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Members who have learned from the prosecutor today they wont be very likely to be releasing any of the bodies that are beginning to be removed from the mountainside unlikely to release them for a number of days possibly several weeks. a lot of dna testing to be done. >> very gruesome work. thanks very much nic robertson on the scene for us. in a cnn exclusive, the ceo of lufthansa says the co-pilot passed all his medical tests and gave no indication that he was unstable. he spoke with our senior...

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. the result? the lab said it found this dna sequence in only 29 out of mo...

Yet eyewitness testimony contributed to 72% of the wrongful konconvictions, according to the innocence project a nonprofit legal and public policy group. often eyewitness mis misidentification is a playing a role in 72% of the wrongful convictions in dna testing nationwide and why are you shaking your head, jeff? >> well, don, it is frustrating that we cant come together and acknowledge the facts in the case case. because i dont think that we can move past it and turn the corner that we need to ...

Sweatshirt, jeans, socks, shoes and underwear, and theyre all consistent with a male of brandons build, and theres blood thats evident on these clothes. >> dna testing of the blood on brandons clothes revealed it was devon guzmans. >> it is direct evidence that shows that the husband, brandon bloss, had contact with this victim and when she was bleeding. you know, its tough to explain that one. >> brandon bloss and michelle hetzel were arrested and charged with first-degree murder.

He was in that water and you hit him with something. what did you hit him with? >> maybe a board. >> maybe a board? did you hit him with a board or you didnt hit him with a board, alvin? >> i dont know. >> what they failed to see is he doesnt have any memories of doing the things that theyre accusing him of doing, that he then caves in ultimately and passively accepts. and thats why hes using that language. >> dr. hayes-hammer discovered that alvins iq was 74 and he had dropped out of school in ...

After several years, the cold case unit of the michigan state police decided to take a second look at the murders of margarette eby and nancy ludwig. they thought that perhaps the original investigators might have missed something. dna testing revealed the same man killed both women. but they had no idea to whom the dna belonged. so they concentrated on the partial fingerprint from the faucet in margarette ebys bathroom. >> the crime lab was able to identify a small print on the faucet knob in t...

>> count i you did while in the perpetration or attempted perpetration of criminal sexual conduct in the first degree -- >> jeffrey gorton was tried and convicted for the first-degree murder of both nancy ludwig and margarette eby. he will spend the rest of his life in prison. >> im afraid of him. im glad hes locked up for the rest of his life. he is the absolutely most frightening person that ive ever encountered because he was random, because he was so secretive, because he was so ordinary. >>...

Been raped and murdered by an unknown assailant. tarpleys research uncovered the fact that one of the victims of the bedroom basher, deborah kennedy, was raped and murdered in the same neighborhood, in the same week and with the same m.o. as dianna greens attack. >> almost identical victims, identical locations, theyre only seven or eight days apart. its hard to not think that theyre related. so i looked into the cases enough to where it bothered me that i felt the two cases were related. >> fir...

That had never been admitted into evidence in a pennsylvania trial, something called mitochondrial dna. traditional dna analyzing the nucleus of the cell. but outside the nucleus are mitochondria that can be identified although not as precisely as traditional dna testing. >> most hairs from crime scenes have very, very little amounts of dna. however, there is more mitochondrial dna, however there is more dna therefore in hairs obtained from crime scenes most of the time we cant obtain the dna co...

But still has residual neurological problems stemming from the attack. kevin green has remarried and living in missouri. he has dedicated his life to making sure inmates who claim innocence have access to post-conviction dna testing. >> i think its an awful miscarriage of justice. but i can see how it happened. i can see how it happened and nobody did anything wrong. i dont think dianna green did anything wrong. i think she testified to what she believed was the truth. >> the bottom line came do...