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Narrator: Up next,
an insurance agent's murder
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stuns suburban St. Louis.
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It was
a broad-daylight execution.
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It was shocking.
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This was a very brazen crime.
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Narrator:
Years pass.
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No one's arrested
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until a suspect is identified
by new technology.
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It's a real game-changer.
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Narrator:
And the killer soon learns
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you can't hide
what you can't see.
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This trial, I guarantee you
he got an education.
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Narrator: Nestled along the
West Bank of the Missouri River,
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the St. Louis suburb
of St. Charles
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looms large in U.S. history.
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It marks the spot where,
in 1804,
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Lewis and Clark
began their epic journey
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into the still-uncharted
American interior.
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Hahn: It was a stop
for Lewis and Clark,
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so they're very proud of that.
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There's a statue
of Lewis and Clark
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down by the riverfront.
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Narrator:
On the morning of June 8, 2007,
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the peacefulness
of this Midwestern community
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was shattered when
a postal worker
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doing her normal rounds
made a gruesome discovery.
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She found insurance agent
Bob Eidman
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bloody and possibly dead
in his office.
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She saw the body
and then ran out screaming,
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as I think any of us would.
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Narrator: Police arrived to find
Bob Eidman dead at the scene.
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He'd been shot execution-style.
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McCarrick: He was shot once in
the face and once in the neck.
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The last shot, the shooter
was standing over him,
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looking down at him,
and fired one shot.
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It went through
and through his head
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and buried itself in the floor.
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Narrator:
This was cold-blooded murder,
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but that didn't jibe with
the rest of the crime scene,
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which was sloppy and haphazard,
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what detectives call
a disorganized crime.
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Bob Eidman's murder was not
a particularly careful crime.
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There were, on the floor
of the office, spent cartridges
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and also live rounds,
which said to us
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that the shooter
either had a bad weapon
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or he wasn't a good shooter.
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Narrator: The murder weapon
was later determined
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to be a 9mm pistol.
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It was not found at the scene.
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Other than bullets
apparently from that gun,
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there was no evidence
of the shooter in Bob's office.
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For now,
detectives were stumped.
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It worried a lot of people
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because it was something
that happened in broad daylight.
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Narrator:
Detectives questioned everyone
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at the neighboring businesses.
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To their surprise,
no onesaw
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but someone didhear
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A woman with an office
directly below Bob's
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heard a series of pops
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but thought nothing of it
at the time.
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She thinks, "Oh, Bob, what is --
what's Bob up to?
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What's he doing up there?
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Is he moving furniture?
Did he drop something?"
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So she yells up to him,
playfully,
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"Hey, keep it down, Bob,"
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not realizing
that he's just been shot dead.
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Narrator:
This helped detectives
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nail down a time
for Bob's murder,
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shortly before 11:00 A.M.
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Detectives got
another possible break
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from a Mexican grocery store
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at the other end
of the strip mall.
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Groenweghe: They had a very good
surveillance system
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because it was a warm day,
their door was open,
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and one of the cameras
actually had a view
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out into the parking lot.
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And we could see a white
Ford Focus circle around
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shortly before 11:00.
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McCarrick: At 10:50 A.M.,
this white Ford Focus
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passes in front of the bodega
going toward Bob's office,
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and at 10:54, it passes again,
going the same direction.
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There's no reason
to go down that alley once,
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let alone twice
within four minutes.
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Narrator: The hunt was on
for a white Ford Focus,
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which, in a setback,
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turned out to be
an unusually popular vehicle.
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Police found 1,300 cars
of that description
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in the St. Louis area.
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Narrator: Even worse,
interstate 70, a major highway,
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was right next
to the murder site.
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The killer had
an easy escape route,
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and he wouldn't be
the first to use it.
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In the 1990s,
a serial killer dubbed
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The I-70 Killer escaped via I-70
after all his murders.
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Stepp:
The individual responsible for
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the I-70 killings
would go into a business,
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contact usually the sole person
in the business,
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and would shoot them
in the head.
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It was right off the highway,
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and so we thought
it could be anyone.
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I mean, thousands of cars
go by interstate 70 every day.
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Narrator: All told,
police say the I-70 Killer
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murdered six people,
and he hadn't been caught.
