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Had taken paint samples from dales car. >> there wasnt much else to take. >> he placed them on slides with an emersion liquid. this eliminated any air trapped between the sample and the slide. using a poleerizing litght microscope magnified up to 1,000 times. >> i received a paint chip known standard from a 1974. >> and he now did a three-way comparison. he examined paint from the boot, from the car and from the file sample of a 1974 camaro. all were identical. and with this evidence, dale bradl...

Unbelievable martinez discovered the paint chips did come from huffmans truck. they fit perfectly. >> a physical fit is the only sure thing in forensic science. there are no statistics that can duplicate that. that is the only thing in forensic that is a sure thing and better than dna. >> here is a paint chip that plugs in perfectly. that is hitting a home run in the bottom of the ninth with the bases loaded. >> investigators wondered, if huffmans vehicle hit garcia, why was there no damage to t...

Removed for later analysis. investigators noticed what was perhaps their first clue. >> and i looked at him and he looked at me and i said, did you see that? something shiny. and we kept moving it around at different angles until we could see something. >> the spheres were no larger than the head of a pin. under a fiberoptic microscope, the spheres looked like metal. they also found several red and blue fibers and a yellow paint chip. could these few microscopic items help investigators find a k...

Could find. they also confiscated a pair of smitharts overalls. all of the evidence was shipped to chicago, illinois, to a research microscopist, skip palenik. palenik began looking at the small yellow paint chip found on mandys clothing. using x-ray spectroscopy, he noticed something unique. >> glossy layers with no other layers behind it, in a variety of colors. thats quite unusual. and childrens bicycles, of course, are painted with the single layers of the glossy paint. >> in the samples col...

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. thats hitting the home run in the bottom o...

There wasnt really much else to take. >> bill schneck took paint samples from the boot and the car and placed them on slides with an immersion liquid. this eliminated any air trapped between the sample and the slide. using a polarizing light microscope magnified up to 1,000 times, schneck saw the paint was a lead chromate paint. >> and i contacted the national institute of science and technology and received a paint chip known standard on a 74 camaro. >> using a scanning electron microscope, sch...

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...

Samples from dales car. >> i just took him -- because there wasnt really much else to take. >> bill schneck took paint samples from the boot and the car and placed them on slides with an immersion liquid. this eliminated any air trapped between the sample and the slide. using a polarizing light microscope magnified up to 1,000 times, schneck saw the paint was a lead chromate paint. >> and i contacted the national institute of science and technology and received a paint chip known standard on a 7...

The point is after 9/11. if you just dropped into a meeting on how do you protect the airlines, in america we say, we have nothing going for us. they become the one thing have going for us is they all look alike. you could use a paint chip for their skin color. you can hear a pin drop, and then the political correct administrators say absolutely, we will not consider what they look like or what their names are. how about lets start with getting ready of that. just that. >> what are you worried a...

Improvement even though theres nothing time zbloouf and lets talk about those numbers. when we look at who doesnt have government issued photo i.d.s, 25% of african-americans, 20% of asian americans, 19% of latinos, 18% of citizens 18 to 24 and less than 15% of citizens with less than $35,000 annual income. to your point the system has to change. sure the system can change and adapt over time. but if you were effectively talking about maybe a paint chip and demolishing a building in the name of ...