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Tara cycle collects hard to recycle items and converts them into everyday products, things like toys, office supplies and shopping backs. tom zacky is the ceo and founder. recycle a cigarette butt and do what with it? >> when we recycle something like a cigarette butt, we have to create collections. you can go to our website at taracycle.com, send us your used cigarette butts. for cigarette butts, we shred them, separate them into the organic pieces, which is then composted. the inorganic aspect...

In order. nothing seemed to be in disarray. >> they also checked the phone answering machine which provided a clue. >> there was an early alert from a credit card company saying there was some unusual spending on one of her cards. >> later that afternoon, police found denises car in a parking lot across the street from her apartment. >> they immediately felt that someone else must have been in the car. because ms. oneill was a very fastidious person and the car was just the exact opposite. >> a ...

Theres no life in her. later tonight, ill eat her for dinner. >> some poems talked about sexual activity with older women, sexual activity with dead people. >> im happy with my life. sharpening the blade of may unholy knife, this is where true hatred lies, screams of agni, my victim dies. >> police certainly knew they were working with someone who was very sick. >> gary dolan was unemployed and had no alibi for either murder. he also refused to take a polygraph test. and he wouldnt provide a dna...

Cigarette. they questioned him at length, hoping hed cast the butt aside when he was finished. which to their relief he finally did. that butt was sent for testing. and the results provided yet another setback. >> the dna profile from the cigarette butt did not match the dna profile from the crime scene. >> so gary dolan was eliminated as a suspect. and for the next two years, the trail of the killer turned cold.

Butts, paper cups out of the trash after they were thrown away. so i knew at that point that it no longer belongs to you if you discard it. >> melinda told clarence to follow earl mann with a clean tissue and baggy on hand at all times. clarence did as instructed, and one day, he watched as earl mann left a cigarette butt in a clean ashtray. >> he picked it up with the tissue, put in the baggy, sealed it, and then put it in his bible to flatten it and to conceal it until he could get it out of t...

Local bars and restaurants to collect their dna from anything they might have left behind. >> i would have to flirt with these people. i would get either a cigarette butt or ive gotten their beer bottle. ive gotten their drinking glass. >> using her own money and contributions solicited from her website freeclarence.com, melinda hired a private lab to test these items for dna. unfortunately, none of the samples matched the dna found on her mother. in the meantime, clarence elkins languished in j...

Across from her, and people were home at the time. >> the one thing that the investigators knew immediately when they entered the scene was that whomever it was that did this was a smoker. >> they knew this from the ashes on the mattress and the burn mark on the table where he put the cigarette out. he didnt leave the cigarette butt behind. >> that means one of two things, either he had a cigarette in his mouth when he went in, or after he had realized what he had done, he said to himself, oh, m...

Gets caught so he doesnt do it again for somebody else. thats -- i mean, this is done. you know? so i just hope they catch him so theres no more future of this going on. >> incredible. joining us from california, you mentioned the cell phone video in the hands of investigators. has it led to developments we know about? >> reporter: we understand that authorities have spoken to a man who was seen in a part of the video only authorities have and see a golf cart leaving the scene of the fire. they ...

Even if its accidental, a cigarette butt or that golf club, the consequences certainly could be very different. >> all right. appreciate the reporting. thanks. coming up, germs on planes. if you fly, you want to hear this report and a study on how long they linger and how easily they spread. and also well tell you where the germs or the most germs linger for the longest on your seat. later, crime and punishment, a former cop show star is a real-life murder suspect. mine was earned in korea i...

You know? so i just hope they catch him so theres no more future of this going on. >> incredible. joining us from california, you mentioned the cell phone video in the hands of investigators. has it led to developments we know about? >> reporter: we understand that authorities have spoken to a man who was seen in a part of the video only authorities have and see a golf cart leaving the scene of the fire. they have spoken to that person. we dont know what happened as a result of that conversation...