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Beautiful teen high schooler heads to drill team practice, found raped and murdered by 12-year-olds · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: She was just going to drill team practice, a teen girl, straight,
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  Speaker 1: a student, on her way to school. I mean, what
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  Speaker 1: could be wrong with that? The drill team, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the girls and the outfits that do routines at football
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  Speaker 1: and basketball games. Sarah Yarborough. Her body is found by
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  Speaker 1: two twelve year old little boys playing just yards away
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  Speaker 1: from the school. You think when you send your child
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  Speaker 1: to school everything is okay, and then the case drags
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  Speaker 1: on and her rape and murder go unsolved. What happened
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  Speaker 1: to this teen girl, this beautiful girl scrubbed in sunshine?
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  Speaker 1: Sarah Yarborough. I Nancy Grace. This is crime stories, and
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  Speaker 1: I want justice. Crime stories with Nancy Grace. She was
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  Speaker 1: the all American girl next door, A wholesome teenager with
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  Speaker 1: long red curls. Sarah Yarborough had everything in front of her.
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  Speaker 1: She was passionate about music, dance, art. Andrew remembers his
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  Speaker 1: sister Sarah was always there when he needed her. She
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  Speaker 1: was always willing to help me out. She's a, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just thinking back, a gracious sister. But those good times
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  Speaker 1: with Sarah would end in a harrowing way. It's just
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  Speaker 1: it's crushing, Andrew remembers, He was just eleven years old
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  Speaker 1: and playing in a Saturday morning soccer tournament when police
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  Speaker 1: came to the game to speak to his parents. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't tell my parents obviously what had happened yet, they
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  Speaker 1: just had indicated that, you know, something was wrong and
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  Speaker 1: they needed to come with them. Something was terribly wrong.
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  Speaker 1: That morning, round eight am, Sarah pulled up to Federalway
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  Speaker 1: High School to meet her cheerleading team. The girls were
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  Speaker 1: about to leave for a competition, but Sarah never made
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  Speaker 1: it on the bus. I, Maancy Grace, this is Crime Stories.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us. You were hearing Crime Watch.
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  Speaker 1: Dealis Jason Matia Sarah Yarborough just sixteen years old, the
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  Speaker 1: All American Girl next Door? What happened? Joining me an
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  Speaker 1: All Star panel? Darrel Cohen, former prosecutor now defense attorney,
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  Speaker 1: Inner City, Atlanta. Karen Stark psychologists finder at Karen Stark
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  Speaker 1: dot Com, Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State University, author of Blood
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  Speaker 1: Beneath My Fate. Joseph Scott Morgan Cheryl a point genetic
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  Speaker 1: genealogist from The gene Hunter. Right Now to Crime online
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  Speaker 1: dot Com investigative reporter Levi Page, What happened to Sarah Yarborough, Nancy.
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  Speaker 1: It was December fourteen, a Saturday morning, and Sarah was
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  Speaker 1: scheduled to go to a drill competition with her classmates
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  Speaker 1: on the drill team, but she arrived at school. Her
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  Speaker 1: car was there, but she was not. And then hours later,
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  Speaker 1: that's when her body was discovered by two twelve year
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  Speaker 1: old Where it was her body It was near the
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  Speaker 1: parking lot in bushes. There were two twelve year old boys.
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  Speaker 1: They were hanging out near the school. One of them
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  Speaker 1: lives near the school, and they saw a man acting
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  Speaker 1: strange in the bushes. They locked eyes with him and
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  Speaker 1: he left, so they went to check out what's he doing.
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  Speaker 1: So they went to the bushes near the parking lot
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  Speaker 1: and they round her dead body. Take a listen to
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  Speaker 1: our friend, Jason Materira. How did Sarah die? She was strangled.
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  Speaker 1: In a shocking discovery, around the same time the cheerleaders
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  Speaker 1: were waiting till the bus two boys find Sarah's body
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  Speaker 1: lying just one hundred and fifty feet away from her
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  Speaker 1: parked car in a brushy area near the high school.
