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If youre the band europe, you love a final countdown. its what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. its what you do. what exactly motivated the san bernardino attack may ultimately be found by high-tech investigators using computer forensics, but as tom costello reports the use of social media by suspect poses a major challenge. >> reporter: it is a top

Victor, i want you to start. we have been looking at this aerial footage of what looks like fbi in the back of perhaps a storage unit or garage area. can you walk me through whats happening on that property right now? >> certainly. in the middle of a quiet neighborhood, all of this is happening. outside near the front door, the evidence response teams are collecting evidence, bringing it outside, processing it under a blue canopy here, taking photographs, identifying, numbering. some of those th...

Were continuing to follow the breaking news. police are still processing the scene inside that inland regional center in san bernardino california. i want to go to the scene where victor blackwell is joining us. youre nearby in redlands, not far from where this manhunt for the two suspects came to the dramatic deadly victor, police say it was the fear of explosives that held up investigators trying to process the scene the original massacre there at the center and the final shootout in redlands ...

Individual, i take it will they will look at everything from his computer forensics to everything he was doing in the days leading up to, this as well. >> no question. they -- like i said before, they will reverse engineer and talk to anyone that had contact with this individual, family members, potential co-workers bauecause right now motivation is important. we established a semi secure crime scene. we have explosive devices potentially on the scene but now its motive important and determining...

They never thought computer forensics would allow them to ever find them again. if they find them and we find that, in fact, she did have classified information there, i have a list of 15 statutes -- actually 16 now, that rudy giuliani thinks that ought to be investigated, thats up on the screen as we talk. many of the things we talked about, usc 793, for example, but also obstruction of justice, attempted conspiracy. if they find e-mails that -- what are the odds theyre going to find this? >> w...

They never thought computer forensics would allow them to ever find them again. if they find them and we find that, in fact, she did have classified information there, i have a list of 15 statutes -- actually 16 now, that rudy giuliani thinks that ought to be investigated, thats up on the screen as we talk. many of the things we talked about, usc 793, for example, but also obstruction of justice, attempted conspiracy. if they find e-mails that -- what are the odds theyre going to find this? >> w...

Was putting half the story together during the trial. >> in the end, there was simply too much forensic evidence. the computer forensics and blood spatter told the story. after only two hours of deliberation, bob durall was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to 46 years in prison. >> i will impose a total of 560 months. >> despite spending months researching and planning his wifes murder, he still wasnt able to get away with it. >> i think the forensic evidence was everything. pat...

Computer system at the king county housing authority. as a government agency, bobs computer was government property. so investigators seized it and turned it over to gordon mitchell, an expert in the growing field of computer forensics. mitchell copied bob duralls hard drive to examine the information on it without altering the original data. >> this is an important process where they can actually discover, is there something going on here, or is bob just a nice guy? >> mitchell found evidence t...

M.i.t. officer sean collier. jurors heard testimony today about the bomb parts and damage from the events in watertown, massachusetts. ron mott joins me live outside the federal courthouse in boston. ron, bring us up to speed. the new evidence seen today. >> reporter: hi there, thomas good afternoon. the jurors are on a lunch break. were expecting testimony to resume at the top of the hour. these doors are getting quite the lesson in computer forensics today. theres an expert from the fbi on the...

That, oh, justin must have left him in the car, so beyond that, unless they are uncovering more, i think they may have trouble coming up with a malice murder charge. however, if they are gathering more evidence and, remember, computer forensics take time. if justin ross harris is as proficient as hes supposed to be, he may have hidden files in unallocated space. >> good point. >> in slack space. that may be taking time a little longer for police to search or perform their forensics, or, on the o...