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[Music] no one in this quiet residential Community saw or heard anything unusual
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on the day a neighbor was brutally attacked but a store's security camera a fingerprint and forensic computer
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analysis helped to identify a suspect in another state within 12 hours of the crime
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[Music] [Music] in 1997 escaline theard moved to a residential neighborhood in Knoxville
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Tennessee she lived just a few blocks away from her daughter and Grandson so as soon as I became pregnant
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she moved to Knoxville to be with me she was very family oriented she liked being
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with her children the area was virtually Crime Free if you were to match up the different sectors of this County I think
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most everybody in KN County would agree with you that it's one of the safest
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places in our County they were all families lots of children in their neighborhood nice yards picket fence you
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know the the the quintessential American story very nice escaline worked at home using her computer to type
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medical transcriptions for the University of Kentucky she spent the rest of her free
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time with her family my mother saw my child every day and they talked on the phone numerous times she she would miss
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him she'd have to walk the two blocks from her house to to my house because she said I need I you know I need a
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grant fix I've got to I've got to be with him late in the afternoon on August 20th
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2001 Liz realized she hadn't heard from her mother since talking to her that
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morning she always called me around 5 5:30 if she wasn't at my house she would
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always at least call around 5 right before dinner 5 or 530 and I hadn't heard from her so around
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um 6:30 I began to get concerned calls to eskalene's home went unanswered and weren't picked up by her
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answering machine so I got in my car and drove to her house and her door was locked and the blinds were closed my
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mother loved light this looks different so I used my key to walk in and that's when I found her on the
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floor her mother had been murdered was the door locked when you came in yes things are just all over the
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place and her uh wallet is out of her purse and this credit card screwn all over the
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floor there like they gone through things the phone was unplugged down here that's why answer Mach to pick up and
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they through cabinets and and her back windows closed mama [Applause] mama oh the house had been ransacked and it
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appeared as if someone had gone through eskalene's jewelry the bruises and cuts on her
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hands and arms were defensive wounds indicating she had fought her attacker eskalene's wallet was empty and
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while some of her credit cards were found on the carpet most of them were missing I took everything out of the
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wallet took time to look at every little piece of paper in the wallet and found the pin code numbers for the credit
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cards investigators found no signs of forced entry it told us it was possibility that she knew the person or
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that for some reason they surprised her at the front of the house and that the door was opened for whoever this was
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well I really didn't know uh first impression would be someone that she knew uh because of no forced entry but
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eskalene's daughter didn't believe it she was so reserved so she was very
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quiet and again a very very um um easygoing person I I couldn't I could never imagine anybody knowing her um
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anybody she knew would want to hurt her in the kitchen investigators found a soda can a drinking glass and a
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cigarette butt on the floor this perpetrator had spent uh a considerable amount of time in uh the
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residence had taken time to um uh eat some food and and drink some coal or and just was in control Liz also told
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detectives her mother's car was missing we were able to relay to other agencies
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throughout the area to be on the lookout for her vehicle because we only could assume that whoever had murdered escal
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board also had her vehicle investigators canvased the whole neighborhood but no one had heard or seen anything
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unusual in a matter of probably 20 minutes of of uh my arriving on the scene uh I had somewhere in neighborhood
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of 60 to 65 people working on that crime unfortunately if it's not solved within
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a 24hour after the fact uh things can happen very quickly evidence can be destroyed the case is getting cold very
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quickly in time they would discover an important clue inside escaline the board's
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[Music] computer there were no signs of forced entry at escaline De board's home but
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her daughter Liz told police that her mother often left her front door unlocked was trying to make it easier
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for me if I had something in my hands or I was holding my son I could just come in and not have to fiddle with keys and
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thinking about me there were plenty of clues in the town housee we found lighton Prince U on two glasses the
