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[Music] up next the peeping tom goes one step further and commits an unspeakable crime the scenario here
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thankfully is not a scenario we see very often this was someone that was an avid window peeper and been
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there before for 20 years he eludes police and even returns to the crime scene the kitchen is the brawl the guy had
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made his way back to the scene to relive it eventually he goes one step too far it's one of those aha moments
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that you get we assumed it would be a you know 14 year old kid [Music] on a stifling hot night in oklahoma
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gary elwood went to bed early [Music] his girlfriend janet haynes stayed up for a while
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and went to bed later [Music] just after midnight they heard a noise coming from the living room
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gary went to investigate she heard him scream for help she heard noises she heard sounds of a struggle
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this of course brought her to fully awake almost instantaneously janet ran to help but without her
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glasses couldn't see clearly she was able to tell us that he was wearing gloves and
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had underwear on the assailant chased janet back into the bedroom where she was assaulted
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he would try over the course of that attack to knock her unconscious to to suffocate her to a point where she
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would lose consciousness she ben can say you don't have to kill me he says yes i do
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and i think pretty much she managed to just talk him out of that possibility after several hours the attacker left
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that's when janet discovered gary's lifeless body now in a state of shock she managed to
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call police she was asking me is he dead is he dead i know he's dead he's dead gary elwood had been stabbed
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to death police found his body near the front door he was only 27 years old gary was
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evidently surprised in the dining area of the house which was in the front i noticed a crack in the sheet rock on
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the wall that was obviously done by the force of being driven into the wall it was almost an outline of his body
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where he crashed into the wall gary was divorced a successful businessman with no
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known enemies he was a first class guy smart intelligent knew exactly where he was going the
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things that were important in life cared a lot about people gary and janet had been dating for only a short time
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so she didn't know whether gary knew his killer her eyesight had some limitations and
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the darkness of the room contributed a great deal to that even though she'd spent a significant amount
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of time with him in the room she said the attacker was in his early twenties had blonde hair
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was just under six feet tall and had a scraggly beard police across oklahoma were looking for a man
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who fit this description but some members of the police department began to question janet's story
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we always questioned how a guy that may be carrying his clothes and stripped down his underwear carrying
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a knife and blood all over him you know where is he going to go and how is he going to get away without somebody
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noticing that first on the scene to a gruesome murder i found out that gary had been
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murdered as we were watching the evening news they would ask me is there any possibility that gary was
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involved with drugs the answer is absolutely no gary elwood was brutally murdered by
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someone who broke into his home in the middle of the night but the motive didn't appear to be robbery
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nothing of value was missing and the victim's girlfriend janet haynes survived the attack
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what i found fascinating about that was the fact he did not resort to physical violence toward the victim
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he was simply trying to subdue her he didn't beat her he didn't use profanity toward her he
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didn't attempt to stab her even though he could have very easily done that investigators started to question
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whether janet haynes might have known the perpetrator or perhaps the perpetrator knew
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her we thought it was possible it could have been an ex-boyfriend or at least someone who had
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either trying to date her or something like that it's almost like he's trying to remove
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the object between him and the girl yet another unusual detail was janet's description of the killer
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she said he was wearing only his underwear and a pair of gloves it just didn't ring
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right to any of us we really wanted to just verify that she was being up and up with
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us so janet was given two extensive polygraph examinations and she passed both times police look
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for evidence to corroborate janet's story at the time luminol was just becoming available so
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investigators decided to try it their reaction was woo because they were amazed at what it was revealing at that
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time and from that scene it got the nickname locally here wu juice because it was such a weird feeling to be
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watching what's going on and we realized what great potential this luminol has the luminol was further
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proof that everything janet told investigators was true all sudden you start seeing
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footprints appearing in the dark it's almost like you're walking in the footsteps of the person
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and the hair stands up on the back of your neck because at that moment you're seeing the actual direction that
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this assailant had walked and investigators found other evidence to corroborate janet's story
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the screen in the dining room window had been cut the likely point of entry under the master bedroom window in the
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soft dirt were some bare footprints from an individual with a size 11 foot and investigators discovered
