Erin Moriarty

And after...

the current DA had named Frank Sumner as a person of interest, Sumner's family became very upset.

And they said, you know, where's the proof?

You know, we have a large family.

You know, we all share his name.

Where's the proof?

The DA tried to compare Sumner's

DNA with DNA found at the crime scene.

But the problem was Sumner was cremated and somehow they had never taken his DNA while he was in prison.

It was not in the FBI CODA system.

So they sent investigators to Ohio and they took the DNA of his son.

And then after a year or so, they announced that it's inconclusive and but won't explain what that means.

Right.

But you know what?

Some of the older cases, they weren't doing DNA back then.

I think it's more common now that they're making sure that particularly people convicted of very serious crimes have their DNA in the system.

But I think that there's still a lot of hope, as we've seen in so many cases recently, as the testing for DNA gets better.

I think the big question in this case is, do they even have the killer's DNA?

If you remember the three hours of a delay before they really took this as a kidnapping, not just a young woman who disappeared.

So you had a contaminated crime scene.