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Or one or two people that have gotten into distress and trouble in the mountain anderson. >> nic, its a difficult question to ask, but have they said anything about the recovery of the passengers? obviously that process has begun begun. but do we know where that stands? >> what we know from the prosecutor and from his most recent prets conference that the release of bodies wont be for a couple of weeks. we dont have a precise time frame, but a couple of weeks. the reason that was given for that ...

>> and information presented in this very television series suggested a new way to test them. >> i was watching one night, and they had a story about out west in arizona had done a plant dna case. >> the crux of that investigation was a seed pod found in a suspects truck, which was later matched with plant dna to the palo verde tree next to the victims body. ryan bolt contacted the scientist who pioneered plant dna analysis and asked them to test the oak leaf found in larrys trunk to determine i...

Judy bruces bedroom. dna analysis, which didnt exist in 1978, determined that they were semen. one stain matched larry bruces dna, judys husband. the other did not. when judy was murdered, larry claimed that judy was having an affair with a co-worker, james isaac, who died in a suspicious traffic accident days after judys death. to see if it was isaacs dna on the bedding, investigators obtained a court order allowing them to exhume james isaacs body. >> when the dna profile from isaac was compar...

Testing but this caused problems. >> the initial dna analysis on the cup was a profile that showed a mixture. >> meaning that more than one person had used the cup. >> we had hoped that we would pick up dna just from the individual that drank out of the cup, but there was some indications that there was dna from more than one person there. >> but pcr dna testing showed a strong association between the dna on the cup and the biological evidence from the two crime scenes. and that was enough to ge...

Basement door was pried from the door jamb, and the telephone line in the basement had been cut. four hours later at 10:30 that night, andrew called police to report his wife and son missing. relatives found joannes car down the street in the parking lot of a local bar, not in its usual location in the alley behind her house. although it was locked, joannes keys were inside the car. on the back headrest were several strands of long blond hair which did not belong to joanne since she was brunette...

Ms. snow lost her fiance on twa flight in 1986 and has been working to provide comfort to others in the same situation. dr. kobilinsky, without getting into too much graphic detail, knowing the time frame and the fact that three bodies apparently have been found intact, im told two women and a man, will identification be difficult? >> i dont think it will be as difficult as it would otherwise be in different kinds of crashes. i think once they have a body, they can determine a gender, age, ethni...

Suspect was at his girlfriend marys apartment. i went up and knocked on the door. >> the encounter was not what detective vandenburgh expected. >> i told them that we had a warrant for his arrest. and i told him it was for murder. his demeanor at that time was so nonchalant. oh, okay. which is totally out of context for anybody ive ever dealt with before in a situation like that. no outburst or violent behavior. just like oh, well. >> police took hair and blood samples and placed them in the cou...

Observers in those early days as you were reporting to make it difficult for them to even observe the crime scenes. do we know where the train carrying the victims now currently is? >> we believe it is leaving here locally. that is complicated. we were hearing shelling just now which is not unusual here. but the train station was damaged today. its supposed to leave, we believe the malaysians were going on the ride with it. not the dutch, interestingly. the dutch obviously would have a greater i...

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