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Legislation pending, and obama supports it, to set up a forensic unit in the u.s. department of justice to create standards for forensic testing. because right now, we dont have reliable standards. >> jonathan that a good idea? >> i think thats part of the thing, but i think the bureau have to come up with the right standards and the bureau is doing what they need to do in order to come up with those things. and i think that you cant just say that the bureau has a bad reputation because we do no...

>> and forensic testing could not determine the origin of the blood in persitzs trunk. at the time, dna testing wasnt as sophisticated as it is today. >> back then, the dna testing procedures that we used required dna to be whats called high molecular weight. we needed dna that hadnt gone through any degradation processes at all. >> but investigators did find some suspicious damage to persitzs car. the car had damage to the front right end. the paint was scraped and the bumper was broken. the sc...

Had inadequate counsel. modern forensic testing failed to show the bullets came from his gun. those bullets were the only evidence linking him to the murders. >> prime freedom benjamin netanyahu mrafth the framework of the deal with iran saying it put the jewish states existence at risk. >> it poses a great danger to the region and world and threatens the survival of the state of israel. the deal would not shut down a single nuclear facility in iran and will not stop rnd on the advanced centerre...

>> and its kind of outside the realm of most peoples reality, that someone would poison you. and i dont think she wanted to believe it, and i think that she was embarrassed or ashamed to say anything about it. >> prosecutors believe the motive was money and the desire to live with his girlfriend. >> he didnt want her. he wanted the family affiliations and alliances. i think it was partly money and it was partly just the position that he wanted, and he couldnt have either one with just a divorce....

Had it not been for accident reconstruction, forensic testing and a bottle of motor oil, he might have gotten away with it. >> he was motivated to kill nicholas howard to prevent any other witnesses, prevent having to share the insurance proceeds, and because he had a long vendetta against the mother as a scorned lover. >> i dont know if nick planned a scam with ralph. it makes absolutely no sense to me, because you cant get insurance money if youre alive. and because i know how nick loved me an...

For investigators, this offered a possible clue. >> how would someone grab hold of him and turn him over? and we did notice that the belt had been disturbed slightly, meaning that it had been twisted a little bit. and so, we kind of thought that perhaps maybe the suspect grabbed a hold of the belt. >> the belt was removed for forensic testing. the initial examination found no fingerprints, so they tried super glue fuming. >> its just simply heating up the superglue inside of an enclosed chamber,...

On a rug under the bed in the bedroom that hadnt been there before. forensic testing revealed the blood on the carpet was pams. it appeared that she left her keys in the door inadvertently and an intruder walked in while pam was in the bathtub. the couples son was sleeping overnight at a friends house and couldnt shed any light on what had happened. investigators also had to consider whether pam had simply run off, but her mother refused even to consider that possibility. >> i told them, i said,...

Loved ones remains have been recovered. bodies, human remains are sitting in a factory in ukraine. we had heard that most of the bodies had been put on this so-called morgue train but now we know that nearly 100 bodies are still unaccounted for, possibly back at the crash site for the 200 bodies that made it, they will soon be flown back to the netherlands where the grim process will begin to sort out the victims identities and perform forensic testing. and then you see here, the black boxes tha...

For investigators, this offered a possible clue. >> how would someone grab hold of him and turn him over? and we did notice that the belt had been disturbed slightly, meaning that it had been twisted a little bit. and so, we kind of thought that perhaps maybe the suspect grabbed a hold of the belt. >> the belt was removed for forensic testing. the initial examination found no fingerprints, so they tried super glue fuming. >> just simply heating up the super glue inside of an enclosed chamber, al...

Forensic testing showed nancy started ingesting arsenic in september, around the time she and richard reconciled. the fatal dose was administered two days before nancy was admitted to the hospital where she died. to hide his involvement, richard created the fake invoice for the arsenic. and forensic analysis proved that it was richard who wrote the sex-related entries in nancys diary implicating her brother as a possible suspect. >> i think it was calculating. he thought himself as a ladys man. ...