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A video recording that was thought to contain a woman's confession that she was the driver who hit and killed a Lexington police officer showed only an "explicit sexual episode," according to the Fayette commonwealth's attorney's office.

The possible existence of a taped confession came to light Monday during a court hearing for Glenn Doneghy, who is charged with murder in Bryan Durman's death.

An inmate at the Fayette County Detention Center told a jail guard he had videotaped the woman talking about the fatal incident, Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Lori Boling said at Monday's hearing.

One or more videotapes were retrieved Wednesday by Lexington police with help from the prisoner's attorney, according to a document filed by Commonwealth's Attorney Ray Larson's office in Fayette Circuit Court. Police transferred the information to a DVD and provided a copy to Doneghy's attorneys Thursday.

"Although the witness in question can be clearly seen on the video in what can only be described as an explicit sexual episode with another individual, there is no mention of the facts of this case whatsoever on the video," the commonwealth's attorney's court document said about the recordings that were retrieved.

DNA evidence found on the steering wheel of the vehicle that hit and killed Lexington police Officer Bryan Durman last year matches the DNA of a woman whom police apparently ruled out last fall as a possible suspect in Durman's death, says a defense attorney for the man accused of murder in the case.

The woman, who goes by the nickname "Juicy," is the same woman alleged to be on a recently made video recording admitting she was the driver who hit Durman.

"Her DNA is on the steering wheel of Glenn Doneghy's car," defense attorney Kate Dunn said during a hearing Monday in Fayette Circuit Court.

Dunn can be heard on a video recording of the hearing that was made available afterward. Some details about the woman, her DNA and the alleged taped confession, which were discussed by attorneys and the judge Monday, could not be heard by the public then because of a machine at the judge's bench that drowns out conversations.

The woman's actual name was not revealed.