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>> but investigators couldnt understand why the dogs werent all together. >> why were her two smaller dogs beat so severely and yet the biggest dog of the group was never struck? and the dog was also locked in a bedroom. >> the third dog was a hybrid, a wolf mix that was owned by the husband. >> investigators thought the blood on the dogs mouths and paws had come from cathys attacker. but forensic testing disproved that. >> the swabs and clippings that had been taken from the dogs came back nega...

More than just friends. michael was persitzs financial adviser. 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 w...

Mistakes. he punched the time clock either from force of habit or greed so he would 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 the water. but forensic testing easily identified them. bramblett unwittingly revealed his complicity by drawing the injuries on a piece of paper in stick figure at work. later matched to bramblett by handwritin...

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...

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 call it in because we had an argument, i always wonder how could anybody beli...

Trying to clear up a half-century-old mystery and mary snow is monitoring that and top stories in "the situation room." whats the latest? >> modern science finally may settle the question of whether albert desalvo really was the boston strangler. he confessed while in prison for other crimes but went to his grave without ever being prosecuted for the murders of 11 women in the early 1960s. today, a district attorney announced desalvos body will be exhumed in hopes new forensic testing will link ...

To go back voluntarily. it would be up to the u.s. extradite her. jon: can she fight going back over there? >> she has a choice. she doesnt have a voluntarily surrender and u.s. decides, i would doubt at this point, since she was found not guilty by an italian jury they would actually forcer had to go back. even today, if the ruling is that the italian prosecutors do get a new trial im not sure they would ever see amanda knox back in italy to take advantage of that opportunity. jon: reportedly t...

Israel within minutes of being attack. body of former palestinian authority president yasser arafat may be exhumed for forensic testing. that follows a request from his widow after a swiss lab found elevated levels of palonium, in clothing and belongings that he is said to have used in final days. close associates of arafat says it suggests he may have been poisoned. arafat died in 2004. some say the case is just about closed on how the universe works. is the final piece of the standard mode...

Cell phone pinged a cell tower eight miles away from where this guy lives. he is the only person of interest but what else do police have to go on? >> first of all jon, not only is he there now but he was there at that time. at that time he lived as you said eight miles away from where her phone was last pinked, a cell tower, 50 miles south where she disappeared. he received a speeding ticket in that same connection between george town county and myrtle beach. he was looked at by police. in fact...

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