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a faint fabric impression in the dirt underneath the window it's a pretty good detective work i
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think if you you could tell that they see a buttocks imprint on the ground beneath the window it looked as
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though that person had spent quite a lot of time under that window from that window the killer had a clear
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sight line into the bathroom janet told investigators she took a shower before she went
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to bed to investigators this told a story perpetrator in this particular case was a window peeper
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window peepers looked for victims of opportunity and once he discovered that there was in
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fact a woman inside that residence that's where he decided to commit his crime that
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particular night because the killer entered the house wearing only his underwear and a pair of gloves fbi
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profilers believed his target was janet not gary and he must have believed she was alone it was our opinion that
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the target in this crime the primary target in this crime was janet he wanted to rape her that's
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the reason the primary motive for entering that residence to begin with hazelwood believes the perpetrator had
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never killed before in this particular case we felt it was panic stabbing he had not expected to encounter gary at
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that particular point the fbi created an entire profile of the person they believe
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perpetrated this crime we estimated his age to be between i believe 22 and 27. his education we said he had graduated
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from high school he lived within walking distance of where the crime had been committed
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hazelwood predicted that the killer would be so traumatized that his weight would fluctuate and he
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would look for a legitimate reason to leave the area this was a frightening experience for this
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person because in our opinion he'd never killed before and that he and he did not intend to
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kill when he went into that residence but if the killer had left town how would police find him
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police believed that gary elwood's killer was someone who lived near the crime scene was a
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window peeper in his early to mid-20s and would leave the area after the crime inside the crime scene
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investigators found some foot impressions in blood one had plenty of ridge detail your feet
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and your hands have unique fingerprints the dermal patterns on your feet are unique to you
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just as your fingerprints are unique to you on your hands all police needed now was a suspect i went from door to door
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have you lived here how long have you lived here who you know in the neighborhood
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who you associate with the neighborhood they found one promising lead 18 year old bill
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winters who lived two blocks away from the crime scene his parents had moved out of state and
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left him alone in that house he wasn't a big guy he would have been just the right size to
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get through the hole in the screen as the profile predicted shortly after the murder
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winters left town to live with his parents in missouri during police questioning winters denied
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any involvement in gary elwood's murder and willingly provided a print of his
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right foot it did not match the bloody print found in the victim's home i was extremely frustrated not only is
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all the weight on your shoulders because this is your unsolved case but it also weighs on the police department
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too it's just something that you can't afford to let go of three years passed then an inmate at the
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local jail contacted police about his former roommate bob johnson someone who came forward and
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claimed that their roommate at that time in 86 johnson had come home bloodied and said
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that he had killed somebody johnson's mug shot looked remarkably like the composite drawing of the
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suspect he didn't fit the fbi profile but his background made him a likely suspect
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his ex-wife told the investigators that mr johnson had a significant drug problem and he
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was conducting those burglaries to help support that habit janet haynes identified johnson in a
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photo lineup she put the finger on johnson so i'm sure at that point edmund investigators
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clearly thought they had their man by this time dna testing was standard practice
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so johnson's dna was compared to semen from janet haynes rape test kit and his footprints were compared to the
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bloody footprints at the crime scene it was just a matter of days that we got those results back
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and conclusively excluded him as a suspect of this homicide he it was not his footprint
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it was not his dna type that was left behind the case went cold again investigators never gave up but they
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were running out of ideas three years later on a hunch they revisited the scene of the crime
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not even sure what they were looking for we go back into the house and we're just
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looking around because it sat there for several years vacant was there anything they missed
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something they hadn't thought of and then they found a potential clue right on the
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floor in the kitchen area is the bra it didn't look new but it wasn't there the last time
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they were inside the home shortly after the murder was it possible that this belonged to janet haynes
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i verified the bra belonged to her one of the things that is characteristic of a lot of rapists is that they will
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take a trophy and one of the the trophies that we felt that he took during time was the
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female's bra so i believe that the guy had made his way back to the scene to relive
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it but if the killer had been back in the neighborhood it might have been only for a visit this
