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Integrity of the investigation, john. >> all right. the tasha cheng, we appreciate you being there for us. thanks very much. perspective now from forensic scientist -- professor at john j college of criminal justice, also retired investigator paul holes. hes the host of real life nightmare. -- law enforcement officials are sifting through about 1000 tips, 150 interviews, but they still havent named or arrested any suspects. what do you think they go from here? >> well, theyve actually got multip...

So much the work now is processing all of the evidence and for that theres a lot of forensics work dna sampling, even things like determining if the killer is right-handed or left-handed based on the and iphones also kind of shoes he was wearing as he walked through a very bloody crime scene. police are keeping most of what they know close to the best they dont want to tip off the killer as to what they know. >> we dont put our best to gauge and by releasing what we have. we told the public very...

Injuries. how does it make it harder to find the suspects dna when its mixed up with different dna? >> good morning. this is a very complex and complicated crime scene. the way i like to look at it. joseph is not at all wrong. he is very correct in the amount of blood that was here. but you have multiple crime scenes. one for each victim and possibly elsewhere inside the house and maybe outside the house. police have to break those down, process them almost like miniature independent crime scene...

So that suggests to me this may have been random or targeted opportunity, if you will, some of the hardest crimes to solve. you know, every killer at the scene take something with them. that is where forensics comes in. if you are relying on forensics exclusively, that means you have no leads. im not saying this is a professional killer here. i am saying this could have potentially been a random stalker who saw the opportunity or saw them and a bar just like ted bundy did in 1978, followed someo...

Senior forensic doctors are welcoming the movement as a "bright sign" for the future of the practice, which has often been marginalized.

Speaking of the fbi, we have former fbi chris swecker on earlier to talk about the difficulty of cracking this case, take a listen. >> 90 interviews, no one surfaced as having motive or means or capability of doing that, this may have been random or target of opportunity, which are the hardest crimes to solve. every killer leaves something at the scene and takes something with them and that is where forensics, comes in. if you rely on forensics, exclusively, you have no leads. >> todd: focus on ...

Unit to come in to try to find the profile but when you have kids going in and out and, you know, as a criminal justice major the one thing that i remember is my professor slapping me with points off a test when we messed up a crime scene. it is easy to do that. law enforcement do that. its part of the game. but as paul has noted you can take the dna away but when you have kids going in. i see them a week later just now doing tire compressions, my brain starts to circle. >> bill: very interestin...

This is the latest to join that list. >> absolute tragedy. nbcs emily -- thank you so much. keep us posted. joining me now is clint watts, hes a former fbi special agent, an msnbc national security analyst. clint, thank you. sorry that is under the circumstances. -- to aid in these investigation. your former special agent. walk us through what investigators are going to do in this critical first few hours on the ground. >> yeah, its a combination of two things, sam. for us well be doing the fore...

Stand because she says detectives threatened to arrest her if she refused. >> they put me in handcuffs to take me, because i refused to go, you know, to court. i was just freaked out you know, because who want to be in handcuffs or in jail or something like that. nobody. >> in fact, court transcripts show she even attempted suicide as the trial began. but because she didnt testify against eric, her claims all these years later wouldnt help him. to have any chance at having another day in court e...

State police comes. idaho state police will be experienced with vast resource and theyll be there prial their forensics they have all of the computer stuff they have that great lab, theyre going to be great assistance there. they do have behavior unit but i think instincts are correct its about forensics they got the help for that and as long as they preserved it nirnlly that initial arrival at scene whoever the white shield cops were that arrived at the scene if they preserved it all then they ...