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out of puerto rico into -- as rick santorum heads into the next two primaries. somewhat the opposite for mitt romney trying to gain the upper hand. hes now in puerto rico, where santorum may have offended some spanish speaker, romney is courting them in their own language. jim a costa is in san juan. whats the latest from there, jim? >> reporter: candy, mitt romney is in puerto rico for a series of events. after rick santorums trip to this island, the trick is pretty simple. dont get l...

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Nobody went to check her gun, even though they knew that she was the jilted ex-girlfriend and the family said, look at her she probably did it. jenna: if you were the forensic expert on this case, what other questions would you ask. what would you want to bring in other than the dna evidence on the bite mark. >> the other thing would be to compare the bullets to the gun, which they could have done for a few weeks before she said it was stolen. check her alibi, where she was on that day. jenna: s...

Accusing me of this? is that what you are saying? >> by the way i said sextillion thats 17 zeros. the bullets came from a gun that was owned by her in the 1980s, shep. >> i dont know how many that interrogation video is going to help her there im curious what the defense strategy. >> knock down the d.n.a. they are saying 25 years later that is a sasa live have a test. bite mark on the victims arm does not match the teeth of lazarus. she is a former detective. watch again how she is interrogated ...

Trace gallagher has this story los angeles newsplex this afternoon. this comes down to one big piece of evidence. >> and that piece of evidence, shep, is a bite mark on the victims arm that police long thought was caused by a man until the d.n.a. lab dropped a bombshell saying no the bite was actually caused by a many would. so then l.a.p.d. detectives began following one of their colleagues, stefanie lazarus. took a cup she bite got a probable match. the prosecutors say the odds of it not be la...

2009 when the d.n.a. testing pointed investigators toward this woman, the former detective from los angeles police department. this woman killed the victim because she married the man this woman loved. trace has the news from los angeles. what is the key evidence, trace? >>trace: a bite mark that was never identified and police all along thought it was the bite mark from a man until it said, no, it was from a woman so her colleagues, the detectives followed her around until they found a cup she ...

He was able to walk some distances. hes a lot stronger than he looks. over the next few weeks we learned many things about ken. he was a heavy drinker, and he had a violent personality. >> second was his great granddaughter he thought the world of. >> his one goal became setting things up so she would be taken care of. >> and third was a business deal. >> for his parcel of property that would result in a substantial income to be placed in a trust fund for her. >> it might have been the reason or...

>> so tell me -- >> if i had anything to do with it, i had to snap. >> well -- >> because i certainly dont know a thing about it. >> ken didnt give an explanation for the bite mark that made any sense. he stuck to the thing that he just bruises easy. he just said he didnt remember if she had bit him, i dont remember. it is what it is. loretta bit you on your forearm, and her dna is present at the bite site. >> well -- >> and the only way that could happen is if yall was having a fight. theres no...

Conclusive. it wasnt enough to show that it was loretta beechlers dna, but there was enough to show it was a female dna in the area of a mark we thought would be a bite mark. thats the kind of stuff were looking for. its good stuff. >> a few weeks after we got the results back on the dna, we got some even more important information back. we finally got the results about whether or not the bruises on kens arm matched lorettas teeth. when we come back, with the clues piling up against the victim...

though the articles rarely carried a byline they were written in the first person and in random publications such as the ron paul political report and the ron paul survival report. now this all flared up about three years ago when the liberal new republic did the story. more recently, though, the same reporter writing for the conservative weekly standard flushed out even more details, as have new york organizations from "the new york times" to cnn. what weve all uncovered are items lik...