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  Speaker 1: Did anyone here Sarah scream a commotion, a scuffle. We
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  Speaker 1: didn't have anybody that heard any screaming, but we didn't
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  Speaker 1: have a jogger that saw our suspect interacting with Sarah's
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  Speaker 1: body in the bushes. Strangled and reportedly sexually assaulted. Sarah
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  Speaker 1: was left for dead in broad daylight. Did Sarah have
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  Speaker 1: any enemies but she involved in drugs, the wrong crowd? No, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't. Definitely wasn't. Wasn't her And he scorned ex boyfriends. No,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there would be you know, nobody that she
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  Speaker 1: would have any grievances with. And that's what's so difficult
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  Speaker 1: to Joseph Scott Morgan, Professor forensics, author of Blood Beneath
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  Speaker 1: My Feet. Why is it, Joe Scott Morgan, is so
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  Speaker 1: much more difficult to solve a murder when the killer
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  Speaker 1: is at random. Yeah, you don't have anything to start
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  Speaker 1: with Nancy. The connectivity there, you know, where you don't
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  Speaker 1: have these kind of impulsive events that occurred, you know,
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  Speaker 1: like the reporter was talking about relative to relative to
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  Speaker 1: impassioned events like scorned lovers, this sort of thing, running
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  Speaker 1: with the wrong crowd. You're absent all of that. So
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  Speaker 1: for investigators just from Jump Street, it's a real problem.
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  Speaker 1: Daryl Cohen, former prosecutory inter City Atlanta now right now
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  Speaker 1: and the defense attorney out of Atlanta, Daryl Cohen. You
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  Speaker 1: throw in a random killing. It it's like looking for
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  Speaker 1: a knee in a haystack. Explain well, because you have,
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  Speaker 1: as Joseph's mentioned, you have no place to start. Where
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  Speaker 1: you start as the person who was killed, and you
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  Speaker 1: go from there and you look for whatever forensic evidence
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  Speaker 1: there may be. You look to see, as mentioned before,
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  Speaker 1: was she involved in drugs? Did she ask someone or
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  Speaker 1: someone's who did not like her? You just start from nowhere,
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  Speaker 1: and from nowhere you have to be somewhere, very very difficulty.
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  Speaker 1: Do you keep saying did she run with a wrong crowd?
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  Speaker 1: She didn't run with the wrong crowd. Why is it
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  Speaker 1: so hard for all of you guys to well, not
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  Speaker 1: you Sharah, and not you Karen start but I'm referring
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  Speaker 1: to the men on this panel. You keep talking about
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  Speaker 1: her or her or her her like somehow it's her fault.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, leave my page. Crime online dot Com investigative reporter.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me about this little girl, Sarah Yarborough. She's just sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: How bad could she be? She was a sixteen year
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  Speaker 1: old straight a student on the Honor Roll and was
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  Speaker 1: a member of the drill team. And everyone that has
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  Speaker 1: commented on her that knew her personally said that she
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  Speaker 1: was extremely nice and a very nice young woman with
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  Speaker 1: a very bright future ahead of her. Listen. She was
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  Speaker 1: excited about going to college. She had big hopes and
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  Speaker 1: big dreams. She was a great sister. She's a great daughter,
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  Speaker 1: Laura Yarborough's daughter. On the morning of December fourteenth, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety one, she arrived early at Federal Way High School
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  Speaker 1: so she could meet up with her drill team, but
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  Speaker 1: that never happened. Just after nine am, two twelve year
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  Speaker 1: old kids were cutting through this high school and saw
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  Speaker 1: a mail walking out of the bushes at the school.
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  Speaker 1: After he walked away, they went into the bush to
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  Speaker 1: look around, and there they found Sarah's body. Sarah had
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  Speaker 1: been murdered. You know that upset me. When I first
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  Speaker 1: found out about it. I went over to our high
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  Speaker 1: school where I was a cheerleader. I ended up being
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  Speaker 1: a cheerleader because I was the only girl cut off
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  Speaker 1: the basketball team. Out of everybody that tried out, one
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  Speaker 1: person got cut me and the only thing left was cheerleading.
