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Both samples were identical. scientists also found animal hair plaster. but this wasnt just any animal hair. the animal hair in the plaster found underneath wesleys body had something in common with the animal hair in the plaster from the renovated house. >> i was able to say that these were animal hairs that were from the same animal. they knew that they had the right residence. they knew that they had the right people. >> but the ultimate proof came from a piece of duct work from the basement ...

Who live here and if not for the connection of having a girlfriend here, it would be a very wide area for authorities to search. that is what led us here. again, a connection with a girlfriend. someone apparently who knows him and now police are questioning her. authorities say she is not under arrest but is just someone they hope to get information from that could lead them to the suspect. >> nbcs rahima ellis from brooklyn. thank you. lets turn to karen desoto, professor of political science a...

The physical characteristics of the dye and the hairs themselves were consistent with hairs collected from ginger hayes. >> the hairs recovered from the tire rim exhibited the same microscopic characteristics as the known head hair samples coming from the victim. >> during police questioning, investigators noticed some dark brown stains on edwards shoes and clothing. those stains were blood, and the dna profile of that blood was compared to the blood found on the tire at the crime scene. the res...

>> he was out that night, no question in my mind. he was not at home. he was out and about. >> less than six hours after henry said he saw williams and cater here, police heard a splash under this bridge. caters body washed up downstream two days later. 30 years ago, there was no dna testing. now there is. and so new evidence. remember those two human hairs found inside 11-year-old patrick baltazars shirt? in 2007, the hair fragments were sent to the fbis dna laboratory in quantico, virginia. th...

Contacted police about his former roommate, bob johnson. >> someone who came forward and claimed that their roommate at that time in 86, johnson, had come home bloodied and said that he had killed somebody. >> johnsons mugshot looked remarkably like the composite drawing of the suspect. he didnt fit the fbi profile, but his background made him a likely suspect. >> his ex-wife told the investigators that mr. johnson had a significant drug problem, and he was conducting those burglaries to help su...

Collected and sent to an independent lab for dna testing. this time, his dna did not match the biological evidence from the victims. >> i couldnt believe that we had the wrong person and that all the testing we had done had been wrong, and i wanted to, if it wasnt him, lets get him out of jail no matter what i thought of him. >> but what went wrong? investigators were determined to find out. prz the beautiful sound of customers making the most of their united flight. power, wi-fi and streaming e...

A development worker who was the former director of an organization to improve life in afghanistan. 46-year-old was killed along with 13 others in a taliban siege at the park palace hotel. its believed the taliban was targeting americans and foreign dignitaries at that hotel. finally, some welcome news for an american mother and young girl involved in a cross-border custody battle. a mexican prosecutor says dna tests show she is the daughter of a houston woman. missing since 2007 when her fath...

The national transportation safety board, of course sending a team. but, again, matthew l. wald no doubt of every possible piece of equipment at the scene. >> and don, you know theres a different reason that the fbi is there, which is nationally -- and it may not be relevant here but nationally the fbi shows up to identify the dead. theyre mortician specialists. and in this case there may not be any dead. there may not be any. there may be some people unconscious. you may not need the fbi to fig...

They also found some information from ken maclennan to include his wallet, some business cards from his employer and some foreign currency. >> the clothes were jason maclennans. students had seen him wearing them the day of the murder. dna testing proved the blood on the clothes had come from jasons father. >> the fact that we could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that those jeans were jason maclennans with his dads blood on the bottom of the pant leg was an extremely important moment in this in...

Pat was dead. >> she stripped sunday night, danced sunday night at the outer limits, and then she and her boyfriend leave town. >> police issued an all points bulletin for laura england. in the meantime, at the crime scene, investigators made some important discoveries. first, there were bloody boot prints throughout the house. and they had been made at two different times and several hours apart. >> you could see that someone had exited the house and then, apparently, re-entered. >> the boots w...