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Race Genetics <> DNAPrint Genomics

Determining race, part of the world one's ancestors came from, eye and hair color by DNA.. really

The Forensic files Transcript - Mon Jan 28 21:06:49 2008 Involved in this murder documentary

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What they can determine with DNA

`Blood can reveal if it came from a male or female

`DR Tony Faudkis has developed a DNA test that can determine which part of the world some one's ancestors came from, what race and what the color of hair and color of eyes are. This test has been tested by the FBI and is now one of the procedures used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

`There is a physical difference in the DNA of natives of Europe that is different than the natives of the Middle east.

`This test can separate western Europeans "White" from Asians or Africans.. they have a different DNA factor

The test can also determine if some one has ancestors from multiple races. And because the western Europeans have a different dna than Asians/The middle east or Africans, if these Europeans are not a mixed race of Asian/Africans, they could have no possible inheritance from the ancient Egyptians or Israelites.

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The complete Transcript below of the Forensic Files program

[ DOG BARKS ] IT WAS CLOSE TO MIDNIGHT ON HALLOWEEN IN NAPA, CALIFORNIA. TRICK OR TREAT HAD BEEN OVER FOR HOURS, AND 26-YEAR-OLD LAUREN MEANZA WENT TO BED AROUND 11:00 P.M. HER DOG, CHLOE, SLEPT IN HER ROOM. AT 2:00 IN THE MORNING, THE DOG STARTED TO GROWL.

[ DOG GROWLS ] AND LAUREN HEARD NOISES. AT FIRST, SHE THOUGHT ONE OF HER ROOMMATES CAME HOME WITH A BOYFRIEND. BUT THEN SHE HEARD A FIGHT AND SCREAMS. WHEN SHE LOOKED OUT, SHE SAW A MAN RUN DOWN THE STAIRS AND JUMP OUT OF AN OPEN FRONT WINDOW, BUT SHE DIDN'T SEE HIS FE. WHEN SHE WENT UPSTAIRS, LAUREN FOUND HER TWO ROOMMATES. BOTH HAD BEEN STABBED REPEATEDLY. [ SIREN WAILS ] WHEN POLICE ARRIVED, THEY FOUND 26-YEAR-OLD ADRIANE INSOGNA AND 25-YEAR-OLD LESLIE MAZZARA DEAD.

>> IT WAS A VERY, VERY BLOODY CRIME SCENE. IT'S THE MOST BLOODY CRIME SCENE I'VE SEEN IN MY CAREER.

>> Narrator: LESLIE MAZZARA WAS A FORMER BEAUTY QUEEN WHO WORKED IN THE SALES DEPARTMENT OF A LOCAL WINERY.

>> AND GOOD EVENING. A SENIOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, I AM LESLIE ANN MAZZARA, MISS WILLIAMSON.

>> Narrator: ADRIANE INSOGNA WAS A CIVIL ENGINEER.

>> IT WAS HORRIBLE. THERE AREN'T ANY WORDS, REALLY, TO DESCRIBE THAT. IT'S ALMOST AS IF YOU JUST GO COMPLETELY COLD.

>> Narrator: BLOODSTAINS IN THE HOUSE PROVIDED INVESTIGATORS WITH CRITICAL INFORMATION.

>> HE HAD GONE INTO THE HOUSE, UP THE STAIRS INTO LESLIE'S BEDROOM FIRST, WHERE HE ATTACKED HER. APPARENTLY THE COMMOTION WOKE ADRIANE UP IN HER BEDROOM, AND SHE TURNED ON THE LIGHT, AND HE PROCEEDED TO HER BEDROOM AND THEN ATTACKED ADRIANE.

>> SHE HAD READING GLASSES EITHER IN HER HAND OR ON HER FACE THAT WERE CUT WITH THE KNIFE. SHE FOUGHT HARD. SHE FOUGHT FOR HER LIFE.

>> Narrator: THE BLOOD TRAIL LED TO THE FRONT WINDOW AND CONTINUED ON TO THE ALUMINUM SIDING ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE HOUSE. INVESTIGATORS FOUND THREE CIGARETTE BUTTS -- TWO AT THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE, THE OTHER IN THE BACKYARD.

