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in
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1981 police found a partial Print near a
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door knob at a crime
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scene but without a suspect police had
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no way to compare the print to the 1
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million prints on
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file 17 years later new forensic
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technology changed that breathing New
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Life
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into what was a very old crime
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[Applause]
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Charles Whitty was one of this country's
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outstanding architects in the early
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1900s he was the first to design poured
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concrete
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structures he designed and built all the
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train stations clear across the United
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States Albuquerque is one of his most
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famous and the next most famous I guess
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would be El trar at the rim of the Grand
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Canyon which he built in 1902
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eltar is a hotel and resort overlooking
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the Grand
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Canyon Whitt's design was eclectic a
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combination of the Swiss Chalet and
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Norway Villa
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Styles Charles had four children but his
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oldest daughter Enid identified with her
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father's free spirit and creativity more
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than the others she was very stately
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very pretty woman slender tall beautiful
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hair a big white smile with her flashing
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teeth Enid shunned family pressure to
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attend college and instead headed to
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Vaudeville at age 17 she began her
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career as a Marian Morgan
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dancer she was also a singer performing
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with the San Francisco Opera Enid never
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married but she loved children as she
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grew older she eventually found work as
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a governance but by the
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1950s she retired and moved into a
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family home on simmeron street in Los
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Angeles she never owned a car but was a
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fixture in the neighborhood riding on
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her bicycle stopping to talk and
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sometimes play with the neighborhood
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children she would relate to them a lot
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more so than she would to
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adults she had kind of a almost a
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childlike quality about her the
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neighbors all called her the bicycle
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lady and uh everybody spoke highly of
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her she was pleasant she would talk to
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people even into her 80s she still rode
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her bicycle through the neighborhood but
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as she Grew Older something
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changed she was quite concerned about uh
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Intruders breaking into her house to the
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point where she had built kind of a
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Jerry rigged alarm system out of wires
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and threads and cans to alert her if
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anybody tried to come in a window or a
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door on March 13th
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1981 one of the neighbors noticed Enid's
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front door was open inside the doorway
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was
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blot paramedics found 86-year-old Enid
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Whitty in her upstairs bedroom dead from
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multiple stab wounds Frank Bolan was the
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first detective on the scene the lady
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being of a small frame there just no way
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that I could believe that she offered
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much resistance uh there was no need for
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uh the amount of injuries you that this
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woman was subjected
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to the bedroom was ransacked the motive
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appeared to be
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robbery several of the drawers were open
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a lot of the items were pulled out there
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was blood on various items in and out of
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drawers
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Bolen also noticed blood drops leading
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down the left hand side of the
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stairs person leaving these blood drops
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was in fact leaving the area of the body
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going downstairs and going to the front
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door at the front door was a blood smear
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and print leading to area of the
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doorknob of the
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door investigators hoped that the
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fingerprints and the blood drops would
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lead to the
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killer the entire neighborhood including
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the children were shocked and saddened
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by the murder of 86-year-old Enid
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Whitty despite her cheerful disposition
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her friends knew she was particularly
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fearful of crime
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whether it be a premonition uh whether
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just a coincidence uh but uh there was
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something that um that did trouble her a
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lot she had always lived a very kind
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life that had never bothered anybody
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this was just not fair that someone so
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dear and sweet would have to end her
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days this way it was just was not fair I
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mean to be mutilated like she
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was inside the home was a wealth the
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forensic evidence which told the story
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of what happened during Enid's last
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moments
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alive we believed that the person had
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come up on the front porch open a window
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on the front porch had crawled in the
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open window stepped on the dusty piano
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had left the footprint a knife surfaced
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at some point we worked our way upstairs
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where she was in the bedroom it was just
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it's always very s the victim was
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severely cut um and stabbed in different
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parts of her body she had a defensive
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wound on the outside of her right wrist
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which to me showed that when the
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defendant was trying to stab her she was
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putting up her arm in defense and he got
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her
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wrist and at some point the suspect was
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also injured it's not uncommon when a
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knife is used that the attacker slides
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um because the blood is slippery they'll
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slide over the blade and cut themselves
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it appeared the suspect walked back down
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the stairs bleeding from his left hand
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the forensic evidence revealed that the
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killer left through the front door and
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stole Enid's beloved bicycle from the
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front porch to make his getaway it's
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especially sad to see someone all those
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years lived in their house and not to be
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even safe in their own
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home Michelle kler was assigned to
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collect the blood drops from the home
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she started with the grand piano because
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it was dry and Flaky I used a clean
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disposable scalpel and just collected it
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into a clean piece of white paper and
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made it into a Bendle and closed it so
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it could breathe and put it in a coin
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envelope Kesler used a different
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technique on the blood stains on the
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front door well in those days we used
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claw squares dampen with water and
