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Moore: This town looks like the kind of place

where you wouldn't have to lock your doors.

But there was a sexual predator here

who took away that sense of security.

All of my work with law enforcement until now

has been working on murders, usually from long ago.

But this case was different.

This was a serial rapist with living victims.

I'm CeCe Moore.

For years, genealogy was my hobby,

and then it became my career. Soon, I realized

that the techniques I developed to reunite families

could also be used to identify killers.

Now my team and I

help the police hunt violent criminals.

I'm a new kind of detective.

♪

I decided to start using my skills

to help law enforcement identify violent criminals

in May 2018,

and this case was actually one of the very first ones

that I was involved in.

There was a series of rapes and sexual assaults

that happened between March 2006 and January 2008,

and that perpetrator became known

as the Ramsey Street Rapist.

Reporter: The Ramsey Street Rapist.

A string of assaults known as the Ramsey Street rapes.

Six women attacked in Fayetteville.

Woolverton: He was coming into people's homes

or attacking them as they were going about their business.

You feel like you can't be safe

just going about your everyday life.

That's really what terrifies people.

Berg: What we believe to be one of the first attacks

happened in August of 2006. We called her "The Runner."

It was about 4:00 or 5:00 in the morning.

Left her house like normal, running down Ramsey Street.

The suspect ran at her, grabbed her.

She described it as being hit like a Mack truck.

He tackled her and raped her on the side of the road

in the bushes, for about 45 minutes.

The next reported attack was six months later.

Berg: Female, home alone.

Suspect entered the residence and sexually assaulted her.

Woolverton: In March of 2007, there's another assault

in an apartment, where somebody was sleeping.

In this case, it was a 15‐year‐old.

What really stood out about the Ramsey Street Rapist

was the brazenness of his attacks.

In September of 2007,

officers responded to another apartment complex

on the north end of Ramsey Street.

Woolverton: She was a college student, 21 years old.

He came in through a sliding glass door.

Moore: Years later,

this victim posted an online video describing her ordeal

to try and help the police find her attacker.

Haschen: I had one roommate at the time,

but she had a friend staying that night,

and he said that if I made any noise

or tried to get anybody's attention

that the other two would get it.

So, basically, I went into protective mode

just to keep him away from those two.

The last attack was January 26, 2008.

In all, there were six attacks.

Moore: And all of these in such close proximity

that everybody's awareness was heightened.

Berg: And that's what we knew at the time,

that we had a serial rapist up on Ramsey Street.

♪

I mean, of course, we were like,

"We'll find this guy. What does he look like?"

But we couldn't even get a sketch of him.

Stranger rape makes it really, really difficult,

especially when the victims can't give you

any more than a general description of a suspect.

Woolverton: Early 20s to early 30s.

Berg: White or Hispanic male.

Woolverton: Between 5 foot, 8 inches tall and 6 foot, 3 inches.

Smelly, oily. Possibly a mechanic.

Close cut or shaven dark hair and average to medium build.

That could be half the city.

Honestly, at that time, everybody became a suspect.

The only thing they had

that really could help them find this guy was DNA.

All you have is the victim. Your victim is your crime scene.

No victim, no crime. You got to do everything ‐‐

everything in your power to support the victim.

Woolverton: Taking the rape kit is a hugely invasive thing

that comes right after a hugely invasive event.

You know, somebody had been fighting

and begging for their lives for 45 minutes,

and getting the victim to consent

to go through the process can be very difficult.

You're trying to protect your crime scene,

but you also have to protect them.

Moore: Thankfully, all six victims reported their attacks

and consented to a rape kit. The rape kit's critical

because the rape kit is gonna find semen,

maybe some skin cells from the suspect

that will have DNA in them that can make or break the case.

Berg: We had the DNA. We put it into CODIS,

or into the national criminal database,

so it can be compared to everybody else that's in CODIS.

Moore: What's interesting about this case is they did get a match,

but it was to a crime

where there was another unknown perpetrator.

Woolverton: They had a match to a Peeping Tom case

from Harnett County from 2004.

Evidence was found on the scene that had DNA in it,

and they were able to connect the cases together.

