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foreign Washington March 2003 a 17 year old girl kidnapped from home and taken to a
remote location she had duct tape hanging from her hair she was obviously traumatized by what
had occurred investigators from Gray's Harbor County Sheriff's Office discovered she's been tied up by an
attacker and viciously sex attacked anybody can do that to somebody and afflict that kind of trauma for the rest
of someone else's life that's a good classification of monster search for the perpetrator of this
violent attack on a teen girl we probably had four or five detectives at different times that had looked into
this case just about every Deputy that worked the patrol area in that area took some
ownership of it and was trying to track down as many leads as they could despite their very best efforts police
cannot ID the rapist but can a revolutionary DNA technique finally reveal her attacker I'm Nancy Grace this
is bloodline detectives [Music] [Applause] [Music] Washington State March 6 2003 dispatch
in McCleary west of Olympia receive a call from a dad reporting his 17-year-old girl is found tied up in the
family garage the girl says an intruder took her to an unknown location where he viciously
raped her somebody had grabbed her Tighter and took her away when I arrived I was the first officer
on scene and I was greeted by the father at his house and led into the dining room or foyer area and that's where I
met the father and his daughter she was 17 years old at the time she was a high school student and duct tape was around
her neck her hands were bound with zip ties and that she also had zip ties around the leg she was bleeding from the
nose and had red marks on her face extremely distraught about what happened to her
she had like a hoodie on that looked like it was partially wet or soiled from being on the ground she would
occasionally be lifting her hands in front of her face and sobbing occasionally the teen girl gives details of the
traumatic event Tim McCleary police officer Jay Porter the victim worked a little coffee stand
that's in between a big door plant in McCleary and where she lives drove home like she normally did parked
in her detached garage she was going to meet a boy she was dating they were going to go to the YMCA
I think and work out she exited the door of her detached garage to a short little path which led to the
side of her the home that she shared with her father and as she was coming out that door
somebody grabbed her she was wearing a hoodie a hooded sweatshirt he pulled the hooded
sweatshirt over her eyes duct taped the hoodie over her eyes then he zip tied her hands behind her
back zip tied her legs and then also duct tape her legs at the knees to make sure she couldn't either fight back or
get up and try and escape from him he tried to stuff her in the trunk of her car but she wouldn't
she wouldn't lay down she wouldn't cooperate so he bonked her head a couple of times on the hood and finally gave up
and stuffed her in the back seat it took him a while but he eventually figured out how to open the garage door
she told me that she said that you had to go inside the house to open the garage door hoping that he would get out
of the car and she could Escape but he told her he wasn't stupid he managed to open the garage door using the automatic
door opener in her car she thought he didn't know how to drive a stick shift because he kept killing
the car she said but he eventually managed to get it out of the garage pull out and she tried to keep track of
Where She Went she tried to follow the turns but like anyone who's ever played that game with kids where they blindfold
you and spin you around you know you can't keep track he drives her to probably a Logging Road
there's lots of logging roads in our area some place secluded like that and he sexually assaults her
then he drives her to another location fire hall and he leaves her there and tells her if you tell anybody I'm going
to kill you your family and burn your house down she's able to drive back to her house
still Bound by the zip ties and when she's able to drive into her driveway she starts honking the horn and Dad's
home at that point and comes out find out what's going on and and releases her takes her into the house she tells what
happened and within minutes he calls 9-1-1 after officer Porter's initial review a
team of investigators from Gray's Harbor Sheriff's Office arrive on the scene once we get on scene we you know
basically tape off the scene to where no one else will go in there so we can look
for evidence you know we're looking for physical evidence you know did the guy drop a wallet or you know did he leave
anything behind that we could figure out who he was we took the tape off of the young lady
and collected that as evidence and I took possession of that you're kind of evaluating where's the
crime scene but there's other scenes too that I may need to preserve such as the
garage where she was abducted from the car that she was placed in and driven to an unknown location where she was
dropped off which I believe we determined and was a local fire department he had an altercation with the victim
maybe she struck him in a way where he got a bloody nose or a cut or something like that so we're looking for blood on
the floor it was a blood droplet on the concrete floor in the garage at that point her mother had arrived to the
house the mother and father were living separately and I explained to the mother
please don't hug your daughter right now we're going to go to the hospital and collect her clothing as evidence
obviously her person is the number one crime scene everything on her is relevant as possible evidence but we
