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Narrator: Up next,
a police officer's life

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is forever changed
by a young woman's murder.

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It's as if you live that scene
over and over and over again.

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Narrator: There's evidence
found with the victim,

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but no technology
to properly test it.

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The case stalls
for nearly two decades

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until a new device
designed for food safety

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finally exposes a killer.

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This was kind of like
the nail in the coffin.

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It is the most amazing thing
I've ever seen

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in my law-enforcement career.

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Narrator: About two weeks before
Christmas in 1995, Todd Bonner,

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a patrolman in Utah's
Wasatch County Sheriff's Office,

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got the kind of call
all policemen dread.

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A farmer found a corpse
next to a river on his property.

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Bonner:
This was a body found nude.

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You knew deep down
in the back of your mind

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that this was going to be
a different type of a case.

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Narrator: The victim,
a female in her late teens,

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perhaps her early 20s,

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had been beaten to death

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and left along an isolated
stretch of the Provo River.

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Bonner:
The scene was very graphic.

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You knew that she had taken
one heck of a beating.

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She had -- She had suffered
quite a bit.

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Narrator: No conventional murder
weapon was found at the scene,

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but it didn't take long
to figure out

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what had been used
to kill this young woman.

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Six bloody rocks were found
near the body.

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Bonner: The rocks ranged
in different sizes.

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We did come across one.

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Don't want to say
it was a small rock,

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but it was small enough

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that you could grab
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and it appeared to have
a handprint or fingerprint.

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Narrator: The rocks told
detectives straight away

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that they were dealing
with what's known

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as a crime of opportunity.

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For whatever reason,
whatever motivated that,

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he grabbed the nearest thing

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that he thought he could kill
someone with

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and just beat her for
a considerable period of time

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until she died.

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Some rocks were as large
as a small microwave

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that you might see on
someone's kitchen counter --

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very heavy,
50 to 70 pounds at least,

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were used to very angry,
very brutal.

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Narrator:
The victim's clothes were gone.

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There was no identification.

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And besides the rocks,

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there were few clues
at the scene.

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The crime looked to be
sexually motivated.

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But the autopsy threw that
into question.

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King: There was not evidence
of a sexual assault.

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There was evidence
of a sexual encounter.

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Narrator: That encounter
may have been consensual.

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DNA was recovered
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but this was 1995,

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only eight years since DNA was
first used to convict someone.

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Most states, including Utah,
were years away from using DNA.

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There was a lot
of forensic technology

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that exists in the world

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that is either too expensive
or too limited

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to be used by law enforcement
on a day-to-day basis.

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Narrator: Was it possible
the victim knew her killer?

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A strange clue found not far
from the body

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made it seem likely.

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The only other thing
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was a pair of black socks,

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and they were about maybe
10 feet away from her body,

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and they were just placed
neatly on a rock.

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Narrator: These socks weren't
haphazardly discarded.

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They were folded so neatly
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either the killer or his victim,
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Why?
No one knew.

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It was just strange.

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Narrator: Despite the absence
of identification,

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the victim had some
distinctive tattoos.

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Images were released
to local media.

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Almost immediately, two men,

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a Salt Lake City cab driver
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called police.

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Gardner: He identified her
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and that Tracy
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and that they had moved
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about five to six months
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Narrator: Todd Bonner placed
a call to deliver the grim news

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to the victim's stepfather
in Washington State.

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And when he did, this already
strange case got even stranger.

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Tracy's stepfather said
she couldn't be dead

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because he had just seen her.

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lived a couple of doors
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and he went to check
to make sure that she was there.

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I waited on the phone
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and came back and said,
"You have the wrong person."

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What the hell was going on?

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Narrator:
When a 17-year-old woman

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was found naked
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local detectives were determined
to fight for a victim

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who evidence showed had clearly
tried to fight for herself.

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She put up one heck
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blocked a lot of blows
with her fingers,

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a way that the hide
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of each one of her fingers.