>> ANYTIME I SEE CIGARETTE BUTTS AT A CRIME SCENE, I WILL COLLECT THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE AN EXCELLENT SOURCE FOR OBTAINING DNA.

>> Narrator: ALL OF THE BLOOD EVIDENCE WAS COLLECTED FOR ANALYSIS.

>> WE RECEIVED 71 PIECES OF EVIDENCE. ONE OR TWO IS AVERAGE -- UP TO FOUR OR FIVE, POSSIBLY. THIS PARTICULAR CASE REALLY SURPASSED MOST OF WHAT WE SEE IN THE LABORATORY.

>> Narrator: POLICE SEARCHED FOR MOTIVE AND FOUND ONE WHEN THEY DISCOVERED SOME PLASTIC ZIP TIES UNDERNEATH THE FRONT WINDOW.

>> IN POLICE WORK, WE USE THE SAME TYPE OF TIES TO HOLD PRISONERS, ESPECIALLY IN RIOT SITUATIONS OR CROWD CONTROL. IT APPEARED TO US THAT THIS PERSON HAD COME IN WITH A PLAN WHEN THEY CAME IN, AND PART OF THAT PLAN WOULD HAVE BEEN TO BIND THESE GIRLS.

>> Narrator: THE NEXT MORNING, NAPA VALLEY RESIDENTS AWOKE TO THE NEWS OF THIS HORRIBLE CRIME AND THE TERRIBLE POSSIBILITY THAT A SERIAL KILLER MIGHT BE IN THEIR MIDST.

>> THIS WAS A VIOLENT CRIME. I FELT REAL UNEASY. WE HAVE NEVER HAD A SERIAL KILLER IN THE CITY OF NAPA, AND THIS WAS MY FIRST TASTE OF A POSSIBILITY THAT WE WERE DEALING WITH A SERIAL KILLER.

>> Narrator: THREE YOUNG WOMEN LIVED TOGETHER IN THIS HOUSE IN NAPA, CALIFORNIA, UNTIL HALLOWEEN NIGHT... WHEN AN UNKNOWN ASSAILANT BROKE IN AND MURDERED TWO OF THE THREE ROOMMATES.

>> HEARING THOSE CALLS, MY HEART REALLY WENT OUT TO LAUREN FOR WHAT SHE HAD BEEN THROUGH. I COULD HEAR THE PANIC, THE FEAR, THE GRIEF IN HER VOICE...

AS SHE TRIED TO RELATE THAT SOMETHING HORRIBLE HAD HAPPENED TO HER FRIENDS.

>> Narrator: THE SURVIVING ROOMMATE, LAUREN MEANZA, TOLD INVESTIGATORS SHE HAD NO IDEA WHO WOULD HAVE DONE THIS. NOTHING WAS STOLEN, AND LAUREN DIDN'T THINK EITHER VICTIM HAD ANY ENEMIES -- OR, AT LEAST, NONE SHE KNEW ABOUT. IT APPEARED THAT LESLIE MAZZARA WAS ATTACKED FIRST. IT WASN'T CLEAR WHETHER THIS WAS BECAUSE HER ROOM WAS CLOSEST TO THE STAIRS OR WHETHER SHE WAS THE INTENDED TARGET.

>> THE EVIDENCE IN HER ROOM INDICATED THAT SHE HAD BEEN IN BED WHEN THE ATTACK HAPPENED. AND SO IT APPEARS LIKE SHE WAS PROBABLY ASLEEP AT THE TIME THE ATTACK OCCURRED AND DIDN'T HAVE A CHANCE TO EVEN UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS HAPPENING TO HER OR DEFEND HERSELF.

>> Narrator: A BACKGROUND CHECK REVEALED LESLIE WAS BEING PESTERED BY THE FATHER OF ONE OF HER EX-BOYFRIENDS.

>> IT WAS LESLIE'S LAST FULL-TIME BOYFRIEND THAT SHE HAD BEFORE SHE MOVED OUT HERE TO CALIFORNIA.

>> Narrator: AND HER EX-BOYFRIEND'S FATHER CONTINUED TO CALL HER, EVEN AFTER SHE MOVED TO CALIFORNIA.