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  Speaker 1: So I did it. I did it. For five years,
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  Speaker 1: and long story short, there were a million times I
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  Speaker 1: would go over there all by myself and paint posters
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  Speaker 1: and all stories was set up, equipment, all sorts of stuff,
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  Speaker 1: all alone, me and my little Toyota my dad mom
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  Speaker 1: gave me in a place it was totally surrounded by trees.
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  Speaker 1: Never thought a thing about it. And now Daryl Cohen,
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  Speaker 1: mister Ditchie run with the wrong crowd. Daryl Cohen, my
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  Speaker 1: little Lucy and John David R. Twelve. That means this girl,
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  Speaker 1: it's just a couple of years older than them. And
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  Speaker 1: let me just say, hell no, nobody is quote running
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  Speaker 1: with the wrong crowd. To see what you did. You
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  Speaker 1: made me curse, all right, you made me say h
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  Speaker 1: ebl Daryl Cohen, this girl's scrubbed in sunshine. Yes, but Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: you have to look at it. I'm not saying or
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  Speaker 1: even intimating that you ran with the wrong crowd. But
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  Speaker 1: a good investigator he or she has to look and
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  Speaker 1: see everything and start ruling it out. This girl was
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  Speaker 1: obviously killed by a psychopath who just was going to
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  Speaker 1: find whoever was near. Take a listen to our friend
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  Speaker 1: Jason Materira, the finlent and random murder grip the quiet
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  Speaker 1: community of Federalway, Washington, with fear. What was the atmosphere
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  Speaker 1: like after Sarah turned him dead? It changesting afterwards. I
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  Speaker 1: think people were much more conscious about being in groups,
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  Speaker 1: not being alone. Ted Bow would know about those changes firsthand.
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  Speaker 1: That's because he went to high school with Sarah all
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  Speaker 1: those years ago. Did you know her? I did? I
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  Speaker 1: knew who she was. He's here in the hallway and
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  Speaker 1: she was on the drill team, can't miss the red hair.
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  Speaker 1: And in an ironic twist, he's now the sheriff's captain
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  Speaker 1: heading up the team in charge of solving the crime.
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  Speaker 1: This is the case I would be the most important
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  Speaker 1: for me as I look at the wall, and not
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  Speaker 1: to discount the other cases, but that's when I have
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  Speaker 1: a personal tie to It means something to me to
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  Speaker 1: be able to say that while I was here, we
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  Speaker 1: solve business crime stories with Nancy Grace. In a shocking discovery,
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  Speaker 1: around the same time the cheerleaders were waiting to load
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  Speaker 1: the bus, two boys find Sarah's body flying just one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty feet away from her parked car in
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  Speaker 1: a brushy area near the high school. Did anyone here
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  Speaker 1: Sarah scream a commotion, a scuffle. We didn't have anybody
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  Speaker 1: that heard any screaming, But we didn't have a jogger
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  Speaker 1: that saw our suspect interacting with Sarah's body in the bushes.
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  Speaker 1: Strangled and reportedly sexually assaulted. Sarah was left for dead
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  Speaker 1: in broad daylight. Did Sarah have any enemies, machine involved
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  Speaker 1: and drugs the wrong crowd? No, yeah, no, that wasn't
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  Speaker 1: definitely wasn't. Wasn't her any scorned ex boyfriends? No, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there would be nobody that she would have any grievances with.
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  Speaker 1: You were hearing Crime Watch dealis Jason Mateia Sarah Yarborough
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  Speaker 1: just sixteen years old, the All American girl next door
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  Speaker 1: joining me an all star panel. Darrel Cohen, former prosecutor
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  Speaker 1: now defense attorney. I agree with you and Joe Scott
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  Speaker 1: and that you have to look. You have to look everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: and typically, Joe Scott, you start with, for instance, the husband,
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  Speaker 1: the boyfriend, the lover, the ex. This is a sixteen
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  Speaker 1: year old girl, So there's no husband or lover, but
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  Speaker 1: a boyfriend, somebody she rejected, somebody that has a crush
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  Speaker 1: on her. Then if there's nobody there, you look to
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  Speaker 1: the family, the dad, the stepfather, the weird uncle, if
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  Speaker 1: there is one. Then you move out further and further,
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  Speaker 1: the grandfather, the great grandfather, relatives, cousins. Then you go
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  Speaker 1: to the school or was there a janitor, was there
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  Speaker 1: a yard man, was there a teacher? Was there somebody
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  Speaker 1: that came in contact with her? Right, that's where you start.
