| Breaking News | |
| Season 08, Episode 19 | |
| Air Date | August 31, 2003 |
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Breaking News refers to episode 19 of the Season 8 of the television series Forensic Files which was broadcast for the first time on August 31, 2003.
Plot summary[]
A young TV news producer is raped and murdered in her apartment. Police identify two suspects, but both are cleared of any wrongdoing.
The case stalls for more than a year, and then investigators turn to the Commonwealth of Virginia's DNA Databank which houses profiles of more than 8,000 convicted felons, and is the first of its kind in the nation. A comparison of the crime scene evidence with the Databank profiles results in Virginia's first cold hit in a homicide investigation, and reveals the identity of the killer.