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Is this a random killing
of Bob Eidman,
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the start of something more,
the start of a larger pattern?
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Do we need to be afraid here?
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Narrator:
Any business involves risk.
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Bob Eidman's
was riskier than most.
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A lot of it was done
on the spot in cash.
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He was dealing with people
with high-risk insurance,
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people who are having trouble
getting insurance other places,
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people who had
suspended licenses or DWIs.
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Narrator:
In the initial search,
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nothing appeared to be missing
from Bob's office.
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When the police got there,
there was still cash inside
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that cash drawer
that hadn't been taken.
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We thought it was drugs
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or something
that was more personal.
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You know, you usually don't get
murdered for no reason at all.
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Narrator: Detectives were hoping
they might get some information
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from Bob's wife, Diane.
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The day of the murder, she had
been unable to reach her husband
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and showed up at the strip mall
where Bob worked.
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She arrived while the scene
was being processed.
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Police broke the news to her.
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There's no right way
to react to the news
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that your spouse
has been brutally murdered.
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It's a shock for any of us.
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Narrator: Though nothing
appeared to be missing
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from Bob's office,
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his wife told police
to check his back pocket.
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She told them
that he always kept a wallet
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with a lot of cash in it,
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several hundred dollars,
usually.
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Narrator:
Bob's wallet was gone.
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Police thought it was
almost certain his killer
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had reached
into his back pocket to get it.
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Evidence technicians
swabbed the pocket,
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but they knew that
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in the absence of bodily fluids,
DNA technology in 2007
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couldn't produce
a genetic profile
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from this piece of evidence.
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Krey:
I was very skeptical, in fact,
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of being able to get
something from that pocket.
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Narrator: But DNA technology was
getting more powerful every day.
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Analysts put the DNA
from Bob's murder in storage
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in the hope that science would
catch up to their evidence.
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In the meantime,
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detectives turned back
to Bob's wife, Diane.
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When someone is randomly,
brutally murdered,
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police automatically
look at their spouse
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as a suspect
as a matter of course.
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Narrator:
Diane said Bob,
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despite being in
the insurance business himself,
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had only a tiny life-insurance
policy, about $5,000.
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Stepp: That's when we found out
that there were, in fact,
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three separate life-insurance
policies on Bob.
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Narrator: And they were worth
a lot more than $5,000.
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All three life-insurance
policies combined were $750,000.
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There was only
one beneficiary involved,
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and that was Bob's wife,
Diane Eidman.
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Narrator: Was it possible
Diane didn't know
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how much insurance money
she'd get if Bob died?
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Could she have lied to police
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about her knowledge
of the payout?
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After all,
3/4 of a million dollars
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seemed like a good reason
to want Bob dead.
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It certainly looked like
a motive to us.
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Narrator: Diane was alibied
for the time of the murder,
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but that didn't
get her off the hook.
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McCarrick: Could she have
had somebody do it? Sure.
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But if you're going to do that,
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you have to communicate
with someone
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'cause most people don't have
a hit man in their Rolodex.
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Narrator: Detectives now turn
to the Eidmans' phone records
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and computer activity,
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and when they did, the mystery
of Bob Eidman's murder
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took a twist few people
who knew him ever anticipated.
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McCarrick:
In searching Bob's computer use,
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we found that he was visiting
a lot of gay-pornography sites
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on the Internet
and massage businesses,
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gay massage businesses,
and that type of thing.
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Narrator: What detectives found
on Bob's computer
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revealed a man
with a secret life, a new lover,
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and someone with
a possible motive for murder.
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As it turned out, Bob Eidman had
a secret lover in Kansas City
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and had for eight months.
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Narrator:
In the initial investigation
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into Bob Eidman's murder,
police thought
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the only person with
an apparent reason to kill him
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was his wife, Diane.
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Stepp:
Diane Eidman is a prime suspect
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because she does have motive,
she had means,
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she knew where things
were kept in the office,
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and she was gonna benefit with
a great deal of insurance money.
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Narrator: And it appeared
that she might have a motive
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beyond collecting
a $750,000 insurance payment.
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A search
of Bob's computer showed
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he'd been cheating on her.
