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As they were not legally mandatory. forensics teams were soon on the scene collecting evidence president moon in held an emergency meeting with advisers and promised a thorough investigation. into communion even the president said that the cause of the victims deaths should be determined quickly for the sake of the families authorities should inspect the life support and medical equipment to see if they contributed to the deaths of the fire broke out where patients were in critical care. i took ...

Text,and you think you deleted it you probably havent. steve: thats very helpful, for instance in terrorism cases because they say this guy tried to blow something up. lets track his phone. okay, he went here. he went here. >> san bernardino, as you remember the fbi hired outside agency to do the forensics and get that opened up. steve: they said he might have gone to a lake. >> if you really do want to delete everything, you want to delete your text messages and have you no matter what phone, t...

But a development was in store that would call the heart of the case into question, and no one, not even michael peterson, could have seen it coming. coming up, dramatic revelations about the scientific evidence against peterson. did the blood expert manipulate one of his experiments? >> his assistant does little jig. >> reporter: a happy end zone dance? >> exactly. >> reporter: by 2010, seven i think the reception for this product is overwhelmingly positive. this toothpaste sensodyne repair &...

Placed under house arrest. his every move monitored by an electronic ankle bracelet. but that hardly mattered to his girls, margaret and martha. for them, the dark cloud that lay over the family name for nearly a decade had lifted. >> "were part of the peterson family. and we are not afraid to say it." we so were stigmatized before, you know, and, like, hiding it. >> reporter: still, the second trial loomed. but working in michaels favor was the fact that the prosecutor would have to try a very ...

Been perpetrated upon kathleen peterson. and in her findings, she made a decision that ms. ratliff had been -- had been murdered. >> reporter: investigators thought theyd hit pay dirt. in death, they thought kathleen peterson and elizabeth ratliff could have been twins. >> im just thinking that, that my case is getting a whole lot better. >> reporter: kathleens sister candace thought that peterson had killed both women. >> i have a better chance of being struck by lightning than finding two peop...

Years later. >> the district attorney was one hundred percent willing to go to trial, they felt they had a strong case. >> reporter: but as the trial approached, michael found himself rethinking a possible plea deal and how it would affect his family. >> and im all the time thinking, you got some responsibility. i got two grandsons now, four and six. do i wanna drag this out for a couple more years? no. >> so you didnt -- you didnt wanna spin that wheel again, huh? >> exactly. my son -- claytons...

Autopsy performed at the u.s. military hospital in germany. elizabeth died, the examiner said, from a brain hemorrhage, natural causes. so the story lay buried for nearly two decades. but when detective art holland heard it, his head spun. >> i was overwhelmed with, you know, here i have two women that appeared to die the same way. two women that are associated with michael peterson. >> reporter: detectives wanted to dig a little deeper. what would they find? coming up -- for investigators, a ...

With his wifes disappearance. >> its one thing to say, look, im innocent. i didnt do this. its another thing to have so many people accusing you, pointing the finger at you. look, im not guilty. i didnt do this. i didnt commit this crime. >> reporter: there was no body, no murder weapon, and the defense said the forensics were unconvincing at best. but the jurors werent having it. it was june 2007. they came back guilty. cal harris broke down and sobbed. >> because i knew i was going to not see ...

Would be our best evidence in terms of trying to convince a jury that her intent at the time of the killing was something along the lines of a premeditated murder. >> but the prosecution found itself in a rather unusual predicament. eight years had passed since the shooting, and in that time the statute of limitations had run out on any charge other than first-degree murder. that meant, in order to get any conviction at all, prosecutors would have to prove to a jury, beyond a reasonable doubt, t...

Reports and said it wasnt a murder. >> is blood in all of the ventricles of the brain consistent with a stroke from natural causes? expert: it is consistent. >> reporter: then, there was the mount everest of the case: the forensics, explaining to the jury all that blood in the peterson stairwell. >> the defense would call dr. henry lee to the stand. >> reporter: the defense called celebrity forensic expert dr. henry lee, of o.j. case fame, to show the jury in theatrical fashion just how kathleen...