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