28:26
could you do that
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what did you do that no I cast him again
00:28:31
if he knew the victim he said he didn't
00:28:32
didn't recognize or didn't know her and
00:28:35
then I mapped out that you know I've
00:28:36
been tracking you went to pick up your
00:28:39
daughter went to get coffee at Starbucks
00:28:41
in Tacoma
00:28:43
went to you know the Point Defiance Zoo
00:28:45
and then we seized this cop I show them
00:28:47
the cup that we seized from him and I
00:28:49
told him we sent it to the lab and that
00:28:52
the results came back to 34 quadrillion
00:28:55
the one that you're the suspect that did
00:28:56
this crime and once again he almost
00:28:59
threw up we actually had to give him a
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little waste basket or a box if you had
00:29:05
to throw up to throw up and that's how
00:29:06
much of a reaction he gave us
00:29:09
oh
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do you need a basket is there one over
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there
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the first comes the worst here you go
00:29:19
I get it I get kind of overwhelmed but I
00:29:22
know you did it there's no doubt in my
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mind
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45 the one that it's you
00:29:28
no doubt he was pretty shocked that we
00:29:30
were there and that he was under arrest
00:29:32
but uh
00:29:34
it wasn't until later that he was really
00:29:36
upset and that's when you know the
00:29:39
wheels of Justice start to
00:29:42
take him to trial from what Chief
00:29:44
Wallace told me
00:29:45
after he booked Paul Beaker into the
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Grays Harbor County Jail
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he drove to Olympia
00:29:51
and contacted the victim's father first
00:29:54
then
00:29:56
Chief Wallace and the victim's father
00:29:59
drove to the victim's home
00:30:01
and there
00:30:03
he told her
00:30:04
we got him he's in jail
00:30:07
and
00:30:08
because you've got an armed police
00:30:10
officer sitting there
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gun and badge on his belt
00:30:14
police car behind him and her father
00:30:16
standing right there
00:30:19
saying we got him he's in jail and the
00:30:21
first thing she said is did he follow
00:30:24
you
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the first thing she expressed Was Fear
00:30:27
she was still afraid after all these
00:30:29
years
00:30:30
now prosecutor Jason Walker must decide
00:30:34
with what crimes Paul Baker will be
00:30:38
charged
00:30:39
originally
00:30:41
the DNA warrant that went out charged
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him with rape in the first degree and
00:30:45
kidnapping in the first degree when he
00:30:47
was brought into custody
00:30:49
I saw these charges and my thought was
00:30:51
you know he committed a lot more crimes
00:30:53
than this
00:30:54
and given the change in the law I
00:30:57
believed that I could charge him with
00:30:59
additional crimes
00:31:00
I added on several charges but in the
00:31:03
end they were all dismissed because
00:31:06
the legislature passed the law that
00:31:08
extended the statute of limitations just
00:31:10
two months and 19 days too late for this
00:31:13
case so I started examining the law
00:31:16
looking at any possible sentencing
00:31:19
aggravators that I could possibly charge
00:31:22
and what I found was deliver cruelty
00:31:26
that together with the fact that how
00:31:28
tightly she was bound the fact of
00:31:30
multiple assaults of incidents during
00:31:32
the rape the fact that he threatened her
00:31:34
and the fact that he said that he he
00:31:37
would burn down her house and kill her
00:31:38
father and always be watching
00:31:40
I felt that deliberate cruelty could be
00:31:43
proven Beyond A Reasonable Doubt
00:31:45
the trial of Paul
00:31:49
palmtim is
00:31:50
ties by the
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way of having to recount her ordeal
00:31:56
that's next on bloodline detectives
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McCleary Washington 2021 18 years after
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he evades police arrest Paul Baker now
00:32:16
charged with the vicious Sex Attack of a
00:32:19