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She struggled all the way
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Narrator: Her boyfriend
and a local cab driver

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identified the victim as a young
woman named Tracy Beslanowitch.

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But Tracy's stepfather,

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who lived 700 miles away
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told Utah police their victim
could not be Tracy Beslanowitch.

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Bonner:
When Mr. Beslanowitch told me

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that his daughter Tracy
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I mean, it's just like,

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"Oh, my gosh,
what's going on here?"

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Narrator: The answers
soon became apparent.

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The victim in Utah
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the name of her younger sister,
Tracy.

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The victim's real name
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and she was a young woman
with a troubled past.

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Gardner:
Krystal was a prostitute.

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Krystal would use the street
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And we believe that
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to try and throw off police
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Narrator: Krystal's boyfriend,
Chris, was her pimp.

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The two had been living
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and they recently moved
to Salt Lake City.

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Krystal was the breadwinner
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Narrator:
It was a sordid, degrading life,

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one this young couple
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Karen Mathis,
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worked the same streets
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Mathis:
We didn't care about ourselves.

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How can you?
We didn't know any better.

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Why Krystal came at such
an early age?

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She's had something happen
to her in her past.

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This is not something
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"We want to go do this."

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Krystal turned to prostitution

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because she had no other way
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the case they were determined
to solve became deeply personal.

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I could not comprehend having
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going through this.

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You're not supposed to
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but I don't know
how you don't take it personal

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one way or another.

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Narrator: Krystal and Chris
didn't have a lot of money.

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They didn't have a car.

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They stayed in a seedy motel
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and Krystal worked her trade
in a very small area of town.

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Mathis: We worked
all day long out there.

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You know, you had to call in
and check in to your man

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and tell him
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And sometimes they'd say
come home

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or they would take you
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or then they would tell you,
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That's how it was every day.

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Bonner: She would never leave
a seven-block radius.

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That was just her working area.

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Narrator: This raised questions
for detectives.

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If Krystal only traveled
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nearly 50 miles away
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Gardner: There's thoughts going
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that maybe she was kidnapped
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Or maybe she went
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Maybe this individual
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maybe promised her drugs
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to get her to go
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didn't have access to a car,

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police eliminated him
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Now police question
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who also identified Krystal.

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His name was
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and he was one
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Bonner:
Clarence Stonehocker stated

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that he knew this young lady,

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that her name was Tracy,
that he was a cab driver,

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that he would give her rides
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was married and had children.

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He worked at a local high school
and had no history of violence.

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He seemed to be, you know,
stable, family man.

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Not what we'd think of
as a brutal killer.

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until detectives dug into
his background.

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Krystal Beslanowitch's murder

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was deeply disturbing to people
on both sides of the law.

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Mathis: Krystal did not deserve
to die like that.

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I don't care who we are,

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what we were doing
at the time in our lives.

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We don't deserve to die
like that.

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I don't blame her
for what she was doing.

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She knew what she had to do
in order to stay alive.

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Narrator:
Krystal had a lot of clients,

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but one,
Clarence Stonehocker,

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a cab driver known
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went to the top
of the suspect list.

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A lot of cab drivers
were friends with us.

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They saved us a lot of times.

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We would jump in the cab
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So, yeah, that would happen.

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Narrator: Clarence told police
his relationship with Krystal

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went well beyond
sex for money.

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Clarence
wanted to marry Krystal.

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Clarence loved Krystal
with all of his heart.

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If he couldn't have Krystal,
no one could.

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Narrator: But Krystal
made her living selling sex.

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Was it possible Clarence
became jealous and got violent?

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I believe that he was more
obsessed than in love with her.

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I mean, when you make
a statement

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of, "If I can't have her,

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no one else
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that's a true obsession.

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That's more than being in love
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Narrator: Another clue

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that could possibly link
Clarence to the crime

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was the socks,

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something that had
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from the very first day.

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They were identified
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Narrator: Someone had taken time
to fold them neatly

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and place them
near the scene.

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Could Krystal have done it?

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Not likely.

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The evidence showed
she was fighting for her life.