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location of the prce on the glasses led us to believe or did confirm that someone had upold of the top of the
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glasses carrying those in there the prints were entered into the automated fingerprint identification system known
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as aphys and compared to millions of prints in a nationwide database the search did not immediately
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produce a match sometimes it takes uh a matter of hours maybe even days cuz you're looking at several million
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entries the biological samples from the rape test kit were sent to the forensics
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lab for [Music] testing first the sample was placed into a vial with the stain extraction buffer
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which breaks down all nonbiological particles and proteins surrounding the [Music]
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DNA phenolchloroform was then added allowing the DNA to congeal and this was analyzed using a polymerase
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Chain Reaction test the result was believed to be the Killer's DNA profile next forensic analysts examined
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eskalene's computer and with the help of her employer's Mainframe computer found
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an important clue when we looked at ES de's computer we discovered that she had sent out an
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email at 12:21 the day that she uh was found dead that led us to believe that she was
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alive and obviously had been working on her computer prior to whoever had entered her home before she had contact
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with them and investigators found evidence that eskalene's computer had automatically logged off 3 minutes after
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sending that email that meant that the time of her death was sometime after 12:30 we were trying to get a time frame
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for uh the death itself uh we were also trying at the same time to learn if there was anything out of uh the normal
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in the community neighbors told police there were magazine salesmen going door Todo
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on the afternoon of eskalene's murder many people relayed to us that these people had been in their their res
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residents or in their subdivision during the time of 11: in the morning up till almost 4:00 p.m. local ordinances
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require sales organizations to have permits for each and every salesman selling door Todo but there had been no
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permits granted to any sales groups that week Sheriff Tim Hutcherson knew that traveling sales groups from out of state
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usually stay at local motels typically a company van would pick them up at the motel in the morning
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take them to a neighborhood to sell door too and then take them back to the motel
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at the end of the day we've had problems in the past with some of these people uh
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being very pushy trying to push themselves in on on women uh and getting in arguments or fights and uh so that
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set an alarm Bell off the minute that the word came back to us at the scene that there were some magazine salesmen
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in the neighborhood that afternoon detectives canvased several local motels but turned up
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nothing back at the crime scene investigators followed another lead eskalene's wallet was empty and her
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daughter told them it was normally full of credit cards detectives thought the Intruder
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may have stolen them and tried to use them we started looking through um the drawers trying to find past bills which
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would have those credit card numbers on them which companies that they were with
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and so by doing that uh we found which cards were missing police asked the bank to notify them if anyone tried using one
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of those stolen cards they never dreamt that the killer would walk right into their
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trap only a few hours after escaline de board's murder officials at her bank
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told police that someone tried to use one of her credit cards at an ATM at a local gas station we retrieved about I
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think $80 or so out of the ATM detectives checked the ATM surveillance video they saw a tall thin
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man wearing a white shirt and black tie standing at the machine for 8 minutes afterwards he picked up a drink
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and went to the counter to pay for it it appeared that he was asking the the store clerk for
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directions whoever used esing de board's card was dressed wearing the white shirt
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and black tie led us to believe that it was one of the mag magazine salesmen who
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in fact had been in her residence all the neighbors we spoke to said the magazine salesman that came to the
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residents were wearing white shirts black ties detectives questioned the store clerk and she clearly remembered
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the customer he told her he was from New York City and asked for directions to the motel on Paper Mill
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Road police went immediately to the motel and they spotted two Vans similar to those used to transport the traveling
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salesman across the street police also saw escaline the board's car which was
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immediately processed for fingerprints when we spoke with the magazine salesman that were at the
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Super8 we discovered that one of the magazine salesmen didn't show up for their pickup point at 400 p.m.