So, there's that initial elation of

"We've got a match. We found him," but then, "Oh, no.

This is another case where we don't know who did it."

Berg: We know that a lot of offenders start peeping or exposing.

It becomes not enough to look in somebody's room.

Now I have to go in the room.

Moore: And so that just told them

he potentially started as a peeping Tom

and then escalated to rape.

♪

Woolverton: The police did a press conference in early 2008

to bring attention to the matter.

Berg: You can only canvass so many times,

look for cameras so many times.

Well, now we need the public's help.

Woolverton: We interviewed people, and they recall

being very scared back then.

Berg: We were putting officers in decoy situations

to see if they could lure out an offender.

When people are scared,

they take measures to protect themselves.

Berg: We had somebody walking the same route as "The Runner."

We went to every peeping call, every stranger call.

Woolverton: There was a self‐defense class,

and it was packed ‐‐ there were 80 people there.

Berg: They started a task force.

They brought in the FBI, behavioral analysis.

Woolverton: The Sheriff's office reported

a significant increase in gun permits.

I imagine everyone was holding their breath

just fearing the next one.

And then, just out of the blue, they stopped.

♪

Berg: Fayetteville is just like any average city,

but it's a military town, so it's very transient.

Woolverton: We've got Fort Bragg.

We have approximately 10% of the Army here.

We get soldiers deployed overseas all the time,

so they wondered if their suspect from these cases

had left town.

Berg: We were just waiting on a match of that DNA.

We really didn't have a whole lot else to go on.

♪

Woolverton: In 2014, I did a profile of Kellie Berg

for The Fayetteville Observer,

and it was six years since the last attack.

She could tell all these details of every one of these cases.

I remember every single victim, and I would call them.

About every six months, I would call everybody.

"Is there anything new?"

"I don't have anything new, but we're still swabbing people,

we're still following up on leads."

If I had to swab all of Fayetteville,

I was gonna swab all of Fayetteville.

These cases just touched me in a way

that none of the other ones did.

I could never put those cases down.

They were officially inactivated,

but I'd always felt like I was working on them,

and, you know, if nothing else,

they were staring at me across from over my desk.

Big, thick binders. They were always there.

Woolverton: Years pass. They had DNA, but no name.

They needed something that could produce the name.

♪

Moore: When I start working a case like this, it's impossible for me

not to harken back to that time in my life

and what I was doing. I was a new mom.

I had Nicky in 2005,

and these crimes started in 2006.

And so it is kind of an odd thing to work on these cases

that happened at a time

where I was not as aware of violent crime.

Fast‐forward to 2018.

All right. I love you.

I love you, too. I'll see you later tonight, bud.

Bye. Okay. Have fun.

Now most of the cases I work involve homicide.

But what's really interesting is, this was my first case

where there were living survivors waiting for answers.

Haschen: I had a migraine that day, so I fell asleep

with one of those, like, squishy pillows on my face.

He grabbed the pillow and grabbed me by the throat

at the same time. I never saw his face.

Hearing the victim in her own words

describe what she went through makes it even more urgent to me.

He ruined a lot of things for me.

I can hear it in her voice, I can see it in her hands,

the effect it's had on her. It really cements my resolve

to use my skills to help law enforcement find answers.

If we can even save one person, then I'm all‐in.

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Moore: Of course, I always want to work on my cases,

but sometimes I have to take a break

to get out there and spread the word. 2.

What are you guys? Woman: 2.

If I can help make these techniques more well‐known

to law enforcement, I get to work more cases. Hi!

CeCe Moore? Yes.

I had never been to CrimeCon or even heard of it

before I was invited to speak there.

Reporter: This is sort of like the meeting

of the crème de la crème of crime aficionados.

I'm speaking in the ballroom downstairs.

Moore: I was a little tentative at first.

Whenever you put yourself out there,

you open yourself up to criticism,

and I've certainly had my fair share.

But I believe deeply in the work that I do with law enforcement.

Oh, it's packed!

And it's important for me to stand up and speak out.

Is that where I'm speaking? Yeah.

