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That. >> to find out, scientists looked for evidence in her hair. >> it turns out that the hair and in some cases toenails or fingernails are good indicators of body loads of certain elements. in particular, in the case of arsenic, its often used as hair where its concentrated in the hair. >> since hair grows approximately one-half inch per month and leitas hair was three inches long this gave scientists a six-month timeline to see when leita was poisoned. each half inch piece of hair was tested...

Aluminum. >> the fragment samples contained steel and brass. the steel had the exact same combinations of iron, manganese and chromium. in the brass, copper and zinc were found in identical amounts. and all the samples had equal amounts of cerium, part of a compound used to ignite an oxyacetylene torch, a common item in machine shops. >> we examined all of them and could see the pattern that regardless of where they came from, they were basically the same kind of metal fragments, machining fragm...

Theyd solved the mystery. it looked to be a phenomenon called pica. the word comes from the latin name for magpie, a bird that eats almost anything. >> pica is a condition particularly of children but not always of children. its sort of a craving for food items to eat, lead paint often tastes sweet. so heres a little malnourished girl who has never had enough food. and it became pretty clear she was probably picking up chips of paint and then sucking on them or chewing on them. >> samples of pai...

Ive been involved in, i think that we are looking at the historic burial cloth of jesus 2,000 years ago. >> but there was one part of the investigation that jackson had been unable to complete. an accurate dating of the material. then in 1988, the catholic church took the unprecedented step of giving permission for pieces of the cloth to be removed for carbon testing. samples were cut from the edge of the shroud and sent for testing in three independent laboratories in london, zurich and arizona...

Environmental samples to figure out what happened. terminix told cnn, it is committed to performing all work in a manner safe for customers, employees, the public and the environment. it is looking into this matter internally and cooperating with authorities. we are thinking about the family and join the community in wishing them a speedy recovery. it is odorless, cause zing injury to the lung and nervous system and could be fatal if inhaled. after the fumigation, the father, steve, was found in...

>> leading a team of 40 scientists, jackson set out to investigate the shroud, using tools at the forefront of science. >> we really didnt know what we were going to find. was this going to be a painting? was it going to be something else? >> working around the clock for five days, the scientists reached conclusions that seemed to advance the authenticity of the shroud and deepen its mystery. >> the fibers themselves are all individually colored, so theres no evidence of something that you would...

>> we were still thinking she was going to come back. even when i was printing the flyers, i remember still thinking she was going to come back from some camping trip that she was having so much fun she just didnt want to come home for. >> investigators were stunned to discover tiny metal fragments on stephanies body, like the ones found in the arlene jensen case. >> the first natural thing you have come up in your brain is, oh, these two people are connected. >> at 100 times magnification the f...

Now they have to match up those samples. so when they return, the human remains to the families, they only have to do it once, because in previous crashes that ive worked on, in many cases, families get one, two, three, multiple times they have to receive remains of their loved ones and that is very, very devastating on the family, so its best to finish it and identify all of the remains and then return them respectfully to the families in groups and at that crash site, of course, that will rema...

Based on dna testing and blood spatter analysis, investigators believe richard van dusen was pulled from his jeep and shot outside the vehicle. his wife karla was sitting in the passenger seat and was shot through the windshield. but on the steering wheel, investigators found blood which did not come from karla or richard. >> the samples that were tested from the steering wheel were consistent with being human blood. those samples were tested to develop a dna profile. >> perhaps the killer nicke...

Resort the lawyers said they are looking at the company that provided this -- its called metho gas, the gas that was used looking at all of that and the department of justice was called by the epa. they now opened a criminal investigation. the epa is there monitoring the air and environmental samples working with local agencies to figure out what happened to make sure that other people are not in harms way. term next told cnn in an e-mail they are, quote, looking in the matter internally coopera...