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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 known him so long. nen when he said, barry, he said, "im serio...

>> it was a two person job. that one person carrying a dead human body down that embankment over a guardrail in the distance that it had to go, especially with the icy conditions, no way one person could have done it. it had to have been a two-person job. >> theres every indication that we had what we call a dump scene where they dump the body. >> the medical examiner discovered the victim had been shot three times in the head. the bullets exited the mans skull. since no soot or debris were foun...

The spent shell casings from the scene to the casings from the test firing. looking at unique marks made by the firing pin as it struck the bullet. they were identical. >> also inside the barrel was a small drop of blood, dna testing proved the blood was ken maclennans. >> it made sense based on the soot on the hand that mr. maclennan had actually grabbed the gun before the shot was fired. because of that contact with the hand, some of his blood then did blow back into the barrel of the rifle. >...

And then you have worry. >> of course, all that worry. >> youre always worried. theres money on that journey, for some reason. theres that strong relationship. thats like the fourth -- >> oh, my god, thats crazy. >> thats like the fourth time its popped up. look. >> and marriage. >> and marriage, with a man whos worried about you. >> jason, of course. >> michael draper has a hustle as well. his involves the creative use of soap. >> i dont know what it is. i dont know what it is for real. >> drap...

Cadillacs, and hard as they try, correctional staff can rarely keep up with them. >> 99% of the time you are not going to catch it because they are looking out for each other. we will go up and tell them to give us the cadillacs, and if they want, well go in, shake them down, and take the cadillac. and then theyll have another one tomorrow. you know, that is where a lot of our sheets go. and you take one and they have another one the next day. >> at kern valley state prison in california, we met...

Instead he found no soot or debris in her trachea and her hyoid bone in her neck was broken which usually indicates strangulation. >> i have never seen a situation where a bone in a persons throat has been crushed by accident unless theres been some traumatic car wreck or some other explanation. >> the medical examiner also found marks on the outer part of her neck. >> they were consistent with fingernail marks. whatever happened before she died was very, very violent, because there was obviousl...

There it is. and as more of the snow melts from the bottom up, the water gets sucked into the snow itself. see, its turning into a slush ball. and thats whats happening in those videos. thats where the water is going. its going into the snowball itself. not dripping away as you might expect. >> slush ball. thats why theres no dripping and no puddle when you try to burn a snowball. yes, but the burn marks! what about the burn marks! conspiracy! the burn marks on the snow are from your lighter. yo...

Ball. and thats whats happening in those videos. thats where the water is going. its going into the snowball itself. not dripping away as you might expect. >> slush ball. thats why theres no dripping and no puddle when you try to burn a snowball. yes, but the burn marks! what about the burn marks! conspiracy! the burn marks on the snow are from your lighter. youre burning up butane in the lighter and its making soot consisting largely of car produced by the incomplete burning of the hydrocarbon ...

Occupants was missing. daylight was coming. and then they, firemen and others were basically looking for her. >> emergency workers found sabenas body about 100 yards from the house on an overgrown footpath. >> she was naked. she had been brutally murdered, stabbed. beaten, burned, bitten. >> sabena was 49 years owed. >> became pretty obvious right away that whoever had done it is somebody that the, well, quite honestly, had to have been almost a maniac. >> the evidence showed that she was in the...

Just recently, my mom told me, she used to tell him, dont worry, michael, all your hard works going to pay off, because he worked really hard at school. >> in 2005, michael was a premed student at st. marys university in san antonio, texas. he decided not to live in the dorms, so he rented an apartment a few miles from campus. >> he actually chose that apartment because it seemed more family-oriented than the other apartments. he said that was the one he felt safer in. >> one morning in february...