Forensic Files

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Aired on Friday, Jun 17, 2011 (6/17/2011) at 04:00 AM

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00:00:02Find out that it was someone that had lived right next door.
00:00:07>> Narrator: In fa, renée had identified gaytan as a possible suspect the night of her rape.
00:00:27But renée always felt uncomfortable around gaytan.
00:00:32>> He was the creepy neighbor that always tries to talk to you.
00:00:35>> Narrator: At the time had no probable cause to search gaytan's apartment or get a court-ordered sample of his dna.
00:00:43But just two weeks after renée's rape, gaytan was involved in a serious car accident, and there were consequences that went well beyond the broken bones.
00:00:54>> It's almost like instant karma.
00:00:57Rudy gaytan gets hooked on pain medications, and that's what ultimately lands him in prison, in the department of corrections in colorado is his falsification of these prescriptions.
00:01:07>> Narrator: Since writing false prescriptions is a felony, gaytan had to provide a dna sample upon his release from a three-year prison sentence.
00:01:17>> Had rudy gaytan not been involved in this motor-vehicle accident, chances are we would never have gotten his dna.
00:01:24>> Narrator: Now police look ..
00:01:29And were shocked by what they >> I knew who rudy was.
00:01:33I was floored.
00:01:34I was just floored.
00:01:36>> Narrator: Police recalled that rudy gaytan was the man who provided incriminating evidence against jim medow during tammy tatum's murder investigation.
00:01:47>> He was one of the witnesses that provided information about seeing tammy with bruises and the black eye and some of the violence that was involved between jim and tammy.
00:01:58>> Narrator: Gaytan knew jim medow since the two attended the same drug-and-alcohol rehab center.
00:02:05Was it possible that gaytan was involved in tammy's murder?
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00:05:21>> Narrator: 10 Years after renée dulany's sexual assault,
00:00:00To kill that lady, sabina kulakowski, and my false imprisonment for over a dozen years, I still pray for you.
00:00:06I pray not only that you confess to killing sabina kulakowski, i pray you confess to all your sins.
00:00:12And mark my words, they will eventually find out your guilt.
00:00:15Have a merry christmas, but don't count on a happy new " >> Narrator: Brown hoped that bench might reply and lick the envelope flap, in effect, sending his dna sample.
00:00:30Instead, bench walked in front of an oncoming amtrak train and killed himself.
00:00:38>> Well, actually, I was kind of ticked off because I figured, "[bleep] got away.
00:00:43How am I gonna go to court and get a test on this guy now that " >> Narrator: Brown needed to find another way to get bench's dna.
00:00:51He was so desperate, he considered stealing it.
00:00:56>> I was trying to have my family go to the funeral and clip his fingernails and cut his hair while he was in the box.
00:01:03[ Chuckles ] figure out a way to get some dna from him.
00:01:08When you were where I was at, measures become desperate, and consequences for getting caught don't mean anything when you're serving life for something you didn't do.
00:03:55>> Narrator: For 12 years, roy brown sat in prison for sabina kulakowski's murder.
00:04:01After failing to get a new trial, brown contacted the innocence project in new york, asking them for help.
00:04:09>> The innocence project was founded a little over 15 years ago to help convicted prisoners use what was then a new technology -- dna testing -- to prove that they were wrongfully convicted and innocent of the crimes for which they were in prison.
00:04:23>> Narrator: The innocence project accepted brown's case.
00:04:27While doing some research, the innocence project learned that before brown's trial, prosecutors consulted lowell levine, a well-known forensic odontologist, but chose not to call him as a witness.
00:04:42>> We were, for the first time, given documents showing that the state's own expert, lowell levine, had reached someverysignificant conclusions that cast enormous doubt on roy's guilt before his case ever went to trial.
00:04:57>> Well, I never finished my analysis.
00:05:01In my notes, in fact, I have one note on one of the photographs that if wh was looking for, if what I thought was an upper was, in fact, an upper, I would exclude mr. brown.
00:05:11>> Narrator: So the innocence project petitioned the court for permission to test the victim's red t-shirt found at the crime scene, thinking it might contain saliva.
00:05:24>> It's not impossible to find dna after a 15-year case, but it makes it a little bit more difficult.
00:05:30>> Narrator: Analyst tim goble examined the shirt with an alternate light source.
00:05:36Biological material fluoresces when hit with this light.
00:05:42>> There were a number of fluorescent stains on the t-shirt.
00:05:45And some of them were near the markings that were made by the previous examiner.
00:05:50>> Narrator: Not surprisingly, the stains were near the bite holes -- an indication they were left by the person who bit the victim, presumably her killer.
00:06:02Goble removed the fabric and performed str dna testing, which is even more exacting than pcr testing.