teen girl is headed for trial
00:32:23
the victim however still so Shattered by
00:32:27
the thought of retelling the nightmare
00:32:30
she endured prosecutors have to make a
00:32:33
crucial decision
00:32:36
she was so traumatized with the whole
00:32:37
incident she was good with doing a plea
00:32:39
deal so she wouldn't have to testify and
00:32:40
go through that emotional rollercoaster
00:32:42
he did not want to do a plea deal he
00:32:44
wanted to take it to trial just adamant
00:32:46
that he was not the person who did it so
00:32:48
the plea deal was for 10 years he would
00:32:51
have got 10 years and then would have
00:32:52
got out probably a good time a little
00:32:54
less but he decided to take it to trial
00:32:57
when you look at this case from the
00:33:00
defendant standpoint
00:33:02
he had to take the stand
00:33:04
his wife
00:33:05
came to every day of the trial I saw
00:33:08
them sitting together and when you look
00:33:11
back and you think I wonder why he never
00:33:13
pled guilty
00:33:16
the answer was sitting right next to him
00:33:19
how is he possibly going to say to her
00:33:22
honey
00:33:23
yeah actually I did rape that girl he
00:33:25
can't say that
00:33:27
he could never say that
00:33:29
he's going to deny that to his dying day
00:33:33
and so then he goes on to this
00:33:35
ridiculous story about how this 17 year
00:33:39
old blonde athletic petite girl with a
00:33:44
boyfriend picks up Dad in a broken down
00:33:47
work truck from her coffee stand and
00:33:51
suggests that they go somewhere and have
00:33:53
sex and when he has trouble getting an
00:33:56
erection
00:33:57
she suggests well let's try some bondage
00:34:00
with these zip ties that you've got them
00:34:01
in the back of their car like a 17 and a
00:34:04
half year old girl would do that it was
00:34:07
absolutely ridiculous
00:34:08
it's very possible that he believes it
00:34:11
he's had eight he had 18 years to
00:34:14
convince himself that this is how it
00:34:16
happened
00:34:18
18 years to convince himself that he's
00:34:21
not a bad guy that this was consensual
00:34:24
so
00:34:25
at the end of his testimony
00:34:28
I have to decide am I going to put the
00:34:31
victim back on the stand to deny this
00:34:34
and what I decided in the end is no
00:34:36
one's going to believe this it's
00:34:38
ridiculous the judge was a little bit
00:34:41
offended by him getting on the stand and
00:34:44
trying to point to the victim I think
00:34:46
that happens
00:34:47
more often than we realize with sexual
00:34:51
assault victims is that there
00:34:55
the tables are tried to be turned on
00:34:58
them and point to them as the person
00:35:00
that caused this it's ridiculous and I
00:35:03
think the Judge saw right through that I
00:35:06
think it really upset him to the point
00:35:09
that he's saying no we're not going to
00:35:10
go with 10 years you're going to get you
00:35:13
know a good 30 years to think about this
00:35:16
in the end he was sentenced to 360
00:35:18
months to life in prison and what that
00:35:22
means is he has to serve at least 360
00:35:24
months so if he makes it the 30 years
00:35:27
and he may not
00:35:29
you'll probably be released
00:35:32
arrogant to the very end Paul Baker
00:35:36
gambles by taking a 10-year plea bargain
00:35:39
it's a gamble he loses he may even die
00:35:43
in jail thanks to a judge who goes above
00:35:46
and beyond the letter of the law
00:35:49
and make sure Justice is served
00:35:54
the coward I would say a monster just
00:35:57
based on what
00:35:58
he did
00:36:00
you always wonder if there's something
00:36:01
else out there that he he had done
00:36:04
some some offenders it's a one-time
00:36:07
occurrence
00:36:08
other offenders you know either
00:36:12
escalated to this point
00:36:14
you know I would think that possibly
00:36:16
there was some incidents in his past
00:36:19
that he was never held accountable for
00:36:22
or never got reported maybe not didn't
00:36:25
go up to the
00:36:27
the level that it became a crime
00:36:31
this was a a crime against the victim
00:36:34
but it was also
00:36:36
a crime against all of us you know it's
00:36:39
just a very strong person but also I
00:36:41
think a good family person very devoting
00:36:43
wife to her husband and she's got
00:36:45
beautiful kids and she's just dedicated
00:36:47
to you know her life to her children and
00:36:49
she is reliving it but I think knowing
00:36:52
what happened and knowing the person
00:36:53
