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Were tested. so those results were meaningless. >> thats probably why they didnt test in first place. >> reporter: as for heidys swabs, there was no residue on her left hand. but there was on her right hand. and significantly, heidy was right-handed. >> when you have gunshot residue in a location and in a quantity that is absolutely consistent with her firing a semiautomatic weapon, one of the possibilities is that she fired a gun. you cant discount that. >> reporter: the deeper moffat and talia...

Only a step or two. >> she would have gone to the ground immediately. >> reporter: your argument is she did fall down. >> exactly! >> reporter: and she fell right about here. >> yes. thats exactly what our argument is. >> reporter: according to moffat, this was not a simple mistake. is this just a case of a smalltown police department making incorrect measurements or adding up some figures wrong? >> i dont believe so. i believe that they willfully lied to secure a conviction against conrad truma...

>> you can think both at that point in time because weve had -- had to wait for toxicology reports to come back to -- to come up with a cause of death. but in the meantime, were -- were thinking -- i would say thinking the worst. until we can disprove that its not a homicide, weve got to treat it as such. >> reporter: crime scene techs worked on toms car and took swabs for clues. while detectives set out to learn more about his movements on the day he died. linda told police the last time she sa...

>> extensive searching yields solid results. >> basically, these two pairs of pants were in the laundry bag here. and looks like there might be some blood stains on them. so we use the test to test for the positive presence of blood. it appears to be positive. its not quite as dark as wed like it to be. well take a couple more swabs. as for now, this is definitely in the right direction as for identifying suspects. >> the investigation leads the officers to evidence in inmate carlton morans laun...

Genetic propensity for suicide. >> defense argued on new years eve, 2011, it was the miscarriage that broke her will to go on. she spent the night masking her pain with alcohol and planned further with marijuana, after the party. 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 ashley. >> the defense conceded they quarrelled that night, but insisted it never got physical. the scratches, ...

Her pain with alcohol that she planned to dull it further with 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 fallis. >> reporter: the defense conceded ashley and tom quarrelled that night, but insisted it never got physical. those scratches on toms chest? the ones the prosecutors believed were proof of a struggle? dna tests never found any evid...

New year eave 2011, it was the miscarriage that broke her will to go on. she spent her night masking her pain with alcohol and planned to dull it further with marijuana after the party and thats why tom was upset. >> she was vulnerable. she was concerned about her. he didnt want her to add marijuana to the system that was developing inside of ashley. >> the defense conceded that they quarreled that night but insisted it never got physical. the scratches on toms chest, the ones the prosecutors be...

Miscarriage that broke her will to go on. that she spent the night masking her pain with alcohol that she planned to dull it further with 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 fallis. >> reporter: the defense conceded ashley and tom quarrelled that night, but insisted it never got physical. those scratches on toms chest? the ones the pr...

To go on. that she spent the night masking her pain with alcohol that she planned to dull it further with 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 fallis. >> reporter: the defense conceded ashley and tom quarrelled that night, but insisted it never got physical. those scratches on toms chest? the ones the prosecutors believed were proof of...

Can operate through the internet, through various types of media, through software, facebook, et cetera. there are lots of ways to communicate radicalism. i think the thing that we have to pay attention to is that wolves travel in packs and the lone wolf notion really needs to get put on the shelf and hauled off and used once in a blue moon.nd thats not whats going on, lone wolf after lone wolf. this is part of the world islamic jihad. and i think ever more clearly so.. >> tucker: weve broken th...