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disposable tweezers or clean the
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tweezers in between with
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alcohol fingerprint specialist lifted
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three partial prints from a window a
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fourth print was discovered on an
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archway leading to the front door they
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thought it might be a partial uh of a
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palm
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print investigators photographed the
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footprints using oblique
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lighting it's when you take a flashlight
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and you shine it on an angle on an
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oblique angle it's kind of like at home
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when you can't see handprints on your
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furniture but you turn on the light and
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you're looking sideways at there's the
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fingerprints the forensic evidence told
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police how the crime was committed but
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the evidence couldn't identify the
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killer this was
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1981 5 years before DNA was first used
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in a criminal
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case police could find no witness to the
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crime none of the neighbors had seen
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anything
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suspicious detectives then looked to
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other areas for leads I was conversing
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with other detectives and we were
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comparing notes we were comparing
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Prints but as far as a specific suspect
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we had
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none comparing the fingerprints in Enid
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whitty's home to others arrested for
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similar crimes in the area wasn't
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difficult
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but comparing them to everyone in the
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file was
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impossible you would have to search just
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over a million cards if there was a
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known suspect we can easily pull a card
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and then do the comparison but without a
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known suspect it would be very difficult
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without a full pattern
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type and without a fingerprint match the
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case remained
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unsolved all investigators knew was that
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the killer had tipe B blood and was
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left-handed we knew that there was an
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ongoing investigation that it was quite
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thorough
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and we were a little bit surprised that
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uh time went by and it didn't result in
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anything it would take another 16 years
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before a new technology gave police
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their first solid lead
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all homicide cops would like to solve
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their crimes kind of take it personal
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you know and uh they usually have put a
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lot of time and effort into it Enid
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whitty's murder case was one of several
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unsolved cases that languished in Frank
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bolan's Cold Case file I remember him
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telling me that during his 30-year
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career there was a handful of cases
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maybe three cases that wanted him that
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he wanted to solve before he retired and
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this was one of
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them he had the Killer's blood from the
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crime scene and some of his fingerprints
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but little
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else but in the years since Enid's
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murder in
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1981 there had been more technological
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advances in forensic science than in any
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other time in
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history in this age of personal
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computers it's hard to remember that in
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the 1980s very few people had even seen
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a computer let alone used one large
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expensive mainframe computers were the
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standard with an eye to the Future the
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FBI and the Lockheed Martin company
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experimented with using computers to
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analyze and compare
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fingerprints when scanners were
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developed to capture the prints and the
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files could be compressed and formatted
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the afis was born a this is actually an
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acronym for automated fingerprint
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identification system and it's a
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computer system and what it does it
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photographs a Laten print it scans it
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and then it'll give us a candidate list
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usually of 10 people who have similar
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characteristics to the one that we
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entered into the
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system this new technology
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revolutionized fingerprint analysis not
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only for new cases but for old
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ones I occasionally revisit a lot of my
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old cases and ask for a recheck of the
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prints so detective Bolan sent the four
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prins found in Enid whitty's home back
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to the forensics
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lab afis found no match for the three
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prints taken from the window but the
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afis had better luck with the partial
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palm print the partial print was such a
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small area that you weren't sure if it
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was actually from a fingerprint or if it
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was from a palm area of the hand in this
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case the afis determined that the print
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was a partial fingerprint and not a palm
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print and the computer identified 10
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individuals whose prints needed to be
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examined
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further we're then able to pull the
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cards of those candidates and do a
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comparison and we do a side by-side
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comparison using a special magnifying
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glass
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the latent print examination identified
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the owner of the print Carl
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Stewart I immediately began a background
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search and found him to live within a
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half mile of the victim he had a length
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the record within the Wilshire division
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having been arrested several times for
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theft and things of that
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nature ironically Carl Stewart was
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sitting in the Los Angeles jail
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following an arrest on domestic abuse
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charges I went and found the spouse that
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had filed the charges on him I sat down
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and I interviewed her through her I had
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learned that he was a person that didn't
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really care for elderly
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people uh that he had been a
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burger she also told police that Stuart
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targeted seniors in Beverly Hills Culver
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City and Wilshire near his home and she
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said one more thing that Stuart was
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left-handed on December 26th
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1996 detective Bolan and two others
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interviewed Carl Stewart I basically
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started off with asking him about the
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area he lived and some of his background
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of his life then I kind of got into the
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crime and this lady was hurt to the
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point where she died okay I didn't I
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didn't I didn't do that me I didn't do
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that you know it no at first Carl
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Stewart claimed he knew nothing about
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the robbery or Enid Whitty then he
