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The size of the breakout in the glass could accommodate a grown person walking through that opening. >> right off the bat, i was pretty sure we were dealing with a murder scene. >> there was a spent shell casing on the floor and the spent bullet was found in the pillow, under vaughns head. >> the bullet had six grooves with a right twist, which would commonly indicate a smith & wesson semi-automatic handgun. >> the motive for the murder was unclear. >> the television was on. there was a remote c...

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 this. and it says its the police, call me god, do not release to the press. >> word of the tarot card was closely guarded by the s...

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 this. and it says its the police, call me god, do not release to the press. >> word of the tarot card was closely guarded by the sniper task force but not closely enough. it leaks on friday night...

Have you been involved in anything that would have led somebody to target you? >> not far from the site of the shooting, police found a shell casing on the side of the highway. >> the bullet probably came from another vehicle that was traveling in the same direction as our victim vehicle. >> the casing was from a high-powered assault-style rifle, a heckler & koch, or hk-91. police wondered whether the shooting was intentional or a random act. >> they were concerned that somewhere there was a sho...

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...

To case. >> under a microscope, firearms examiners discovered 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 discharged cartridge cases had originated from the same gun. >> why would he have shot his gun on mr. snyders property? there was no reason for tha...

Coincidentally, a .25 caliber shell casing was discovered in melvins barn on the day he disappeared. police searched harshmans home and found ammunition for a .25-caliber weapon, but no gun. >> i asked him where the gun was and he said, you will have to ask teresa. she is the one who took the gun, she liked it and she took it. so when we asked her, she said no, its a lie, i dont even like guns. i dont know anything about the gun. >> during their investigation, police also learned that ron harshm...

Signal that was in the proper reading range as far as the detector was concerned for a shell casing. i went down, got a plug, turned it over and sitting 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. >> investigators hoped that after 15 years in the ground, the shell could still be tested...

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 of trash and picking up the single .25-caliber automatic shell casing that we were looking for. >> modern metal detectors use computer processors to measure levels of conductivity. which enables them to identify the type of metal and the depth of the object underground. >> they are basi...

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,...