Man: One of the things that I want to emphasize... What?

We're in the great city of New Orleans...

Moore: I'm not nervous, but I didn't expect it to be so big,

so that's exciting. Are my lips okay?

Yeah, looks great. Perfect.

If you guys want to walk down this way,

so we're right by the door...

This is a turning point for crime‐solving in America.

Woman: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome

the founder of the DNA Detectives

and Chief Genetic Genealogist at Parabon, CeCe Moore.

Moore: Hi!

[ Cheers and applause ]

Hello! Good to see you all. So, how did we get here?

How did we unlock the immense power of genetic genealogy?

It didn't come from academia.

It didn't come from traditional science.

I don't have a science degree.

I'm like, probably, most of you in this room.

I'll say I felt pretty at home

because I'm coming from this citizen‐scientist background

and they're coming from

a citizen‐detective‐type background.

We should be able to help identify hundreds or thousands

of violent perpetrators over the coming years.

And so it was a gathering of like‐minded people

who try to help find resolution

for these families and the victims.

Meet and Greet, 1 and 2.

I wonder if one of those is mine.

Before I did this for a living, I was an actor.

I think I'm in the right place...?

Yes? [ Laughs ] It is an extremely odd thing

that my earlier career's goal was to become famous.

Oh, wow. I didn't even think about signing.

I used to have to sign "Barbie."

I used to work for Mattel, and they'd dress me up as Barbie.

[ Laughs ]

Then I left that behind, happily...

Thank you very much. Nice to meet you.

...and was very happy to be anonymous

and just pursue my hobby,

which became my passion, which became my job.

So, you worked that Sophie Sergie case?

Yeah, that was my case.

I'm from Fairbanks. Oh, really?

And our community is so grateful to you.

Nobody ever thought it would be solved.

Actually, your presentation is the reason that we're here.

Oh, really? The whole weekend, yeah.

Well, that makes me feel good. Thank you.

Thank you. Appreciate it very much. Thank you for coming out.

It is just such an odd turn of events

to see my earlier dreams realized

in a very different way. [ Camera clicks ]

I guess it's fitting, in a way.

We can never predict what the future holds,

and I'm a really good example of that.

Aren't you gonna go into criminal Justice?

Genetics and forensics, actually. Good for you!

I'm really happy that I decided to do it.

It was a wonderful event.

And I suspect we have a lot of future genetic genealogists

who attended my talk there

that are gonna be looking to learn much more about it.

Thank you so much. Thanks. It's great to meet you.

I feel like I really struck gold in this case

because the detective who took over the investigation in 2015

happened to also be a genealogy buff,

and we became great allies working on this case.

Berg: When I turned the cases over in 2015,

I just wanted a different set of eyes,

and Lieutenant Somerindyke was

absolutely the right person for it.

Somerindyke: So, this case file was sitting

on a bookshelf in my office, all 5,000 pages of it.

You know, to be honest with you, at first, it intimidated me.

A lot of people put a lot of hours in these cases,

and they did everything that could possibly be done

with what was available at the time.

Woolverton: Lieutenant Somerindyke made cold cases a priority,

and if there was any kind of new technology

that might help him solve the case, he would try to use it.

Somerindyke: DNA technology is constantly emerging,

so there were some new things out there

we thought were worth trying out to maybe generate some leads.

Moore: Fayetteville police sent a sample

of the perpetrator's DNA to Parabon NanoLabs

for a new process called phenotyping.

So, traditional forensic DNA analysis treats DNA

as if the only information it contained is identity.

It's like a fingerprint. It's great for matching.

We treat DNA like it's a blueprint.

It actually contains all the information

that built that person,

and if we can find the right parts,

we can figure out what that person most likely looked like.

Somerindyke: I caught a news story on

the DNA phenotyping with the composites.

I think I saw that story in late 2015.

It seemed like a pretty cool thing to try.

Moore: The Ramsey Street Rapist made sure his victims didn't see him.

We didn't have sketches of this perpetrator

until they used the DNA to create a phenotype.

Greytak: When Fayetteville reached out to us,

we analyzed their crime scene DNA

to produce a composite image of the suspect

based on predictions of his eye color,

hair color, skin color, ancestry.

