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Not say this often, but check this guy out. his name is kemp burdett. hes a river keeper which means he watches out for the health of a river. in this case, the help of the capefear river in north carolina. thursday last week mr. burrdett kra traveled up a canal, the tributary, so he and his friends could take samples of something seeping down into it. particularly interested in this orange stuff, whatever it is, leaving this orange trace along the banks. at the top of that canal, it connects to...

This guy out. his name is kemp burdett. hes a river keeper which means he watches out for the health of a river. in this case, the help of the cape fear river in north carolina. thursday last week mr. burdett traveled up a canal, the tributary, so he and his friends could take samples of something seeping down into it. particularly interested in this orange stuff, whatever it is, leaving this orange trace along the banks. at the top of that canal, it connects to an old shutdown coal burning powe...

Dorothys neighbor james holloway told police that edward lee elmore, a 23-year-old handyman worked for dorothy from time to time. although elmore had never been convicted of a felony, police matched his fingerprints from other misdemeanor arrests and issued a warrant to bring him in, accusing him of murder and rape, among lesser charges. greenwood police went looking for elmore 36 hours after dorothys body was found. >> i was working second shift with the detective dision and the call came in sa...

Issued a warrant to bring him in, accusing him of murder and rape, among lesser charges. greenwood police went looking for elmore 36 hours after dorothys body was found. >> i was working second shift with the detective division and the call came in saying the suspect was at his girlfriend marys apartment. i went up and knocked on the door. >> the encounter was not what detective vandenburgh expected. >> i told them that we had a warrant for his arrest. and i told him it was for murder. his demea...

In, accusing him of murder and rape, among lesser charges. greenwood police went looking for elmore 36 hours after dorothys body was found. >> i was working second shift with the detective division and the call came in saying the suspect was at his girlfriend marys apartment. i went up and knocked on the door. >> the encounter was not what detective vandenburgh expected. >> i told them that we had a warrant for his arrest. and i told him it was for murder. his demeanor at that time was so noncha...

A wooden trestle. the center section was totally destroyed. despite its design, the swing feature of the bridge was never used, and investigators discovered it wasnt connected properly. >> since they never did use it as a swing bridge, they never did put in the same amount of tie-downs at the ends of the bridge to hold it in place. >> divers also examined the wood pilings that supported the bridge. >> we wanted to determine if the piles had undergone any kind of deterioration, such as damage fro...

Up nothing. >> we had it all tested for arsenic and it all came up negative. >> 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. >> flan follows any type of forrencic investigation knows that the easy way ...

Nonchalant. oh, okay. which is totally out of context for anybody ive ever dealt with before in a situation like that. no outburst or violent behavior. just, like, oh, well. >> police took hair and blood samples and placed them in the county jailhouse. even elmores public defender had doubts about his innocence. >> many people will proclaim constantly their innocence and i cannot remember him proclaiming his innocence and i got the feeling there might be something for him to hide. >> elmores cas...

Iron-rich. and iron in itself will give false positives during a luminol test. >> but in the basement, investigators found a pile of debris swept into a corner. they gathered everything and sent it to the forensic lab. >> under a microscope, scientists found pieces of drywall with the same blue and pink paint layers as the drywall found underneath wesleys body. >> what are the odds you that and i both went to home depot and bought the same paints all the time and painted our walls the same color...

>> i would say, hmm, i wonder what that is? is this something thats important or something ive never seen before. it was a curious nature that led me to pull it out of other samples. >> trace analyst kasandra burke extracted these threads. and looked at them. >> as soon as i looked at them under the microscopes i could tell they were animal bears. >> prior to the 1940s, animal hairs were commonly used in laster. this meant that the murder site was probably in a house built before 1940. unfortuna...