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Straw out of his drink and put it in his pocket and take it to the bathroom with him. he flushed all of his napkins. >> for dessert, planten ordered banana pudding, which he ate with a fork. >> he took two bites of banana pudding and took a napkin and wiped that fork for about five minutes and left the fork. of course, our investigators took that fork. >> they performed the analysis. >> i got a mixture of dna sampling, meaning there was one strong profile and one weak profile on there as well. >...

Case file and discovered some important pieces of information. first, the witness who testified clarence elkins threatened judy johnsons life during a telephone call also claimed judy called 911 to report the threat to police. but there was no evidence judy johnson ever called 911. >> the 911 call should have been logged. it was obvious no such phone call had been made. >> and they also discovered that the coroner took vaginal swabs from judy johnson during the autopsy. on those swabs, lab tests...

>> no, its not always a hollywood ending. sometimes you dont get any results, cases still go unsolved. >> so, 16 years after julies murder, the jacksonville police department sent julies clothes to the u.s. army crime lab in forest park, georgia, one of the most sophisticated labs available. >> the item in evidence included socks and her shirt and jeans, as well as other items from her sexual assault kit, which included, like, fingernail scrapings and other swabs. >> scientists there were discou...

Numbers for escort services. >> on a pair of bullards boots, analysts noticed some slight discoloration. the boots were examined under a microscope. they were stained with what appeared to be high-impact blood spatter. >> high-impact spatter might be invisible. if the surface that its deposited on is absorbant or dark in color, its very likely that it would be very difficult to simply visualize it. >> dna tests on the bloody boots tied them to virginias murder. >> the swabs were subjected to pcr...

>> but investigators couldnt understand why the dogs werent all together. >> why were her two smaller dogs beat so severely and yet the biggest dog of the group was never struck? and the dog was also locked in a bedroom. >> the third dog was a hybrid, a wolf mix that was owned by the husband. >> investigators thought the blood on the dogs mouths and paws had come from cathys attacker. but forensic testing disproved that. >> the swabs and clippings that had been taken from the dogs came back nega...

Tying the knot. >> dna specialist jason wycoff swabbed the stocking looking for any of those skin cells. >> the swabs were treated with a solvent to free possible dna. and then replicated so the sample was large enough for dna testing. just as they suspected, they found a dna sample. >> i noticed that the profile was characteristic of a mixture of at least two individuals and the mixture had male and female gender characteristics. >> the female dna was that of laura wynn. the source of the males...

U.s. because those are believed the flights that would be vulnerable to this kind of new improved shoe bomb as it were. but you would see on those flights some new measures, things like additional swabs. those swabs they use to test for explosives residue particularly on shoes, bags, hands, that kind of thing. you should expect to see more of that. not a whole new ring of security, but some enhanced security, some extra scrutiny. >> all right, jim sciutto, appreciate the reporting. breaking ne...

Them x-rayed. theyve heard some chatter that theyre working on a new design on that bomb. so it doesnt mean its operational, but it does mean its serious. >> and people flying, what does this mean for everybody whos going to be flying soon? will there be more security changes? >> well, first of all, the new changes youd see would only be on flights coming in overseas into the u.s. because those are believed the flights that would be vulnerable to this kind of new improved shoe bomb as it were. b...

Makers have showed up in yemen where al seri is located. if you combine the two groups, they might get there. >> what changes should the tsa be making and what should passengers do differently, if anything? >> tsa is doing a good job. they were using a lot of more swabs. you can pick up nitrates. they are doing a great job on that. the israelis profile people. we cant do that in the united states. we can do full body scans. they can look at the passengers and see who they are and pull people apa...

To airlines that fly from overseas to the united states p. for flights at foreign airports that go directly to the u.s., passengers will see increased attention paid to their footwear, shoes that are worn and that are in carry-on bags, homeland security says, should be x-rayed, and its urging airlines to use the swabs that check for traces of explosives on passengers shoes as well. officials say the threat information is not specific to any particular airline, country of origin, or time frame, a...