found out that the small Hospital in McCleary did not have a specially trained nurse to systematically collect
the evidence she wasn't trained in proceeding with her or processing a rape kit so we made contact with another
hospital in Olympia and was going to transport her there where I had a detective that's entrained in
interviewing sexual assault victims respond to the Olympia location you have to be really compassionate with
the victim because they just went through a major life event you feel so safe in your world and then this happens
to you you got your parents next to you and you know so you feel like you're disappointed you know your parents
because you you got put in a situation where this happened to her but you know you tell them you're confident we're
going to find this person who did this to you but we need your help you know he sexually assaulted you we need the
evidence to help lock him up and that way we can collect that evidence and send it off the lab just try and find
out who he is we sent the sexual assault kit to the state lab for testing and it
came up with a male DNA profile and it didn't match to anything in CODIS to see if there's any hits and you know CODIS
is a combined DNA information system and so that profile did not hit on anything
so at that point we did a John Doe warrant you know we had a person by DNA profile just didn't have his name so we
did a John Doe warrant and that just kind of freezes that crime in time time so the statute of limitations don't run
on on that crime so if we found the person later and it passed the statute of limitations because we had that
warrant in the system we could still prosecute that crime it was very important to stop the clock ticking for
the statute of limitations because once those limitations have passed you can't charge anybody for the crimes
they've committed detective Ed McGowan goes to the Olympia hospital to interview the young girl
[Music] she was in the quiet room that they have set aside and she was there with her mom
a lot of the the questions are just open-ended you know I just started to ask her to
talk to me is fast or as slow as she wanted to it was just I just needed to try to put the pieces together and I
didn't really want her to be concerned on how what order she told them to me is just what she remembered
she would make a statement I said well you know what happened next or what do you recall to do you see anything
and just let her tell the story as she became more comfortable a teen girl kidnapped outside her own
home becomes the victim of a violent sex attack police know the clock is ticking
on their investigation and a rapist is on the loose that's next on bloodline Detectives
[Music] March 6 2003 McCleary Washington a 10 year old manages somehow to drive her
car home even though she's been tied up with cable ties telling Dad she's been kidnapped and raped by a man who
attacked her first in the family garage investigators actually have a sample of the perpetrator's DNA they got it from a
rape kid but it does not provide a match to any name in the National DNA database
Police Issue a John Doe warrant for the unidentified man's arrest that's a tactic to keep this investigation alive
meanwhile they continue talking to the victim she thought it was a joke At first she
thought maybe her boyfriend was playing tricks on her you know just playing a game until she got slammed down to the
concrete she was not able to see who who that person was but she compared him to her boyfriend so height wise he
was about the same height as her boyfriend which is I think her boyfriend's five six she was recalling
and sizing him up she was going more by what she felt that it was stubble and she kind of thought that it may have
even been like a goatee but described him that he was a little bit bigger but he wasn't very strong you
got to give this girl some credit she was pretty well aware of her surroundings and trying to just think of
anything the boyfriend was never really considered a suspect for a couple of reasons number one is he showed up
at her house while it was occurring after the victim was taken from her garage her father got home very soon it
was unusual for him to not be home he had just had to run an errand after work and while he was sitting there waiting
her boyfriend showed up and knocked on the door and said hey where is she we were supposed to go do this we were
supposed to go to the the gym together and they were both worried together and the boyfriend eventually went out to
look for he was very Cooperative he you know told us he gave his account for the
day gave a great statement on that and then he provided a DNA sample to ensure that he was not the suspect in this
crime immediately investigators rule out the girl's boyfriend as a suspect next they
focus on the key evidence found in the garage where the girl was kidnapped I think the zip ties were fairly unique
in fact for several months after this case one of the detectives went to just about every hardware store every Auto
store any grocery store any place that sold zip ties trying to match that particular zip tie to where it may have
been purchased and he checked for you know checked for months for those zip ties he was able to contact the
manufacturer it's usually those were usually used in HVAC systems mostly commercial
Now find very few clues that the crime scene they focus on the coffee stand where the young girl works could one of
the customers be her attacker she worked as a barista in a stand-alone coffee stand and so it got quite a bit
of traffic there but she worked in this stand pretty much alone she gave some possible people for us to
look at that had acted strangely toward her at her coffee stand she was able to describe an incident where a customer
