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There are over 100,000 cold cases in America. Only 1% are ever solved. This is one of those rare stories.

Inside a police evidence room, these men are collecting items from a cold case.

Each of these items have significant DNA evidence.

Among them, a bed spread.

The killer actually would have wiped his hands on his comforter as he left.

A pair of jeans.

And you can actually see there is blood all over jeans.

And a steel bar.

Someone had stood over him and repeatedly thrust down and beat him, beat him repeatedly with this.

For Sergeant PJ McKenna, unwrapping the evidence is easy.

Unwrapping this investigation, however, is another story.

One that takes him back to the cold night of January 20, 2000, in Albany, New York.

We'll call one out to the patrol division for a woman in the area, and there was a complaint of a potential assault.

At 8.30 p.m., Albany police detective P.J. McKenna pulls up to 799

Myrtle Avenue, where an 85-year-old woman has been found wandering the neighborhood.

We were informed that she was in the early stages at the very least of dementia, and

really couldn't provide much, only to say that he had hurt her.

Inside the old woman's house, McKenna finds blood and evidence of a possible rape.

Nothing was taken, but the phone cords were pulled out.

It was the phone cord that was actually tied up in a knot as if used for holding

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