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In 1992 a man named John Arana was murdered in his home in Sacramento

When his body was discovered the crime scene was brutal. There was blood everywhere

So when crime scene investigators examined the scene

It was likely that the murderers DNA was collected in one of the many swaps

Unfortunately that evidence went on the pile with the hundreds of other untested evidence kits

It took 11 years for his kid to be processed which gave his murderer an

Additional 11 years of freedom and to possibly kill again

From A&E this is cold case files

I'm Brooke and here's the unparalleled bill Curtis with another special episode and this cold case classic

Bill follows investigators in real time as they try to solve their coldest cases

This is evidence kit Sacramento in 2000 Sacramento County receives a state grant to help reduce their backlog of evidence kits

What we have here is sexual assault kits and homicide

Autopsy kits that have been collected and they're going to be

Examined by our staff to see if there's any type of evidence associated with them

Here there are about 600 kits waiting on forensic testing

This is a result of the fact that with insufficient staff this back log builds up because we just simply can't process it

It comes in much faster than we can put it out the door

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We're here to talk about a 92 case that right Pete?

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