had offered a CD of some music and also I think invited her to a concert that person was tracked down and talked to
and eliminated they collected three dozen DNA samples from men all over the McCleary area
anytime they heard about somebody who was a registered sex offender who had predilections that sort of seemed to
match the what the perpetrator in this case would have had they would investigate
frequently they'd do a search warrant they'd look all over the person's house for zip ties and frequently they would
take a DNA sample and a lot of them were voluntary we have good communication inside our County with other law
enforcement agencies but we'd reach across the the county line like Mason county is close to us they would have
reached out to Mason County this age you have anything like this happen on your side of the woods or on your side of the
county line in your cities where a young girl was kidnapped with their own vehicle raped and then brought back and
we also did that with Thurston County we had several different agencies contact with similar type of events not
necessarily like this but some that were violent and those were eliminated either
by the offender was still in custody or you know just by the fact that DNA didn't matter it's a tough case for law
enforcement to investigate but that doesn't even compare to what the victim has to go through for her to be totally
traumatized by the scare and the ordeal I would imagine it's like dealing with a death in the
family is you go through many different stages and for months and maybe years she may have not been able to function
the way she wanted and and with time maybe there's some healing but I think she always in the back of her mind
wonders about the stranger that just walked up to her and she's always skeptical she'd probably be always in
fear of being alone every night when it starts getting dust she'll put the blinds down she'll lock
the doors and kind of be in her own little cocoon in her house because that made her feel safe you know if she was
outside the house she was constantly looking over her shoulder she eventually got married had kids
so she kind of moved on we didn't have a lot of contact with her or her father and then when we did have a good lead or
a good suspect I didn't want to you know tip that that's those scales back to make her relive this again
unless we had a solid a solid person to uh talk to her about months go by and eventually
investigators run out of leads the case goes cold for nearly 20 long years back in 2003 after the vaginal swab was
sent to the crime lab the crime lab developed a DNA sample and they also ran it periodically against the National
Database which is called CODIS the crime laboratory scientist in particular that did this case he's a
system administrator for CODIS and every six months to a year he would go and look to see if there were any potential
matches and there never were and and that's how the case remained for years and years and years until Chief
Wallace came across this Grant from our attorney general's office for the genealogical DNA testing it was a number
of years ago and there was a case called the Golden State killer in which this was utilized to solve
a series of cold cases there and I remember having a conversation with my team the folks who work in my Criminal
Division and we had a conversation about hey can we do something in this area let's start
the conversation internally in our office to get to using these grants and helping out those prosecutions so we
were informed of the details of the case a young girl who suffered a really unimaginable rate doesn't take you long
when you're reading about a case like that to you have a very strong view that you want to do whatever you can
to help bring Justice to that individual even if it's been many many years in fact maybe especially because it's been
many many years next on bloodline detectives can groundbreaking forensic science finally
unmasked an evil sex attacker [Music] 18 years after the sex attack on a teen girl detectives at Gray's Harbor County
sheriffs in Washington state are still no closer to iding the rapist but now a breakthrough could be close the State
Attorney General is giving money providing funds for a pioneering new DNA technique called forensic genetic
genealogy Washington State Attorney General's office sent out an email saying they got
this big grant for conducting genealogy and sexual assault cases and this case has been weighing on the sheriff's
office for years and so I immediately jumped on it and the day that email came out I sent a request to get that Grant
the Washington State Patrice Andrew's office gave us that money to send that sexual assault kit semen sample to DNA
Labs International and they conducted the genealogy for us my mom was the founder of the lab and
back in 2004 my mom was very concerned about the mounting backlogs that we were all hearing about in the whole country
it was taking over a year to two years to solve crime and as a mother that was appalling to her and as an entrepreneur
she wanted to help so she wanted to start a DNA lab so she went about doing that and in 2005 we got our
accreditation and since then we've just been growing growing growing processing crime with
DNA Gray's Harbor reached out to us because they had a case that they wanted to do potential forensic genetic
genealogy on forensic genetic genealogy is when we're developing a specific type of profile
using single nucleotide polymorphisms or Snips so we think of DNA like G's A's T's and C's it literally just looks like
a series of letters and if we're looking at one location and say I'm looking at position five if you're a g here or an A
here that would be your single base change so we're trying to determine those locations and you will have
