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Elizabeth Vargas

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574 total appearances

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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder

Even though this is long before the days of Waze... We're all set.

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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder

Even though this is long before the days of Waze... We're all set.

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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder

Investigators know from UVA's Charlottesville campus to Washington, D.C., the round trip is only 240 miles. 240 miles, and you had 669 miles.

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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder

Investigators know from UVA's Charlottesville campus to Washington, D.C., the round trip is only 240 miles. 240 miles, and you had 669 miles.

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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder

It's quite a coincidence. So police question Elizabeth again.

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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder

It's quite a coincidence. So police question Elizabeth again.

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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder

That ring true to you?

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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder

That ring true to you?

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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder

Elizabeth is cooperating with police and agrees to give her fingerprints and blood. But it's a path of bloody footprints in the Hasem's front yard that has gotten investigators' attention. The prints were revealed by luminol, a chemical that tests for the presence of blood.

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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder

Elizabeth is cooperating with police and agrees to give her fingerprints and blood. But it's a path of bloody footprints in the Hasem's front yard that has gotten investigators' attention. The prints were revealed by luminol, a chemical that tests for the presence of blood.

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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder

Just stop.

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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder

Just stop.

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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder

So clearly they got into something. But when investigator Reed examines Jens and Elizabeth's rental car, he comes up empty. When you sprayed the luminol inside the inside of Elizabeth and Jens' rental car. I got no reaction. Remember, it's 1985 and DNA testing is not yet in use in criminal courts.

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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder

So clearly they got into something. But when investigator Reed examines Jens and Elizabeth's rental car, he comes up empty. When you sprayed the luminol inside the inside of Elizabeth and Jens' rental car. I got no reaction. Remember, it's 1985 and DNA testing is not yet in use in criminal courts.

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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder

So without a hit on the car, investigators are looking for a match to the type O blood found at the crime scene. It wasn't the victim, so they assume it must be the killer's.

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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder

So without a hit on the car, investigators are looking for a match to the type O blood found at the crime scene. It wasn't the victim, so they assume it must be the killer's.

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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder

Investigators are flummoxed again because Elizabeth has type B blood. Her fingerprints did show up on a vodka bottle at her parents' home, but that's not surprising. She visited often. But then someone from Elizabeth's own family points a finger of suspicion at her.

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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder

Investigators are flummoxed again because Elizabeth has type B blood. Her fingerprints did show up on a vodka bottle at her parents' home, but that's not surprising. She visited often. But then someone from Elizabeth's own family points a finger of suspicion at her.

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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder

That's a pretty unbelievable, pretty shocking thing to say. Exactly. But it just happened to come at the time when you had nothing in this case except for this strange rental car agreement.

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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder

That's a pretty unbelievable, pretty shocking thing to say. Exactly. But it just happened to come at the time when you had nothing in this case except for this strange rental car agreement.