Greytak: So, you're gonna do eyes first? Technician: Yeah.

So, I guess strongest prediction is most consistent for hazel.

We predicted that his eye color

was almost certainly not blue or green ‐‐

it was somewhere in that sort of dark hazel or brown area ‐‐

and that he had fairly dark hair, brown to black hair.

Almost certainly did not have blond hair.

Armentrout: They're not meant to be photo IDs.

They are meant to allow someone

to exclude 90% of the population quickly.

If you think about it, the investigators have to look at

so many potential suspects, and this is a tool to help them

work more efficiently against that list.

Somerindyke: The main thing was to regenerate interest

in this case and hoping maybe some of these characteristics ‐‐

you know, the eye color, the hair color, the skin color,

the ancestry ‐‐ would maybe jog somebody's memory.

Maybe back then, somebody knew something, but now, you know,

they're 10 years older, they're 10 years wiser.

We really hope they're gonna come forward now

and do the right thing and give us information we need

to solve these cases.

I was very confident and cocky during that press conference.

You know, I guaranteed an arrest.

I want you to get a good look at these.

Go ahead and zoom in on them if you want to.

These are the handcuffs going on the Ramsey Street suspect

his last day of freedom.

I can only hope that he's gonna see this telecast,

'cause my message to him is, you need to be worried,

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Moore: In my work, I'm isolated.

I'm working out of California, at my laptop.

I don't always have the opportunity to interact

with the other parties involved in these cases.

So, this is Ramsey Street, huh? Definitely not what I imagined.

Doesn't look even slightly threatening.

Lots of businesses, people, traffic, churches.

It's hard to imagine this was the location of nightmares

for so many women.

♪

It is very exciting to meet the detectives

that had dedicated their careers to solving these cold cases.

Hey, CeCe. How you doing? [ Laughing ] Hi!

Welcome to Fayetteville.

Good to see you. Good to see you, too.

Come on in. I'm so happy to see you.

And Detective Somerindyke was special

because he already had some genealogy background.

He had already done the phenotype with Parabon,

and he was really invested in the process.

What did you think of that when you saw it?

I mean, you've been looking for him for a long time.

Yeah, yeah, it's really interesting.

Kind of put a face to the concept of the Ramsey Street Rapist.

Somerindyke: December of 2016, we put those composites out.

That did generate quite a few leads,

but none of them panned out.

We never received an offender hit.

It's just a waiting game.

Armentrout: And over the course of the next year,

that's when genetic genealogy came on to the scene.

The first time I heard of the term "genetic genealogy"

was with the Golden State Killer case.

Reporter: DNA recovered from a double‐murder scene

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Somerindyke: I got the news alert, and I almost fell out of my chair

in my office, 'cause I knew this was a sound methodology.

I consider myself a very, very amateur genealogist,

but it really just helped me. It really helps.

Yeah, it really helped me, you know, put it in perspective

and to visualize it a little bit better.

You know, I've been working on my family tree since college.

I didn't really get into doing ancestry DNA

until my wife chose to do it in December of 2017

in an effort to identify her birth parents.

She accidentally found out as an adult that she was adopted.

Oh, so they hadn't told her. They didn't tell her.

And she had always wondered who she looked like,

and I think some dead relative who died several years ago

I think is what she was always told. [ Laughing ] Yeah, right.

I'm sorry ‐‐ that's bad.

And you did it from her DNA results?

Right, from the ancestry DNA results.

And then I think we researched

and actually found a picture of her birth mother,

and we held it up to a picture of her when she was about 20.

It's like, "Okay, that's her. There's no doubt that's her."

So then I just cold‐called her.

You did? From my office one day.

I just laid it out to her, and she said,

"Yeah, that's me," and was willing to talk to my wife,

and, I mean, they talked for three hours that night.

So you had just had your own successful identification.

Yeah, and a week later, the Golden State Killer case.

That is really interesting. Yeah, it was perfect timing.

We were doing genetic genealogy and didn't realize it.

