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Involved in the artis case and they didnt make the connections. >> the police knew about this other suspect, but they did not carry out that fingerprint comparison, and the question is, why? >> the request to cancel the fingerprint comparison was made after trial, so after henry mccollum and leon brown were convicted. >> the fingerprint had sat in evidence for nearly 30 years, and stellato discovered that it was too degraded to test. however, the cigarette butt found at the murder scene could be...

>> from the very beginning, the confessions of henry mccollum and leon brown were suspect. the police wrote the confessions, but also, there wasnt a single piece of physical evidence that put henry mccollum and leon brown at the crime scene. >> rose learned that there was evidence that could be tested with newly available dna technology. >> there was evidence from a cigarette butt. the significance of that is it was the states theory that whoever committed this crime had smoked that cigarette. s...

Craig, and mr. craig said roscoe artis had given him details about the crime that sonny felt only the person who had committed it would know. in sonnys opinion roscoe was telling him in so many words that he was the perpetrator. >> ken and i went to see henry to tell him about the new evidence, and we sat in the biggest booth in the visiting area at central prison. henry behind the plexiglass and bars on the other side. ken told henry that they had run the dna on the cigarette butt and that it h...

That would back up murder charges against both of them, no matter who pulled the trigger. quisenberry was interviewed first and said he knew nothing about the crime. as the interrogation wore on, he started blaming the man in the other room. >> why dont you tell me why you killed her. and how he did it. >> i wasnt there. but i know he did it. >> but detective arnold knew something quisenberry did not. after his first interview, rick had scooped up his smoked down marlboros for dna testing. bingo...

Annas car was missing. cops suspected whoever killed her had taken it. twelve hours after annas body was found. >> one officers was drivin through the neighborhood, and he got a hit on the plate. >> i get a phone call from patrol, advising they located anna moses car just a couple streets away from her house. >> reporter: the officer on the scene told detectives tschudy and ranger mankin he could see what appeared to be a bloodstain inside the car. >> how many bloodstains in all did you find ins...

Time stamp says 6:59 pm, police determined it was actually 5:49 pm when annas car drove by. >> did you have an idea of when anna was -- when you believe about the time she was killed? >> based on the fact that shes checked her mail, um -- because the -- the mail is strewn underneath her. its loose. i believe its soon after she arrives there inside the garage. >> reporter: the police theory -- at about 6:00 pm, bob shot anna seven times -- six bullets found their mark. he then spread four other s...

Attorney. >> i said, "well, were not going to go forward with any indictment, were not going to go forward with any arrest until i have the answer to that. investigators collected d-n-a samples from all the first responders to see if they could have accidentally left their d-n-a at the scene. and they considered another possibility that the d-n-a belonged to an accomplice. >> we were also trying to get samples from people we had identified that were close to nunez. thats a little trickier -- bec...

We found that one cigarette butt or water kills half the fish that are exposed to that water in and out for. and we call the lethal dose fifty in this experiment and you can see that there are now some cute facts of the fish that have just been placed into this. beach eight of ten votes for leader and the fish are experiencing some sort of neurological toxicity i mean its not surprising aside from the heavy metals and and all and some of the chemicals that nicotine is probably the key element th...

In antarctica. the pursuit of pure science. it aint pretty. it looks like a mining camp, but look closely and you notice things like the total absence of liter, not a single cigarette butt. its one of the most carefully regulated communities on the planet, and it is a community. a tightly knit, highly organized, very odd subculture of just under 1,000 people in summer and 150 in winter, all working towards the same thing in this most remote, barren, yet stunningly beautiful continent. work is se...

Circuit monitor where she was see the other in a room. >> hes got time to think, what is he telling detectives? what is he talking about? >> reporter: he needed both suspects to admit they were in the house when the shootings went down. that would back-up murder charges. he said he knew nothing about the crime. as the interrogation wore on, he started blaming the man in the other room. >> i want you to tell me why you killed her. >> i wasnt there. >> reporter: but, detective arnold new something...