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Down. and ten years ago a real estate agent, wife of the sheriff, also shot and killed. all three involved in their community. all gunned down in their homes in broad daylight. all three killed within two miles of each other. police say forensics show similarities in the bullets used in all three killings but they wont go as far to say they came from the same gun. but those bullets do have the same general characteristics and are similar in design. so the search is only intensifying for a suspec...

Pistorius was trying. thats when i said not everything is in order as mr. pistorius was telling me. i saw mr. pistorius coming down to reeva. my lady, i was so shocked that i couldnt even think for a few moments. >> it was an emotionally charged week, no doubt about it, based on some of these testimonies, but next week, the prosecution really wants to put home their strongest case and that is going to rely very strongly on forensics and evidence. tamron? >> ayman mohyeldin live for us in pretori...

The alleged crime scene before police and ambulance members showed up. what you mentioned, one of the more critical and damning testimonies, that of samantha taylor. the so-called character witnesses, they are trying to paint a picture of oscar pistorius as an individual who was a gun toter, a man with a temperament and individual who cheated on her and one who called on his friends to take the fall for him when something went wrong like an incident where oscar accidentally discharged a weapon a...

Would have figured out a way to do well enough in school to graduate high school and probably would have had a college career playing basketball. and instead, hes spending his life in jail. >> few people can imagine a child killing a parent, but the evidence at the scene and evidence missing from the scene clearly showed what happened. >> forensics played a big role in this, but not in the normal sense. the lack of it, in some ways, was kind of compelling. >> its something he probably just thoug...

Wasnt really investigated as a homicide. >> eventually, brown confessed to 48 murders, including one he committed while serving in the u.s. military in south korea. investigators around the country are still trying to corroborate browns claims. if true, brown may be one of the most prolific serial killers in american history. and he might still be free if it werent for the local fingerprint databases in louisiana and california and the investigators who knew where to look. >> you just dont know ...

>> this, in my mind, is the second most horrific case that ive ever been involved in, in terms of the trauma to the victim, the torture that the victim endured, the level of violence used to commit the murder. >> i deserve the punishment i get. i feel horrible for what ive done. i wish i could bring her back and trade places with her. i cant. >> the forensic analysis not only identified the perpetrator, but documented the extent of his brutality. >> forensic science is amazing what they can, or ...

They willingly obliged. >> there are certain people in our society that have absolutely forfeited their right to live among us by their own actions and by their own decisions. joe luna is one of those people. >> ironically, joe luna tried to cover up his crime by burning the evidence, but he didnt destroy it. instead, he made those tiny glass insulation fibers more distinctive. >> it was actually the last way that i thought they would catch him. that was furthest from my mind it would be in a va...

To mask the evidence, he set fire to the clothes in michaels closet and returned to his girlfriends apartment through the crawl space. when he didnt hear the fire alarm sound, he suspected the fire went out, so he returned to michaels apartment to start the fire again. he stole michaels computer, electronic equipment, and his car keys. before leaving, he set the two additional fires. when luna returned to his girlfriends apartment, he shed fibers from michaels apartment which he tried to remove ...

So was the exposed metal on the truck. unbelievably, martinez discovered that the paint chips did come from huffmans truck. they fit perfectly. >> a physical fit is the only for sure thing in forensic science. its probabilities are astronomical. there were no statistics that can calculate or duplicate the odds of tearing any two pieces identical. it is the only thing thats in forensics that is the for sure thing and, in fact, better than dna. >> heres this paint chip that plugs in perfectly. tha...

Credible. what i think this case is going to come down to is the forensics. oscar pistorius, was he on his blades or not? and also, there was some testimony but i cant nail it down, that the bathroom door was locked. if the bathroom door was locked from the inside, why would it be -- if youre going to the bathroom in the middle of the night, do you generally lock the bathroom door or just close it? theres some interesting questions that im waiting to hear the testimony about and how those answer...