Hearing about how

Detective Somerindyke and his wife had used genetic genealogy

to resolve a really core mystery in their family is exciting.

He understands how powerful genetic genealogy is.

Really, this case, if you think about it,

started when we had a good nurse who did her job

and got that DNA from the crime scene,

you know, or the victim's body. That's a great point.

It all started with the SANE nurse.

Moore: If somebody had not collected that physical evidence,

that DNA, I would never be involved in these cases,

and I would never be able

to help identify those perpetrators.

Do you know Liz Herring? Yeah, absolutely.

If she hadn't have collected that DNA,

we wouldn't be here right now.

I'm excited to hear her perspective on all this.

It's really important for me to learn as much as I can

when I have the opportunity. Every little clue helps.

Every additional piece of information that I gain

helps me to get better and better at this work.

Moore: What exactly is a SANE?

So, SANE is a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner.

You want somebody there that's been trained

to collect that forensic evidence.

I think we owe that to the victims.

So, when a victim comes in, what's your first goal?

We try to provide a very quiet environment,

not to re‐victimize that victim.

That's our primary focus. Of course.

Once they feel some safety and support,

we can carry on with their medical forensic exam.

This is pretty much the standard kit.

It's all boxed up like this. Right.

You're swabbing to try to get semen?

Is that the main goal?

Even if it's an attempted assault,

DNA has come such a long way

that if she says "He grabbed me here," we can collect touch DNA.

Wow. Can you show me?

So, yeah, I'm gonna show you on myself. Okay.

So, we would actually put a very small amount of sterile water,

and you're going to roll. Oh.

And the reason you're going to roll is,

you don't want to do this and obliterate the DNA.

I didn't realize quite how in‐depth it is.

The more injuries they have, the more photographs I need,

the more swabs I need.

It may take me a really long time.

You know, it has to be done,

but it must be very difficult for the victims.

They're tired, exhausted.

They just want to put this behind them.

And for that five hours, we're asking them

to continuously tell us what happened

and we're collecting evidence.

It is very difficult for that victim, yes.

Moore: It's incredibly hard for victims of sexual assault

to come forward, let alone speak publicly about their ordeals.

But that is just what the anonymous survivor

from the online video decided to do.

♪

Haschen: The day after, I went back to school

to kind of tell my advisor and all my teachers,

"Look," you know, "This is happening. I'm withdrawing."

And...

I think I was still in shock from the actual incident,

but more or less, like, okay,

this aspect of my life now has kind of been taken from me.

Moore: This is something where

a person's sense of security has been invaded.

I don't think you would ever have a true moment of peace

to not have the answers as to who did this to you

and where they are right now.

For a long time, if I was out and there was a big crowd

and I didn't know a lot of the people there,

it was just a constant stress and looking over my shoulder,

and I almost feel like there was a pause button

put on my life when all this happened.

So I've kind of been stuck.

Moore: I needed to be able to help Detective Somerindyke

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peace that they hadn't had for years.

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Somerindyke: Parabon already had our suspect DNA on hand,

so they were ready to do the screening immediately.

So, two days after the Golden State Killer arrests,

the Fayetteville Police Department

was in the genetic genealogy business.

Once we have the data, what we do is upload it to GEDmatch.

GEDmatch takes our unknown person's DNA

and compares it to all those people in the database

who have opted in to law enforcement matching,

and the amount of shared DNA

tells us approximately how closely related they are.

Then we hand it off to CeCe, and that's when she gets to work.

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Moore: All right, we're in uncharted waters here.

This is an ongoing court case.

That means that I cannot go into the details.

So, we are going to have to drive down Hypothetical Street.

Names will have to be changed,

but I still would like to be able to explain

some of the foundational concepts.

So, let's just say I had 10 promising matches,

but it turned out that the 10 matches

were all super closely related to each other,

which told me that they were part of one genetic network.

I'm not building 10 different family trees. I'm building one.

Losing my jacket. So, let's say, hypothetically,

they shared enough DNA to be first cousins once removed.

Those are good matches.

I shouldn't have to build the family tree too far back

to find the common ancestors.

People assume that I'm spending a lot of time

on GEDmatch, but I'm not.

