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Professor of microbiology and immunology at texas tech university. >> i spent about a half an hour in the house and i was talking with bill, mr. holder. and i said to him, "bill, i dont feel very good." i said, "i got to get out of here." and just literally walked out the front door and pretty much collapsed. i lost any ability to stand without aid. >> the samples were processed at texas tech health sciences center. technicians there sterilized the slides, then examined them under a high-powered...

>> and as we were going up that road, i was thinking, for a microbiologist this is going to be a pretty interesting day. >> no shots were fired. in the communes licensed medical center, skeels found samples of various bacteria, standard testing material for a small clinic. >> one of these vials contained salmonella typhimurium. i remember at the time they told me to look for salmonella, if i found any im supposed to seize it as evidence. there it is. so ill seize it. but i wasnt thinking at all ...

Residents who had gotten sick. dave and sandy lutgens both remembered eating a salad in their restaurant before getting ill. hundreds of their customers and most of their employees became ill too. at the county health department nurse diane kerr contacted everyone who fell ill and discovered they had all eaten a salad from one of ten local restaurants. >> most of the people seemed to have eaten potato salad. at another restaurant most of the people seemed to have eaten a green salad. and so what...

Every bit of it. a few minutes later he said if i was going to kill this guy, i wouldnt use arsenic, i would do it with something much quicker and legal. everything in his statement that he gave to police, 21 page rambling statement was false. and im not even sure that steve white is his real name. >> a search of the car restoration office produced an envelope hidden behind the electrical panel. analysis of the materials inside revealed arsenic,ant moany, mercury, and lead. each a highly toxic m...

>> the investigators cut the concrete samples into razor-thin slices, then studied them under a transmitter-like microscope. the microscope shines polarized light through the samples, revealing the specific optical properties of the rocks, sand and cement. >> the fbi, after they examined the samples they found on the barge, determined that the concrete on the barge was the same as that found in the pier at the south end of the bridge. >> based on all the evidence, the national transportation saf...

The wooden walls of the coal storage room. >> we were able to see small pieces of bone and tissue. >> they compared those samples to the dna they obtained from darlenes tooth and hair brushes. that that day we were met by a couple of detectives and we were escorted upstairs, and when we opened the room -- when they introduce you to the chaplain and the chief of police and all the detectives are in the room and ask you to sit down, you know the news youre going to receive is not good, and it wasn...

Chips were shamias. >> there was a lot of thermal destruction. this would suggest a tremendous fire that lasted for as much as days. >> i had never worked with samples that had been so charred and so burnt before, so i was very hesitant as to whether i would be able to generate a dna profile from these remains. >> but in a case with so few lucky breaks, the forensic anthropologist finally got one. they found a piece of a foot with soft tissue. >> there was still organic material. there was still...

It was something id never seen before, so it was my own curious nature that led me to pull it out of the sample and look for it in other samples. >> trace analyst, cassandra burk extracted these threads and viewed them at 40 times magnification. >> and as soon as i looked at them under the microscope, i could tell they were animal hairs. >> prior to the 1940s, animal hairs were commonly used as a binding and strengthening agent in plaster. this meant the murder site was probably in a house built...

>> although police considered ann miller a suspect, erics parents did not. >> erics parents were very adamant that ann was not involved. they had accepted ann into their family. she was their daughter-in-law, and they had a good relationship with ann. >> but strangely against the wishes of erics family, ann insisted that erics body be cremated. >> everyone that follows any type of forensic investigation knows thes yes, sir way to get rid of evidence is by creating somebody. >> eventually ann mil...

As the drywall found underneath wesleys body. >> what are the odds that both you and i went to home depot and bought the same paints all the time and painted our walls the same colors year after year after year? >> but were both samples the same paint? analysts put both samples under a scanning electron microscope. >> youre using the microscope and all of the features of the microscope to be able to see whats included in that chemical composition of the paint. >> the chemical structures in both ...