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Occurred, how it occurred and what is needed to prevent it from happening again. >> julie: the ntsb has a team of 16 investigators on the scene of mondays deadly california boat fire. and a key question they will try to answer will be why no one below deck was able to escape. marie napoli is a trial attorney with experience in maritime law and joins me on set. we know the fire was fast spreading. forensics teams have concluded two reasons why the fire spread so quickly. nonetheless the crew memb...

See amazing gun violence. anyone that suggests that states like texas or south carolina where we have strong second amendment adherence are the problems, wrong. what we should do is take a deeper dive into the homicides and we will find out that the homicides have a lot in common. brian: senator, look at the last 25 shootings and see if there is commonalities get politics out experts and forensics into it do this intelligently but not emotionally. real quick the odessa shooter beat the backgroun...

But what they are able to do is (electrical current buzzing) each new draft of every novel. see they have bodies and they are not going to disturb it. (typing clicks) the finishing touch on every masterpiece. i am sure treat it as a crime scene more than likely until (newborn cries) it is humanitys official two-word war cry. they can keep everything contained for forensics. words that move us all forward. >> bring the boat up? >> bring the boat up and have the same two words that capital group b...

Litigation with this insurance company for this diving company for years. and there must be a very generous settlement for these surviving families because thats the only way you are going to get justice. you will never bring these people back. >> brian: it will be hard doing the forensics, the ships sank in 60-foot of water. >> dana: they said some of the bodies were burned beyond recognition. so they were doing the recovery efforts but then we will have to go to the d.n.a. testing just to iden...

But crime scene techs did not find any. when the rest of the forensics came back, the findings had limitations. >> although you have the murder weapon, its been washed in water for several hours. >> kitchen knife or something? >> a kitchen knife. a large kitchen knife. it was found in the bathtub. and so any dna that had -- couldve been on it from the murderer was gone. it was washed away. >> reporter: whats more, no blood was detected on sandra. in fact, no dna or fingerprints linked sandra to ...

Verbatim. and she said, "i remember those words." >> reporter: not just "i dont want to have a baby" or "i dont want to have a baby right now." >> "i dont want to have a baby with you." i imagine that sucked just a little bit of her soul out. >> reporter: is that your motivation right there? >> i think thats where the seed was planted. i really do. because that implies that there is someone else that you would like to have a child with. >> reporter: maybe someone like jermeirs fiance, denita smi...

Libraries and police departments there to go back to handwritten records. baltimore city services attacked and lake city, florida, forced to pay out half a million dollars. 70% of ransomware attacks target small businesses the average demand, $116,000 but desperate to recover their data, some businesses have paid as much as $935,000 in ransom. the suspects, often overseas, nearly impossible to find. >> if you do pay and you dont do your forensics, you have idea what they have done to your system...

Eyes and face? >> the first thing was satan walked into the room. >> coming up -- >> i knew i was innocent. >> was he? >> jurors like to see forensics. dna and the blood simples. they didnt have it. >> that was the biggest concern for me.

>> i think he was calm. i think he answered the questions as best he could. very simply. i think very completely. we felt we had made a showing that the state had not met the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. >> mike waited four long years to get justice for his sister. but now, he wasnt sure what the jury would do. >> there were times that i felt the evidence was very circumstantial. >> in this day and age, juries really like to see forensics. the dna and the blood samples. >> that was...

>> how hard is it for you to be here today? >> very. >> do you want to believe that your dad is responsible for your mothers disappearance? >> do i want to believe it? >> yes. >> no. >> lets assume that your dad in fact did kill your mom. would you want to see him punished for it? >> no, not particularly. >> reporter: prosecutor lewin knew the ambivalence of the family members did not help his case, but -- >> in the end, my job isnt to make sure that the family members get what they want. my job...