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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 fragments looked identical. but were they? to find out, analysts turned to a process known as energy dispersi...

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 liitas hair was three inches long this gave scientists a six-month time line to see when leita was poisoned. each half inch piece of hair was tested with neutron activation analysi...

Was able to find similarities. >> i was able to determine that they were both similar knit, a jersey stitch knit pattern. >> next, using high magnification, schubert found another striking similarity -- both pieces contained some unique chemical properties. >> the titanium dioxide is the small, little dots. those are just particles they put in, synthetic fibers to keep them from being too shiny. and in this particular case, there was a moderate amount of the titanium dioxide delusterant particle...

Taylor confessed. >> he did not hesitate much about telling us that he did kill her. he told her that she was going to rob her and stated that he did take $3 from her purse, but first, he denied having sexually assaulted her. >> investigators discovered taylor was a nonsecreter, consistent with the biological samples from the rape test kit, and they told taylor they didnt believe him. >> at which point he looked down at the floor for several seconds and then he looked directly at me again, and h...

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. >> to prosecutors the presence of gasoline meant murder. based...

>> there was money there in the form of insurance money. and that in and of itself is a powerful motive. >> he received about $250,000 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 have been associated with a liquid po...

The middle of the uncompahgre 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...

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 ...

Under a microscope, snyder 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 no...

As he tells us, he showed her around town. the burning question did you warn her of how potent the edibles can be? the answer is, yeah, man, she got the warning. she did what all the reporters did, listened, bought some samples. we were talking with her for 45 minutes in the shop. they could have avoided but rolled a joint instead. she got some edibles and she had to run off to a mitt romney documentary screening. she asked will you roll a joint for me. she had to run quickly to the screening an...