GEDmatch is giving me some of the puzzle pieces,

but I can't put them together on GEDmatch.

I have to go elsewhere to do that.

I have to go do family tree building.

I have to look at newspaper archives, census records,

birth records, death records, obituaries, social media.

Shh. Don't tell anyone.

I'm looking at their Facebook pages.

I find this particular ancestral couple ‐‐

I'm gonna call them Fred ‐‐ made‐up name ‐‐ and Wanda.

Normally, I would share some astounding historical facts

with you about Fred and Wanda.

[ Gasps ] But there's Wanda!

Isn't she pretty?

You'll never know, 'cause I can't tell you.

So, you get the point ‐‐

theoretical, theoretical, theoretical. Concepts are real.

This is what I do in my work every single day.

Let's say Fred and Wanda have five kids ‐‐

Jack, Sid, Yvonne, Tony, and Flora.

You're probably wondering, "Where did she come up

with the name Flora?" That's gonna remain my secret.

They've got five kids, but they are not the right age

to be our suspect.

So I've got to go forward another generation.

So we've got Mary, Jen, Eva, Tim, Sam, Erin, Ann, Louise.

Okay.

Do the matches to the unknown suspect

share the right amount of DNA?

No. So we got to go another generation forward.

It's just gonna kill me to have to make up even more names.

All right, we have nine possibilities at this level.

Bob, Chris, Ron, Jean, Anna, Amber, Paige, Allison, and Jeff.

All made up. Aren't I creative?

Are the people at this generation level

at the right relationship compared to the matches? Yes.

Are any of these people male?

Sorry, ladies. You're out.

What does that leave us with? Jeff... Ron... and Bob.

Are they the right age?

Ron was too young at the time of the crime.

Same with Jeff.

Aha! What do we have left? Bob.

Initially, I thought,

"Oh, well, that's great. We went from nine to one.

Terrific."

But there were some problems here.

I had a phenotyping prediction that told me

the suspect was highly likely to have brown eyes.

What color are Bob's eyes?

In all of his social media photos, he was blue‐eyed Bob.

So when Parabon does the phenotype,

they can't say 100% this person has brown eyes,

so it's possible it's still Bob,

but I suspected there was a misattributed parentage

in this part of the tree.

I've worked on so many unknown parentage cases

in my career,

and so I'd say it's an educated instinct

that made me doubt whether my theoretical Bob

was actually related genetically to this couple, Fred and Wanda.

But it wasn't something that I could access

from my computer at home.

Fortunately, with Detective Somerindyke,

I had someone who did have some experience in genealogy.

Very quickly, he got access to records

that proved this person was not genetically related

to any of those matches.

He was related to that family through adoption.

And that was so important

because it eliminated him entirely.

But it meant we were out of potential suspects.

All of this and this and this and this is gone.

So I have to go back to what I started with.

What I do know is that the suspect has to be carrying

the ancestral DNA from Fred's family and Wanda's family.

How else can I get that right mix?

So where are we? We've got Fred, we've got Wanda.

[ Sighs ] Let's see.

Families are complicated.

We very often see brothers marrying sisters.

Not their own sisters ‐‐ two brothers from one family

marrying two sisters from another family.

and it makes sense, right? Because if Fred and Wanda marry,

their siblings are gonna meet each other.

Let's call Fred's relative George

and Wanda's relative Mathilda. They decide to get married.

We've still got a mix of Fred's ancestral DNA

and Wanda's ancestral DNA, but it's a whole new family.

So who are George and Mathilda's descendants?

To find who shares the right amount of DNA

with the unknown suspect,

I have to come forward the same number of generations.

And the great‐grandchildren are Violet and Mike.

These people would share

approximately the right amount of DNA with the matches.

Is our suspect a woman? No! Violet's out.

That leaves us with one single person left.

♪

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it led me right to someone who was in the right place,

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and even the right eye color

to finally be the Ramsey Street Rapist.

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Moore: It was 2:00 a. m. Pacific Time,

and I wanted to get his name to Detective Somerindyke

as fast as possible.

So, you know, I'm an early riser.