that did that to you and knowing that
00:36:55
got held accountable and are in prison I
00:36:57
think that does give a little bit of
00:36:59
closure but it's not going to give 100
00:37:00
closure once the DNA results came back
00:37:03
gave us those those Brothers it was the
00:37:05
key to this whole thing we would have
00:37:07
never solved it I don't think without it
00:37:09
especially since he moved out of the
00:37:11
area he wasn't on anybody's radar it was
00:37:15
not on anybody's radar from the get-go
00:37:16
he was never talked to in 2003 and then
00:37:20
he moved out of the area a little bit
00:37:21
later so is key this whole case
00:37:25
only occurred because of the Brave
00:37:28
behavior of this victim somebody who is
00:37:31
willing to go through the whole process
00:37:33
because a lot of victims of cases like
00:37:36
this don't want to answer a bunch of
00:37:40
police questions go to a hospital and be
00:37:43
poked and probed and things like that
00:37:47
this case would not have been solved
00:37:49
without her
00:37:50
bravery and strength to do all that and
00:37:54
then to come back even though she's much
00:37:57
older than 17 now
00:38:00
still the trauma of you know it'd be one
00:38:03
thing for me to go into court and see
00:38:05
this guy sitting that I've never seen
00:38:07
before that we've now got the case
00:38:09
solved it would be another thing for her
00:38:12
who she didn't know who this guy was to
00:38:15
now see him in a suit and tie or or
00:38:18
however he's dressed and be all cleaned
00:38:20
up and looking like just an ordinary guy
00:38:23
sitting next to his lawyers
00:38:26
you would never think of that if you met
00:38:29
him at Home Depot or something like that
00:38:31
I feel for the victim having to see him
00:38:35
but this is a major case that we were
00:38:37
able to get closure for the victim I
00:38:39
think that's the biggest thing it just
00:38:40
you know giving someone that had that
00:38:42
traumatic thing happened to her so far
00:38:45
along go and she's been living with it
00:38:46
day to day today to give her closure was
00:38:49
that was huge impact on me but to solve
00:38:51
a major case that's that's always
00:38:52
amazing to do it's very gratifying
00:38:54
because it's very new technology
00:38:57
even though it's been a few years it's
00:38:58
still very very new there are so many
00:39:01
cases that can benefit from this
00:39:02
technology and likewise with other
00:39:04
technology we bring online it's just
00:39:06
nice to see it working and that it's
00:39:09
helping people
00:39:10
this was a breakthrough as far as you
00:39:13
know something you don't see a lot you
00:39:15
hear about in some of the big cities for
00:39:18
a rural County to be able to go through
00:39:21
and follow up on some of this
00:39:23
groundbreaking technology and for a long
00:39:26
time there's a lot of of backlog with
00:39:29
rape cases where the the rape kit is
00:39:33
just sitting in a freezer I think that's
00:39:35
a matter of funding and prioritizing as
00:39:38
a team here in the Office of the
00:39:39
Attorney General we felt good that we
00:39:41
were able to help out in a small way and
00:39:42
and bring Justice to that individual
00:39:45
what I know is she must be an
00:39:47
extraordinarily courageous individual
00:39:50
and to have lived with this in all those
00:39:53
years and then to be able to to go to a
00:39:56
courtroom
00:39:57
and testify
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and
00:40:01
help hold this individual accountable it
00:40:03
would take a special person to do that
00:40:06
he deserves what he's now getting which
00:40:08
is to go to jail for a very very long
00:40:10
time
00:40:12
the bloodline detectives crack a case
00:40:15
seemingly uncrackable 18 years before
00:40:19
and a very Savvy judge serves Justice to
00:40:23
an arrogant sex attacker
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still after all that time a victim a
00:40:30
young girl at the time
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cannot shake the nightmares caused by
00:40:35
the brutal attack
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sadly she may never recover
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I'm Nancy Grace
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thank you for joining us here I'm
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bloodline Detectives
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