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  Speaker 1: But here we're getting nowhere. Yeah, absolutely, And you know,
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  Speaker 1: going back to the high school. That's that's an interesting
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  Speaker 1: thing in Nancy, because here we had this young girl
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  Speaker 1: that was supposed to meet up with her drill team
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  Speaker 1: to go in practice and or to go to a game.
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  Speaker 1: And it's it's striking to me that an individual would
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  Speaker 1: attack this young girl unless they had knowledge of the
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  Speaker 1: fact that this is where they would gather. Maybe they
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  Speaker 1: had four knowledge, maybe they were watching from a distance
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  Speaker 1: the entire time. And that's what makes this doubly horrific
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  Speaker 1: because this is a total stranger. Apparently there's no connection
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  Speaker 1: for her relative to violence or somebody that would be
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  Speaker 1: violence in her sphere. So that that's the place that
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  Speaker 1: the investor sators would have to start. You know what
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  Speaker 1: she just brought to mind, You brought to mind a
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  Speaker 1: scene out of a lion king where the hyaenas are
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  Speaker 1: just waiting at the edge of the light for their
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  Speaker 1: chance to pounce. That's what's making this so difficult, the
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  Speaker 1: random nature of this murder. Listen, The violent and random
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  Speaker 1: murder gripped the quiet community of Federal Way, Washington with fear.
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  Speaker 1: What was the atmosphere like after Sarah turned him dead?
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  Speaker 1: It changes things afterwards. I think people were much more
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  Speaker 1: conscious about being in groups, not being alone. Ted Bow
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  Speaker 1: would know about those changes firsthand. That's because he went
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  Speaker 1: to high school with Sarah all those years ago. Did
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  Speaker 1: you know her? I did. I knew who she was.
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  Speaker 1: He's here in the hallway and she was on the
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  Speaker 1: drill team, can't miss the red hair. And in an
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  Speaker 1: ironic twist, he's now the sheriff's captain heading up the
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  Speaker 1: team in charge of solving the crime. This is the
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  Speaker 1: case I would be the most important for me as
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  Speaker 1: I look at the wall, and not to discount the
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  Speaker 1: other cases, but it's when I have a personal tie
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  Speaker 1: to it means something to me to be able to
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  Speaker 1: say that while I was here, we solved this case.
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  Speaker 1: Following Sarah's murder, there was a massive manhood. Over twenty
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  Speaker 1: five hundred tips poured in and most importantly, invaluable physical
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  Speaker 1: evidence was collected from the crime scene. Any DNA recovered
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  Speaker 1: at the scene that it wasn't sarahs Yes, We had
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  Speaker 1: a full male profile from the scene, full mail profile. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Having been able to match this DNA to anyone else. No,
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  Speaker 1: there's been a several samples submitted over the years, but
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  Speaker 1: no matches. Over the years, there have been only a
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  Speaker 1: few persons of interest identified, but no arrests ever made.