commonalities between your family members with those locations and share similar DNA types so that's what we're
essentially looking at so in this particular case we were actually only looking at a handful of
names and what we're trying to do is connect the maternal and the paternal branches of this family tree so out of
the few names that were identified as potentially good matches or what we would say high probability matches from
close family members we might be looking out anywhere from third to fifth cousins
and without fail a lot of those trees have a lot of people in it we build out two family trees and we
were able to figure out where they connected so you have family number one family number two we want to figure out
through marriage or through relationship where these two trees meet ultimately we
were able to do that and then you build the family tree back down now to get to present time so in this particular
instance we know we're looking for a male because this is a sexual assault there's semen involved in the incident
and we know the approximate time for when this happened because we have the date of events we can Target generally
age groups from that time period so we're saying here's potential Persons of Interest that you can investigate this
is just an investigative lead additional research and investigation needs to be done and ultimately we need to take that
DNA profile from that person of interest and have that then compared to the evidence profile and that's where the
real confidence comes in that you've identified the correct individual it was huge both myself and the
undersheriff you know we both got goosebumps when they came up with this investigative lead and three brothers
that they gave us a lead for and through investigation you know I downloaded all
their information figured out who they were then I downloaded all their driver's license pictures from back in
2003 and and the Paul Beaker was five seven one sixty we discovered that he worked for a
sheet metal company doing HVAC venting for I think he was working downtown Seattle at the time
bound her with zip ties which back in 2003 were fairly uncommon they were 36 inch zip
ties these are zip ties that are three feet long and what we found out is that zip ties that length
are very specific to the HVAC industry those zip ties are used along with duct tape to fasten air conditioning ducts
together the zip ties that are used in residential HVAC work are generally no longer than 24 inches but these were 36
inches long and you know you didn't need a 36 inch zip tie to bind this girl all
the detectors are like that's the guy that's the guy we're focusing on we surveilled all the brothers to kind of
get a pattern alive and see you know what they do but we focused on him because we we were pretty confident that
he was he was the guy we were looking for every driver's license he had from 2003 to now he's always got a five six
day growth on his beard and he just fit that description to a t that the victim gave us
investigators identify a prime suspect who fits the victim's description almost perfectly but there's an extremely
crucial Next Step they need to obtain his DNA and match it to see me collect it from the victim all
the way back in 2003. he lived in Enumclaw which is a community in King County near Seattle
it's about a two-hour drive from here they eventually got a Tracker warrant and they attached a tracking device to
his car and then they could just watch it on there Chief Wallace could just watch it on a smartphone from the
comfort of his office and they just waited for him to leave his usual pattern of where he drove
and then one day he was coming down towards Grays Harbor County coming south Chief Wallace and the detective Sergeant
for the county Paul Logan jumped in their cars and rushed up and followed him to a car dealership
where he had his car serviced then down to his former home outside of McCleary they followed him there Paul
Beaker picked up his daughter and then Paul Beaker and his daughter and Paul Baker's current wife all went
to a park in Ruston which is near Tacoma after stopping at a Starbucks and Chief Wallace and Sergeant Logan just
followed him around until he threw away the Starbucks cup in a public trash receptacle
so they did a test I think they got it back within a week and the number they came back with was 34 quadrillion to one
that Paul Beaker was the actual person who committed the kidnapping and rape of the victim
police now have enough evidence to make an arrest we made the decision that we're going to
arrest him and the day we made that decision he was actually coming down to Gray's Harbor from Enumclaw so we
tracked him into Grays Harbor County we assumed he was going to go to the Post Office
followed him into the post office parking lot he parked his vehicle and as soon as he got out of the car I got out
of my patrol car and walked up to him and and told him that he was under arrest and he was very confused of why
he's being under arrest and we told them that we're going to take him to the Sheriff's Office and talk to him about
why he was under arrest for 18 long years detectives had a DNA sample but no suspect to match it too
but now thanks to genetic genealogy they do and not only do they have a DNA match
they've got him in custody will Paul Beaker confess to the vicious Sex Attack of a teen girl back in 2003 that's next
on bloodline Detectives oh [Music] McCleary Washington 2021 investigators from Gray Harbor sheriffs make an arrest
in the kidnap and rape of a teen girl all the way back in 2003 but now detectives will face the suspect Paul
Beaker so I had a stack of papers with the victims pictures and and what we did so I sat him down I asked him if he knew
