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Can you give us some color that we didnt see in that courtroom? >> as you said earlier it was really emotional, quite traumat traumatic. remember this is the 12th anniversary of oscar pistorius mothers death. so to hear the gruesome quite graphic details, the doctor was describing what he saw. and as he walked into the house, reeva steenkamp he said was lying on her back, oscar had one hand over a wound in her thigh. his other hand two fingers in her mouth trying to clear her airways, but she ha...

Steam cleaned the camper and got rid of the cot to hide the forensic evidence. but the brain tissue convinced medical experts that brad was dead. all prosecutors had to do was convince a jury of that. >> as a prosecutor, clearly you want to make damn sure that this is the right guy and there has been a murder. i cant think of anything worse than being in a position of finding out you convicted the wrong person. >> larry moore denied killing brad brisbin and pleaded not guilty. prosecutors argued...

And the sample had both small granular cells and larger purkinje cells. this meant only one thing. this was muscle. but they wanted a second opinion. >> so they sent this tissue to a fellow named mike collin who is a neuropathologist in ohio. he looked at it and said, yeah, its mammal and its cerebellum. its the brain stem. >> the cerebellum sits at the base of the brain and is primarily responsible for memory and motor movement. since the cerebellum controls the heart muscle, no human can survi...

>> next, scientists tested the tiny fragment of brain tissue. it was too small for rflp testing since it was about the size of a pinhead. so scientists amplified it, using pcr, a process that duplicates a small sample to make it large enough to test. the pcr dna tests revealed that the brain tissue in larry moores camper was brad brisbins. >> i knew it was going to be a match. this confirmation that the blood matched was huge. i never felt anything like that before. >> with this discovery, the m...

Because even casual contact could result in a dangerous or life threatening event. >> florences parents are raising her children and keep a small garden in her memory. although the grief is permanent. >> i miss her every single minute of every single day. and i hope he thinks about what hes done for the rest of his miserable life. >> mark unger almost got away with murder. only scientific analysis of brain tissue and his shoes ensured he didnt. >> how he could think he was going to get away with...

Baseball player to receive that diagnosis and possibly the years of depression and erratic behavior leading up to his death. >> important cases make a difference because it is showing us that you dont need to have the kind of hits that we see in football or in hockey or in other real decision sports? you just need a lot of brain drama, it seems. kansas city chiefs suicide. and another high profile. kansas city chiefs player da vonn belcher shot his girlfriend and turned the gun on himself. now...

"kansas city star" they, too, suspect cte and on friday belchers body was exhumed so his brain can be examined. cte can only be diagnosed after death analyzing brain tissue. experts say examining one year after internment may or may not work. >> our brains are really important to us and we cant keep hitting them the way that we have been, so that doesnt mean stop playing these great sports. it means trying to reduce the amount of head trauma from an early age all through every level of play. >> ...

The evidence is and where it came from. >> reporter: samples from the bodies of victims according to secretary of state john kerry gives u.s. officials the evidence they need. >> it has tested positive for signatures of sarin. >> reporter: what are those signatures? how can we be sure this is a repeat of the slam-dunk that wasnt, the claim iraq that wmd? former weapons inspector who previously looked for cases in iraq says a signature of sarin is not something you can see or smell. >> think how ...

Inspectors who were there can take blood and hair samples, brain tissue samples from deceased victims and run them through a device called a gas chromatography machine. even if that area of damascus was decimated by syrian army shelling right after the chemical attack, experts say its not degraded to the point where you cant get an accurate test. they can grab samples from walls. they may not be prevented from getting an accurate sample. >> appreciate your reporting. secretary of state john kerr...

Youve already lost 50% of your brain cells. its very difficult for any treatment to be effective at that point. >> but what if you could spot the disease 5, 10, even 20 years before you became symptomatic? he says he may have found a way by looking at the eyes into the brain. >> normally we dont think of the eye as an extension of the brain, but during the embryonic development, the retina actually develops from the brain itself, so its brain tissue. >> one telltale sign of alzheimers is a build...