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that salesman was 21-year-old Roger Broadway when we first spoke with the manager of the magazine salesman he was
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reluctant to give us information when the sheriff threatened to impound his Vans the supervisor changed his mind he
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started telling us that there was one individual that worked for him that was from New York City that had got word
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that his relatives were sick and he immediately needed to leave to go back back home the manager admitted that they
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recruited salesmen with criminal records but claimed that they were rehabilitated the manager of the
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magazine salesman told us that many of the people that they hire are from halfway houses and inner cities just to
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give them the opportunity to make some money and get out of the city Roger Broadway told his employer that he had a
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family emergency and needed to go back to New York City immediately the manager took Roger
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Broadway to the bus station purchased him a bus ticket and sent him on a bus back to New York police knew they needed
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to catch Broadway before he got off that bus if he had made it back to New York where it was
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from uh it' be really impossible to find him there he's on home turf then and
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those people if they know you're after them they can hide out for for long sometime long periods of time he he
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would have went underground I'm sure a background check revealed that Roger Broadway had served a prison term for
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aggravated robbery detectives checked with the bus company and were told the bus would take
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Interstate Highway 81 to New York and they also told police exactly where the bus would be during its
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Journey shortly after midnight police asked Sheriff's officers in Virginia to
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try to intercept that [Music] bus sheriff's deputies were able to catch up with the bus they believed was
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carrying Roger Broadway on Interstate 81 in Virginia when they pulled the bus over and Sheriff's walked on board Roger
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Broadway surrendered without incident in his luggage investigate ERS found bloody clothing escaline deo's
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engagement ring and her car key he held something in his pocket that my mother wore and it was violating I guess the
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experience I had was it was a very violating experience that he would even touch something that was hers that
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touched her I suppose Broadway's fingerprints were compared to those on the drinking glass at the crime scene
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and on eskalene's car window a computer program identified small shapes within
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the fingerprints called minutia shown here in green squares hundreds of these points matched
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those prints belong to the suspect Roger Broadway investigators took a blood sample from Broadway for DNA testing as
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expected Broadway's DNA profile matched the biological samples at the crime scene
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[Music] the scientist told us that uh the odds of this being incorrect the odds were
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greater than the population of the world based on the forensic evidence prosecutors believe Broadway entered
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escaline de board's unlocked townhouse intending to burglarize it not knowing
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she was upstairs escaline was working upstairs on her computer and she sent her last email at
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12:21 the computer logged off 3 minutes later escaline must have heard someone downstairs and gone to
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[Music] investigate think you're doing there no after a scuffle Broadway killed
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escaline then cut the telephone cords before he left Broadway helped himself to a soda and
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cigarettes he took eskalene's credit cards and her car then drove to the ATM
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for cash and directions he never realized the store's security camera normally used to prevent
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robbery in this case helped solve a murder Broadway then ditched the car told his
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supervisor he needed to leave town and took the first bust in New York City I suspect a number of our more
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senior citizens that live alone uh would have been terrified uh that there was a
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Madman on the loose so uh we we were very fortunate that we didn't have to live through that and Tred to calm the
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fears of a number of our citizens here when he saw the amount of forensic evidence Roger Broadway pled guilty to
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murder and aggravated robbery in return he was sentenced to life in prison without parole plus 50
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years Roger Bradway showed no remorse for what he had done and to me I think he received the the best penalty that
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was available to him and I hope he has the rest of his life to think about [Music]
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that Liz noing wears her mother's engagement ring to keep the memory of her always with
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her I love you and I miss [Music] you that's about the only thing I can say to my mom right now or I wish you
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were here but she says she will not allow a killer to ruin what remains of her family I don't want my son to remember
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him his grandmother that way and I don't want to remember my mother that way I
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want to remember her how she lived I don't want to remember her how she died officials in Tennessee have
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introduced legislation to regulate companies who use convicted felons as door-to-door
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salesman no one here knew that that this convicted violent felon was in our neighborhood uh selling and working and
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so I we would like to see a law on the books where the people must register with local law enforcement
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if they have a criminal record I would like to feel as though I had something to do with changing the
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industry and making it safer so if someone does knock on your door they are licensed and bonded and they have
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identification with their picture on it even if those laws were to be passed detectives warn people to be extremely
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careful when dealing with door-to-door salesmen you don't know their backgrounds you don't know what they're
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capable of you really don't know what their attentions are once they get into
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your home so I would strongly advise not allowing people into your residence that
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you don't know they'll lock your doors I don't care where you live how safe it is
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this is a safe Community where uh murders never occur but it did here forensic computer analysis DNA testing
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fingerprint analysis and the store security camera all work together to solve a case within 12 hours of the
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crime the collection of that evidence the way it was collected here the way it was preserved
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maintain uh is a textbook example of how uh any investigation in particularly a homicide investigation should be run
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thank goodness thank goodness that we do that we have the technology and the tools to be able to do that so it's
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essential that that that the forensics the science is a part of the process [Music]
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War [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music]