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guy had some direct ties to the neighborhood somehow some way either relatives in the
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neighborhood or he had lived there over the next 18 years police checked dozens of
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suspects from seven different states none panned out then in the spring of 2004 tv viewers in edmond oklahoma
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saw this story scott eggleston says he knew someone had been watching his family for months
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even taking photos through a crack in the blinds we assumed it would be a you know 14 year old kid but it wasn't a
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kid it was a grown man the father came around the house and found a suspect dressed completely in black
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he had arranged an outfit that was like a turtleneck where he could pull it up over his face and he'd
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just cut out holes for his eyes and a hole for his mouth so he could breathe and the man was barefoot
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i've got a little adrenaline rush and i said where are we i came straight back to the station
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pulled out a map and realized that i was directly straight across where gary had been killed almost 18 years ago
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was this the man who killed gary elwood and sexually assaulted janet haynes almost
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20 years earlier pulled up his turtleneck to cover his face just started walking when police
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arrested 40-year-old jonathan graham for peeping into the window of a teenaged girl
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they suspected he was more than just a voyeur in his possession were items for a more
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violent crime a bag was found with several different kinds of knives three pair of handcuffs flecks
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cuffs condoms sex lubricants sex toys lock picking tool bandana black clothing which in our business
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that's a rape kit police now suspected graham was responsible for the murder of
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gary elwood and the sexual assault of janet haynes crimes that occurred 18 years earlier
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in the very same neighborhood at the time of gary elwood's murder graham was living with his parents just
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a couple of blocks from elwood's home and that's where he was living now after
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a brief stint in the army with a warrant police searched graham's home on his computer they found child
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pornography and pictures of women he'd secretly photographed investigators took an inked print of
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graham's feet i remember i was just sitting there thinking about that just just yeah oh i hope this one works out
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analyst jim stokes searched for corresponding ridge detail on the crime scene footprint and the one
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taken from jonathan graham i was able to isolate an area on the outside of the foot
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that being it was a right foot impression so it would be the right side of the foot about midway down
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stokes called investigators with the news i was really quite surprised and excited
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yeah that was a pretty cool day there was a lot of cheering on the phone so i still remember the scream in my ear
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finally graham's dna profile matched the biological sample from janet haynes rape test kit
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it was like the weight of the world being lifted off your shoulders it was just you can't describe it the fbi profile
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had been remarkably accurate in predicting the perpetrator's age education and where he lived
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graham also admitted he lost weight after the murder and joined the army where he worked
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in military intelligence after he was discharged he returned to oklahoma i guess that was
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his best situation to move back into an area that he was familiar with the same old neighborhood
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that he once lived in you know a decade plus ago but why would graham return to the same
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neighborhood where he killed gary elwood decades earlier and commit the same crime
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of window peeping knowing that if he got caught he'd immediately be a suspect in
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elwood's murder and the answer is simply that he was a window peeper and he was
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driven to commit those types of crimes that's what was exciting to him and i believe
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that he felt he would not be caught why because he was so proficient at what he had been doing over
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all those years prosecutors believe that graham stood outside gary elwood's home on the night
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of the crime and watched while janet haynes took a shower [Music] graham thought janet was there alone
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since he couldn't see gary from his vantage point after janet went to bed prosecutors
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think graham removed his clothes and shoes outside then entered the house by cutting the
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window screen he made enough noise that he woke gary who went to investigate the two fought
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then graham stabbed gary to death and for the next few hours terrorized janet graham left clear footprints in gary's
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blood which later tied him to the scene along with the dna evidence facing a possible death sentence
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jonathan graham pled guilty to first-degree murder and rape i don't remember much of the
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incident other than i pushed him against the one of the walls and i i didn't see it until i was told
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last year i didn't know how many times i had stabbed him graham had no way of knowing that 20
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years later technology would eventually catch up with him the forensic science behind this
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investigation is what sealed jonathan graham's guilt even without ever stepping a foot in
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court over my career i've seen some amazing things and that coupled with good detective work
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there's just no end to what we can do we here in science in forensics we're here for the truth
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we're not here for the prosecution we're not here for the defense we're here for
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the truth he will spend the rest of his life in the state penitentiary