00:06:12The result -- the dna profile from the saliva on the t-shirt did not match roy brown.
00:06:21But whose was it?
00:06:24Barry bench's daughter, katherine eckstadt, offered to help out.
00:06:28>> His daughter was a very courageous young woman, who said, "i want the truth.
00:06:32I want to know if my father committed this murder and if " she actually contacted us after our papers were filed in court originally and said, "if you ever need me, I'll give you a " >> Narrator: The dna analysis confirmed what roy brown already knew -- that the saliva stains on sabina kulakowski's t-shirt had come from barry bench.
00:06:54>> The paternity testing showed that the john doe dna on the shirt came from the father of this young woman, katherine eckstadt, who was barry bench's daughter.
00:07:05>> Narrator: Unbelievably, when this evidence was presented to the court, the judge refused to grant a new trial.
00:07:13He said he had no proof that barry bench was katherine's biological father.
00:07:18>> You would think you'd be home the next day.
00:07:21You wouldn't think people would drag this out.
00:07:23>> This is what kind of people I'm dealing with.
00:07:26>> Narrator: With pressure mounting, the state of new york eventually exhumed barry bench's body and took a dna sample.
00:07:34It conclusively matched the saliva on sabina kulakowski's t-shirt, and roy brown was finally released from prison 15 years to the day he was convicted.
00:07:49[ Soft guitar music plays ] >> and I was thinking to myself, "i got victory.
00:07:59I proved my innocence.
00:08:01Without any doubt, I showed i didn't do it, and I showed " okay?
00:08:07They can't take that from me.
00:08:08You know what I'm saying?
00:08:10They can't open their mouth anymore about anything.
00:08:14>> I made it very clear to roy brown that I regretted very much the situation that he found himself in.
00:08:23>> Narrator: But the question remains -- why did barry bench murder sabina kulakowski?
00:08:31Barry bench and sabina were acquaintances.
00:08:35Sabina lived with barry's brother, ron, until they broke up a month before the fire.
00:08:42According to friends, barry bench was in financial trouble and may have wanted to sell the farmhouse where sabina was staying.
00:08:55No one knows what happened that night, but the forensic evidence shows barry went to the farmhouse to speak with sabina.
00:09:07>> What are you doing here?
00:09:08>> Narrator: There was an argument and things turned violent.
00:09:13>> No! no!
00:09:18>> Narrator: The theory is that barry set fire to the farmhouse and was about to leave when he realized that sabina wasn't dead.
00:09:27There was another fight outside.
00:09:29By this time, he couldn't take her body back into the farmhouse.
00:09:34The fire was too advanced, so he dragged her body to the footpath 100 yards away and left her there.
00:09:47>> Why are we stopping here?
00:09:49>> Narrator: This explains why barry searched that area later, after firefighte arrived.
00:09:55He wanted to make sure she was dead.
00:10:02>> I have never had a case where the client solved his own crime from behind his prison cell, using nothing but a pen and paper.
00:10:11He really did all the hard work.
00:10:13>> Dna evidence, more often than not, convicts people.
00:10:18But it can also exonerate them.
00:10:21And now I think what the case of roy brown serves as an example of the fact that prosecutors and police now must be -- must be more thorough.
00:10:39They can't just, you know, be focused on one individual, and that's it.
00:10:45>> They locked me up, and they made me turn a cell into an office, a bed into a desk, and a mattress into a chair.
00:10:54And law books -- I used them instead of weapons.
00:10:58I used that pen and that typewriter.
00:11:00I beat the [bleep] with their own sticks.
00:11:03See?
00:11:045th-GRADE EDUCATION GOES A LONG Way when you're playing with a bunch of corrupt [bleep] they can't evenframeanybody right.
00:11:11That's how stupid them college geniuses are.
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00:12:00Danny: Whenever I hear that a skater has been injured, Tonya's alibi is.
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00:12:19man: Oh, ( bleep ) !
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00:13:00don't get is naming your monster truck "Dream Catcher." Brad: Monster trucks are suppos to be named, like, "Death Mobile." And "Bus from Hell." Matt: Yeah, come on, Dream Catcher !
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00:14:07A big round of applause for Drew Haygood !
00:14:09( cheers and applause ) Michael: Are you not entertained ?
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00:14:16Billy: There's a very, very fine line between success and failure at these kind of things.
00:14:23Daniel: Yeah !
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00:14:37narrator: After a long day of snowmobiling in British Columbia, three buddies decide to chase one final thrill.
00:14:51commentator: Yeah !
00:14:52Whoo !
00:14:53Judy: I thought it was called a snowmobile 'cause you're supposed to actually drive it on the snow.
00:14:58commentator: Go, go, go !
