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Supposed to be gated, but the gate was usually open. no guard there. >> there were no signs of forced entry, and no valuables were missing. margarette eby had a habit of leaving her doors unlocked and had no curtains on her windows. >> the estate had a number of people who came on regularly to do work, lawn care people, electricians, painters. >> after her murder, investigators found a partial fingerprint on her bathroom faucet, but it didnt match any known criminal offenders in the michigan dat...

The middle of the street, screaming at the top of my lungs. >> stevie was traumatized, in shock, but lucky to be alive. >> it was difficult to get a good description other than general build, general height, things of that nature. >> the whole time he kept telling me, dont look at my face. dont look at my face. >> stevie described her assailant as an african-american wearing a hooded sweatshirt that concealed his face but nothing more. >> it was shocking that it did happen at 9:15 at night walki...

The blood in the house is a female. >> the male dna belonged to the victim, pat mcrae. this meant the killer was a woman. >> its not uncommon for people when theyre stabbing someone else to stab themselves accidentally. maybe have their hands slip on the knife, cut the inner sides of their fingers. its really quite common. >> then police located laura england, the dancer last seen with pat mcrae on the night he was murdered. but she denied seeing mcrae that night and said the club manager must h...

Fewer places. one place rather than two. and for reporter, its not the place that we usually look for this information. so it is harder to get, isnt that the issue here? >> thats exactly right. you have to really know where to look for it. in other words, you have to go to the house ethics website. you can search for it. but what it does really, john, it depersonalized it. look, the reason people are sponsoring trips for powerful members of congress on certain committees is they want to influenc...

Depersonalizes it. the reason people are sponsoring trips for powerful members of congress is they want to influence them. they want access, time with them. they want to give a nice trip. if thats not on their personal financial disclosure form but instead on this sort of data base on this website that youve got to know about to find, it depersonalizes it and for voters who are interested in understanding what perks or favors are being done for members of congress, it makes it difficult to find ...

Room. for example, if you have some skin lesion that you dont want to go to the emergency room, you can show it and sophie can tell you its not a melanoma. it is a small rash, dont worry about it. right now what they are being used for, the big ticket is allergies and asthma. i dont know if you watched the sunday house call, if you didnt watch it, you should watch it every sunday. we are talking about the difference between flu versus allergies. i was talking about if you have fever or not, muco...

Michigan, about an hours drive from detroit. she was found stabbed to death in the bedroom of her home. >> by looking at the crime scene photographs, it was amazing. the body was positioned almost the same way, the wounds were almost the same. >> and security at her home was as lax as nancy ludwigs hotel. >> the gatehouse where she stayed at this beautiful estate had its own entrance that was supposed to be gated, but the gate was usually open. no guard there. >> there were no signs of forced en...

Are not clear that could be smudged, there could be artifacts in there that are not clear. so the computer may count that or read that as a particular characteristic. >> the digital copy of the killers print was then loaded into iafis, the fbis database of all known criminal offenders from every state in the country. 47 million sets of fingerprints were compared, and one seemed to match. >> we stood hovering over his computer screen, looking at all the ridge structure and the information there, ...

Made this a crime. why did that all of a sudden go away? >> you raise an excellent point. the judge said the evidence is at least as consistent with innocence as it is to guilt. he basically said, look, he did access this database and he was not supposed to but he never used that information to go after the victims. >> is he getting out? i know he still has to serve the time on breaking into the databases. >> hes already served -- hes already been in prison. hes probably out. right now, theyre f...

Only gotten around to submitting their fingerprints to the nationwide database just two months earlier. mason was married, had children and grandchildren. he owned a number of gas stations, and had not been arrested for any other crimes in the years since the murders. >> now weve got a real suspect. but we were still a little bit apprehensive. okay. its a fingerprint. its an old fingerprint. what else do we have? >> one of the robbery victims, bob dewar, was brought in for a photographic lineup....