>> WE LOOKED AT PHONE RECORDS FOR THE HOUSE AND CELL PHONE RECORDS, AND WE LEARNED THAT LESLIE HAD RECEIVED SEVERAL PHONE CALLS FROM THE FATHER OF HER EX-BOYFRIEND THAT NIGHT, ON HALLOWEEN.

>> Narrator: LESLIE'S EX-BOYFRIEND AND HIS FATHER HAD ALIBIS FOR THE NIGHT OF THE MURDER. THEY WERE BOTH IN SOUTH CAROLINA, THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY, AND WITNESSES CONFIRMED IT. ANOTHER POTENTIAL SUSPECT WAS A HANDYMAN WHO HAD WORKED IN THE HOUSE ON THE DAY OF THE MURDERS, BUT HE, TOO, HAD AN ALIBI. IN ALL, POLICE INTERVIEWED MORE THAN 200 POTENTIAL SUSPECTS AND CAME UP WITH NOTHING.

>> THERE WAS NO INFORMATION COMING UP AFTER THE MURDERS. NO ONE WAS SAYING ANYTHING. WE ALL THOUGHT THAT IT WAS SOMEONE WHO HAD HIGHTAILED IT OUT OF HERE IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE CRIME.

>> Narrator: TWO WEEKS AFTER THE MURDERS, FRIENDS ORGANIZED A CANDLELIGHT VIGIL TO KEEP ATTENTION FOCUSED ON THE CASE.

>> THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE WE LOOKED AT EARLY WERE EX-BOYFRIENDS, CURRENT BOYFRIENDS, CO-WORKERS THAT WERE VERY CLOSE TO THE GIRLS WHO WOULD HAVE HAD THAT TYPE OF ONGOING RELATIONSHIP.

>> Narrator: THEN POLICE GOT A BREAK. DNA TESTING FOUND BLOOD AT THE CRIME SCENE THAT WASN'T FROM THE VICTIMS.

`Blood can reveal if it came from a male or female

>> THERE WAS AN X- AND Y-PEAK DETECTED FOR THOSE PARTICULAR SAMPLES, SO WE KNEW THAT WE WERE DEALING WITH MALE BLOOD ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE HOUSE.

>> Narrator: IT APPEARED THE KILLER CUT HIMSELF WHILE STABBING THE GIRLS WHEN THE KNIFE SLIPPED IN HIS HAND.

>> HE PROBABLY HAD THE KNIFE IN HIS RIGHT HAND, AND WHEN HE HIT THE WALL, THE BLOOD THAT WAS ON HIS RIGHT HAND AND ON THE KNIFE WAS CAST OFF ONTO THE WALL.

>> Narrator: INVESTIGATORS NOW TURNED TO THE THREE CIGARETTE BUTTS FOUND AT THE SCENE. TWO WERE IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE, THE OTHER IN THE BACK YARD. DNA FROM THE SALIVA ON TWO OF THE CIGARETTE BUTTS MATCHED DNA FROM THE BLOOD ON THE STAIRS. IT ALSO MATCHED DNA FROM SKIN CELLS FOUND ON THE RUBBER BAND HOLDING THE PLASTIC ZIP TIES.

>> A RUBBER BAND IS A GOOD DNA SOURCE BECAUSE IT'S MADE OF POROUS MATERIAL. THE PERSPIRATION OR WHATEVER IT WAS THAT LEFT THE DNA BEHIND WAS ABSORBED INTO THE RUBBER BAND AND PRESERVED.

>> Narrator: THE DNA PROFILE WAS ENTERED INTO A NATIONAL DATABASE OF 4 MILLION KNOWN OFFENDERS. THERE WAS NO MATCH. AGAIN, POLICE HAD TO CONSIDER THE UNTHINKABLE -- THAT THEY WERE DEALING WITH A SERIAL KILLER WHO HAD SUCCESSFULLY ELUDED THEM.

>> THAT'S THE WORST KIND OF CRIME TO TRY TO INVESTIGATE BECAUSE THERE'S NO KNOWN LINK TO THE GIRLS. THEN YOU HAVE A LARGER POOL OF POTENTIAL SUSPECTS, OBVIOUSLY.

