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To find out if it was joanne chambers dna on the threatening letters, jim anderson needed her dna profile. for that, he looked in her trash. once trash is placed at the curbside, the owner gives up all legal rights to whats inside. plastic straws, used tissues and a cotton swab with ear wax, all items with possible genetic material were sent to the dna lab for testing. a doctor identified two different dna profiles from the mucus, saliva, and earwax samples from the chambers trash. >> the dna fr...

Stamps or envelope flaps, youre going to jail. >> the cost of the dna testing, approximately $7,000, would have to be paid by paula nawrocki. blood samples from both paula and her husband were sent to a local dna lab along with the threatening letters and the envelopes. >> the amount of dna that winds up on the back of a stamp or an envelope flap depends on how hard you lick the envelope, how much cells that you shed from the inside of your mouth. there are variables thats hard to predict exactl...

Did not look good. >> my first thought was shes probably guilty. it just looked overwhelming when you looked at the whole complaint. >> the fbi found some partial fingerprints on the threatening letters, but they did not match paula nawrockis. the defense team wanted to see if any dna was present on the threatening letters. the prosecutor would allow dna testing by the defense only if the results were fully disclosed, regardless of the outcome. paulas defense team wanted to make sure she underst...

She saw no glue stick residue on the stamps when she removed them for dna testing. as a lifelong stamp collector, she has experience distinguishing glue stick residue from regular stamp adhesive. >> i know gum from knowing stamps. it looked to me just like the gum on recent u.s. stamps. it is smooth and glistening and it looked just like that. there was no outward evidence that a glue stick had been used. >> the trial lasted five days and it took the jury less than two hours to reach a verdict. ...

There was visible blood. and lumenol revealed that more had been cleaned up before police arrived. >> the blood evidence in front of the sink indicated to us that someone had bled -- had stood there in front of the sink for a significant amount of time bleeding and not moving around. there was blood drops on top of blood drops on the floor in front of the sink. >> dna testing revealed the blood belonged to darlie. prosecutors suspected that it was here where darlie cut her neck and arm. >> if th...

But not to the exclusion of all over sources. >> fbi profiler alan brantley was convinced there was no intruder. >> we have never seen a case where an offender comes from outside the residence, breaks into the home, takes a knife and go back outside the home and cuts the screen to come back in. those steps, that kind of behavior is just unnecessary to the commission of any kind of an offense unless you are attempting to make the scene look like something you should look like or you want other pe...

Looking blond, you know, 38 double ds. thought that was a little strange, too, considering he had just lost both of his sons. i dont believe at that time he knew for a fact if darlie was going to live or not. >> in the kitchen, police noticed a set of white handled knives. one space was empty. it appeared the murder weapon, a 10 inch white handled knife came from the routiers own kitchen. the blood drops on the floor were photographed and collected for dna testing. the size and shape of the bloo...

Fast. they were having sort of for a long time looked like they really didnt have any idea where these guys were. and then the big break came, started last weekend when there was a break-in at the summer camp cabin near owls head about 20 miles from the prison. someone was going towards their cabin cabin, saw it was broken into or heard someone fleeing from it. went in and saw half eaten food. the police were able to take that food and determine from dna testing that at least one of the inmates ...

In nebraska. what is interesting about this issue you show the slow decline there is one issue that has moved faster. when we compare this to the gay marriage issue. >> this is public ahead of politicians. >> politicians might be ahead of public in this case. >> fiscal and lethal. the issue of the drug. >> its interesting, largely shows a divide within the republican party over the criminal justice issue. folks are pushing for more softer type ofs proech. then you have people that are still very...

How much it costs to administer this. thats what part of the case was in nebraska. what is interesting about this issue you show the slow decline there is one issue that has moved faster. when we compare this to the gay marriage issue. >> this is public ahead of politicians. >> politicians might be ahead of public in this case. >> fiscal and lethal. the issue of the drug. >> its interesting, largely shows a divide within the republican party over the criminal justice issue. folks are pushing for...