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A few months earlier,
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he embarked
on a sexual relationship
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with a man named Kurt.
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He and Bob met
in Columbia, Missouri,
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which is about halfway between
St. Louis and Kansas City,
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on a number of weekends
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and spent the weekend
in a motel there.
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Narrator: Kurt was interviewed
and was alibied
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for the time of the murder,
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which didn't necessarily
eliminate him as a suspect.
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But he did have some possibly
interesting information
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for detectives.
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McCarrick:
Some weeks before the murder,
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Bob had called him and said,
"Diane found out about us,
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and we've got to stop
seeing each other for a while."
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Narrator: During numerous
interviews with detectives,
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Diane never said anything
about Bob cheating on her.
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McCarrick:
Why would she not tell us this?
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It could be a motive for her to
be responsible for killing Bob.
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The fact that he was cheating
on his wife with a man,
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all of that adds up
to a lot of motive.
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Narrator: Diane was given
a polygraph test.
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The results were inconclusive.
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McCarrick:
Does that mean she did it? No.
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If she failed,
would that mean she did it?
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Not necessarily.
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Narrator: In searching
all of Diane's communications
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in the weeks and months
before her husband's murder,
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police could find no evidence of
her hiring someone to kill Bob.
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Show me that communication,
show me that wire,
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and if you can't,
it didn't happen.
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I believed Diane Eidman
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was probably responsible
for this homicide,
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but there was no concrete
evidence enough to arrest her.
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Narrator:
The case went cold.
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Outside of ballistic evidence
from the scene,
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which was useless in the absence
of a murder weapon,
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detectives had
very little evidence --
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the surveillance video
of a white Ford Focus
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circling the strip mall
shortly before Bob was shot,
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which might or might not have
something to do with the murder,
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and the back pocket
of Bob's pants,
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which might or might not
contain the killer's DNA,
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but DNA technology was moving
along at an exponential pace.
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Touch DNA was revolutionizing
crime science.
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Groenweghe: In the old days
with less sensitive testing,
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you would've had to have the
defendant or perpetrator's blood
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or semen or saliva there,
and they wouldn't have found it.
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Touch DNA isn't really
so much a separate thing
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as it is a continuation of DNA.
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Narrator:
Was it possible that the killer,
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simply by touching
Bob's back pocket
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while stealing the wallet,
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had left
a genetic signature behind?
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Touch DNA has always
been around,
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but the technology
to analyze it has not been.
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As DNA kits become
more and more sensitive,
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now we can actually analyze
that touch-DNA sample.
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Narrator: In 2010, the DNA swab
from Bob's back pocket,
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which had been in storage
since the murder,
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was processed
by forensic technicians.
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Krey: In this case, the back
pocket of the victim was swabbed
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with a moistened swab
with distilled water.
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That swab is then taken and cut
for DNA analysis,
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and it's extracted,
quantified, amplified,
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and, ultimately,
a DNA profile is produced
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on the genetic analyzer.
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Narrator: A mixed DNA profile
with two sources
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was generated
from Bob's back pocket.
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One source, not surprisingly,
was from Bob himself.
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The other source,
so far unidentified,
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was almost certainly
from Bob's killer.
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There is no reason
for someone's DNA to be there,
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except if they're the one
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who removed
that wallet from that pocket.
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Narrator:
Detectives were hopeful
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this profile would turn up a hit
in the CODIS database,
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which contains the DNA profiles
of thousands of known offenders.
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It was run against the database,
and there was no match.
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Narrator:
The case went cold yet again.
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But most criminals
don't stop being criminals,
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and in this case,
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Bob's killer just couldn't stop
breaking the law.
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The whole thing
is mind-boggling.
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Narrator: In 2009,
St. Louis police arrested
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a convicted felon
for forging a check.
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His name was Paul White.
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James: Paul White was
a career criminal.
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He'd been in and out of prison
since he was a teenager.
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Narrator: So White's arrest
was fairly routine,
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but what police did next
was part of a new routine
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in police jurisdictions
all over the country.
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If you go back 15, 20 years,
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nobody's gonna take your DNA
when you get arrested.
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Now they do. So White's DNA --
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a sample of his DNA --
was taken at the time
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he was arrested
on a forgery case.
