Keith Morrison

There's a family of birds who have, they hang around the tree outside the door here a lot.

I could go close the door, I suppose.

When we get back, Blaine is going to share an extra clip from her interview with Chris Melton, Tara's boyfriend, about the life he has built in the years following Tara's murder.

Would this case have been solved, do you think, Blaine, had DNA evidence not advanced as much as it has in recent years?

And I ask you that because wasn't the amount of evidence that could be tested shrinking and shrinking and shrinking and shrinking as the years went by?

Yeah.

Just getting money for cold cases is tremendously important.

Those cities and counties that have been able to do that are solving cases at a great clip because there are so many more technologies that can be put to good effect in doing so.

Where I live, I communicate with the local police department fairly often, not to do stories, but just about stuff they're working on.

I hear about it.

And almost...

Every year, there's at least one and sometimes several cases that go back 35, 40, even 50 years that are being solved because they've got familial DNA.

They have DNA testing that wasn't available years earlier.

It's because they have a cold case department that can look into these things.

Let's talk about just the central character in this, Tara.

What did her family tell you about her?

What was she like back then?

And what about Chris, the boyfriend who was the suspect for so long?

What was he like?

And he sat for an interview and obviously talked to you for a long time.