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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 nicked his hand while cutting the seat belt to remove ...

>> i was able to determine that they were both similar knit, 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, the moderate amount of the titanium dioxide particles in both samples. >> to see if the colors were the same...

Take his jacket off and nice and neat hang it up on the door knob. >> was it possible that chris davis never called his wife? but used those 20 minutes to drive home, kill dorothy and then return to the bar to establish his alibi? a police recreation showed it was possible. >> average time 17 minutes. even though we were locked into 20 minutes by the witness, we felt it was possible for him to go off, commit the crime, stage the scene and get back to the nco club within the im. >> if this were t...

>> 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 pour, what they refer to, when someone may have poured an accelerant. >> to see if an accelerant was used i...

>> they took samples of the carpeting, the carpet padding, and some newspaper, and there was no gasoline in any of those samples. it was only in the hardwood floor. and it was just inconceivable, how can you pour gasoline in a family room and not get the gas on those other items if that was going to be the cause of the fire? >> so the defense team hired john lentini, a nationally recognized fire expert, to find out what happened. lentini retested the samples of hardwood floor using atomic absorp...

People in the gulf of mexico in terms of impact in recent memories. the amount of material released is equivalent in both spills. >> after rushing through the town the wave of destruction subsides. the damage is immense. >> people in their homes, mostly in the village lost their life due to drowning. about 150 other people were caught up in the red mud and needed hospital attention due to the alkaline nature of the red mud. >> the land could be irreparably harmed. as recovery efforts drag on in ...

Extreme was that russian authorities went door to door to the homes and families of known terrorists, took dna samples from all of the family members and basically told the families if we have a bombing in sochi and the dna comes back to your family, were going to come back to you. >> wow. >> so maybe that had an effect on it. but again, the measures that the russians can use in their country to ensure security are measures that certainly we would not condone or want to use in our country. >> so...

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 clay-like material comprised of minerals of aluminum silicates, ma...

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 a...

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 also written with that same sort of pressure. they were also all handprinted, and his known writings also relied heavily on printing and not cursive. >> he lookeded for unique features and individual letters in johns known writings. features he then tried to locate in the question document. based on his comparisons, licht was abl...