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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 have been mistaken. >> she al...

Back to you. >> jim, thank you very much. heres one of the questions were pursuing here. if the disappearance malaysia airline 370 was the work of terrorists, why havent any groups stepped forward? so far federal officials say theyve heard no significant chatter about the incident. now theyre zeroing in on two shadowy figures who boarded that triple 7 saturday morning using stolen passports what could that mean? lets bring in justice correspondent pamela brown. >> reporter: good morning to you, ...

>> the chief told us help was needed to analyze the data itself. the two men who boarded with stolen passports officials say they should have set off alarm bells. interpoll maintains a database of stolen passports. 34 from multiple nations have joined. malasian officials say they want answers and grieving family members too long to know where flight 370 went down. the search begins anew at dawn. >> jim clansy cnn at the briefing center. >> theories are emerging into how this aircraft vanished.

But its not being done everywhere. in this particular case, both of those passports were in interpols database. but no inquiry was made prior to the aircraft taking off. >> thats also whats so frightening. we know that they bought the tickets at about the same time. they paid about the same price. their itineraries were different. but they each paid in thai currency. this has to be a little bit more than coincidence. what is your sort of, you know, investigative background telling you? >> well, ...

>> less than six hours after henry said he saw williams and cater here, police heard a splash under this bridge. caters body washed up downstream two days later. 30 years ago, there was no dna testing. now there is. and so new evidence. remember those two human hairs found inside 11-year-old patrick baltazars shirt? in 2007, the hair fragments were sent to the fbis dna laboratory in quantico, virginia. the result? the lab said it found this dna sequence in only 29 out of more than 1,100 samples ...

Got on that plane, we understand, on the way to beijing. the question is how can two stolen pass parts be used when they were clearly on interpols database as having been stolen. interpol was out today, the actual secretary-general of interpol came out expressing his real concerns this actually happened. i should point out its not just malaysia where this has been happening. interpol says only a handful of countries regularly check their database to see what the latest is on stolen passports. so...

Me. he was out and about. >> less than six hours after henry said he saw williams and cater here, police heard a splash under this bridge. caters body washed up downstream two days later. 30 years ago, there was no dna testing. now there is. and so new evidence. remember those two human hairs found inside 11-year-old patrick baltazars shirt? in 2007, the hair fragments were sent to the fbis dna laboratory in quantico, virginia. the result? the lab said it found this dna sequence in only 29 out o...

Procedure. apparently they dont. >> well, interpol is reporting via the associated press interpol says no country checked its data base that had information about these passports. shouldnt that be standard operating procedure? >> well it should be. i think it shows that post-9/11 we may have entered into a period of complacency where we believe that the other levels of security, the other layers of security that we have in place are sufficient that you know, were going to catch the bad guys, but...

Checked the interple data base and thats why one man on that database wasnt challenged. when i tried to raise that with the director of aviation, i got no reply, instead he demanded to know the source of the investigation. it would be an embarrassment to the malaysian authorities if they were not readily checking that interpole list. we have scores of ships and planes that have been searching throughout the day. all of them, all of them trying to do one thing, give the families an answer as to w...

Looking. so at the moment, candy, were no further forward than we were this time 24 hours ago. >> one of the curious things we know is that two passengers bought their tickets with passports that were stolen. these passport apparently had been reported stolen and interpol flagged them. so the question is how do you get a ticket on a plane with a passport thats been flagged as stolen by interpol? >> reporter: that is rapidly becoming a big question. interpol said they put that on their own databa...