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Did infant cody have so many bone fractures? more than 1,000 miles away in springfield, illinois, radiologist dr. david ayub researches metabolic bone disease. the family believes he has the explanation of what happened to cody. >> the healing had already started at this point. >> reporter: the doctor is one of the main authors of a 2014 study. in the peer-reviewed paper ayoub and his colleagues looked at previous studies of infant fractures determined to be from abuse. their findings? those fra...

Their findings, those fractures very likely came from bone disease. these are the x-rays of codys fractures from 1993. can you say to a degree of medical certainty that cody duncan had metabolic bone disease? >> absolutely. no question he had metabolic bone disease. >> she was a great mother -- >> reporter: ayoob believes cody had infantile rickets, a disease of early life in which bones do not mineralize properly. >> thats the exact description of fractures in children with compromised bone str...

Properly. >> thats the exact description of fractures in children with compromised bone strength. many of their bones are weak. theyre not fragile for a day or two. theyre fragile over a period of time. >> reporter: he says babies with the disease have bones so fragile that even regular handling can cause a break. and those fractures, he says, are often misdiagnosed as abuse. this is a case of a wrongfully convicted man. no victim, no crime. this florida defense attorney is working to get jims c...

Head what you said that essentially police are saying that perhaps this so-called suspect tried to save her life rather than kill her. is that right? did i understand her correctly? >> initially they thought and thats what they have been saying all along that she was murdered. they are calling it a homicide investigation. now they are saying she may have. this is a theory they are work on that they ma have had sex after all. theres some suggestion that she asked him to leave because she does hav...

Ledor, the rome bureau chief for the daily beast. hi, barbie. >> hi there. yes, the prosecutor in the case announced they have arrested and in custody 27-year-old man from senegal. he was arrested overnight. and his dna was taken and tested positive to crucial pieces of evidence found in ashley olsons apartment. one was a condom, the other was a cigarette. the prosecutor also told reporters in his press conference this morning that there was no erotic sex game gone wrong but in fact that the two...

Police say hes a 27-year-old illegal immigrant. investigators believe that ashley olsen met him at a nightclub on friday morning. they believe that they left there together and went back to olsens apartment. now heres where things get confuse iing. investigators are saying they did have sex and it was consensu consensual. she was not sexually assaulted. the chief prosecutor saying investigators found the suspects dna in olsens apartment and body. they found a condom and a cigarette along with hi...

My shoulder blade. and there was internal damage in here that i could feel. but mostly it was just fractures, you know. >> multiple surgeries and several months later, josh is on the mend. >> i ended up getting some pins on my elbow that i think are holding my elbow cap thing together. and then ive got a rod up in my femur. about like i think six screws and some wire holding that together. thats all drilled up into the hip bone, all the way up into the socket just about. >> still, his recovery i...

And they need to be thinking of that. if they take a thumping in november if that were to take place, they get -- you cant rally the country as a whole, the better thing to do is go back to the drawing board and see if you cant refocus your party. thats what happened when bill clinton got elected. democrats lost two in a row, nominating someone who is quite liberal, when clinton came in he moved the party to the cent trer and made it more of a majority party for the presidency. >> you had chris ...

I said what is wrong with you. what is your problem. just get your pizza, get out of here. and mark jones approaches. >> check you. check you. >> and while mark jones approaches me, my phone rings, but then it hangs up. so i go to redial the phone. and he is like what is the problem. im not really paying attention much to what he is doing. >> thats when mr. jones unloads a wicked round house, a blindsiding killer sucker punch that fractures josephs teeth and immediately gives him a cerebral conc...

That he made it out. it seemed like i was just like reborn. thats the way i had the feeling when this guy was on the ground, just made it out of there alive. >> youll be fine, youll be fine. good job, guys. good job, guys. >> once we got him out of the vehicle and my partner and citizens got him to safety, i looked back at the car, and thats when i really realized, boy, we came really close on this one. and it really doesnt hit you until that point, when you look back at it and you think wow, th...