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Up next.

Yeah. Why? Where are you going out? A local place. Up next. Are you awake?

Yeah.

Why are you calling out?

A local police officer gets a surprise emergency call.

Um, we had a home invasion that turned into 187.

Holy-000.

DNA leads straight to potential suspects.

It was right after we got the DNA hit that it kind of all started coming together.

But could DNA, the so-called gold standard of modern forensics, be mistaken?

I think we need to acknowledge that there are limitations to our technology.

For a while, it seems the impossible is possible.

But in the end, the science is clear.

No one can be in two places at the same time.

It really was a shock to the system of everybody.... Monte Sereno, California, is both home base and a getaway destination for many high-income tech executives from nearby Silicon Valley.

It's an elite community, very wealthy homes, a gated community where, you know, you don't

enter into a driveway unless you have, you know, permitted access.

It's a pretty tight-knit group, neighbors no neighbors.

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