>> Narrator: HOWEVER, A SECOND LOOK AT THE CIGARETTE BUTTS PROVIDED A POSSIBLE LEAD.

>> ON THE WHITE PART OF THE CIGARETTE, THERE WAS A GOLD PATTERN THAT KIND OF LOOKED LIKE LITTLE, GOLD BIRDS -- KIND OF DRAWINGS -- ALL THE WAY AROUND. NO NAME. NO WORDS. SO WE HAD NO IDEA WHAT THE BRAND WAS.

>> Narrator: INVESTIGATORS DID SOME RESEARCH AND LEARNED THE CIGARETTES WERE A BRAND KNOWN AS CAMEL TURKISH GOLD. THEY WERE RELATIVELY NEW AND HAD ONLY BEEN ON THE MARKET FOR A VERY SHORT TIME.

>> NOT EVERY STORE EVEN CARRIED THEM. AND THE STORES THAT WE TALKED TO, THEY WOULD LET US KNOW -- MAYBE THEY SOLD ONE OR TWO PACKS A WEEK.

>> Narrator: INVESTIGATORS ASKED THE SURVIVING ROOMMATE, LAUREN MEANZA, FOR A LIST OF EVERYONE SHE KNEW WHO SMOKED CIGARETTES. PERHAPS ONE OF THEM WAS THE KILLER.

>> Narrator: SOLVING THE DOUBLE HOMICIDE OF ADRIANE INSOGNA AND LESLIE MAZZARA PROVED TO BE FAR MORE DIFFICULT THAN POLICE EVER IMAGINED.

>> IT WAS LIKE TRYING TO FIND A NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK.

>> AND WE WANTED TO FIND OUT WHO DID THIS, AND WE WANTED TO PUT THEM WHERE THEY BELONGED, AND THAT'S WHY THE COMMUNITY CAME TOGETHER WITH A $100,000 REWARD.

`DR. TONY FRUDAKIS

>> Narrator: BUT INVESTIGATORS KNEW SOMETHING ABOUT THEIR KILLER. BLOODSTAINS ON THE STAIRWAY WALL WERE ON THE RIGHT SIDE, INDICATING HE WAS PROBABLY RIGHT-HANDED. AND HE SMOKED CAMEL TURKISH GOLD CIGARETTES. TO FIND OUT MORE, INVESTIGATORS ASKED DR. TONY FRUDAKIS IF THE KILLER'S DNA COULD PROVIDE ANY INFORMATION USEFUL TO THEIR INVESTIGATION. AND DR. FRUDAKIS TOLD THEM ABOUT A NEW FORENSIC TECHNIQUE HE DEVELOPED THAT COULD DETERMINE THE KILLER'S PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS.

>> IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT YOU BE ABLE TO NARROW DOWN YOUR FOCUS, BECAUSE OTHERWISE YOU HAVE NO INFORMATION WITH WHICH TO WORK AND YOU'RE SORT OF FLAILING AROUND.

>> Narrator: SINCE 99.9% OF ALL HUMAN DNA IS ALIKE, DR. FRUDAKIS FOCUSES HIS ATTENTION ON THE REMAINING 0.1% AND COMPARES THESE POLYMORPHISM TO THE DNA OF CITIZENS FROM OTHER COUNTRIES. THIS CAN IDENTIFY THE KILLER'S ETHNIC IDENTITY.

`DR Tony Faudkis has developed a DNA test that can determine which part of the world, what race and what the color of hair and eyes are. This test has been tested by the FBI and is now one of the procedures used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

>> THE DONOR WAS PRIMARILY OF NORTHWESTERN EUROPEAN ANCESTRY, VERY SMALL AMOUNT OF SOUTHEASTERN EUROPEAN ANCESTRY, AND NO MIDDLE EASTERN OR SOUTH ASIAN ADMIXTURES.

`There is a physical difference in the DNA of natives of Europe that is different than the natives of the Middle east.

>> YOU KNEW, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT HE WASN'T HISPANIC, HE WASN'T AFRICAN-DESCENT. SO THAT CERTAINLY NARROWED DOWN THE FOCUS OF THE INVESTIGATION IN TERMS OF WHO THEY SHOULD BE LOOKING AT.

