New DNA Test Breaks Unsolved Murder Of Ex-Wife Of Righteous Brothers Singer

LEFT OUT OF LONG BEACH TONIGHT.
PAT: A CONTROVERSIAL NEW DNA
TEST HAS BROUGHT CLOSURE IN A
HERMOSA BEACH MURDER CASE THAT
HAS BEEN UNSOLVED FOR OVER 40
YEARS.
ORANGE COUNTY REPORTER STACEY
BUTLER IN LIVE IN SANTA ANA WITH
A LOOK AT HOW THE CASE WAS
SOLVED.
REPORTER: WELL, 35 YEARS AGO,
MAN WE KNOW TO BE KILLER, WAS
HERE IN ORANGE COUNTY SUPREME
COURT.
HE WAS CONVICTED OF A ARMED
ROBBERY IN DANA POINT.
TODAY HE WAS LINKED WITH A
INFAMOUS SOUTHLAND MURDER.
AMAZING, I DID NOT BELIEVE WE
WOULD EVER IDENTIFY WHO
COMMITTED THIS CRIME.
SURPRISE AND RELIEF FROM
DARREN MEDLEY WHOSE MAM KAREN
KLAAS WAS RAPED AND STRANGLED 41
YEARS AGO TODAY IN HERMOSA
BEACH, HIS DAD BILL.
MUSIC,
MEDLEY HAD BEEN DIVORCES FROM
CACCARNEY CLASS.
SAID I'M GOING TO SALVE THIS.
HE DID, WITH L.A. COUNTY
SHERIFF INVESTIGATOR USING A
CONTROVERSIAL DNA TESTING
METHOD.
IT ALLOWS DETECTIVES DO SEARCH
LAW ENFORCEMENT DATABASES TO
IDENTIFY LIKELY RELATIVES OF THE
SUSPECT.
THEY MATCHED AT HALF OF
PLACES THEY WERE LOOKING IT
INDICATES THIS WAS A PARENT OR A
CHILD.
DR. MILLER, IS AN EXPERT
WITNESS ON DNA CASES, HE SAID
THOSE WHO PROTECT CIVIL
LIBERTIES ARE TROUBLED THAT
RELATIVES OF CRIMINALS CAN
BECOME SUSPECTS JUST BECAUSE
THEY SHARE THE SAME DNA BUT HE
DISAGREES.
IT IS MORE IMPORTANT THIS
FAMILIES GET CLOSURE, AND REALLY
IMPORTANT TO IDENTIFY PEOPLE
STILL ALIVE AND TAKE THEM OFF OF
THE STREETS.
REPORTER: THE KILLER, SUSPECTED
IN TWO ORANGE COUNTY RAPES OF
SHOT TO DEATH IN A POLICE
STANDOFF 6 YEARS AFTER HE GOT
AWAY WITH KAREN KLAAS' MURDER

New DNA Test Breaks Unsolved Murder Of Ex-Wife Of Righteous Brothers Singer

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