the victim he said he didn't know who she was I then showed him a picture of the victim and he about threw up
so you don't notice this lady at all she does not look familiar okay so on March
6 2003 she reported that she was Aston to basically someone tackled her in the garage took her somewhere
or actually taped her up and found her hand but zip ties take it with duct tape whatever
her name car remember to a separate location breakthrough this is what I mean could you do that
what did you do that no I cast him again if he knew the victim he said he didn't
didn't recognize or didn't know her and then I mapped out that you know I've been tracking you went to pick up your
daughter went to get coffee at Starbucks in Tacoma went to you know the Point Defiance Zoo
and then we seized this cop I show them the cup that we seized from him and I told him we sent it to the lab and that
the results came back to 34 quadrillion the one that you're the suspect that did
this crime and once again he almost threw up we actually had to give him a little waste basket or a box if you had
to throw up to throw up and that's how much of a reaction he gave us oh do you need a basket is there one over
there the first comes the worst here you go I get it I get kind of overwhelmed but I
know you did it there's no doubt in my mind 45 the one that it's you no doubt he was pretty shocked that we
were there and that he was under arrest but uh it wasn't until later that he was really
upset and that's when you know the wheels of Justice start to take him to trial from what Chief
Wallace told me after he booked Paul Beaker into the Grays Harbor County Jail he drove to Olympia
and contacted the victim's father first then Chief Wallace and the victim's father
drove to the victim's home and there he told her we got him he's in jail and because you've got an armed police
officer sitting there gun and badge on his belt police car behind him and her father
standing right there saying we got him he's in jail and the first thing she said is did he follow
you the first thing she expressed Was Fear she was still afraid after all these years
now prosecutor Jason Walker must decide with what crimes Paul Baker will be charged
originally the DNA warrant that went out charged him with rape in the first degree and
kidnapping in the first degree when he was brought into custody I saw these charges and my thought was
you know he committed a lot more crimes than this and given the change in the law I
believed that I could charge him with additional crimes I added on several charges but in the
end they were all dismissed because the legislature passed the law that extended the statute of limitations just
two months and 19 days too late for this case so I started examining the law looking at any possible sentencing
aggravators that I could possibly charge and what I found was deliver cruelty that together with the fact that how
tightly she was bound the fact of multiple assaults of incidents during the rape the fact that he threatened her
and the fact that he said that he he would burn down her house and kill her father and always be watching
I felt that deliberate cruelty could be proven Beyond A Reasonable Doubt the trial of Paul
palmtim is ties by the way of having to recount her ordeal that's next on bloodline detectives
[Music] McCleary Washington 2021 18 years after he evades police arrest Paul Baker now
charged with the vicious Sex Attack of a teen girl is headed for trial the victim however still so Shattered by
the thought of retelling the nightmare she endured prosecutors have to make a crucial decision
she was so traumatized with the whole incident she was good with doing a plea deal so she wouldn't have to testify and
go through that emotional rollercoaster he did not want to do a plea deal he wanted to take it to trial just adamant
that he was not the person who did it so the plea deal was for 10 years he would
have got 10 years and then would have got out probably a good time a little less but he decided to take it to trial
when you look at this case from the defendant standpoint he had to take the stand
his wife came to every day of the trial I saw them sitting together and when you look
back and you think I wonder why he never pled guilty the answer was sitting right next to him
how is he possibly going to say to her honey yeah actually I did rape that girl he
can't say that he could never say that he's going to deny that to his dying day and so then he goes on to this
ridiculous story about how this 17 year old blonde athletic petite girl with a boyfriend picks up Dad in a broken down
work truck from her coffee stand and suggests that they go somewhere and have sex and when he has trouble getting an
erection she suggests well let's try some bondage with these zip ties that you've got them
in the back of their car like a 17 and a half year old girl would do that it was
absolutely ridiculous it's very possible that he believes it he's had eight he had 18 years to
convince himself that this is how it happened 18 years to convince himself that he's
not a bad guy that this was consensual so at the end of his testimony I have to decide am I going to put the
victim back on the stand to deny this and what I decided in the end is no one's going to believe this it's
ridiculous the judge was a little bit offended by him getting on the stand and trying to point to the victim I think
that happens more often than we realize with sexual assault victims is that there
the tables are tried to be turned on them and point to them as the person that caused this it's ridiculous and I
think the Judge saw right through that I think it really upset him to the point that he's saying no we're not going to