I got up at 5:00 in the morning.

I had my to‐do list of things that I was gonna go pull

from the State Vital Records archives.

And so I sent... I had an e‐mail from CeCe...

...in big letters that said "Stop the presses"... ...said "Stop the presses.

Do not go to Raleigh. Call me first."

I had given him another task

where he was gonna have to drive hours away.

So I replied back to her, "Okay, yeah,

when I get in at about 8:00, I'll call you."

She immediately replied back...

"Call me!" ..."Call me now."

We finally had that conversation

where I was able to give him the identity of the person

that I strongly believed was his Ramsey Street Rapist.

CeCe gave me the name Darold Wayne Bowden.

♪

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that this was gonna be the guy.

Moore: Of course, they have to verify my findings,

but all of the evidence was pointing in one direction ‐‐

to Harnett County,

right where that Peeping Tom incident had occurred,

and squarely at him.

♪

Somerindyke: So, we gathered some intel on him.

Darold Wayne Bowden was 42 years old.

He lived in this area his whole life.

I saw that he had a lot of minor crimes, a lot of thefts.

Just a lot of interactions with law enforcement,

in and out of trouble his entire adult life.

Moore: My focus is, obviously, on the genetic genealogy evidence,

but once it leads to a potential suspect,

I'm always looking to see if that person makes sense.

Do they fit?

At least one of the victims had said he smelled like motor oil.

He had social media,

and I could see that he loved working on cars.

Somerindyke: The more we looked into him, the more

everything kind of matched up, it was all coming together.

And he was there ‐‐ he was living in the area

just right off of Ramsey Street,

5 miles north of the city limits.

Moore: At this point, there's nothing else I can do,

and I have to wait for the detective

to either prove or disprove my theory.

They are going to do that traditional investigative work

to see if this person makes sense, and ultimately,

does DNA that they collect match their original genetic profile?

[ Police radio chatter ]

Somerindyke: A plan was put together to lawfully obtain his DNA.

I don't know exactly what they did.

From what I've seen in prior cases,

when you dump your trash, your trash kind of becomes

open season for anybody who wants to get it.

Somerindyke: We brought that DNA that was lawfully obtained

from him to the State Crime Lab,

where they did the one‐on‐one comparison of his DNA

and the DNA on file collected from the crime scenes.

♪

The forensic biology supervisor called me

with his staff who worked on the case.

♪

They were excited to tell me it was a match.

I mean, I admit I had a little bit of a moment to myself

after that phone call. [ Laughs ]

So, yeah, that was a good feeling.

Darold Wayne Bowden had already been arrested many times

and had many, many charges,

but they just never led to DNA collection.

Somerindyke: He had a felony conviction in the '90s,

spent a little bit of time in prison,

but it was before the state of North Carolina

mandated DNA collection for felony.

Woolverton: If they had been collecting DNA,

they might have found him much sooner.

They might have found him after the first one.

Somerindyke: He barely avoided that DNA radar for his entire life.

We were close so many times.

Just, the law wasn't there to collect his DNA yet.

Moore: He wasn't a soldier deployed overseas, and he hadn't died.

In fact, he was nearby and in plain sight.

He lived just a few miles away, one turn off Ramsey Street.

Somerindyke: You have to get him 'cause until he's in handcuffs,

it's still an unsolved case, as far as I'm concerned.

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Moore: I was on pins and needles because you never know

with someone that is capable of this type of crime

what they might do when confronted.

Somerindyke: Because he lived outside of our jurisdiction,

we did enlist the help of the United States Marshals Service

and our Violent Criminal Apprehension team.

They really put a lot of effort into making sure he didn't flee.

[ Camera shutter clicking ]

One of the US Marshals took that photo

literally seconds after he was handcuffed,

so that's a true, on‐scene, right‐after‐it‐happened picture.

♪

Woolverton: On August 22nd of 2018,

the Fayetteville Police Department

arrested Darold Wayne Bowden as the Ramsey Street Rapist.

[ Camera shutter clicking ]

[ Telephone dialing ]

Berg: Lieutenant Somerindyke called me and said, "We got him."

