Craig Stedman

I think it was an appropriate time to get some fresh eyes.

We took the entire file and the evidence and started again from the ground up.

Level of mixture?

For almost 25 years, the perpetrator has walked out there among us. He could be your neighbor, your friend, your coworker.

It was a no-brainer at that point in time to go ahead and do that. This might truly be the last thing we can do for the case.

This was big news. The biggest break we may have had in the whole case, and it turned out to be the biggest break we had.

You don't want to walk up to a homicide suspect, particularly one this brutal, and just say, hey, can you give us your DNA? So we made the plan to get his DNA through surreptitious means.

I was nervous, waiting for reports about whether they got it, whether they didn't get it. He was observed using a Kirkland water bottle and chewing gum. He threw them out, and these things that he threw out became the most valuable things for us.

When we finally got the confirming DNA, we wanted to arrest him pretty quickly.

He had been at liberty, enjoying his life after this terrible, brutal crime for longer than Christy Murek was alive on the face of the earth. And we wanted to get him.

Good afternoon. Thanks for coming. I'm Craig Stedman. I'm the district attorney in Lancaster County.

I apologize for holding you up a little bit. This is a fluid situation and we just wanted to have things organized before we came in and spoke to you.

Today, we are announcing the arrest of Raymond Charles Rowe for the murder of Christy Murak from December 21st, 1992.

The chances of a randomly selected unrelated person matching this were octillion, septillion, nonillion. I had never heard of those numbers. I'm embarrassed to admit that. I had to look them up to see what they were. But the zeros behind those are between like 24, 27 zeros. Octillion is a thousand trillion trillion. I can't really conceive of that.

There are other Christie-Miracs and other cases of other families in anguish.

It's not a great leap of faith to say she was going out the door.

We found scuff marks just inside the foyer area.