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But if the killer
had done it, why?

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Many of Krystal's friends
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had a possible answer.

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We know that Krystal had one way
in which

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she controlled her environment
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and that was that
she kept her socks on.

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And so whatever went on
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she had kept her socks on
during the sexual encounter.

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Narrator: People who knew her
said this habit never varied,

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and Clarence,
as a regular client,

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would almost certainly
know about this.

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She wore her socks
all the time,

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even when she was doing tricks
with a John.

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There was a lot of red flags
with Clarence.

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Narrator: Was it possible
Krystal's killer used the socks

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to toy with her
before the murder,

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or as an exercise
in humiliation afterward?

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Gardner: I think that the socks
were removed by the suspect.

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Yes, I don't believe that
she removed the socks at all,

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due to the fact that she liked
to keep the socks on

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at all times.

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Narrator: Investigators
attempted to match Clarence

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to what little evidence
they had.

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Utah's state crime lab
still wasn't testing for DNA,

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but private labs were.

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We had to talk long and hard
to Sheriff Kenny Van Wagoner

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at the time

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to try and obtain
some extra money

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to get these rocks tested,

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because the only way
to test for DNA

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was through
private organizations.

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We spent well over $15,000
out of our budget.

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Narrator:
In 2008, the murder weapons,

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the bloody rocks that had been
sitting in storage since 1995,

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were sent to Sorenson Forensics,
a private lab.

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Rocks might have a very rough
and porous exterior,

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and they also might have
a large surface area.

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When you're swabbing a rock,

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you're not really getting
into all those crevices.

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Narrator:
This method gave detectives

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the breakthrough
they'd been waiting for.

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A partial male genetic profile

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was recovered
from one of the rocks.

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Gardner: We were ecstatic.

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This was
more than what we'd had

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in the past almost 15 years

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since the crime
had taken place.

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As a partial profile,

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it wasn't of much use
in the national CODIS database,

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but analysts could do
a direct analysis

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against
Clarence Stonehocker's DNA.

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And when they did,
they got a result

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that sent the case
in a direction

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no one had anticipated.

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Narrator:
When a partial DNA profile

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was recovered from the rocks

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used to kill
Krystal Beslanowitch,

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detectives were all but certain

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it would match
their chief suspect,

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Clarence Stonehocker.

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I wanted him.

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I was convinced that Clarence
was the man that did this.

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I was totally excited.
I was ecstatic.

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I thought, "Wow, you know, this
is going to be our big break."

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Narrator: The DNA was compared
to Clarence's DNA,

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and to the utter shock
of investigators,

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it didn't match.

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It broke my heart.
I was sure that it was him.

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At that point, I did not think
that it would ever be solved.

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Narrator: Clarence was cleared
and was never charged

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in connection
with Krystal's murder.

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But while the case
came to a standstill,

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forensic technology
kept moving forward.

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In 2010, investigators learned
of a new piece of DNA technology

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called M-Vac that wasn't
even designed to solve crimes.

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Carlsen:
The M-Vac was originally created

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to collect microbiologic
material, like pathogens,

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off of food surfaces.

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Narrator: Could a device used
for food safety

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find Krystal's killer?

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The M-Vac developers
thought so.

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It works as a wet vacuum
collection system.

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It's simply like
a carpet cleaner.

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It sprays down
a sterile solution,

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it applies vacuum,
it creates turbulence,

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and that collects the DNA that
couldn't be collected before.

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Jeskie:
Using an M-Vac is preferable

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when you're trying to get DNA
from a rock,

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in that it's going to soak into

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those porous nooks and crannies
of that rock

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and collect the DNA
that might be deposited there.

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Narrator:
Amazingly, with this method,

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analysts were able to obtain

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more than 40 times
the material needed

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for a standard DNA profile.

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At about the same time,
the Utah state crime lab

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finally got on board with DNA.

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Analysts there tested
the 15-year-old sample

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from Krystal's rape kit.

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Both samples,
the one from the rape kit

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and the one
from the murder weapons,

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were a match
to a so-far unidentified man.