00:15:00Whoo !
00:15:01Whoo-hoo !
00:15:02Mike: They're just tempting fate.
00:15:04How many times can we do this before something goes hilariously wrong ?
00:15:08commentator: Get ready to get me, here I come, here I come.
00:15:10All right, I got this !
00:15:12I got this !
00:15:13Oh, jeez !
00:15:14( gurgling ) Michael: Gotta gun it, dude.
00:15:20Your first two buddies made it, 'cause they had the balls to do that.
00:15:26commentator: Oh !
00:15:27Oh, no !
00:15:27( gurgling ) Chuck: When your friends are laughing and giggling as you are being swept away by rapids, they're not your friends.
00:15:39Todd: He's just going down with the current.
00:15:40( screaming ) man: How's the water, Lee ?
00:15:44Mike: How's the water, lee ?
00:15:46Oh, you got that hypothermia ?
00:15:48( laughing ) narrator: The soaked driver pulls himself from the rapids.
00:15:52It takes slightly more effort to get the snowmobile out of the drink.
00:15:57man: Pull !
00:16:00John: ( Bleep ), am I the only one pulling this thing ?
00:16:02Come on, pull !
00:16:04Pull !
00:16:05Michael: It's almost like something's pushing it sideways.
00:16:10Could it be the water ?
00:16:13Danny: This is the worst rescue effort I ever saw.
00:16:19narrator: The snowmobile is finally recovered.
00:16:21man: Whoo-hoo-hoo.
00:16:24Billy:..
00:16:27try this at home.
00:16:29Was that-- Right, right, don't try, don't try, okay.
00:16:36commentator: Oh, jeez.
00:16:37( gurgling ) man: Holy ( bleep ) !
00:16:52narrator: The driver of this fishing boat is operating his craft in a manner not recommended by the manufacturer.
00:16:58commentator: Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo !
00:17:01Daniel: Speedboats go real fast, bass boats catch fish.
00:17:05commentator: I'm feelin' it !
00:17:08Whoo !
00:17:09Whoo-hoo-hoo !
00:17:11Chuck: Slow down !
00:17:12You're scaring all the fish away, jackass !
00:17:14commentator: Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo !
00:17:16Eat my wake, suckers !
00:17:19Whoo-hoo !
00:17:20Todd: You son of a ( bleep ) !
00:17:25John: Wee-hoo !
00:17:26Come on, bring it on, ( bleep ) boy !
00:17:29Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa...
00:17:31( bleeps ) commentator: Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo !
00:17:34Oh, yeah !
00:17:35What are you gonna do about it ?
00:17:37Oh !
00:17:38( screaming ) Roger: And that, my friends, is why you always opt for the life vest.
00:17:48( commentator screaming ) Brad: Was this a bass boat ?
00:17:53'Cause he got his bass kicked.
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00:17:59Never hurts.
00:18:08Billy: I guess it's only fair that a bass fisherman would wind up lying on the side of a boat, soaking wet, semiconscious.
00:18:16commentator: Yeah, do you like it ?
00:18:19Jerk !
00:18:22narrator: After recovering from a broken collarbone, this daring fisherman throws himself right back in.
00:18:28man: And been out in it many times after this, so there's been no trauma whatsoever.
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00:18:37Danny: Tonya, I was just wondering, would you-- Oh, God !
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00:19:04Tonya: Hey !
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00:21:56commentator: Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo !
00:21:57Check it !
00:21:59narrator: In the backwoods of Tennessee, professional ATV driver Jason Watt attempts one more run before calling it a day.
00:22:07commentator: Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo !
00:22:11Whoo-hoo !
00:22:11High flyin' !
00:22:12Chuck: You figure, wow, this guy's been around the track a few times, he's got it down pat, right ?
00:22:17commentator: Here we go !
00:22:18Superstar !
00:22:20( groaning ) Chuck: Wrong.
00:22:25commentator: Whoo !
00:22:28Yeah !
00:22:30( groaning ) Leif: That must have hurt.
00:22:33Ow !
00:22:35Danny: He's hit the dirt and he turns around just in time to catch a full-blown ATV to the chest.
00:22:42God just hates you.
00:23:01narrator: Jason is rushed to the hospital and X-rayed.
00:23:04Brad: Who's your doctor that he couldn't figure this one out without a full X-ray ?
00:23:09I don't really see what the problem is.
00:23:11His fingers just seem to be out of order.
00:23:17Michael: That should just be a poster hung in every child's room across America.
00:23:21You wanna try some dumb ( bleep ) ?
00:23:22Look at that X-ray.
00:23:24narrator: Despite the broken finger and a dislocated shoulder, Jason vows to return to ATV racing.