go with 10 years you're going to get you know a good 30 years to think about this
in the end he was sentenced to 360 months to life in prison and what that means is he has to serve at least 360
months so if he makes it the 30 years and he may not you'll probably be released
arrogant to the very end Paul Baker gambles by taking a 10-year plea bargain it's a gamble he loses he may even die
in jail thanks to a judge who goes above and beyond the letter of the law and make sure Justice is served
the coward I would say a monster just based on what he did you always wonder if there's something
else out there that he he had done some some offenders it's a one-time occurrence
other offenders you know either escalated to this point you know I would think that possibly
there was some incidents in his past that he was never held accountable for or never got reported maybe not didn't
go up to the the level that it became a crime this was a a crime against the victim
but it was also a crime against all of us you know it's just a very strong person but also I
think a good family person very devoting wife to her husband and she's got beautiful kids and she's just dedicated
to you know her life to her children and she is reliving it but I think knowing what happened and knowing the person
that did that to you and knowing that got held accountable and are in prison I think that does give a little bit of
closure but it's not going to give 100 closure once the DNA results came back gave us those those Brothers it was the
key to this whole thing we would have never solved it I don't think without it especially since he moved out of the
area he wasn't on anybody's radar it was not on anybody's radar from the get-go he was never talked to in 2003 and then
he moved out of the area a little bit later so is key this whole case only occurred because of the Brave
behavior of this victim somebody who is willing to go through the whole process because a lot of victims of cases like
this don't want to answer a bunch of police questions go to a hospital and be poked and probed and things like that
this case would not have been solved without her bravery and strength to do all that and
then to come back even though she's much older than 17 now still the trauma of you know it'd be one
thing for me to go into court and see this guy sitting that I've never seen before that we've now got the case
solved it would be another thing for her who she didn't know who this guy was to
now see him in a suit and tie or or however he's dressed and be all cleaned up and looking like just an ordinary guy
sitting next to his lawyers you would never think of that if you met him at Home Depot or something like that
I feel for the victim having to see him but this is a major case that we were able to get closure for the victim I
think that's the biggest thing it just you know giving someone that had that traumatic thing happened to her so far
along go and she's been living with it day to day today to give her closure was that was huge impact on me but to solve
a major case that's that's always amazing to do it's very gratifying because it's very new technology
even though it's been a few years it's still very very new there are so many cases that can benefit from this
technology and likewise with other technology we bring online it's just nice to see it working and that it's
helping people this was a breakthrough as far as you know something you don't see a lot you
hear about in some of the big cities for a rural County to be able to go through
and follow up on some of this groundbreaking technology and for a long time there's a lot of of backlog with
rape cases where the the rape kit is just sitting in a freezer I think that's a matter of funding and prioritizing as
a team here in the Office of the Attorney General we felt good that we were able to help out in a small way and
and bring Justice to that individual what I know is she must be an extraordinarily courageous individual
and to have lived with this in all those years and then to be able to to go to a
courtroom and testify and help hold this individual accountable it would take a special person to do that
he deserves what he's now getting which is to go to jail for a very very long time
the bloodline detectives crack a case seemingly uncrackable 18 years before and a very Savvy judge serves Justice to
an arrogant sex attacker still after all that time a victim a young girl at the time
cannot shake the nightmares caused by the brutal attack sadly she may never recover
I'm Nancy Grace thank you for joining us here I'm bloodline Detectives [Music] thank you
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March 2003, a 17-year old girl has been abducted and raped in McCleary, Washington. The town lives in fear as police fail to find her attacker. Nearly two decades later, forensic genetic testing finally puts this sex predator behind bars.

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Brief Summary

A 17-year-old girl was kidnapped and assaulted in 2003; DNA evidence led to the arrest of Paul Beaker 18 years later.

Key points

A Teen's Nightmare. In March 2003, a 17-year-old girl is kidnapped and sexually assaulted, leaving her traumatized.
The Search for Justice. Investigators struggle to identify the rapist despite having DNA evidence.
A Breakthrough in Forensics. After 18 years, a new DNA technique offers hope in solving the cold case.
DNA Match Leads to Arrest. After 18 years, DNA evidence finally identifies Paul Beaker as the suspect.
Trial Decision Looms. The victim faces a tough choice between a plea deal and testifying in court.
Justice Served. Paul Beaker is sentenced to 30 years for his crimes, bringing closure to the victim.

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