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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. ...

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 couldnt understand why the victims husband didnt report her missing. >> every time i hear i didnt ...

Their relationship was rocky at best. investigators discovered persitz gave michael $150,000 to invest but there were more losses than profits. at some point, persitz discovered his stock portfolio was worth less than $30,000. >> for the most part, they werent investments that were suitable for a guy that invested every nickel he had with michael. >> when questioned by police, persitz denied any involvement in michaels murder and he willingly took a lie detector test arranged by his lawyer. >> i...

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 superglue inside of an enclosed chamber, all...

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...

Good an arsonist as he was a 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 reve...

Were separated they had gone to the movies together and richard had got her a drink. when he brought it to her and she drank some of it and she said it tasted awful she said 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 has been giving me these capsules for the last several months. he says nancy these are like vitamins and are good for you. >> police confiscated every pill in the lyons h...

Blood that had been been there before. forensic testing revealed the blood on the carpet was pams. the couples son was sleeping over at a friends house and couldnt shed light on what happened. investigators had to consider whether pam had simply run off. her mother considered to even assume that possibility. >> our next thought is she might have had a boyfriend. i said if she had a boy fribd. i would have known. pam never looked at another man. byron was her sweet heart. >> family family offered...

Arsonic. forensic testing showed nancy started ingesting arsonic 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 arsonic 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...

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 night of the murder. >> the fact that he pays off his debt at...