Justin Balding

She gave her DNA and her ancestry account over to cops, thinking that it would confirm her father.

She was totally unaware that it would lead to one of her cousins.

And I think she was shocked as well.

Yeah, when they did the traffic stop, they had prepared one of the big pens and they'd screwed on the cap extra tight because they were hoping that he was going to have to bite the cap off and leave his DNA on the cap.

Or...

No, but he had to twist it really hard.

How would you describe it, Justin?

My impression when the trial was underway was that these defense attorneys were street fighters.

Yes.

Very much so.

They were street fighters in the courtroom and

You could sense at times that the prosecution was extremely frustrated with some of the arguments that they were making.

But they stood up and they made them boldly.

And in the end, obviously, they prevailed.

I was curious at the beginning, going into this tiny community, wondering...

Is Wisconsin Nice going to play for the jury or is this more abrasive approach going to play?

I wasn't sure.

I think, in a way, I feel like the prosecution didn't think they had a real choice because some of their key witnesses, some of the early detectives, the investigators, the crime scene investigators, they felt were getting on in years, and their memories were fading.

Some of them were actually quite sick.

One was brought in in a wheelchair.