it s-being-a-master-of-hypnotism easy. hey, i got your text- sleep! doug, when i snap my fingers you re going to clean my gutters. ooh i should clean your gutters! great idea. it s not just easy. it s geico easy. todd, you will go make me a frittata. sometimes the biggest breakthrough in a murder case can come from the most unassuming clues. for detective jim wallace it was something buried in a routine crime lab report. his pants which his watched the morning of the murder and hung up to dry in his shower, again, tested negative for blood, but this time, the lab report noted something else found on those pants which caught the eye of detective wallace.
welcome back to dateline extra. here again is keith morrison. sometimes the biggest breakthrough in a murder case can come from the most unassuming of clues. for detective jim wallace it was something buried in a routine crime lab report. janos kulscar s pants, which he d washed the morning of the murder, then hung up to dry in his shower, again tested negative for blood, but this time, the lab report noted something else found on those pants which caught the eye of detective wallace dirt. if you re washing these pants, what is the goal of washing pants? aren t you trying to wash the dirt out? you d think. in this case the dirt was still present except there was luminol glowing in two areas. luminol, the chemical police
recovered from the victim s pants but elisa wondered why that evidence had never been introduced at trial. i went to the evidence room and i see that the pants were checked out by one of the d.a.s and not returned. i m like, hello? ? if they were so sure that john thomson was the carjacker, you would have tested his blood and gone, ta-da, waved your crime lab report around the courtroom. that would have been your nail. i knew that something was going on that was very unscrupulous and was deliberate. deliberate. the defense was never told that the blood had been tested. so that revealed quite a bit about the prosecutors who had been handling thompson s case. my next move is to go to the crime lab. and act you can t tip off people who work for the police department that you re on to something naughty. i just go in and go, i need to see this old report, please. i then get the crime lab report which tells me that the blood
welcome back to dateline extra. here again is keith morrison. reporter: sometimes the biggest breakthrough in a murder case can come from the most unassuming clues. for detective jim wallace, it was something buried in a routine crime lab report. yanos pants, which he washed the morning of the murder and hung up to dry in his shower again tested negative for blood. but this time the lab report noted something else found on those pants which caught the eye of detective wallace. dirt. if you are washing these pants, what is the goal? aren t you trying to wash the dirt out? reporter: you think. in this case the dirt was present, except there was luminol glowing. reporter: the chemical police
welcome back to dateline extra. here again is keith morrison. reporter: sometimes the biggest breakthrough in a murder case can come from the most unassuming clues. for the detective, it was something buried in a routine crime lab report. yanos pants, which he washed the morning of the murder and hung up to dry in his shower again tested negative for blood. but this time the lab report noted something else found on those pants which caught the eye of detective wallace. dirt. if you are washing these pants, what is the goal? aren t you trying to wash the dirt out? reporter: you think. in this case the dirt was present, except there was