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The defense? >> no. it turns out that the police and the district attorney had all the evidence at their disposal to solve this crime from the beginning. >> so he wrote a letter to the u. s. attorney proclaiming his innocence and detailing the information hed found out about the sex, money, murder gang. it was a hail mary pass. in an amazing stroke of luck, erics letter landed on this mans desk. his name, john omalley, an investigator for the u. s. attorney in new york. days after reading erics ...

Washington, d.c. you know, near the capitol at, you know, locations of notes and still be out there. that -- its kind of extraordinary, isnt it? >> it really is, especially when you see the video coverage that the fbi has released in the wake of the -- that attempt. so there is -- you know, this individual was caught on -- um -- video surveillance from residences and businesses in the area. so there is lots of images of him. just not enough to identify him. but historically, if you look back at ...

So its the forensics you collect off of those devices that typically lead you to those people. if this is his first run at these things, which it might have been because they certainly didnt work, we may be having to wait until he tries it again. >> come to think of it, it reminds me there was a bombing in new york years and years ago at a u.s. recruitment center, i think it was, somebody rode up on a bicycle, and i think that still is unsolved. >> its still unsolved. >> andrew mccabe, thank you...

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Level of extremely detailed analysis. this work of -- im sure evan can agree -- deciphering small grainy visuals that are a small part of an entire story is very labor intensive. it has the great benefit of adding to the publics understanding of an event and can reveal instances of overreach by those in power. video and visual reconstructions, as implied by the term forensics, i think have become a really important tool in reporting mechanisms. this type of work can be profoundly transparent. it...

>> griz stewed in jail for seven months, and then he wrote to prosecutor rob miller. >> he wrote a letter exaggerating how he committed the crime, but ultimately admitting to it saying ive been played by these two ladies. >> pretty soon griz was cutting a deal. >> arrangements were made for griz to confess the entire murder in exchange for the state not pursuing the death penalty. >> griz was specific. his mother and kelly had pushed him to do the killing. mom drove him to the scene, dropped him...

Our team and the post visual forensics team rely on things you can get online, videos, photos, data, meta data as well as a lot of advances in satellite imagery, things you can purchase commercially that allows us and this community of online open source researchers to piece together things that no one could piece together a decade ago. whereas before we might have had the account of the government versus the account of the witnesses and americans maybe at least in the past were inclined to give...

Onto the garage floor, because there is an area three feet by six feet where blood was found. >> reporter: then, said the prosecutor, cal tried to clean up before he disposed of the body. >> he then would have taken the car back down to the end of the driveway, walked back up to the house and disposed of the body during the seven hours or thereabouts before he called mrs. thayer. >> reporter: the defense attorneys tried to swat it all down and cal harris, himself, was adamant he had nothing to d...

I wont let you down. >> in high school, heather bogle auditioned for a game show. as a young woman, she wanted to be a nurse. as a mom, she loved her daughter. and now, way ahead of time, she was gone. sandusky county, ohio, sheriffs detective sean oconnells investigation began with some basic forensics. >> fortunately, the coroners office was able to locate some dna underneath her fingernails. >> was that dna in the national database? >> it did not come back to anybody. >> oconnell started aski...