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changed his
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story I've seen her in the neighborhood
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I remember and she would wave at the
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kids playing when we was little like
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when you you would see her rideing the
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bike she would wave at you and stuff and
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you know everybody would pretty much
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weave back at her or something like that
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as my partner and I would
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release some information on bits and
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pieces of evidence he would rethink his
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statement and make it work around the
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evidence that was obtained and how it
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got
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there when told his fingerprint was near
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Enid's front door steuart said he had
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once been inside her home briefly but
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had nothing to do with her
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murder did district attorney Hayden Zaki
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would make the decision on whether to
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take this case to trial the crime
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happened on March 11th of 1981 when I
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was Stone High School and uh I thought
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to myself boy this is an old case um you
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know are we still going to have
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witnesses available for instance uh did
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we preserve all the evidence
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properly even with the print zachi knew
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it wasn't enough to convict Stewart for
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Enid's murder all he had is a a
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fingerprint I mean I guess in theory we
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could have prosecuted with only a
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fingerprint but I mean he could have
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explained the fingerprint away pretty
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easily all of the other evidence had
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been in the police property room for the
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16 years since the murder but one
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important piece was
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not the coroner's reference sample of
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Enid's blood was
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missing it would take another forensic
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breakthrough not available in 1981
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to solve that problem and bring Carl
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Stewart to
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Justice and Carl Stewart was taken to
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the dispensary at the county jail and
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blood was drawn that blood was labeled
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and given to me for uh typing
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purposes investigators wanted to make
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sure that it was Carl Stewart's blood
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inside Enid whitty's home
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to do that scientists needed a sample of
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Stewart's blood as well as Enid
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Whitty but the Swatch of Enid's blood
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taken at her autopsy was missing from
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the evidence file so what we did in lie
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of the Corner's blood Swatch we used
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Enid whitty's pajama top that was what
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we were hoping would serve as her
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reference blood sample cuz it was
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heavily Blood
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Stained small dried samples of that
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pajama top were placed in sterile water
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water dissolves the stain and it also
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causes any cells that are present for
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example white blood cells which contain
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DNA to lice they break open spilling of
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their contents including the DNA out
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into the
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water The Next Step was to clean the DNA
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I had to pass it through uh something
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called a centricon tube it's basically a
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filter and what it does is it
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accomplishes two things it cleans the
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DNA and it also concentrates it into a
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smaller volume of of
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water the DNA is then replicated
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multiple times into a workable sample
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through a polymerase Chain Reaction or
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PCR six genetic markers were typed and
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illuminated by a blue color attached in
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the PCR process I had one stain that
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actually matched the genetic profile of
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Enid whittles SE on the remaining items
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I believe there were eight other blood
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stains from throughout the residence
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that matched Carl Stewart's genetic
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profile the evidence finally proved that
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Carl Stewart left the blood trail inside
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Enid whitty's home Carl Franklin Stewart
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left his blood at that crime scene it's
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his blood what's the defense going to
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do on May 17th
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1999 Hayden zachi presented presented
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the forensic evidence of Enid whitty's
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murder to a
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jury Zachy believes that Carl Stewart
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first noticed Ena during one of her
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bicycle rides through the
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neighborhood later Stuart broke into
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Enid's home through her front window
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leaving his footprint on the dusty piano
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underneath the motive was robbery
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upstairs Enid confronted Stuart a fight
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ensued causing the defensive wounds to
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Enid's arms and
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hands during the encounter Stuart cut
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his left hand which left the trail of
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blood down the left hand side of the
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steps Stuart left his partial Print near
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the front door as he left the
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scene a print originally thought to be a
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palm print but later identified as a
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partial fingerprint by the automated
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fingerprint identification system we
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knew he got our man we knew that Carl
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Franklin stur was in that house because
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he left a fingerprint and he left
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blood so that's how we knew we had our
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man it took the jury just 2 hours to
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find Carl Stewart guilty of first
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deegree
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Murder She certainly didn't deserve to
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die as she
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did he was sentenced to life in prison
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with no chance of
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parole this was the first homicide
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investigation assigned to Frank Bolan
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despite taking 17 years he refused to
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give up he will give 110% to every
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investigation that he participates in
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sometimes he's a little bit of a pain
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but you know it's all for a good cause
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and uh um I I enjoy working with him I
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can't say it's a happy thing
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but I did take a person off the street
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that was responsible for horrendous
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vicious crime and I would say that the
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world uh elderly people females whoever
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in general is a little bit safer today
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because this person is behind bars so
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many disappointments so many cases that
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gone unsolved that you couldn't do you
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couldn't do anything with and then Along
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Comes new
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technology I think it is so wonderful to
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think that after all these years that
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they would go back when they got better
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equipment and uh new technological
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things and try to solve these unsolved
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crimes and put these people where they
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belong I think it's marvelous
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