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And also, there was some blood 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 possi...

>> i think forensic science is amazing. thats what solved the case. it just puts that much more of my faith in the system. im glad its progressed to where it has and i hope it continues to do so. >> forensic science in this particular case is 110%. its the reason wilson saintil is in prison, and without it, he would be a free man today. up next, the murder of a convenience store employee goes unsolved for years. >> the case always bugged me. we wanted to find the clown that did that. >> police...

Man who killed stephen holmes inside the steak restaurant. but investigators wanted to know what happened to the $8,000 missing from the restaurants safe? thats when they learned that saintil visited a local furniture store the day after the murder. the furniture store had a security camera in the office, which showed saintil paying off a $1,200 debt in cash with $100 bills. much of the money stolen from the restaurant was in $100 bills, from the gift certificates they had been selling on the ni...

For a weekend with this gentleman, i insisted over and over this is not darlene. it just didnt ring true with her personality. >> four days later jeff returned. he said he was visiting friends out of town. >> he was nervous. most people are nervous when they speak to the police. he was nervous and concerned. concerned for darlene. >> inside the trunk of jeffs car evidence technicians found what looked like dried blood. >> law enforcements antenna really went up when they saw blood in the trunk. ...

On the night of the murder, prosecutors believe marcus and nick met on the dock to plan the car crash. either nick tried to back out or marcus had planned to kill him all along. at some point, marcus strangled him until he was unconscious, then threw him into the river where he drowned. he kept nicks glasses, bent them in half, and threw them on the floor of nicks car to make it appear nick was in the car when it crashed. marcus opened the windows, used the cap from his motor oil bottle, placed ...

Sorry, clearing away broken glass. so thats okay. the propensity for more violence is extremely high. because i can tell you when this boy has a funeral, there are going to be hundreds, perhaps thousands of angry palestinians attending that funeral. the body is still being -- undergrowing forensic testing. when its released, you can bet on it, there will be problems. just up the street, there are small clashes between israeli police armed with rubber bullets, tear gas and stun grenades, and a gr...

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 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 your next thought is she might have had a boyfriend. i said i give you m...

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. ...

Killer, we never would have prosecuted him. >> bramblett then drove to work where he made a number of mistakes. he punched the time clock, either from force of habit or greed, so that hed be paid for coming in early. it placed him in the vicinity of the hodges home around the time the fire was reported. bramblett tried to remove the diesel fuel stains from his blue jeans by soaking them in water. but forensic testing easily identified them. bramblett unwittingly revealed his complicity by drawin...

>> she said, well, at one time when they were separated, they had gone to the movies together. and richard had gone and got her a drink, and when he brought it to her and she drank some of it and she said it tasted awful, and when she looked in there, there was a white powder on the top of the drink. >> nancy said she became violently ill later that night and told her doctor something else. >> my husband, hes been giving me these capsules for the past several months, and he would say, nancy, go ...