>> Narrator: AND DR. FRUDAKIS FOUND A MARKER IN ONE OF THE KILLER'S GENES THAT INDICATED HE'D HAVE BLUE OR GREEN EYES AND, MOST LIKELY, LIGHT-COLORED HAIR.

`THE FRUDAKIS TEST CAN DETERMINE HAIR AND EYE COLOR.

>> I WAS GLAD THEY HAD DONE IT. IT MADE ME MORE HOPEFUL THAT EVENTUALLY THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO DETERMINE WHO THE PERPETRATOR WAS.

>> Narrator: POLICE RELEASED THIS NEW INFORMATION TO THE PUBLIC, HOPING SOMEONE IN THE COMMUNITY WOULD RECOGNIZE HIM.

>> TONIGHT THERE'S A NEW DEVELOPMENT IN THE MURDERS OF TWO NAPA WOMEN.

>> Narrator: AND THERE WAS A MAN LIVING JUST 2 MILES AWAY FROM THE MURDER SCENE WHO WAS LISTENING TO EVERY WORD.

>> THEY SAY HE'S WHITE, HAS BLONDISH HAIR, AND MOST LIKELY HAS GREEN EYES.

`This test can separate western Europeans "White" from Asians or Africans.. they have a different DNA factor

>> Narrator: HE NOW KNEW TWO THINGS -- THAT HE MADE TOO MANY MISTAKES AND THAT DNA TECHNOLOGY HAD ADVANCED FAR BEYOND ANYTHING HE COULD EVER HAVE IMAGINED. THE SAME TIME, POLICE ASKED THE SURVIVING ROOMMATE, LAUREN MEANZA, IF SHE KNEW ANYONE WHO SMOKED THIS BRAND OF CIGARETTES.

>> SHE HAD LET US KNOW, "WELL, THE ONLY SMOKER I CAN THINK OF AT THIS POINT IS ERIC COPPLE."

` ERIC COPPLE.. the murderer

>> Narrator: 25-YEAR-OLD ERIC COPPLE WAS A LAND SURVEYOR AND A FRIEND OF ONE OF THE VICTIMS. BUT BEFORE POLICE COULD QUESTION HIM, COPPLE WALKED INTO POLICE HEADQUARTERS AND CONFESSED.

>> I'M JUST GETTING DONE WITH DINNER, AND I GET A PHONE CALL AT HOME -- "SOME ONE'S HERE AT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND THEY WANT TO CONFESS."

>> Narrator: COPPLE SAID HE KNEW ADRIANE INSOGNA.

>> IT WAS THAT COLD FEELING THAT CAME OVER ME. I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO FEEL AT THAT MOMENT. I REALLY DIDN'T KNOW.

>> WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT HE KNOWS DETAILS ABOUT THE CRIME AND THE THINGS HE'S TELLING US MATCH UP WITH WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW ABOUT THE CRIME SCENE. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S INFORMATION THAT HASN'T BEEN RELEASED TO THE MEDIA.

>> Narrator: ALTHOUGH ERIC COPPLE CONFESSED, HE WOULDN'T TELL POLICE WHY HE DID IT.

>> HE ALWAYS CLAIMED HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE DID WITH THE MURDER WEAPON -- WHICH, AGAIN, ALWAYS SUGGESTED TO ME THAT HE WASN'T TELLING THE TRUTH, BECAUSE IT WOULD SEEM TO ME THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING HE'D BE ABLE TO TELL US.

>> ERIC WAS VERY ELUSIVE AS FAR AS THE QUESTION OF WHY THE CRIME HAPPENED. WE COULD NEVER GET HIM TO SAY "I DID THIS BECAUSE OF X, Y, AND Z."

>> Narrator: 25-YEAR-OLD ERIC COPPLE WALKED INTO POLICE HEADQUARTERS AND CONFESSED TO THE MURDERS OF ADRIANE INSOGNA AND SLIE MAZZARA. HE KNEW FROM THE GENETIC TESTING THAT IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME.

>> HE KNEW HE WAS JUST GETTING CIRCLED IN. HE HAD TO DO IT. AND HE WAS GONNA COMMIT SUICIDE, HE WAS GONNA DO WHATEVER. AND HE SAW THAT STUFF AND HE SAYS, "I CAN'T TAKE IT," AND HE CAME IN AND HE CONFESSED.

