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As michelles. but dna testing would take several weeks. >> there was a pool of blood and leading away from that pool of blood were drag marks in blood. which indicates that whoever was bleeding was drug away. >> we got an opinion that if she didnt get immediate medical attention based on what we saw at the crime scene, that she was probably going to die. >> now it was a race against time. and police soon found a likely suspect. very close to home. my sister is very bright and bubbly and lit up...

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...

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 support that habit. >> janet ...

Body. darrell may have used it to defend himself, causing an injury, a facial cut, or nosebleed. to identify the killer, dna samples were collected from the two suspects, bob johnson and curtis pope. dna testing revealed it was curtis popes blood at the crime scene. >> if darrell north had not taken some steps to defend himself, this case wouldnt have been solved. >> would have never dreamed that firing somebody would cause somebody to, you know, go postal. >> darrells family couldnt believe tha...

A polygraph and had, in fact, paid money to download a book on how to beat it. >> as testing continued on the blood stains on the floor of the crime scene, investigators noticed one blood drop on darrell norths pants that they had previously overlooked. >> there was a vertical drop on the back left pant leg of darrell north, while hes laying on the floor. >> the shape of the drop was perfectly round. meaning that the origin of the blood was stationary, and hit the fabric at a 90 degree angle. >>...

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...

Two days later, she was gone and 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, apparen...

The spent shell casings from the scene to the casings from the test firing. looking at unique marks made by the firing pin as it struck the bullet. they were identical. >> also inside the barrel was a small drop of blood, dna testing proved the blood was ken maclennans. >> it made sense based on the soot on the hand that mr. maclennan had actually grabbed the gun before the shot was fired. because of that contact with the hand, some of his blood then did blow back into the barrel of the rifle. >...

Know, "murdered." it was unsettling because everything was "exotic dancer murdered" or "stripper thrown off bridge." it was never her name or that she was a bucks county community college student. >> since rachel was found at the bottom of the bridge without shoes, wearing clean socks, investigators suspected she had been carried to the bridge and thrown over the side. >> up on top of the bridge there were no shoes. there was no car. there was a lot of road debris and other dirt that would have ...

Glove in the back pocket, a pair of white sox. 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 date of the murder. dna testing proved the blood on the clothes had come from jasons father. >> the fact that we could problem beyond a reasonable doubt that those jeans were jason maclennans with his dads blood on the bottom of the pan...