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  Speaker 1: What stood out to these individuals about the person leaving
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  Speaker 1: the bush there was an age range of probably maybe
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  Speaker 1: like a late teenager, early twenties. They thought he had
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  Speaker 1: kind of shaggy, dirty blonde hair. Now we know there's
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  Speaker 1: a high likelihood he has blue eyes. With that description,
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  Speaker 1: forensic artist drew a composite of the killer. But even
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  Speaker 1: with that sketch, the mystery man's identity elooted cops. It
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  Speaker 1: just seemed like a very solvable case from the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: and I had a lot of media exposure, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of community interests. After thousands of hours of investigation, much
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  Speaker 1: to the frustration of detectives, the case froze over. You're
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  Speaker 1: hearing our friends at Crime Watch Daily as Jason Materia,
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing to me that you can get that type
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  Speaker 1: of an idea on a perpetrator, a rapist, and murderer
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  Speaker 1: that you can't find with me, Cheryl a Point, genetic genealogist,
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  Speaker 1: with the gene hunter Cheryl a Point. They can't identify
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  Speaker 1: the killer from the DNA he leaves on the body
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  Speaker 1: of this young girl, but they can tell me he's
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  Speaker 1: got blue eyes. How well, Nancy. Again, DNA is an
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  Speaker 1: amazing tool and through different testing that we do now
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  Speaker 1: we can actually get profiles of your ancestors, your heritage,
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  Speaker 1: your eye color, things like that that really help us
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  Speaker 1: to narrow down these criminals. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: there were lots and lots of theories about who murdered
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  Speaker 1: young Sarah Yarborough. Any reason to believe the suspect is
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  Speaker 1: still living in Washington State. There's theories suspect could have
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  Speaker 1: been passing through visiting the area. The suspect could be dead.
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  Speaker 1: Logic would cause you to believe that if you did
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  Speaker 1: this offense, that you would end up in a felon
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  Speaker 1: data bank somewhere. Yeah, we've had no matches over all
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  Speaker 1: these years, but detectives never gave up Pope, even scouring
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  Speaker 1: an ancestry database going all the way back to the
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  Speaker 1: birth of America and hopes of finding a match to
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  Speaker 1: that DNA. There was a direct relationship to a Fullers
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  Speaker 1: that came over on the Mayflower, which generated some tips.
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  Speaker 1: We looked at some local people with the last name
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  Speaker 1: that we eliminated through DNA. When you realize this, do
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  Speaker 1: you think, wow, this is the big break in the case. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: At the time we thought, you know, it was a
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  Speaker 1: huge break. But once again we were able to take
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  Speaker 1: DNA from everybody and they were all eliminated. Cops even
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  Speaker 1: manage to convince people to give their DNA and their
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  Speaker 1: attempt to find who murdered Sarah Yarborough take a listen
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  Speaker 1: to this. Could all those dead ends finally lead somewhere? Now,
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  Speaker 1: nearly three decades later, that rough sketch has been replaced
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  Speaker 1: with a new h progression portrait. The technology called polymorphism
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  Speaker 1: uses DNA markers from this suspected killer to envision what
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  Speaker 1: he would look like. Now you have DNA recovered at
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  Speaker 1: the scene, you have reliable here as eyewitnesses, you have
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  Speaker 1: this age progression You have a lot to go on,
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  Speaker 1: and yet still nothing. That must be incredibly frustrating. It
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  Speaker 1: is frustrating. It's all there. If we can identify the suspect,
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  Speaker 1: this is a solvable case. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace,
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  Speaker 1: could all those dead ends finally lead somewhere. Now, nearly
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  Speaker 1: three decades later, that rough sketch has been replaced with
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  Speaker 1: a new age progression portrait. The technology called polymorphism uses
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  Speaker 1: DNA a markers from this suspected killer to envision what
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  Speaker 1: he would look like. Now you have DNA recovered at
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  Speaker 1: the scene, you have reliable here as eyewitnesses, you have
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  Speaker 1: this age progression. You have a lot to go on,
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  Speaker 1: and yet still nothing. That must be incredibly frustrating. It
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  Speaker 1: is frustrating. It's all there. If we can identify the suspect,
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  Speaker 1: this is a solvable case. We don't need a confession
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  Speaker 1: to solve it. We have everything is there to get
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  Speaker 1: us to the finish line. You know what, We're hearing
