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Decades they were able to find the man who they say is responsible. what more can you tell us about how police broke the case? >> victor, when we spoke with assistant chief resnick, he talked about seeing the photo of angelicas body after it was removed from the cooler. he said that image has been engraved in his mind and hell never forget it. i saw that fophoto. i can understand why. the police detectives, theyre perseverance has paid off. they would talk about the anniversary and when they fou...

The bunch including me, and the church was full, about 500 people in the church. she truly became a member of the community. >> anniversaries passed and police persisted and finally a break. police recently got a call on their hotline, and the caller said she was told several years ago by a young woman that her parents killed her sister, and that tip and advances in dna testing helped to arrest the cousin who police say murdered her. at her funeral over two decades ago, the assistant chief deliv...

What more can you tell us about how the story broke and how the case finally came to the ending? >> ana, it was the perseverance of the new york detectives. thats what led to the arrest, somebody saw a news report and finally spoke up, and there was the advancement of dna testing, and so when they exhumed her body, they were able to match dna samples they were able to match to baby hopes mother. the man charged with the crime will be back in court on the 21st. >> 22 years now, and then a confess...

Investigation in landford. >> we did dna testing and it was not the blood of kendrick johnson. >> now they have new questions about what happened when his body was removed from the gym. >> when we got the body for the second autopsy, that organs, the heart, lungs, liver, et cetera, were not with the body. >> reporter: a spokeswoman for the state tells us that after its autopsy, the organs were placed in johnson body and the body was closed and released to the funeral home. >> what was in the pla...

Down. >> accident. we just didnt believe. you could tell he was beaten. >> reporter: now the family is asking the school board to row lease any surveillance video from that day to see if any clues could be found there. >> we believe that these videotapes would clearly answer many of the questions surfaced over these many months. >> reporter: in june, the johnsons exhumed kendricks body and hired a doctor to conduct an autopsy and he checked that bruised right side jaw. >> we saw there was intet ...

Hooded sweatshirt found feet from his body. >> if you look close, theres something on this particular cuff. then the question is, was it blood? did you test it? >> according to the crime lab report, no. >> they know something happened in that gym, and they dont want it to come out. >> for the johnsons, theres no stronger indicator than this photo. its of what appears to be blood dripping down the wall. this is what stryde jones said. >> we tested it and it was blood. we did dna testing, it was n...

A judge now ordering new dna testing on the weapon that was allegedly used to murder meredith kifrn ner back in 2007. the trace was too small to use before. last year the supreme court ordered a new trial for amanda knox overturning her acquittal. the 26-year-old has not returned to italy. >> the time now about 15 minutes until the top of the hour. patriotism at its best. ♪ oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave ♪ >> what caused the spectators to break out into song? where you will n...

She was air lifted to a local hospital. the sheriff declined to identify the dead. rescue workers were halted yesterday after engineers said the area was too unstable. today the hope of any other survive hes, lost. >> this is a recovery effort at this point. >> reporter: officials told the denver post they were able to visually confirm the others among the group were among those buried. the sheriff told the paper, there is no one alive up there. >> for 13-year-old gracie johnson, she suffered a ...

Identified until sometime in the next couple of weeks themselves need to do crucial dna testing to feigned out if the bones they found belong to either of the two victims, whose bodies have not been recovered. thats a 50-year-old woman from sicily and a 33-year-old man who was on the ship from india. the discovery of these remains, obviously, will give closures to the families but also give the salvage operators a chance to start the next phase of their operation. they do not have access to the ...

Since the cruise ship capsized. divers spotted the remains near the central part of the ship where survivors said the two were last seen alive. once the bodies are recovered, dna testing will be done to confirm the identities. and former nfl lineman brian holloway is pressing charges against the teenagers who trashed his vacant house at a labor day weekend party. holloway says the hundreds of partiers caused at least $20,000 in damage to his vacation home in upstate new york. some parents thre...