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>> were also learning new information about that 8-year-old boy from guatemala who died, this coming from the new mexico medical investigators. what you have learned? >> reporter: this new information was released to us earlier today. they did lung swabs as well as national swabs and he tested positive for influenza b. initially cpb said the child was diagnosed with a common cold and he was released from the hospital, even though he had a 103 degree fever. we understand he was never tested for t...

>> we are doing everything in our capacity to make sure when people do come, they are taken care of so we dont have these types of instance. in many cases they show up dehydrate and without food and they are seeing a doctor for the very first time in their lives, both adults and children. >> back to the death of that 8-year-old guatemalan migrant. we are learning from the new mexico office of the medical examiner who said they did lung and nasal swabs and said he found influenza b. why he was no...

Suspect was still out there somewhere on the street at large, potentially targeting his next victim, and it would stay that way unless detectives could prove that the attacks were both the work of travis forbes. there was one possibility and really only one. sitting at the denver police crime lab were several swabs of traviss dna, which detective nash gurule had obtained when the two talked in texas. >> we needed that obviously quickly to compare it to what had been collected from lydia tillman ...

There was one possibility and really only one. sitting at the denver police crime lab were several swabs of traviss dna, which detective nash gurule had obtained when the two talked in texas. >> we needed that obviously quickly to compare it to what had been collected from lydia tillman when she was transported to the hospital. >> but shed been sprayed with bleach and every -- and shed been burned. i mean, was there actually any dna left? >> there actually was. it was pretty amazing. its amazing...

>> alongside the road was the other half of the braided belt, and stacey had a clear braided pattern of abrasions around her neck. >> the coroner confirmed that stacey had been raped and strangled with her belt. >> now we went from search and rescue to a murder investigation. from there it was, you know, whodunit. >> we suspected everybody. was it another police officer? twas jimmy? was it random? we didnt know. >> aside from two empty beer cans, the crime scene offered few clues. but an examina...

Miscarriage that broke her will to go on. that she spent the night masking her pain with alcohol, that she planted marijuana after the party and thats why tom was upset. >> she was vulnerable. he was concerned about her. he didnt want her to add marijuana to this toxic system that was developing inside of ashley salas. >> the defense conceded ashley and tom quarrelled that night but insisted it never got physical. those scratches on toms chest, the ones prosecutors believe were proof of a strugg...

Reputation of the locales. the hawaiian islands are not a monly. islands, thats plural and year talking eight very different islands with very different identities. its been over a century since the wabs of immigrants began and things got all mixed up in the best possible way. theres layers and simple question like who is hawaiian gets you all kinds of answers. the neighborhood is the far island of hawaii that most people know. >> its a blue collar town. they all come here. breakfast, lunch, eve...

Going out to put his garbage in his can and sees the knife in there. he immediately calls his police department and thats when they find the neighbors who said, yeah, they saw the night before some other car come up and heard a thump and somebody saw somebody throwing something in his can and leave. it wasnt shannon. no identification was made about that. >> reporter: just a dark figure in a hoodie. >> thats correct. >> reporter: was the knife planted? theres no proof either way, but it was test...

Found when law enforcement entered the home that night. >> which they also said was completely consistent with the m.e.s testimony that heidi would have fallen after only a step or two. >> she would have gone to the ground immediately. >> your argument is she did fall down? >> exactly. >> and she fell about here? >> yes, thats exactly what our argument is. >> according to moffett, this was not a simple mistake. is this just the case of a small town police department making incorrect statements o...

Test those swabs, themselves. conrads happened were negative for residue. but there was a question as to whether conrad had washed his hand before they were tested. so those results were meaningless. >> thats probably why they didnt test in the first place. >> as for heidis swabs, there was no residue on her left hand, but there was on her right hand and significantly, heidi was right-handed. >> when have you gunshot residue in a location and in a quantity that is absolutely consistent with her ...