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National forest in a stock pond. >> and this jogged their memory. they remembered that janice dodsons clothes had been covered in mud on the day of her husbands murder. janices muddied clothing had been kept in evidence for the past three years. jacqueline battle scraped some of the mud from the clothing and ground it to a fine powder. battle sifted and weighed the samples. and then examined them under a polarizing microscope. the mud from janises clothing contained bentonite. >> bentonite is a ...

Gas chromatography can identify the molecular components of the samples, and the results showed there was evidence of gasoline on the wood floor. >> and the single biggest piece of evidence for them to conclude this was an arson fire was the finding of gasoline in the hardwood floor because how else would you explain gasoline in a living room? >> when the test results come back, it changes from i dont know to, wow, we have accelerant here, this must be an arson, and that changes peoples opinions...

Something to do with setting the fire. >> there was money there in the form of insurance money. and that in and of itself is a powerful motive. >> he seved about $200,000 in insurance benefits. >> the second motive that some of the investigators believed existed was that paul camiolo was tired of caring for his infirm parents. >> fire investigators searched through the rubble and found something very suspicious. >> in the center of the room there was a pattern that looked like perhaps it might h...

Visually compared samples from michelles hair brush to the braided hair, looking for similarities in color, consistency, and structure. >> microscopic characteristics were very consistent with each other. the widths were the same. the medullary component was the same. the center portions and the mid-region portions of the hair were the same. >> but this was not conclusive. microscopic similarity is still not a match. but with this new evidence, detective ireland was not again. so she contacted...

Lees dna sample was sent immediately to the forensics lab for testing. it matched the biological samples from all five victims. >> just a sense of relief and joy come over me. and its like i had to smile. i said, we got him. derrick todd lee was arrested and charged with first degree murder. >> the first thing i would tell him is hes a coward. he picked on women that he took advantage of their good nature. >> after his arrest, investigators learned that lees dna matched skin cells under the fing...

Of them for what were doing. >> to test dr. frudakis claims investigators sent him 20 samples and asked him to identify the races of all of them. >> he did it to a tee. >> when he passed that test, dr. frudakis went to work on the killers dna. the results? the dna test showed the killer was not a caucasian. >> the dna at the crime scene showed the individual was african and native american. >> the police couldnt believe it. >> i remember the phone line going silent. >> traditionally, serial kill...

Movements. methods and movement. he will be tough to catch. >> desperate for a lead police called the fbi in washington, d.c. and asked for a criminal investigative analysis of the crimes. >> we thought this was someone who followed women and watched women from afar and when he interacted with women it would be shortly into that interact before they felt uncomfortable with him. >> the fbi predicted the killer was anti-social and earned a below average income. >> the fbi profile we had folks come...

Licht, a forensic document examiner. he compared the note to known samples of helbles handwriting. >> the question material was written with somewhat heavy pressure. in the known writings, that was written with the same pressure. it was hand printed. and his known writings relied heavily on printing and not cursive. >> he looked for unique features in individual letters in johns known writings, features he then tried to locate in the questioned document. based on his comparisons, licht was able ...

Night before and that when he left to return to the drug and alcohol treatment center, tammy was alive. investigators didnt buy it. >> our thought was that after that they got into an argument and that may have been when he choked her to death. >> finding this condom was consistent with jim meadow performing a sex act and killing tammy tatum. >> but even though the killer had spent a lot of time cleaning the scene, he missed something. on tammys bed, amid numerous hairs from jim, tammy and their...

Unfortunately, it did not match any of the dna profiles in the colorado state database of known criminal offenders. renees former boyfriends and her co-workers and fellow students willingly submitted dna for comparison. none matched. >> this case goes cold. no one is arrested. no suspects are named. >> you absolutely live in fear. i mean, you have this person whos told you that they were going to kill you, and theyve certainly shown you that theyre capable of it. >> it wasnt until ten years late...