Dorothy Newell

But evidence was gathered and organized, and that would become important over the years.

That's right.

They used new technology to retest the rape kit that was done at the time of Tara's murder.

And they got some viable DNA.

This time around, when they ran the suspect DNA through CODIS, that's the National Criminal DNA Database, they got a hit.

A repeat offender named Edric Fost.

And that was just really out of the blue.

Right.

The prosecutor said the chances that the DNA belonged to anyone but Foss were one in 800 quadrillion.

Right.

Yeah, defense attorney Amon Cruz agrees that Foss' DNA was inside Tara's body, but he's more interested in the fact that someone else's DNA was there too, and it was her boyfriend, Chris.

Yeah, the defense argued that Chris's alibi was shaky.

And he changed his story to the police about when he last saw Tara.

And that makes him, according to the defense, deeply suspicious.

So the prosecutor asked Chris about his and Tara's relationship.

He talked about getting the awful news.

He was working at a plumbing job and got paged by Tara's mother.

Yeah, and that's pretty important to the case.

The defense argued that Chris's hands showed cuts and scrapes after the murder.

And that could implicate him in the very violent crime, right, but that first day.