Craig Stedman
Appearances
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True Crime Vault: The DNA Detective
I think it was an appropriate time to get some fresh eyes.
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True Crime Vault: The DNA Detective
We took the entire file and the evidence and started again from the ground up.
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True Crime Vault: The DNA Detective
For almost 25 years, the perpetrator has walked out there among us. He could be your neighbor, your friend, your coworker.
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True Crime Vault: The DNA Detective
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.
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True Crime Vault: The DNA Detective
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.
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True Crime Vault: The DNA Detective
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.
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True Crime Vault: The DNA Detective
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.
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True Crime Vault: The DNA Detective
When we finally got the confirming DNA, we wanted to arrest him pretty quickly.
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True Crime Vault: The DNA Detective
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.
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True Crime Vault: The DNA Detective
Good afternoon. Thanks for coming. I'm Craig Stedman. I'm the district attorney in Lancaster County.
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True Crime Vault: The DNA Detective
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.
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True Crime Vault: The DNA Detective
Today, we are announcing the arrest of Raymond Charles Rowe for the murder of Christy Murak from December 21st, 1992.
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True Crime Vault: The DNA Detective
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.
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True Crime Vault: The DNA Detective
There are other Christie-Miracs and other cases of other families in anguish.
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True Crime Vault: The DNA Detective
It's not a great leap of faith to say she was going out the door.