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She had been killed by a single gunshot wound to the head. >> i just -- i remember being in shock. i felt -- i felt guilty and helpless. >> she was executed. >> the killer used a glaser type bullet that exploded on impact, making it impossible to determine the weapons caliber. next, the fbi analyzed the ransom notes. all were typed with a computer word processer program, and all were printed with the same font. on one note the word "exactly" was misspelled. investigators got their first real bre...

His family. im open to a full investigation. they can investigate. there was nothing of that sort. >> reporter: anwar says his political opponents are feeding that narrative to reporters. >> in order to deflect their own failure, their own incompetence, they now choose to attack me. >> just to throw off the scent? >> yes. i think theres a desperation of the government, of the ruling leadership, for the manner they managed the whole crisis, contradictory statements, poor management of the crisis....

A background check revealed some startling information about david kopenheffer. he had been turned down for a $25,000 business loan by harry winer less than a year earlier. kopenheffer was now the prime suspect in the kidnapping and murder of harry winers wife sally. so the fbi put david kopenheffer under surveillance and watched as he took some trash out to the dumpster behind his store. when the fbi seized it. they found some suspicious items. they found a used roll of crepe paper, the same ma...

The tear from that roll of crepe paper which was in the trash at the bookstore to one of the actual flags. >> they also found bits and pieces of paper. the fbi painstakingly pieced them together. >> and that note actually was a duplicate of one of the notes that was left at one of the sites that mr. weiner was directed to go to after the kidnapping of his wife. >> armed with a search warrant, the fbi found a stack of metal file cabinet rods in kopenheffers shed, similar to the ones found with th...

He said, with a gun to his head, or if they have ransom notes on the bills. they see that as not coming to the table as a leader. they see it as partisan politics. >> what a shift we saw from both campaigns he ran and how important young people were for getting reelected. >> it was surprising to hear these students. i had students interviewing people on camera hear my question when i would ask who do you blame for the government shutdown. they would be walking behind me yelling its obamas fault,...

Blow to the head. missing march 1, 1932 with a ransom note demanding $50,000. 12 more ransom notes would follow and a go-between named dr. condon paid a man by the name of john the ransom money. the final ransom money said the child could be found on a boat named "nelly," a search turned up no sign of baby charles. instead, he was accidentally discovered about a month later dead, 457 feet off a highway. for the next year, the fbi would track where the cold ransom certificates were deposited and ...

Prosecution offered a deal to save the crime. he thought he had conspirators and he goes to his death and starts a cycle where the people begin to believe he was innocent after all. i think one of the first things we do is very carefully look at was bruno richard actually guilty. bruno richard hoffman really guilty? >> part of this, too, my understanding of this is lindbergh himself really took such on active role. the ransom notes, this sort of thing. maybe he kind of complicated things and mes...

>> thats why they put her in the front office. >> i did have a lot of troublesome male students. >> you brought up a good example when you said we dont broadcast terrorist demands. we were talking about the media. exactly. we dont read the ransom notes. it glorifies the terrorists or the criminals, hostage takers, whatever. i think it was bill who said the rape cases, they dont mention the name of the victim. the media is constantly self-censoring themselves. but for some reason they think in te...