Cameron Jay

I was just freaking out.

I'm like, everybody get to headquarters.

I better solve this?

I mean, it was a privilege that I was trusted enough and they had enough confidence in me to be assigned the case in the first place, honestly.

I can remember the file drawer that it sat in.

It was the bottom file drawer in the hallway, and it took up the entire file drawer.

It was such a large case.

We were all obviously really excited about the fact that we had a lead.

We knew there was a ton of evidence that was kept at the Athens-Clarke County Police Department.

So we wanted to make sure that if there was anything that could be done with that at the lab, that we got that process rolling.

We came to the conclusion that, call it maybe 10 or so pieces of evidence could go back to the lab for additional testing or reexamination.

And then it's just kind of sat there since 2001.

Our DNA manager had been exposed to some training and had some experience with a different way to test a sexual assault kit.

And it was essentially testing for male DNA.

And he just said, hey, you know, this has never been tested for male DNA.

Let's try it.

I mean, of course we were on pins and needles in the sense that we were really hoping we would get something from it, and we were just kind of waiting for that phone call.

I mean, essentially it was that we had male DNA.

We were all obviously really excited about the fact that we had a lead.

We've got some information back from her sexual assault kit.