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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 anything more with it. >> nelson pored over the case file and discovered an interesting notation. ron harshman admitted test-firing his new .25-caliber pistol in his b...

Back to the fence post. and then continued to string that back toward the area that 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,...

Cannonballs in one hole on the braddock campaign, that probably gave me a bigger high than this .25-caliber shell casing. >> but hinks and several colleagues were happy to do what they could, despite the fact that harshmans farm was several hundred acres. >> but there was so much trash out there, so much farm equipment, this is the place where they would throw the garbage along with the tin foil and toothpaste tubes and all the junk went out there. so the challenge was working through 130 years ...

Gave him a look. this was 15 years to try to find a shell casing in grass. and were not sure of the exact area. but in this case, being the fact that its murder, im willing to try any idea and it was worth a shot to do. >> police found help in nearby gettysburg, pennsylvania. don hinks was known in these parts as a retailer who sells metal detector equipment. these metal detectors were often used to unearth military artifacts. >> when i went out and found three french and indian war

This particular case, helped to maintain the quality of the markings that were present on the primer. but again, it can vary from case to case. >> under a microscope, firearms examiners discovered that this was precisely what happened. the impressions on the shell casing were still clear. and those impressions caused by the breech face were identical to the breech face impressions on the shell casing found in melvin snyders barn. >> there was no doubt in my mind whatsoever that these two dischar...

Then hinks got a signal near a 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 ...

Franklin county sits on the outskirts of gettysburg, pennsylvania, a must-see for tourists and military historians alike. but the locals found the lives of melvin and joanne snyder for more interesting than those civil war battlefields. on saturday, may 25, 1985, joanne snyder left for work around 5:30 a.m. she baked pies for a local diner. when she returned home around noon, her 43-year-old husband melvin was gone. and so was his truck. >> she looked around for him, and observed some things tha...

Inside you see him buy a pack of cotton candy blue bubble gum. and that bubble gum, a piece of it a chewed piece of it is later found by the rental car manager after the murder takes place and they return the car. found the same kind of gum inside the car along with a .45 caliber shell casing the same kind of shell casing that is also found at the crime scene. >> so mel, all this seems to be a lot of circumstantial evidence. they have the shell casing. they have the bubble gum. but they dont hav...

Motive in the murder yet but know gilbert jr.s parents were supporting him financially. the violence unfolding here late sunday at thomas sr.s upscale manhattan apartment. police say tommy arrived and quickly asked his mother to get him something to eat. >> she went to get some food for jr. about 15 minutes after that she had a bad feeling and decided to return. she got back to the apartment about 15 minutes later and she found sr. on the floor with a bullet hole in his head. >> reporter: police...

High school in new jersey. he was going back and forth. >> is there any indication that he went to protest? >> thats still under review as i said earlier, were looking back to see where he was in a week. >> four shots were fired at the officer. all the rounds are accounted for. four at the scene. we have shell casings right there. another shell casing on the subway platform and another shell casing down in baltimore where he shot his girlfriend. >> im sorry. say the last part again?