AFTER
AFTER NEARLY FOUR DECADES -- A NAMPA FAMILY IS GETTING SOME
ANSWERS AS TO WHO
MAY HAVE KILLED THEIR
NINE YEAR OLD
DAUGHTER.
DARALYN JOHNSON WAS
WALKING TO SCHOOL IN
FEBRUARY OF 1982 WHEN
SHE WENT MISSING.
TODAY -- THE CANYON
COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
AND PROSECUTING
ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
ANNOUNCED THEY'RE
CHARGING 62 YEAR OLD
DAVID DALRYMPLE
WITH FIRST DEGREE
MURDER AND RAPE.
JOEY PRECHTL IS IN
CALDWELL TONIGHT
WHERE A NEWS
CONFERENCE WAS HELD
EARLIER TODAY.
JOEY?
JOEY?
KIM
KIM --
KIM -- IT
KIM -- IT WAS AT THAT CONFERENCE WHERE WE LEARNED THE SHERIFFS
OFFICE USED D-N-A
EVIDENCE TO NAME DAVID
DALRYMPLE AS THEIR
PRIMARY SUSPECT.
THEY SAID HAIR FOUND
ON THE VICTIM'S BODY
MATCHED HIM.
THIS IS A DAY THAT A
LOCAL FAMILY HAS BEEN
WAITING FOR. OVER
NEARLY FOUR DECADES.
IT'S A DAY THAT IN TIME
WILL SEE WRONGS
RIGHTED AND JUSTICE
SERVED.
ITS A DAY THAT CANYON
COUNTRY PROSECUTOR
BRYAN TAYLOR
ANNOUNCED HE IS
CHARGING THIS MAN --
62 YEAR OLD DAVID
DALRYMPLE WITH FIRST
DEGREE MURDER AND
RAPE.
DALRYMPLE IS CURRENTLY
SERVING A 20 TO LIFE
SENTENCE IN KUNA FOR
AN UNRELATED CRIME.
WE'RE LOOKING
FORWARD TO ENSURING
JUSTICE FOR DARALYN
AND THE JOHNSON
FAMILY.
IN 1982 -- 9 YEAR OLD
DARALYN JOHNSON WAS
WALKING
WALKING TO THEN LINCOLN ELEMENTARY. INSTEAD -- POLICE SAY
SHE MADE IT ABOUT HALF
A BLOCK. TO THE
INTERSECTION OF
GREENLEAF AND HIGH.
SHE NEVER MADE IT TO
SCHOOL THAT DAY.
THREE
THREE DAYS LATER, DARALYN JOHNSON'S DECEASED BODY WAS
FOUND BY A GROUP OF
FISHERMAN IN A
SHALLOW DRAIN DITCH.
SHE HAD BEEN RAPED
AND BEATEN.
THE ORIGINAL SUSPECT --
CHARLES FAIN -- WAS
EXONERATED AFTER
SERVING 18 YEARS ON
DEATH ROW LINKED TO
CHARGES IN THIS CASE.
NONE OF THIS COULD BE
DONE SINGLEHANDEDLY.
IT TOOK DECADES AND
EFFORTS OF MANY
INDIVIDUALS TO GET US
TO WHERE WE ARE TODAY.
THIS MAN -- GREG
HAMPIKIAN -- IS ONE OF
THOSE INDIVIDUALS THAT
HELPED THE CASE. HES
THE CO-DIRECTOR OF THE
IDAHO INNOCENCE
PROJECT.
WE MAPPED OUT A
STRATEGY OF HOW YOU
CAN USE THAT HAIR IF
THEY GOT ANY DNA FROM
OTHER
OTHER SUSPECTS, HAIR OR OTHERWISE, WE COULD COMPARE WHAT'S CALLED
MITOCHONDRIAL DNA
THAT YOU CAN GET FROM
A HAIR.
THEY TESTED HAIR THAT
INVESTIGATORS
COLLECTED OFF
JOHNSON'S BODY.
THEY WERE ABLE TO LOOK
AT DNA FROM THE
SUSPECTS BROTHER AND
SAY YEAH THAT DNA IS
CONSISTENT WITH THE
HAIR THAT WAS
RECOVERED AND THEN
THEY WERE ABLE TO
FINALLY WITH A WARRANT
FROM THE SUSPECT.
AND
AND JUST
AND JUST LAST WEEK -- THE SHERIFFS OFFICE GOT A REPORT CONFIRMING
THE EVIDENCE.
ITS ABSOLUTELY
ITS ABSOLUTELY
THRILLING
THRILLING TO SEE A STRATEGY THAT WE MAPPED OUT SIX SEVEN
YEARS AGO, AND THE
DETECTIVES WORKED THIS
REALLY HARD AND THEY
WERE ABLE TO FIND THE
ACTUAL PERSON WHO
MATCHED THE DNA AT A
STRONG STATISTIC.
THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE
BELIEVES
BELIEVES THERE ARE MORE VICTIMS THOUGH. THROUGH THE
INVESTIGATION -- THE
CANYON COUNTY
SHERIFF'S OFFICE TOLD US
THEY FOUND TWO OTHER
VICTIMS OF DALRYMPLE.
BOTH OF THEM ARE A
SIMILAR AGE TO DARALYN
JOHNSON.
NEITHER OF THE VICTIMS
REPORTED THE ALLEGED
SEXUAL ASSAULT TO LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
SO THE SHERIFF IS ASKING
THE PUBLIC IF THEY HAVE
ANY INFO ON THOSE
CASES OR ANOTHER CASE
-- TO CALL HIS OFFICE OR
CRIMESTOPPERS AND
REPORT IT.
KIM?
THANKS JOEY.
AS FOR THE MAN
WRONGLY CONVICTED,
CHARLES FAIN.
HE WAS 34 YEAR OLD AT
THE TIME.
THE IDAHO INNOCENCE
PROJECT SAYS FAIN WAS
FOUND GUILTY BASED ON
TESTIMONY OF A FBI
FORENSIC SCIENTIST WHO
CONCLUDED THAT FAIN'S
HAIR WAS
MICROSCOPICALLY
SIMILAR TO THE HAIR
RECOVERED FROM
DARALYN'S BODY.
THAT TYPE OF FORENSIC
TEST IS NOW CONSIDERED
JUNK SCIENCE, BUT WAS
ACCEPTED BACK IN 19-82.
OVER TIME, FORENSIC
SCIENCE ADVANCED
EXPONENTIALLY -- AND IN
2000, DNA TESTS ON THE
HAIR EXCLUDED FAIN AS A
SUSPECT.
HIS EXONERATION IN 2001
HELPED INSPIRE THE
CREATION OF THE IDAHO
INNONCENCE PROJECT.
THE 73-YEAR-OLD
VIETNAM VET USED TO
VOLUNTEER FOR THE