>> Narrator: DNA TESTS CONFIRMED THAT ERIC COPPLE'S BLOOD WAS AT THE CRIME SCENE AND THAT HIS SALIVA WAS ON THE CIGARETTE BUTTS FOUND OUTSIDE.

>> I DON'T KNOW IF I EXACTLY REMEMBERED THE MOMENT WHEN I GOT THE NEWS. I JUST KNEW I WAS ELATED. I WAS VERY HAPPY TO FIND OUT THAT ON A RARE PIECE OF EVIDENCE THAT WE HAD, WE HAD THE SUSPECT'S DNA.

>> Narrator: COPPLE WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH TWO COUNTS OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER. INVESTIGATORS LEARNED THAT COPPLE BLAMED ADRIANE INSOGNA FOR THE BREAKUP OF HIS ENGAGEMENT TO LILY PRUDHOMME.

>> IT APPEARED THAT SOME PEOPLE, AND POSSIBLY ADRIANE, WERE TELLING LILY THAT SHE COULD DO BETTER AND THAT SHE SHOULDN'T BE ANY LONGER INVOLVED IN THIS RELATIONSHIP WITH ERIC COPPLE -- THAT HE WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR HER OR RIGHT FOR HER.

>> SHE MUST HAVE SEEN SOMETHING, AND SHE WAS JUST TRYING TO WARN LILY, AND, UNFORTUNATELY, SHE WAS JUST ABSOLUTELY... A VICTIM OF SOMETHING THAT NEVER SHOULD HAVE EVER HAPPENED TO SUCH A WONDERFUL PERSON.

>> Narrator: ON THE NIGHT OF THE MURDERS, COPPLE WENT TO A HALLOWEEN PARTY AND RAN INTO HIS EX-Fiancée, LILY PRUDHOMME. ACCORDING TO WITNESSES, THE TWO ARGUED. COPPLE WANTED TO SET A NEW DATE FOR THEIR WEDDING, BUT LILY WASN'T INTERESTED.

>> CAN YOU JUST LEAVE ME ALONE FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT? PLEASE.

>> Narrator: AFTER THE PARTY, COPPLE RETURNED HOME. HE ADMITTED TO POLICE THAT HE WAS DRUNK. THE FIGHT WITH HIS EX-Fiancée ONLY ADDED TO THE ANGER AND BITTERNESS HE FELT TOWARDS ADRIANE INSOGNA. SO HE TOOK REVENGE. PROSECUTORS BELIEVE COPPLE STOOD OUTSIDE THE HOUSE WHERE ADRIANE LIVED WITH HER TWO ROOMMATES, CASING THE PLACE AND SMOKING CIGARETTES.

HE USED A KNIFE TO PRY OPEN THE WINDOW AND ACCIDENTALLY DROPPED THE PACKET OF ZIP TIES ON THE FLOOR WITH HIS DNA. LESLIE'S BEDROOM WAS THE FIRST ROOM AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS, AND HE KILLED HER FIRST.

>> Narrator: HE THEN WENT ACROSS THE HALL, TO ADRIANE'S ROOM. SHE FOUGHT BACK AGGRESSIVELY. AT SOME POINT, HE CUT HIS HAND AND BLED PROFUSELY AS HE RUSHED OUT OF THE HOUSE.

>> AT THAT POINT -- BASED ON WHAT HE'S TOLD US, AT LEAST -- HE TOOK HIS CLOTHING AND BURNED THEM IN A FIRE PIT THAT HE HAD IN HIS BACKYARD. WENT BACK TO SLEEP AND THEN THE NEXT DAY WENT TO LILY'S HOUSE TO CONSOLE HER AFTER LILY CALLED HIM TO TELL HIM THAT ADRIANE HAD BEEN ATTACKED.

>> Narrator: NO ONE KNOWS WHY COPPLE SPARED LAUREN MEANZA. SOME THINK HE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE DOWNSTAIRS BEDROOM.

>> I DON'T KNOW WHETHER OR NOT COPPLE KNEW THAT THERE WAS A ROOM THERE, AND I DON'T KNOW WHETHER OR NOT HE KNEW THAT THERE WAS A PERSON IN THERE.

