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But Venosa had seen that name in the case file that he has read backwards and forwards time and time again.
>> Now, the name isn't there a lot, mind you, but back in November of 1984, a tip
had come in that accused this cousin of bragging about the murder. Now, it's unclear if that was ever followed up on
at the time, but this obviously cannot be a coincidence. So, police look into this cousin and they discover that back
in 1984 he lived on, drum roll please, Rosewood Terrace, just five houses away from the school and only three houses
away from where that last blood drop was found. >> Okay, just to confirm, this cousin isn't
the other relative that popped up, right? This one hit is from Arthur and this cousin gets mentioned and then this
second >> we don't they don't like I don't really even know a ton about the second
connection in Cotus because everything kind of like spawns from what they look at in Arthur, right? So this cousin was
not in Cotus which means it is looking more and more like it could actually be him cuz we know our per isn't in Cotus.
>> So this guy never did anything that would have gotten his DNA put in the database.
>> But now they got to find a way to get this guy's DNA like surreptitiously. So,
they put this guy under surveillance for a week. They watch his house. They watch
him get coffee from a Speedway gas station every day. They follow him to his security job at a hotel. I'm sorry,
security job. >> Eventually, Sergeant Venosa snatches one of this guy's coffee cups from the hotel
lobby trash can. It takes 2 days to directly compare. And guess what? It's not him.

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Brief Summary

A 1984 murder investigation focuses on a cousin suspected of bragging about the crime, but DNA testing rules him out as a suspect.

Key points

The Cousin Connection. A cousin of the suspect lived just houses away from the crime scene in 1984.
Surveillance Strategy. Police put the cousin under surveillance to obtain his DNA surreptitiously.
DNA Test Results. After surveillance, the DNA test reveals the cousin is not the suspect.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

This obviously cannot be a coincidence.

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