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But whose was it? the medical examiner ordered devons body to be exhumed for a sample of her bite impressions. >> well, this is the first time that ive ever been asked to secure dental impressions of a deceased victim, especially one who has been exhumed. i had never done it before. and im not quite certain if i know of anybody else in my field who has done it before. >> dr. scanlon took a cast of devons teeth like an orthodontist does when making braces, then scanned the casts into a computer. ...

Look at that bite mark? that young man is lucky he didnt lose that leg. a lot of people arent quite that lucky. we have people that have been bitten and lost limbs. nine attacks off the coast of north carolina. this holiday weekend, going into the fourth of july weekend, a lot of people want to hit the beach in north carolina and south carolina. instead, they are facing this. a lot of people are brave and going to go in anyway. i imagine that the people who make their living off these beaches th...

Identification lab at mount sinai hospital in new york city. a single bite mark can be enough to crack a case. swab the pizza to get as much dna from the crust. >> reporter: investigators lightly tested a crumb. first a machine separates out the dna. then the sample is amplified. millions of copies made to make the sample large enough to be seen with the help of another machine. >> its called a dna fingerprint. to solve the case that finger sprint can be added to or matched in a federal data bas...

Daron wint is being held without bail for the murders of the d.c. family found tide up and burned in their d.c. mansion. how the key piece of defense, a pizza crust led to the suspect. >> reporter: it is potentially the smoking gun, pizza box found at the scene. inside crust that investigators say connects daron wint to a heinous crime. this is a pretty good find for an investigator. >> yeah. >> reporter: the doctor runs a dna identification lab at mount sinai hospital in york city. he says a si...

Over there and got a drink of water? >> his left hand was covered with recently healed scars, as if he had been in a knife fight. >> the scars werent lined up all along the same plane. they were kind of going every which way. >> and police had a secret weapon. the bite mark on sarahs body. would it match kosouls teeth? so if ydead battery,t tire, need a tow or lock your keys in the car, geicos emergency roadside assistance is there 24/7. oh dear, i got a flat tire. hmmm. uh... yeah, can you find...

Thanks to an eyewitness and forensic hypnosis, investigators now had a suspect in the murder of sarah walker. 25-year-old kosoul chanthakoummane. although he denied any involvement, prosecutors were convinced that he was the killer. >> kosoul was a psychopath and a sociopath. by that i mean, no matter where he is, hes always thinking about himself first. all about him. what can he get for himself and do for himself? and others? others are to be used for his pleasure and his needs. >> since the p...

The medical examiner ordered devons body to be exhumed for a sample of her bite impressions. >> well, this is the first time that ive ever been asked to secure dental impressions of a deceased victim, especially one who has been exhumed. i had never done it before. and im not quite certain if i know of anybody else in my field who has done it before. >> dr. scanlon took a cast of devons teeth like an orthodontist does when making braces, then scanned the casts into a computer. using a process ca...

Pad with alternate light sources, which can provide much more information than an examination with normal white light. >> if you look at the gauze pad under white light and you see absolutely nothing, you may go to an alternate light source and find a material which has oozed from the bite mark that does react to the alternate light source. >> under the alternate light source, an image appeared on the bandage. >> the shape of the image on the bandages was elliptical. it had the same type of meas...

But at a church in nearby edinburgh, father feit would be accused of sexually assaulting this young woman, maria america guerra. the 20-year-old woman told police she came into the church, which was empty at the time, to pray. the communion rail used to be right up here near the chairs. she knelt down, and then she was attacked by a man. she told police he had dark hair and horned-rim glasses. she bit him in the finger and drew blood, and then she ran away. father feit matched maria america guer...

Agency conduct an investigation. they filed a report. they even had an outside expert that cost the state almost $20,000 involved in compiling the report. and based on the evidence, based on the law, what the district attorney said, he said in his opinion, theres a justifiable self-defense claim here and i cannot overcome it at a trial. i cant prove this case. >> meaning, sure, why dont we take this to trial and spend all the state tax dollars trying this guy when i can tell you definitely this ...