>> I JUST HAD A RECKONING WITH MYSELF AND REALLY UNDERSTOOD THAT ADRIANE WAS THE TARGET AND SOMEBODY REALLY WANTED MY CHILD DEAD. AND THEN I THOUGHT, HOW STUPID WAS I. OF COURSE ADRIANE WAS THE TARGET. OF COURSE WE ALL KNOW IT'S SOMEONE IN THE INNER CIRCLE.

>> IF WE HAD KNOWN THOSE KIND OF CIRCUMSTANCES EARLIER IN THE INVESTIGATION, I'M SURE HE WOULD HAVE COME INTO OUR RADAR SOONER, BUT, AGAIN, WE CAN ALWAYS LOOK BACK AND WISH WE WOULD HAVE DONE THINGS DIFFERENTLY.

>> Narrator: A FEW MONTHS BEFORE HE CONFESSED, ERIC COPPLE PATCHED THINGS UP WITH LILY PRUDHOMME, AND THE TWO MARRIED. IN A BITTER IRONY, THE COUPLE ASKED ARLENE ALLEN, ADRIANE INSOGNA'S MOTHER, TO BE PART OF THE WEDDING CEREMONY.

>> AND SO IT WAS REALLY A REMARKABLE MOMENT, AND MY GUEST AT THE WEDDING WAS MY DAUGHTER LEXI, SO WE WERE BOTH THERE AT ERIC AND LILY'S WEDDING.

>> Narrator: LILY CLAIMS SHE NEVER SUSPECTED ERIC WAS THE KILLER. IN DECEMBER OF 2006, ERIC COPPLE PLEADED GUILTY TO TWO COUNTS OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER. HE WAS SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON WITHOUT PAROLE. HAD HE NOT PLED GUILTY, COPPLE WOULD HAVE BEEN ELIGIBLE FOR THE DEATH PENALTY.

>> AND I THINK THAT WAS A VERY REAL POSSIBILITY -- ACCEPTING A "LIFE WITHOUT POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE" PLEA WAS PROBABLY THE BEST DEAL HE WAS GONNA GET.

>> I NEVER IN MY LIFE THOUGHT THAT THE POLICE WOULD NOT SOLVE THIS CRIME. I ALWAYS BELIEVED THEY WOULD.

>> Narrator: WERE IT NOT FOR A FEW DROPS OF BLOOD, TWO CIGARETTE BUTTS, AND SOME SKIN CELLS ON A RUBBER BAND, ERIC COPPLE MIGHT HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH MURDER. BUT EVER-ADVANCING DNA TECHNOLOGY PROVIDED A PROFILE SO ACCURATE, IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE HE WAS EXPOSED AS THE KILLER.

>> THIS CASE TURNED ON THOSE CIGARETTE BUTTS PRIMARILY, BECAUSE IT WAS THE DNA ON THE CIGARETTE BUTTS THAT TOLD US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE KILLER.

>> THINGS THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN NOT EVEN CONSIDERED 20 YEARS AGO AS EVIDENCE ARE VERY CRUCIAL TO CASES NOWADAYS. AND, AGAIN, THE SENSITIVITY OF TESTING ANALYSIS OF DNA, IT'S JUST INCREDIBLE WHAT WE CAN FIND IN CRIME SCENES NOW.

>> EVERY HOMICIDE THAT YOU SEE, THERE'S ALWAYS A TWIST TO THE CASE THAT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT FROM THE NEXT CASE, AND SO THAT'S SORT OF WHAT MAKES THIS WORK SO INTERESTING AND SO CHALLENGING.

>> IT WAS THE DNA. IT WAS THE CIGARETTE BUTTS. SO, ONCE AGAIN, AT ANY CRIME SCENE, IT'S VERY CRUCIAL TO DO A GOOD JOB AND COLLECT ALL THE EVIDENCE. AND MOST CRIMES ABSOLVED BY THE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE.

Tony Frudakis runs DNAPrint Genomics This procedure tested and proven by the FBI which now uses this test to verify race, race mixes, parts of the world of ancestors, hair and eye color.

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