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Once with extreme force. >> with a beating or a kicking type of death, youre going to see the medium velocity bloodstain or impact spatter. >> when investigators turned over a throw rug in the hallway next to the kitchen, they found even more blood. no weapon was discovered, but investigators found more evidence of a clean-up in the garage. >> you had indications of a directional force having wiped the floor because you have blood pushed underneath one edge of the paint chips and not the others....

They were made by these same shoes. >> but visually, investigators saw no traces of blood on the shoe which was disappointing. >> 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 later to match the dna of avis banks. it puts her there ...

>> ended up, the three of them hanging out together all the time. >> as a result, bob browns relationship with christine soon went beyond friendship. >> as bob put it, he thought christine was starved for affection. they have this affair that goes on for many years. when christine got pregnant and gave birth to her oldest son justin, sources told police that ken was not the boys biological father, it was bob brown. >> robert maintained his friendship. as a matter of fact, he was justins godfathe...

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...

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 floor. testing showed it contained a tiny speck of human blood. and dna testing left no doubt who the blood had come from. >> it ended up being the blood of wesley person. we had found our crime scene. w...

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 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 ...

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...

For dna testing. forensic analysts also went over every inch of the room. >> they started searching, and on the wall they found a speck of blood that looked like it might have been a cast-off, a little tear drop. >> the blood on the wall and underneath the carpet yielded a genetic profile and it matched joshans dna. >> we can say that joshan was killed in that bedroom. >> partins roommate insisted he had nothing to do with joshans murder, but wouldnt cooperate further. >> he did not want to coop...

>> 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 was red. police canvassed area hospitals. no one matching michelles description had been admitted. law enforcement volunteer...

Dna testing showed it was from andre edwards. andre edwards was charged with murder, attempted murder, rape, and carjacking. but his lawyer claimed he was impaired because of drug addiction. would the jury believe it?