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Narrator: And that DNA was
entered into the CODIS database,
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where computers automatically
cross-referenced it
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with the DNA
of thousands of criminals.
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Paul White's DNA matched the DNA
from Bob's back pocket.
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Stepp: When I get that name
from the crime labs,
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I couldn't control myself.
I was very happy.
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This is the lead
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that is going to bring
the individual to justice.
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Narrator: But did that prove
Paul White was Bob's killer?
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Not necessarily.
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The two men
had done business together.
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Groenweghe: Paul White's wife
had her car insured through him,
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and he had gone in there
and made a cash payment.
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So he knew
there would've been cash there.
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Narrator:
But Paul white insisted
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he was not in Bob's office
the day of the murder.
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The DNA was pointing
straight at Paul White,
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but a good defense lawyer
might convince a jury
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it was there
from his previous visit,
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even if it was months earlier.
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If you have DNA in isolation,
the defense can always argue,
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"Well, maybe there
was contamination,
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maybe there was
secondary transfer."
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Narrator: Detectives dug into
Paul White's background
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and got a surprise.
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One month before
Bob Eidman's murder,
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he'd been involved
in yet another routine arrest.
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Paul White was arrested
for outstanding traffic tickets.
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He and his companion,
a man named Cleo Hines,
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were both arrested as
they were driving a Ford Focus.
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and had no license plates,
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which fit the description
of the Ford Focus
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seen on surveillance video
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circling around Bob Eidman's
office just before his murder.
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That is a very big game-changer.
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Narrator: By this time,
more than two years had passed
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since Bob Eidman's murder,
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and Paul white was confident DNA
could not tie him to the crime.
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In the tapes of his interview,
you can see that.
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When they tell him, "We have
your DNA in his pockets,"
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well,
he leaned back in his chair,
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put his arms behind his head,
and smiled
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and laughed and said --
his exact words were,
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"There is no way
on God's Green Earth
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you have my DNA
in those pockets."
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He was thinking what most people
were thinking at that time,
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that you have to have a fluid
for there to be DNA.
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He had no idea what the concept
of touch DNA was.
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Narrator: Cleo Hines,
Paul White's accomplice,
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understood more quickly
and came clean.
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Prosecutors learned that
Paul White recently lost
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more than $1,000 gambling,
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and since he'd been in
Bob Eidman's office before,
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knew there should be
lots of cash there.
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Bob knew him
and could identify him,
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so the only way to get the money
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and not get caught
was to kill Bob.
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Prosecutors believe
Paul White shot Bob
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as soon as he and Cleo Hines
entered the office.
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But there was a problem.
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Bob's money drawer was locked.
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In fact, it was broken
and wouldn't open,
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something White
hadn't counted on.
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Desperate, he rifled Bob's back
pocket and grabbed his wallet,
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not realizing the touch DNA
he left behind
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would ultimately identify him.
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How much money
was Bob Eidman's life worth?
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$300.
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Stepp: They took the money to
two separate casinos in the area
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and lost the money within hours.
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How cold-blooded do you have to
be to take that blood money
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and go to the casino
and gamble with it?
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All murders are senseless,
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but this one just seemed to be
in a category by itself.
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Narrator:
Before the DNA match was made,
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Bob Eidman's wife, Diane,
remained the number-one suspect.
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That match not only identified
Bob's killers,
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it proved her innocence.
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Krey: I'm happy to be able
to solve a cold case using DNA.
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I'm also very happy
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when we get a case
that exonerates an individual.
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Narrator: In August of 2012,
Paul White was found guilty
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of first-degree murder
and got life with no parole.
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Cleo Hines, convicted of
second-degree murder
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and robbery,
also got life in prison,
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all because they were convinced
evidence they couldn't see
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couldn't possibly
land them in jail.
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No one was more surprised
by the touch-DNA results
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than Paul White was.
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James: The fact that just
the slightest brush
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on the inside
of his victim's pocket
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could later convict him,
it's incredible.
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McCarrick: The victim's
still dead. You can't fix that.
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But justice, I think,
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is something that we care about
as a people.
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And when you get that DNA hit,
it looks like we're gonna get
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as close
as we can come here to justice.
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It makes the job worthwhile.