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This began before mccain was speaking out. it began in the campaign. >> he said he likes guys that didn't get captured. i have been over there in hanoi. his plane went in the middle of the water. he went into the water. the plane crashed. he didn't just give up. beating the hell, he didn't surrender. >> donald trump got a number of deferments because of bone chips. ridiculous comparison. i don't know what makes him -- >> he hates obama too. >> the only explanation is that he has this long standing view that anyone whoever was a big time political figure were lase losers in his estimation.

The bones were human, but that didn't mean the police were any closer to knowing if the bone chips were shamia's. >> there was a lot of thermal destruction. this would suggest a tremendous fire that lasted for as much as days. >> i had never worked with samples that had been so charred and so burnt before, so i was very hesitant as to whether i would be able to generate a dna profile from these remains. >> but in a case with so few lucky breaks, the forensic anthropologist finally got one. they found a piece of a foot with soft tissue. >> there was still organic material. there was still defin...

In the search for shamia smith, investigators collected dozens of what appeared to be bone chips from the fire pit on ken otto's property and sent them to the forensics lab. >> this skeleton was burned so significantly that it was nearly destroyed as if it would have been in a commercial cremation. the fragmentation was so severe that you had pieces that were the size of a fingernail. it really is like a needle in a hay stack. it was an anthropologist's nightmare. >> after close examination, forensic anthropologists concluded that the majority of the bones were human, but that didn't mean the ...

Violent it is and how loud it is. no, i don't remember any of that at all. i don't remember anything really until the next morning waking up in icu. >> reporter: this was the blast site. payne was trying to retreat and made it about 35 yards away behind a fire truck, which apparently shielded him just enough. the truck was left a mangled ruin. somehow robert payne survived. >> when i visited with the guy that rescued me, brad, he filled me in on a few things about where i was found and the fact i was blown out of my boots. my boots were in one place and 35 feet away. >> reporter: payne has ner...

No. watch it in video and see how violent it is, how loud it is, no, i don't remember any of that at all. i don't really remember anything until the next morning, waking up in icu. >> reporter: this was the blast site. payne trying to retreat, made it about 35 yards away behind a fire truck, which apparently shielded him just enough. the truck was left a mangled ruin. somehow robert payne survived. >> when i visited with the guy th rescued me, brad, he filled me in on a few things about where i was found and about the fact that i was blown out of my boots. my boots were in one place, and i was...