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The CODIS DNA database
found him in Florida.

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It was like someone
totally brand new.

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We had no idea
who this guy was.

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Narrator: His name was
Joseph Michael Simpson.

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He was 46 years old.

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In the 1980s, he served time
for killing someone

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in a jealous rage
over a woman.

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He stabbed the man 13 times
and left the knife in his body

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and ran away,

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and told law enforcement

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that the man must have
fallen on the knife.

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Narrator: Simpson was paroled
in April of 1995

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and found work
as an airport shuttle driver

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with a regular route
that took him right past

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the area where
Krystal's body had been found.

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Maybe he was on his way back
to the airport

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when he noticed Krystal
on the side of the road

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walking to
the convenience store.

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I truly believe
that he knew Krystal prior.

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She was comfortable with him.

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And so she trusted him to be
able to get in the car.

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Narrator: Because
the M-Vac technology was so new

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and because the DNA
from the rocks was so old,

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investigators wanted
to make sure

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their case against Simpson
was airtight.

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To do that, they needed
a fresh DNA sample.

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So they trailed Simpson,

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and one day saw him discard
a cigaret butt.

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Tests match DNA from that butt
to DNA from the rocks,

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from Krystal's rape kit,
and from Simpson's prior arrest.

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Right now,
you're under arrest.

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Bonner: I get chills
just thinking about it.

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Can you reach back?

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I don't know
how to describe it.

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It's like waiting for something

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that you didn't think
would truly ever happen,

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and then it's handed to you
on a silver platter.

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It was like...

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a little kid at Christmas,
I guess.

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Narrator:
Prosecutors believe

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Simpson frequented
local prostitutes

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and that he and Krystal
had prior sexual encounters.

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On the night of the murder,

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he saw her walking
along the street

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in downtown Salt Lake City.

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She knew him
and got into his vehicle.

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They drove to the farm
outside of town.

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Since his DNA was found
in her rape kit

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and there was no sign
of rape,

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investigators believe

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the two had
a consensual sexual encounter.

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After this, something --
no one knows what --

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sent Simpson into
a homicidal rage.

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He grabbed rocks,
the closest weapons at hand,

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and beat Krystal to death.

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But he couldn't have guessed
that, nearly 20 years later,

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the M-Vac would recover
tiny bits of his DNA

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caught in the crevices
of those rocks

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and expose him
as Krystal's killer.

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Carlsen: When you have a new
technology that can do things

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that prior technologies
couldn't,

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one of the first places
that always gets used

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is the Hail Mary case,

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the case that has sat
for a long time

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and hasn't had
any progress in it.

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And the Krystal Beslanowitch
case is one of those cases.

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Narrator: As for the socks being
folded so near the site,

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to this day, Simpson
has refused to explain it.

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Just one more thing
that makes no sense

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in an utterly senseless case.

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Mathis: Joseph has
an anger problem with women.

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Joseph has an anger problem,
period.

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I don't know,
but I know he hates women.

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Narrator:
In September of 2016,

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Joseph Simpson was found guilty
of aggravated murder

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and was sentenced to life
without parole.

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For Todd Bonner, who worked
the case for most of his career,

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justice for Krystal
made it all worthwhile.

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For every officer that was
involved with us

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through this whole thing,
it was closure.

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It was closure to my wife
because I'd go home

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and I would vent to her,
you know, about different things

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or vent to my family
one way or another.

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Probably against the rules
a little bit, but you do it.

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And Krystal became
part of my family,

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whether I liked it or not,

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every day...

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she was there.

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Narrator:
And if a story this brutal

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can lead
to something positive,

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at least one good thing
came from this tragedy.

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Karen Mathis was so shocked
by her friend's murder

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that she turned
her life around.

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Mathis:
Krystal took me off the streets.

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Krystal showed me
that I can live on.

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Krystal will always live in me.

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There's not a day that goes by
that I forget about her.

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I'm lucky.
I'm blessed.

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So blessed.

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♪♪