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Olamides blood was discovered in the trunk. they also found bloody fingerprints on the rearview mirror. >> i was able then to powder and lift those impressions and then lift them off of the rearview mirror and then do a comparison. >> one of these was maurice wallaces thumbprint. dna testing identified the blood as olamides. investigators also found evidence on wallaces jeans. >> to the naked eye, it didnt appear that there was anything unusual about them. however, later forensic testing found t...

Investigators learned that partin and his daughter were living in newport richey, florida, with a friend he had met in prison. when questioned, partins roommate said he hadnt seen partin or his daughter since joshans murder was covered in the local news. he also said he had never seen joshan ashbrook at his house either. with a search warrant, police examined the room partin and his daughter had been using, and initially found nothing suspicious. >> we lifted up a throw rug that was in between t...

Investigators learned that during the fourth of july party megan attended, the host threw red glitter on everyone, including megan. >> i said, do you still have the bottle? she said, yes, i do. so we then went and recovered the remaining portion of the glitter. >> scientists confirmed the glitter in megan barrosos hair came from megans friend, and it was the same glitter found in sanchezs truck, on the ak-47 rifle, on megans jacket found in sanchezs trash, and in megans own car. it was the only ...

The light switch and brought in all of that to us. >> analysts viewed the switch plate with oblique or angled lighting. >> we take various different types of light sources, and we bring them in from the side, from the front, to see if we can see anything on the surface itself. >> and thats where they found a single, high-quality fingerprint, and it looked like it was in plasma. >> not all blood is red or brownish like you would think. there are other components in the blood that are clear. the p...

Yet available at the time of the trial the prosecution relied on inexact hair testing methods yielding results that would not be accepted in a court of law today. >> i consulted a couple of forensic experts i knew and there was no way anybody, fbi, no matter where theyre from could say that pubic hair belonged to james duckett. theres no way they could say that. >> as it turned out, the fbis hair and fiber analyst, mike malone had a long history of controversial findings. >> over the years mike ...

Duckett. >> the sheriffs department had been with the hair analysis shopping it around. fdle, the florida department of law enforcement had told them, nope. aint nothing there. >> fdle said that hair was probably not mine. 28 out of 30 characteristics didnt match the hair. >> nope, aint nothing there. >> they said we cant do it because there is no root. the state of dna testing at the time was we cant do anything with it. >> we went to the fbi. because theyre the mac daddy of labs. and we asked ...

Are a series of seven other allegations regarding other guards and there was at least one other pregnancy, there may be more, among those seven instances. >> so the alleged inmate who became pregnant is not suing? >> its not one of the names, thats right. >> is she willing to provide evidence in your case? is she a witness? >> yes. yes. >> what happened to the pregnancy? >> we have -- theres several possible ones. one of them ended up in a miscarriage, we believe. >> and is there any dna testing...

Truck. >> straddling the tailgate flailing her arms, like, screaming. and at the time we didnt -- we just thought it was a crazy drunk person, you know, partying. >> she was trying to get out of the truck, to the point of she was going to jump out of the back of the truck while it was moving. >> unfortunately, michelles friends couldnt remember anything about the truck except that it was red. police canvassed area hospitals. no one matching michelles description had been admitted. law enforcemen...

Foreign hairs in coreys hands. one had an intact root. >> the fact that the hair had root material on it and was not from her would allow you to at least presume that that hair had to be obtained forcefully. >> dna testing revealed the blood in the kitchen came from the same person as the hair in coreys hand. surprisingly this dna did not match the prime suspect, eric jones, coreys co-worker, despite his bizarre behavior. the dna from coreys apartment did not match any of the dna profiles in eit...

Its his apartment. and roy beck is staying there and has access to these items also. >> there was no root on the hair found on virginias body, so scientists couldnt perform genetic dna testing. all analysts could say was that visually, it looked more similar to becks hair than bullards. but inside roy becks apartment, the one with no electricity that the call girl visited, police found a potential clue. >> we found three bottles of michelob beer. >> so, now you have two michelob light beers at t...