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  Speaker 1: our friends at Crime Much Dealing, and they're talking about
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  Speaker 1: a process called polymorphism where you basically use DNA found
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  Speaker 1: on the victim's body to create a sketch like a
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  Speaker 1: composite sketch to Cheryl a point of joining me genetic
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  Speaker 1: genealogists with the gene hunter. What is polymorphism, Well, Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: it is actually where the DNA is used to basically
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  Speaker 1: draw a picture of what a person may actually look like,
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  Speaker 1: and in this case, it gave a picture of what
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  Speaker 1: they thought the suspect looked like, and it gives law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement a lead to hopefully be able to further track
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  Speaker 1: down a perpetrator. To Karen Start Psychologists, you can find
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  Speaker 1: her at karen Start dot com. She's joining us today
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  Speaker 1: out of Manhattan, Karen, this has got to be pure
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  Speaker 1: hell for the parents to lose their daughter, a teen girl,
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  Speaker 1: straight a student, scrubbed in sunshine, going to drill practice,
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  Speaker 1: and then to suddenly be confronted with a composite sketch
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  Speaker 1: including blue eyes, gotten from the DNA off your dead
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  Speaker 1: daughter's body. It's pure hell. You're absolutely right, Nancy. But
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  Speaker 1: the worst hell is the fact that they can see
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  Speaker 1: what this perpetrator probably look like, and yet they're unable
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  Speaker 1: to have this guy be captured too. Had any details
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  Speaker 1: to know that somebody is walking free who murdered their daughter,
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  Speaker 1: so it would not change the fact that she was dead,
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  Speaker 1: but at least they could see somebody go to trial,
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  Speaker 1: they would understand what happened to Joseph Scott Morgan, Professor Forensics,
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  Speaker 1: Jacksonville State University, author of Blood Beneath My Feet on Amazon. Jesscott,
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  Speaker 1: have you ever dealt with polymorphism? Have you ever seen
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  Speaker 1: it done? I've not personally dealt with it as a practitioner, Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, I have friends who are DNA technologist and
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  Speaker 1: DNA scientists that have and it's an amazing technology because
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: you're literally, I don't want to say creating, but you're
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: literally generating a profile of an individual that, in our
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: normal understanding, like in our normal world, does not exist.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you're kind of taking the biological sample that's
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  Speaker 1: left behind, and those little markers that are along the
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  Speaker 1: the DNA molecule they are actually in. What they do
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  Speaker 1: is this idea of individualism. It gives an individual specific characteristics.
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  Speaker 1: And Nancy, what's so intriguing about this that what goes
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  Speaker 1: to the heart of this case is what a fantastic
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  Speaker 1: job that the police did with this case. Because Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: this is back in nineteen ninety one, this is prior
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  Speaker 1: to OJ and all of that stuff we went through,
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  Speaker 1: and they were able to retain retain enough of this
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  Speaker 1: biological sample that they could come back in modern times
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  Speaker 1: and do this specific kind of testing. They preserved this evidence,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: which by the way, is very very fragile. To leavi
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Page Crime online dot Com investigative reporter, obviously there was
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: a DNA on the body of Sarah Yarborough. What was
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: it touched DNA. Wait, they didn't have touch DNA in
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one. It was actually seemon Nancy the person
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: that raped her actually had used her penny, tied it
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  Speaker 1: around her and strangled her and then beat her. And
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: there was semen on her jacket, the pantyhose and on
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  Speaker 1: at the scene of the crime. So that's the DNA
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  Speaker 1: that was collected. You know what, as much as I
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: don't want hearing at Levi Page, I'm glad you said
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  Speaker 1: that because as all of us really is technicians. You know,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: a lot of people on the panel have fancy degrees
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  Speaker 1: and training, but we're technicians and seeking justice. And what
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: you just said, we are talking about a little girl,
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  Speaker 1: sixteen year old who's gone back to her high school
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: to go to drill practice. She's on the drill team
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  Speaker 1: straight a student beloved and Levi Page just explained the
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: way that she was raped and murdered. Her bruised and
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: beaten body found by two twelve year old little boys playing.
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  Speaker 1: So Cheryl point with my genetic genealogists with the gene hunter.
