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Elderly at the time. and so i know that was an impetus. but i think it was just an ongoing impetus. >> so at the age of 37, david maxwell was accepted into the oldest and most exclusive law enforcement agency in north america, the texas rangers, an elite group with only 134 members. >> i thought about it a great deal, that if i became in law enforcement, if i was able to eventually get into the texas rangers and it remained unsolved, that i would be able to reopen the case and eventually solve i...

That gap had to be filled in. >> he also passed a polygraph test. >> one of the detectives did come to my work and he asked to see me. at that time, i said, am i still considered a suspect? and he says, mr. church, yes, you are. and i said, well, i think that you need to look somewhere else. >> diane church was also considered a suspect. >> they gave me a lie detecter test, a horrible thing to go through to go to the police station and be fingerprinted and lie detecter test and all this kind of ...

Theft. >> he had a criminal history in both of those states. nothing for murder, but we knew he was a felon. >> browns fingerprints didnt make it into the fbis database, because his offense was comparatively minor. >> when louisiana notified us that they had matched the prints to a subject named robert brown, we immediately went into our files and our databases to find out where robert brown lived and we found that he lived just a quarter mile away from heather church. >> brown worked as a tree ...

Americans trust democrats more but republicans may have the upper hand come november. the out of power party does typically take over. reports that the u.s. would be ill-prepared for an attack on its electrical grid. the judicial reports that attacks could trigger extended blackouts. and in the los angeles times, theyre reporting a federal study that isolates interests as the -- doctors as americas primary cause of the prescription drug epidemic. this study concludes that authorities are fai...

They started calling. >> one of the phone calls basically told us we needed to look at a robbery that had occurred in montgomery, alabama. >> the call, it later turned out, was from lee boyd malvo. was he just bragging or hoping to get caught? no one knows, but it was a critical break. >> he didnt identify himself as the sniper. he says, you just got to look at that. >> i called montgomery, alabama. i said, did you have a shooting at a liquor store. they said, yeah, one individual was killed, on...

They started writing us letters, they started calling. >> one of the phone calls basically told us we needed to look at a robbery that had occurred in montgomery, alabama. >> the call, it later turned out, was from lee boyd malvo. was he just bragging or hoping to get caught? no one knows, but it was a critical break. >> he didnt identify himself as the sniper. he says, you just got to look at that. >> i called montgomery, alabama. i said, did you have a shooting at a liquor store. they said, ye...

Looked like. >> i remember looking at the glass and saying, we have some really good footwear impressions here. >> today, forensic analysts have access to sophisticated databases of all kinds of shoe impressions. it includes mens, womens, even childrens shoes, both dress and leisure from all over the world. this database is called sole mate. >> elements of the shoe patterns will be entered in by the operator. so, if it has squares in the ball area of the shoe or the toe area of the shoe, you wou...

A drink that these morons are going to buy it even though they dont want it? >> how can you make an informed choice without information? >> let me ask you a question. the fact is if youre on food stamps, women are significantly more likely to be obese than if theyre not on food stamps. if the government wants to reflect on a place to avoid obesity, theyd profoundly rethink the food stamp system. theres a clear data base thats big enough even you would agree, that its something we should be looki...

Took one snapshot every five minutes. and stored it in a huge database. and the important thing here is that this was clearly bulk collection. this wasnt specifically targeted e-mail users, by any means. this was all swept up from millions of yahoo! users and stored. it looked like it was part of an experimental program where they were trying to test out facial recognition technology and we dont know yet exactly how this information was used but according to these documents, they were all put in...

These are just innocent unsuspecting yahoo account holders. how many people may have actually been compromised here? >> well, we dont know the exact number, but we can safely say in the millions. in one six-month period 1.8 million users had their web chats recorded. it wasnt the full conversation. basically what this program did is it took a snapshot, one snapshot, every five minutes. and it took all of those photos and stored them in a massive database. it appears to have been something called...