00:23:37commentator: Whoo-hoo-hoo !
00:23:39Oh !
00:23:41Ahh...
00:23:49man: Whoo-hoo-hoo.
00:23:51narrator: The Anderson brothers of Minnesota have come up with a novel way to get their daredevil on.
00:23:57man: Yeah !
00:23:59( men yelling ) Brad: Ah, the sun rises on another day in Minnesota, and in a field, there's a hang glider attached to a snowmobile.
00:24:07Billy: So many problems.
00:24:09Let's start with, uh, no snow.
00:24:12man: Oh, yeah !
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00:24:16Yeah !
00:24:17( men screaming ) man: Oh, that was awesome !
00:24:24Nick: Anytime somebody goes, "that was easier than crap," you're just putting a curse on yourself.
00:24:29( men cheering ) ter a successful test run on the frozen tundra, the siblings are ready to give it another go.
00:24:37man: Go, go, go !
00:24:39( men yelling ) man: Oh !
00:24:51Mike: That hang glider, when it's not your friend, it is your enemy.
00:24:55man: Oh !
00:24:57Kevin: It reminds me a little bit of the Wright brothers, if the Wright brothers, like, never succeeded.
00:25:14Nick: What are they doing ?
00:25:16man: Matt, Matt, Matt !
00:25:19Michael: That's a 9-1-1 no-no.
00:25:21Wow, looks like a horrible neck injury.
00:25:23Well, roll him over as fast as you can !
00:25:24Let's get that helmet off.
00:25:26narrator: Matt suffers a concussion, and later, at the hospital, some selective memory loss.
00:25:36Chelsea: Will they do it again ?
00:25:38The answer's...
00:25:39probably yes.
00:25:43man: Oh !
00:25:45Are you okay, Matt ?
00:25:58Brad: Oh, ( bleep ).
00:26:00God, are we there already ?
00:26:01I'm ready to jump.
00:26:04narrator: In a plane above Illinois, a group of skydivers prepare to take the plunge.
00:26:09commentator: Go, go, go !
00:26:15Brad: Three, two, one, Geronimo !
00:26:22Whoo !
00:26:23Yeah !
00:26:25I'm a birdie !
00:26:28narrator: One skydiver catches all of the action with his helmet cam.
00:26:31commentator: Look out, look out !
00:26:33man: Oh !
00:26:43Melinda: Is there a place with more elbow room than the sky ?
00:26:46Kevin: Go anywhere.
00:26:47Take a left, take a right.
00:26:48Go anywhere except for on my head.
00:26:51man: Oh !
00:26:52commentator: Look out, look out !
00:26:57man: You mother( bleep ) !
00:26:58Who the ( bleep ) was that ?
00:27:01He came right through my parachute !
00:27:04narrator: Despite serious damage to his chute, the skydiver makes a safe landing.
00:27:08man: I spread my back risers trying to stretch it out, I looked at my altimeter again, I was 850.
00:27:13Next thing I knew-- bam-- I got hit.
00:27:16Michael: I hit the skimmers and tried to flare out, tried to extend it as long as I can, and I'm a professional skydiver.
00:27:22Dude, you just got away with your life, all right ?
00:27:26Just enjoy the moment.
00:27:28narrator: The lucky jumper was last seen looking for the guy who slammed into him.
00:27:32commentator: Look out !
00:27:33man: Oh !
00:27:34Who the ( bleep ) was that ?
00:27:36Brad: Jeez, I hope they catch that guy.
00:27:47narrator: San Diego, California.
00:27:49A group of teens attempts to master a skateboarding trick known as a rail slide.
00:27:54commentator: Yeah !
00:27:55Brad: Shouldn't they be in school or holding up a convenience store ?
00:28:02Matt: You know what's scarier ?
00:28:03If you actually fall.
00:28:16Daisy: Oh, I hate him for making me look at that.
00:28:27Chris: He was cool.
00:28:28That-- He was cool.
00:28:30Nick: This kid, he didn't even flinch.
00:28:32Mike: All the bum luck.
00:28:34First I sleep through my alarm clock, now my arm's pointing the wrong way.
00:28:39Ah, it just isn't my day.
00:28:44Danny: I gotta tell you something, son.
00:28:46If that's happened to you more than once, you picked the wrong sport.
00:28:49Chuck: Why does this always happen to me ?
00:28:52God.
00:28:53Every time we're throwing knives at each other-- Dude, I swear.
00:28:57Michael: You know why it's always you ?
00:28:58Because you haven't learned your lesson.
00:29:00commentator: Ahh !
00:29:01Michael: So-- flick-- now your elbow works the other way.
00:29:08Brad: What's your mom gonna do ?
00:29:09Kiss it and make it better ?

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