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A dna sample was obtained from phillips bone marrow. it did not match the dna from the crime scene. >> i called and spoke with susans mother, and she was very disappointed. but you know, i tried to assure her that we would continue to go forward and try to identify the suspect. >> i was angry at the time, because i felt we had closure, it was done with. >> and there was more bad news. the dna did not match anyone in the statewide database of known criminal offenders. if the killer wasnt phillips...

Of the e-mails that supposedly were the state department e-mails that are relevant, they printed them out on paper and turned over like 30,000 pages. what that does, yes, the law allows it but you have to rescan it all and hope it picks up every word in the huge database. you lose the metadata. the metadata tells you when any mail was prepare, whether there were changes or redactions. it gives you more information. when you turn it over in written form like this, you dont get the metadata. the c...

That area. how hard at this point will it be to locate them and what will turn the tide for law enforcement there? >> well, good afternoon, john. and youre right, its very frustrating for law enforcement right now. theyre scratching their heads. theyre chasing a ghost is what it is and theyre on a fishing expedition. more importantly, no one has identified, john. they dont have any names to put into any databases, ncic, national crime information center, a national database. borders arent covere...

Making it easy to find on the open weapon. they enable you to put the e-mail of a cheater in and tell you if that person is in the database some of theres another person trying to create a geolocated map. so were really begetting here. >> i was talking with christina warren from mashable who wants to know if there are any names on the list. >> its a little tempting. theres like 15,000 government e-mails on there. we cant independently confirm that by any means. people could use a fake e-mail but...

Somewhere else in this world. >> reporter: the icrc says no family in yemen is left untouched and all need to find a way to eliminate the grave need facing this already poor nation. >> that was our michael holmes reporting there. i want to go back to the missing indonesian passenger plane. the cause of the crash is unclear, of course, but this incident is not the first incident for trigana air service. the airline has a less than stellar safety record. >> reporter: since 1992 it has the most a...

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 would enter that in, and then the computer comes back with a list of possible shoe treads, and you can pull t...

Come. so we saw that happen in 2007. so essentially what that means is that airline is barred from operating in european airspace. so we do know that about the airline. this same database is also -- and, again, as officials are saying, that theyre still classifying this as a missing plane until they get out there and theyre able to search and find evidence of the aircraft. but the same database is saying that in 2009, there was another airline that was flying along the same route when that plane...

Items. so, that for example, if you found a genetic profile and you searched the national data base. if somebody was there relative, a close relative, if not the person who left the dna, you could tell, you can get a handle on, on the origin of baby doe. so this is just one example of where we are going as far as we can go. theyre even doing -- [ indiscernible ] of her teeth to tell us what kind she had. what type, or what should they then, that would again help us deter men tmine the general lo...

If you have a database to examine. you can compare known pollen grains from the question, evidentiary pollen grains. they found 39 different species of pollen on the clothing that, that baby doe was wearing. and so -- they have a rough idea, not only of what pollen, what types of pollen were there, but also the proportion of each. that gives them a fairly good idea of the general region where this pollen is produced. which is the -- the urban area, the greater area, of around boston. and i think...

24 unarmed black men were shot and killed. 585 people overall. that includes unarmed and armed people. 18 law enforcement during that time period shot and killed during the line of duty. were you surprised there werent a greater number of unarmed black men killed especially when we covered those stories so prominently? >> that is a great question. this data base is so important. it dispelled myths and put a face on whats actually happening out there. again, 24 of the 60 deaths of unarmed people ...