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Examiner, dr. william macello, made a startling discovery. blaine hodges didnt have any soot in his lungs or breathing passages, which would have been present had he set the fire before killing himself. and blaines body revealed even more telling information. >> mr. hodges showed signs of what we called decay, which were more consistent with his having been dead for many, many hours or even days when compared to the others. >> i thought at first that he was just pulling my leg, because i had kno...

Making electricity and makes a lot less soot and a lot fewer health problems associated with it. it is a so-called bridge fuel. i think its something that the coal industry really anticipated that there would be so much natural gas that the united states is now the worlds biggest producer of natural gas and its lowered the price of all kinds of fossil fuel energy. so its a big step, though, where youre able to -- the president and his colleagues were able to convince everybody that carbon dioxid...

Appliances, tape recorders, cameras. >> along with needles, tattooing can also be made from everyday items. >> thats where usually they will burn soot. theyll take paper and oil and burn on it the bottom. >> burn baby oil or hair oil, hair grease, styrofoam cups back in the day. styrofoam cups, chess pieces. anything that doesnt burn complete. thats what soot is, unburned carbon. put it underneath a desk or in your locker box or something. >> then you put that in your body. >> oh, yeah. >> does ...

Arson and murder had been a rush to judgment and that the kerosene heater was to blame. >> basically what you do is you fill this up with kerosene and diesel fuel, you throw a wick of some wind down in there. what happens when you have this lake of fire down in here is youre generating lots and lots of soot. that soot coats the inside and itself will catch on fire like charcoal so if you dont allow this thing to cool down sufficiently, you know, its pretty dangerous. >> in a surprising discovery...

Pieces of the puzzle together. >> renee stone isnt taking chances. she is packing up picture and a trunk with something very special inside. >> when are you getting married? >> in june, the end of june. >> here? >> here in the backyard. >> reporter: she has this message for firefighters. >> thank you. thank you for everything that you are doing and stay safe. you are doing a great job. >> reporter: they have gotten help from mother nature. the winds have slowed and the smoke settled. look at the...

Paradigm. i believe the answers to this crash are in the cockpit. who was in control of that airplane? >> reporter: the passengers themselves could help resolve the mystery. >> if you can retrieve bodies and examine the respiratory tract, one of the first things you look for is the presence of soot. finding soot below the level of the larynx would be a good indication of a fire. >> reporter: if the cabin was depressurized before the fire -- >> passengers would most likely pass out. there would b...

Who was in control of that airplane. >> reporter: the passengers themselves could help resolve the mystery. >> if you can retrieve bodies and examine the respiratory tract, one of the first things you look for is the presence of soot. finding soot below the level of the larynx would be a good indication of a fire. >> reporter: but if the cabin was depressurized before a fire -- >> passengers would most likely pass out. there would be no evidence of trauma to the body or something that you could ...

A crew member who keeps an eye on the vital signs and soot scientist share the back area, which is only 5 1/2 by 3 feet. >> so, just to give our viewers an idea how tight it is, this is how you are sitting. this is how im sitting and you can be here for hours. >> reporter: but during those hours this is what is taking place. >> so we fire up the sonar system. it does a sweep and paints us a picture as it spins 360 degrees. if there are solid targets on the bottom it will beep and paint a small p...

Bottom there. on the imagery ive seen, its not sharply mountainous. its more flat, almost rolling. but we understand from other work that was done some years ago that that part of the indian ocean has a lot of soot on the bottom. if we have soot that can be quite layered and deep. that will complicate how things are on the bottom. again, with the vehicle going down were going to gather more information about the search area were dealing with. that is why were not defining this area, that area, s...

Breathed in soot from a fire, there was a fire on board. well be able to tell how long they were dead before they crashed by the stomach contents. they were fed something as soon as they take off. it takes time to digest it, were they -- >> even weeks after the fact? >> even months after the fact? >> we find stomach contents in people mys, the last things they ate. we can also tell that -- whether they were alive when they hit, when they landed in the water, by looking at whether they breathed i...