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Investigators digging up the remains of two of americas most elm famous killers. their grizzly crime, the subject of the best selling book in cold blood. but now there is new technology that they believe could prove the killing spree didnt stop there. we will get a life report on the rest of the story coming up. when a volcano recently blew its top for the first time since the 1970s, tourists came from miles around. well, they are gawking now. and thats coming up. [ male announcer ] when it come...

Hickcock here to sarasota county that bone fragments removed from coffins yesterday will now finally either solve yet another unspeakable quadruple murder that happened 53 years ago. >> i cant describe it. it was horrible looking. >> don mccloud cant forget that horrible day in 1959 when he walked in cliff walker christine and two children all shot dead in florida home. it remains sarasota countys oldest unsolved major crime. but 53 years later, detective kim mcgaffe thinks the walker killers ar...

Without even an i.d. polls show a strong majority of americans favor closing the gun show loophole. but in newtown, that wasnt the problem. at virginia tech, that wasnt the problem. the killers used legally purchased weapons. >> theres not one policy thats going to save us all. but, you know, a background check is something that will make it more difficult for dangerous people to get their hands on a gun. >> reporter: colin goddard is not a victim, but a survivor. and a citizen activist with a y...

>> reporter: here, at a gun show in ohio, he and his friends were able to buy an assault rifle without each of them having an i.d. polls show a strong majority of americans favor closing the gun show loophole. but in newtown, that wasnt the problem. at virginia tech, that wasnt the problem. the killers used legally purchased weapons. >> theres not one policy thats going to save us all. but background check is something that will make it more difficult for dangerous people to get their hands on a...

Merry christmas to you. >> merry christmas to you too. bill: thank you. martha: ferocious weather is pounding much of the country right now. it is so powerful that it did this. mud started to cascade down a mountain. took a train off the tracks there. those are not toy trains. that is a problem. bill: choo-choo. cold case with infamous pedigree involving two killers in truman capotes acclaimed book, "in cold blood". the dna link police are hoping to find some six decades later. >> agents of the ...

Kansas back in 1959. now, police are looking at their remains to determine whether they are linked to the murders of another family from a murder that happened weeks later in florida. they say advanced d.n.a. testing could finally provide answers. and now phil is live in florida. phil, we know the killers went to florida after the murders in kansas. phil: after the murders in kansas and before their arrest if las vegas they were six weeks on the run and several witnesses spotted the two of them ...

Bill: frightening moments on video as a massive mud slide derails a freight train. check the out here. everett, washington. that mud slide off a 100 foothill. that was strong enough to take out seven cars. they were carrying chemicals used in cleaning supplies and fertilizer. hazmat teams came in but was nor to the public health or the environment. ouch. martha: how about this? a cold case gets hot again. it involves two killers who were made infamous in truman capotes "in cold blood". phil keat...

>> yeah, it was, definitely done kind of quietly and covertly. we didnt actually no for sure it would happen this week even. we were watching the cemetery for the last couple days and, only saw yesterday that they had blocked off the cemetery and they had police cars outside and we knew they were exhuming the bodies right now. jenna: any reason for why now? >> yeah. part of the reason is that they have just now built the case showing that there is enough evidence, enough probable cause to dig up...

Is fair treatment for your son, and that he be returned on what you see as a baseless charge. >> precisely. martha: john and olivia we hope your son gets home in time for christmas and he can share that special time with you and your family and get out of there. and we are going to stay on top of this story. we thank you so much for being with us today. thanks to you both. >> thank you. bill: its a tough, tough time. jon scott is coming up a couple minutes away, hospitals what is going on. jon: ...

Of the killers. you didnt, showed their pictures, not their names. dont give them credit. that was a good point. a lot of us tried to adhere to that. completely lost in this case. we better get it back. jon: alan, what is your feeling? is the media a part of this crimes? >> it is hard to say. jim makes very good points whether publicity could inspire somebody to do some heinous act. on the other hand we live in an open society with a media whose job it is to report the news. i dont know how the ...