00:00Jess. Nolan. Do you have a minute?
00:07So, um, Laura Kingsbury's mother called me and said that you booked her for this Central Park shooting?
00:14And I'm just, I'm trying to make sense of this. I know this woman, and she's not a killer, she's actually a victim.
00:23Of what?
00:24Of rape.
00:26Laura Kingsbury was brutally raped. I probably haven't talked to her for a year at least, but back then I helped her and her family navigate an extraordinarily difficult time.
00:39Because no one would listen to her.
00:42We didn't know about the sexual assault.
00:45Because they never took her report. That's how this whole thing started.
00:48I understand, but that doesn't change what happened three years later.
00:51But what I'm trying to say is that something's not right here. I think there's some sort of a mistake.
00:56There's no mistake. We're all pros here. We're all on the same line of work.
01:02The evidence is there. We found the murder weapon in her apartment, her DNA on the victim's wallet.
01:06DNA? Why would her DNA even be in the federal database?
01:10It wasn't. We ran it through the local.
01:13The local database? So that's how you connected her to the wallet?
01:18Correct.
01:20The only reason that she's in that database is because she was raped.
01:25Because she gave us a sample for her rape kit.
01:28We have to use every tool available to catch killers, and the database is helpful. It helps us close cases, murder cases, sexual assault cases.
01:37I understand that, but I have fought this fight before, and I think that we can all agree that that database is an ethical mess.
01:46That's your opinion.
01:47No, that is a fact. If Laura Kingsbury knew that her DNA was being used in this capacity, who knows what she would have done or not done.
01:55And that is the real problem. If word gets out, if women find out that their DNA is being used in some rogue database,
02:04they might not come forward. They might not consent to a rape kit.
02:08It's not ideal. I agree, but Laura's case is highly unusual,
02:13and the majority of sexual assault victims do not end up in the local database.
02:17These are all valid points, noble arguments, but none of it changes the fact that Laura Kingsbury murdered someone.
02:23We have the evidence, and that evidence is legal.
02:28Well, let's see what a judge has to say about that.
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