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Like this was going to happen. >> for the next 15 years, the case haunted prosecutor jack nelson. he knew melvin snyder personally. and something just didnt add up. a .25-caliber shell casing was discovered in melvins barn. and ron harshman purchased a .25-caliber handgun just a few weeks before melvin disappeared. but ron was never able to produce the weapon, saying it had been misplaced. >> there was a lot of information there, but nothing new was coming in to give you the opportunity to do an...

>> while searching the property a family member found a .25-caliber shell casing on the barn floor. but there was no blood evidence anywhere nearby. >> a bullet like that will usually not travel through a human body. if it does not travel through, you usually do not get blood running anywhere. its not like the typical tv shows where you see blood flying everywhere. >> there were no eyewitnesses. unless maybe there were some barnyard animals, and, of course, they werent talking. >> joanne waited ...

The breech face in any gun has unique and distinctive marks from the manufacturing process. >> its subjected to several milling and finishing processes, which cause small, microscopic imperfections to be imparted to the surface. >> and those same marks are imprinted on each and every shell casing that exits that gun. ballistics experts at the pennsylvania state police crime lab were asked to analyze both shell casings. >> when he first got the casing, he said, you know, this is somewhat corroded...

Clothesline post. >> in about 20 minutes, i got a signal that was in the proper reading range as far as the detector was concerned for a shell casing. and i went down, so we cut a little plug, turned it over and there sitting right in the plug was a .25-caliber shell casing stuck to the bottom. when you look at it and you see the patina on it, you know its not a freshly buried object. >> my first thought was this is too good to be true, this cannot be the one that he actually fired. >> investiga...

The shot was fired. >> in a clump of bushes, 80 yards in front of the fence post, investigators found a .308 caliber shell casing. to find the bullet that went through bruces chest, investigators searched the area in the straight line path beyond where bruce was standing. with a metal detector, miraculously they found a .308 caliber round. >> at the end of the string was the bullet. i mean, it was stroke of luck, stroke of luck. >> this raised the possibility that there were two shooters. since ...

They said that if you have a .45 caliber handgun, please let me know. he says we got two. i said keep em. plantens two .45 caliber guns were test fired. analysts were especially interested in the marks on the shell casings. imperfections from the firing pin are imprinted on the shell casing back when its fired. and the imperfections on each firing pin are unique to each one made. and each are unique to each g when the shell casing was compared to the shell casing from drew plantens gun, the resu...

In the face one time. >> on the ground near the car was a .45 caliber shell casing. it was the only evidence at the scene. >> we didnt have much evidence to work with at all. we had no fingerprints, tire tracks, footwear, nothing. >> everyone who worked with rebecca said she made a point of having no personal relationships with any of the clubs patrons. >> she would leave the club and not have anything to do with it outside of what she did there for her employment. >> dozens of interviews were c...

And its not a bullet she finds, but a shell casing. a ballistics expert testified that casing matches five others found at the murder scene. they were fired from the same, unknown weapon, capable of chambering 45 auto caliber aj in addition. >> did you have an in addition as to the type of weapon that was? >> its consistent with having been fired from a glock. >> a glock, thats the type of gun an employee says hernandez is carrying when he returns home minutes after the murder. >> in my opinion,...

Are we safe? >> even though witnesses had reported seeing a white van at the school, authorities quickly determined that the shot actually came from the adjacent woods. police find two pieces of evidence, a single spent shell casing and a disturbing communique. >> our people recovered a tarot card. it was the death card. >> michael bouchard believes the tarot card confirms that the snipers had been listening to the previous press conference. >> one of my words were why would someone on earth do ...

Remove the bodies of the two suspects that are still outside of the car. they can work on trying to get a positive i.d. on them trying to figure out who these two men were begin digging into their backgrounds and the rest. and the crime scene will be processed. they will take all of the photos do all of the shell casing collection things like that. so a lot of work still to be done. and the police here telling us that this could go for several hours into the night as they make sure that all of t...