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  Speaker 1: So we have DNA. Very often everybody thinks that's the
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  Speaker 1: end of the story. So there's DnaA we saw all
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: the case. It's not that easy. You may get DNA,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: but you gotta have somebody to match it up to
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: test Nancy. So what happens here. The forensic DNA testing
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: that is done in those cases that's used in the
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: CODA system is a different type of DNA testing and
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: it's not able to be cross referenced with the direct
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: to consumer DNA test that we as genetic genealogists us.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: So basically, only people who have been DNA tested because
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: of criminal activity will be in the CODA system. But
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: there is a great chance that a relative of one
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: of these criminals has DNA tested with a direct to
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: consumer company like family Tree DNA or Ancestry, And it's
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: the same process that we use to find biological families
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: of adoptees. This genetic genealogy is bringing new hope to
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  Speaker 1: cases that have gone cold and been unsolable for years.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Just got very quickly. What is codis codas this national
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: database that is a repository for genetic material that are
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: recovered at crime scenes. Now this can either go and
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: also from sampling of individuals that are known offenders. What's
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: curious about this, Nancy, is that they're database actually splits
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: into you have known offenders and then you have what
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: they use refer to as the forensic offenders, which are
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: those samples that they that they have that are in
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: this huge pool of recovered DNA where they don't have
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: attachments to you know, where you have multiple You might
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: have an offender that has offended over and over again,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: but they have not yet arrested this individual, So these
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: are unknown offenders, but you have their DNA markers. Crime
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: stories with Nancy Grace through the years, suspects sketches were
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: produced and updated, most recently in twenty eighteen based on
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: DNA evidence collected at the scene. Late last night, Nicholas,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: who goes by his middle name Leon, was booked into
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: the King County Jail on suspicion of homicide. This mugshot
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: of Nicholas is from a nineteen ninety four King County
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: case when he was charged with molesting a six year
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: old girl. Because he pleaded guilty to assault in that case,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: his DNA was not collected, but based on a DNA
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: profile home through the years and genealogy, Nicholas and his
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: brother were identified as possible suspects. The brother was ruled out,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: so detectives started watching Leon. Over the last weekend, detectives
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: from the Sheriff's office surveiled the subject and collected discarded
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: items containing his DNA. According to charging documents, the discarded
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: items were two cigarettes and a napkin. The collected DNA
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: was processed in a rush earlier this week, and the
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Washington State Patrol Crime Lab determined it matched the younger
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: brother who was arrested at a Kent business last night.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: So there you have it. You are hearing from our
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: friend Amy Clancy at ki R O seven, the case
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: cracked by DNA left on cigarette butts. This is my
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: question to leavipage Crime online dot com investigative reporter. This guy,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: the suspect, Patrick Nicholas, now fifty five years old. That
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: would have made him about twenty four at the time
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  Speaker 1: of the murder. He was already convicted of attempted rape
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: at the time Sarah was murdered. Why wasn't he on
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: the corps radar? Yes? Eight years before her murder, in
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three, he approached a young woman. She was
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: in her car. He had a knife. He forced her out,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: told her to take off all of her clothes. He
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: walked her to a river and he attempted to rape her,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: but she fought back and jumped in the river and
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: swam away. He was arrested and played guilty to attempted
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: rape and he only served about four years in prison.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: He was released in nineteen eighty seven. I guess in
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: that case there was no DNA, so he was not
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: in the code of Spike. Yes. And then two years
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: after Sarah's murder, he was arrested for allegedly molesting his
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: six year old stepdaughter, and that case was plied down
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: to a fourth degree assault, so again no DNA was collected.
