In Harm's Way

Forensic Files

HLN

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A woman's dead body is found in a public park. When a knife through to be the murder weapon turned up, investigators had an opportunity which seldom occurs: to compare the microscopic marks on the weapon with the marks on the victim's body.

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0:00.0	At one time a used tissue was just trash.
0:04.0	Today, its potential DNA evidence.
0:08.0	New scientific discoveries are turning
0:11.0	inconsequential items into vital pieces of forensic information.
0:17.0	This is how an alert anthologist
0:20.0	and a piece of cartilage made, scientific history.
0:30.0	On November 9, 1995, Dawn broke crisp and cold over Anchorage, Alaska.
0:42.0	The temperature was around zero degrees when a policeman on routine patrol discovered a body in a public park.
0:52.0	We didn't have anything. We had no witnesses.
0:56.0	Nothing but the body as far as evidence goes.
0:59.0	No tracks as far as a vehicle or a person or footprints or anything like that.
1:04.0	So we had very, very little and we were very concerned about it.
1:07.0	Police took her fingerprints and ran them through AFIS,
1:11.0	the automated fingerprint identification system,
1:14.0	which compared them to millions of prints in a nationwide database.
1:19.0	The victim was identified at 34-year-old Catherine Harms.
1:25.0	A background check indicated Catherine Harms known as Cat
1:29.0	had recently moved to Anchorage from Juneau, the state capital,
1:33.0	where she was employed by the Tonga National Park Service.
1:38.0	Catherine told friend she moved to Anchorage to be closer to her seven-year-old son.
1:44.0	We not only just barely identified her,
1:47.0	but we had no idea where she was living,
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