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The glasses and had an officer pose as a nurse and offer them to brown. >> let us know whether their yours or not or what we do. >> no, theyre not. >> jim smelled a rat. he looked at the glasses and said they were not his. >> it doesnt mean theyre not his, it just means that we havent got that connectivity yet. >> police search browns apartment and his car. >> we found a pair of blue canvas running shoes on the floor of the rear right passenger side of the vehicle. >> we believe they were manufa...

Then had his 350-pound model step on each one wearing the suspects shoes. webb discovered that the test impression on the tomato was virtually the same as the one taken directly from the shoe and the photo taken at the crime scene. >> i was able to take those two overlays and put them over top of a photograph of the tomato itself and be able to illustrate that, in fact, that the pattern matched up on the tomato impression. >> although the size of browns shoe and the tread pattern was the same as...

Transparency. the size and tread pattern were the same. more importantly, the wear patterns known as accidental characteristics were virtually identical. >> the right shoe that had been taken from whipple was the shoe to the exclusion of all others. >> derek also concluded this was the shoe which made the bloody impression on heathers shirt. >> the outsole design of whipples shoes matched this bloody impression on the tee shirt. >> and tests showed that clothing in the car contained heathers blo...

>> it was successful. they saw one clear print, the heel portion of the killers left shoe. it appeared to be an athletic shoe. >> most of the prints you see are partial prints. you may sometimes get some full footwear impressions, but with people walking over on top of them, it can destroy the prints and many times you only get partial prints. >> back in the forensics lab, scientists saw what looked to be another shoe impression on a shard of broken glass. so, they placed it in a tank filled wit...

The detective. so they did the right thing and preserved the tracks. they did a mold and everything else. and sure enough those tracks had the same tire pattern, tread pattern that the police cars had. but just because someone had a tire tread of the same basic pattern doesnt mean it was that car. >> his former boss, police chief michael brady, was also suspicious of the tire track evidence. soon after lake county investigators left the crime scene he made a discovery that convinced him the evid...

What kind of system is that? >> while ducketts appeal was severely weakened without gurleys recanted testimony, beth wells was still able to attack the prosecutions case, starting with the tire tracks found near teresas body. >> the little dirt road had the tire tracks by it, which was a pretty good find by the detective. they preserved the tracks, did a mold of it, everything else. sure enough the tire tracks had the same tread pattern that the police cars had. but just because somebody had the...

Next, steve derek wanted to see if the black plastic pieces from the crime scene came from this iron. >> so that point became a puzzle. after everything was photographically documented, started gluing the plastic pieces back together. >> after some trial and error, derek discovered the pieces fit perfectly. >> the pieces from the crime scene and the iron created a link to whipple be being at the crime scene. >> investigators also analyzed the athletic shoes found in whipples possession. they wer...

Then the fluorescent powder that you use to dust up the impression is very bright and so it makes a very good contrast. >> it was successful. tey saw one clear print, the heel portion of the killers left shoe. it appeared to be an athletic shoe. >> most of the prints you see are partial prints. you may sometimes get some full footwear impressions, but with people walking over on top of them, it can destroy the prints and many times you only get partial prints. >> back in the forensics lab, scien...

The size and tread pattern were the same. more importantly, the wear patterns known as accidental characteristics were virtually identical. >> the right shoe that had been taken from whipple was the shoe to the exclusion of all others. >> derek also concluded this was the shoe which made the bloody impression on heathers shirt. >> the outsole design of whipples shoes matched this bloody impression on the tee shirt. >> and tests showed that clothing in the car contained heathers blood. his very f...