It was just like a sucker punch.

It was like, you're elated, and then you're shocked,

and it's just everything all at once.

Yeah, it was pretty exciting. I looked at my cellphone,

and I had two missed calls from Lieutenant Somerindyke,

and I call him, and he answers the phone

and all he says is, "We got him."

I dropped to my knees, and I hadn't said anything yet,

and he said, "Do you realize what I'm saying? We got him."

Reporter: Breaking news happening right now in Fayetteville.

Police make an arrest in a series of attacks

that happened more than a decade ago.

If you remember two years ago, I was standing up here

guaranteeing we were gonna make an arrest in this case.

I think some of you were in the room then.

And so here we are ‐‐ we made an arrest.

Woolverton: I mean, it was huge.

They had a big press conference

to announce they made the arrest.

Reporter: Police conducted three separate sting operations

involving Bowden to get his DNA

and then match it with the DNA found at the crime scene.

You know, I think for three years,

I've poured my heart and soul

in these and a lot of our other cases, too.

I'm sorry. Just...

And, you know, I'm just glad we got the guy finally.

Yeah, I think it just was the excitement, the emotion,

the elation finally setting in.

Yeah, it was like, "Man, damn. Yeah, we did it," you know?

Prosecutor: Your Honor, the defendant would be a danger to the community.

He is alleged to have committed...

Somerindyke: Darold Wayne Bowden is currently being held

at the Cumberland County Detention Center

on over 40 felony charges.

Woolverton: His bail was nearly $19 million.

This looks like the cops have a very strong case

against Darold Wayne Bowden.

Somerindyke: We anticipate it going to trial.

[ Keyboard clacking ]

Moore: When Kobi first reached out to me,

it was a big surprise. It hadn't even crossed my mind

that I would hear from a survivor

on one of the law enforcement cases

that I've been involved in.

[ Doorbell rings ]

Hi! Hi!

It's so nice to see you. You too.

Kobi is the first survivor I have ever met,

and that is definitely unique. How have you been feeling?

That same day after the arrest, almost instantly, it was like

there was this weight that I didn't really even realize

I'd been carrying around for so long that just kind of

lifted off my shoulders. Really?

Yeah. Did you think he'd ever be caught?

I didn't want to say I lost hope,

but my hopes kind of dwindled over the years.

You know, I do still have those "What if"s. Mm‐hmm.

Would I be married and have kids by now?

What would have been different

if none of this would have happened?

Did it ever cross your mind not to report it when it happened?

No.

You knew you were going to? Yeah.

Also, because I was studying criminal justice at the time,

there was never any doubt that I was gonna make sure

I could do whatever I could to catch this guy.

She was so brave

that she not only protected her roommate and friend,

but she also was going public to help other survivors.

It's time for something to change. It needs to happen.

Each interview I've done, I'll get messages,

"I just wanted you to know this happened to me,

and I'm happy you came forward,

'cause not everybody can do that."

And the thing is, for every person you hear from,

there's many more out there that you are not hearing from,

so your impact is much, much larger

than I think you even realize.

I do feel like I'm starting to get that closure.

It's almost like I got a reset button,

like I can start over, and now I can kind of move forward

and become the person

that I should have been a long time ago.

Somerindyke: With all of our cold case victims,

they are always looking over their shoulder, wondering,

"Is a suspect watching me? Is a suspect following me?"

But, you know, I think we're starting to see a shift now

with a lot of arrests in the cold case community.

Now the suspects are the ones saying,

"Are the police following me? Are the police watching me?

Are the police gonna get me?"

And my answer to them now is "Heck yeah, we are."

Moore: When I was first interacting

with Detective Somerindyke on this case,

I really had had very limited exposure to law enforcement.

Although a year isn't very long, I do feel a bit like a veteran

of investigative genetic genealogy at this point.

A lot has transpired.

[ Chuckles ]

Kind of amazing.

Somerindyke: I really think law enforcement

should get on board with genetic genealogy.

It's a game changer.

Not just for cold cases ‐‐ for current cases, too.

We can be using it, putting a lot of bad people in jail.

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