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What has to happen is probably dna testing, its a long process. probably be weeks or even months before its complete. and theres still a very good chance that some of the victims will never be identified. >> floyd, do you have any thoughts on how this whole unique situation weve been watching unfold may change aviation law going forward for other airlines? >> christi, its interesting i think it might. one thing that happens in most aviation disasters is some changes come from them, some changes ...

The pilot has his or her job to do that. the airline has people to look out for that. the only other thing i can mention is the humanitarian aspect. right now, there are 295 bodies probably all of them are unrecognizable. so theres going to have to be a very substantial effort for teams to get in there, probably do dna testing. right now, i dont know who is going to do that. >> thats the question, colonel jacobs. this is an area not in the control of the ukrainian government. upon whom is it inc...

Found in natalies car, they found a similar hole in the left-hand glove between the thumb and forefinger. dna testing revealed that blood on the outside of the glove was natalies. but the blood on the inside of the left-hand glove was matthews. >> the dna matched back to both, a commingling of matthews blood and natalies blood. and there is all this forensic evidence that starts to tell the truth as to what happened that night. >> in the mirabals apartment, investigators found evidence of motive...

With this letter he made a mistake. he liquid the envelope flap and left enough saliva for dna testing. police now had the dna profile of the zodiac killer. the letter also included another clue. >> i knew it was a code. it was a nine towers because there were nine victims. and i wrote down all the different symbols. and i think i had 23. very close to an alphabet. and then i did something called a frequency count. which is, you write down how many times each letter is used. because for example ...

Week later found a 3-foot length of pipe with a water sprinkler attachment at the end. while there were no fingerprints or hair on the pipe, there was a tiny speck of blood, which was sent for dna testing. >> how it got left there has always been amazing to us because it obviously had to have dried first when it was dropped in the pond. otherwise, it would have washed off as soon as it dropped into the pond. >> to determine if this was the murder weapon, investigators devised a test to see the m...

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 there was blood on those pants. >> and that b...

Cant help but think the worst. >> her friends now wondered whether it might have been michelle in the back of that 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 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 wa...

>> since the crime was committed at night, investigators assumed the killer would have turned off the lights after cleaning up the blood, but there were no visible bloodstains on the light switch by the door. >> that whole area was actually brought into the laboratory. they cut out the wall and took 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 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 either the state or national criminal databases. in the se...

>> we then decide to submit those shoes to a second laboratory. the examiner places the shoes under the microscope. >> this time, they found several microscopic stains that appeared to be blood. and this time, dna testing confirmed what investigators already suspected. >> those shoes do in fact contain dna and were late to match the dna of avis banks. it puts her there in the presence of ms. banks at the time of her death. >> the only thing police needed to figure out was whether keyon pittman w...