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  Speaker 1: And tonight we've also learned through probable cause documents that
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: detectives got a call last Friday from criminal genealogists saying
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: they had a possible lead detectives took that lead track
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Nicholas over the weekend. They got his DNA from a
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: cigarette and a napkin that he happened to drop on
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: the ground. That DNA match what was found again almost
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: twenty eight years ago. This is why public servants do
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: their work. This is why your government officials support different,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: all kinds of different layers of what King County government provides,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: PC docs say. Patrick Nicholas was convicted for first degree
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: attempted rape in nineteen eighty three. He served four years
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  Speaker 1: in prison at the time, but because DNA collection didn't
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: begin until nineteen ninety, his DNA was never collected. We've
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: also learned that the lead in this case was a
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: family tree analysis from Patrick Nicholas's brother, Edward. Edward is
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: a registered sex offender from a previous rape conviction, and
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: his DNA was the one in the system originally. But
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: it really speaks volume, guys, to the advanced technologies now
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: available to solve these crimes. Patrick Nicholas being held on
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: five million dollars bailed to you, Daryl Cohen, now that
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: he's been matched up through DNA, do you think that
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: will be strong enough to convict him? I think as
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: much as I detest cigarettes, I love cigarettes because the
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: fact that he put his DNA on a cigarette, not one,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: but two will convict him absolutely. I think the jury,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: when they hear everything, it has to be put yourself
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: in the jury's head, put yourself in the jury's eyes.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: And if you paint the story this young girl who
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: was absolutely brutalized, and you paint the story with a
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: witness or two who may have seen him, the DNA
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: will be all that we need. This is what the
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: suspect looked like back in nineteen ninety one, according to
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: a then twelve year old boy who helped create this sketch,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: seeing evil face to face like that and knowing that
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: it's real, and this now grown man doesn't want Cairo
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: seven to identify him because his own children still don't
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: know about the trauma he experienced in December nineteen ninety
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: one when he and a friend, both twelve, discovered the
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: murdered body of sixteen year old Sarah Yarbrough and got
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: a good look at the suspect. He stood up in
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: those bushes. You was probably about thirty maybe twenty five
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: yards away from us. At that point. We couldn't see
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: where Sarah was yet, So we walked the same way,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: no cause for serious alarm yet until we got close
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: enough to where we could see, and then we ran
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  Speaker 1: back to my house and called the police. Question again,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Explain to me Levi Page. How did they get the
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: DNA match on Patrick Nicholas, who actually lived not too
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: far away from the victim. Yes, he was living in
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: a dilapidated building, according to prosecutors. But they had DNA
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: in the form of seamen. They put it into a
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: database and they came back with results and one of
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: them matched his brother, who was a convicted criminal. His
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: DNA was in the database. So they tried to match
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: that DNA to the DNA found on Sarah's body. They
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: did not match. So they started surveilling Patrick Nicholas, who
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: was fifty five years old, and they started surveilling him.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: They found him outside of a laundromat. He was talking
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: to people smoking cigarettes. He threw some trash away. They
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: went into the trash, got what he threw away, the cigarette,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: the napkin. Then they matched the DNA that was found
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: on Sarah's body to him and he was arrested. It's
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: that tireless police work that Sarah's mom is thankful for
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: after almost twenty eight years, she heard the news she
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: thought she would never hear her daughter's accused killer had
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: been caught. Officers arrested fifty five year old Patrick Leon
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Nicholas at a business in Kent on Wednesday night. King
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: County detect just believe Nicholas is the one who strangled
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: and killed Sarah Yarborough at a Federal Way High school
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: back on December fourteenth, nineteen ninety one. For years, Sarah's
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: mom lived with the pain of her daughter's death, but
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: also not knowing who killed her. She thanks detectives for
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: not giving up. I was really surprised. I actually I
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: wondered perhaps if the person was no longer living. I
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: just seemed unbelievable to me that he would still be around.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: So but I have to say that the detectives have
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: never given up. It broke me as a young man,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: you know, havn't to come to grips with that. It's
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: it's a very, very horrible thing. After the brutal discovery,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: the boy helped an artist create the first two suspects
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: sketches and lived in fear until earlier this month, when
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: fifty five year old Patrick Leon Nicholas was arrested and
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: arged with the murder of Sarah Yarborough. That's an amazing
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: amount of peace given to me. Were you afraid of
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: him growing up? Oh? Absolutely? You were in court last
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: week when he appeared. Why did you go? I had
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: to see that man in handcuffs in custody with my
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: own two eyes. Was that the man you saw that
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: day in nineteen ninety one? Absolutely, I have no doubt
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: about it. It's like we've been carrying around this big
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: weight for all these years and finally have been able
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: to set it down. Like That's how I felt when
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: I left that courtroom after seeing him in custody. The
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: man told me for years, detectives would bring him photo
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: montages of potential suspects, hoping that he could identify somebody,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: and he said he always felt bad that he couldn't.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: He said he didn't until he was in court last
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: week and saw Nicholas, and he said, that's the guy.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: That's how certain he is. We wait as justice unfalls.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Nancy Gray Crime Story, signing off Goodbye friend,