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His vest but did not cause significant damage to him probably was the first shot. >> i believe he then took the vest off to see what had happened. >> he turned in that direction and probably yelled, out of fear, hey, i'm not a deer, i'm not an elk. i'm over here, yeah, don't shoot. >> bruce was shot a second time while waving his vest in the air. it entered his chest and exited under his right arm. >> mr. dodson may have tried to crawl away when the last shot was fired. >> the third and fatal shot entered his back in an upward trajectory and was found in bruce's lung. it was badly deformed but...

Three years after bruce dodson's murder, investigators still didn't know why a .243 caliber round was found in his lung when it appeared that a .308 caliber rifle was used in the murder. while reading a gun and ammunition magazine, bill booth discovered the answer. he saw an ad for the nosler brand .308 caliber bullet. it showed a picture of the small inner core of the bullet which looks surprisingly similar to the bullet found in bruce dodson's lung. >> when i looked at the photograph of the cutaway and remembering the core that we had removed from bruce dodson's lung, it was the same. very s...

>> investigators still had one question to question to answer. they knew a .308 caliber round went through bruce's body, but a .243 caliber round was found in his lung. where did this .243 caliber round come from? >> this case has more twists and turns than a snake, and it was just one thing after another.

Size identified as a .243 caliber round. >> only landmark we really had to go on was the base design. >> janice dodson had been hunting on this trip too. but this bullet did not come from her rifle or bruce's. >> so it couldn't have been bruce's rifle that killed him. couldn't have been her rifle that killed bruce dodson. >> dr. canfield was convinced the shooting was no accident. >> i was able to conclude, beyond a reasonable doubt and with reasonable medical certainty, that bruce died from multiple gunshot wounds, and it was clearly a homicide. in bloo. side effects include headache, flushin...

Back to the fence post. and then continued to string that back toward the area that the shot was fired. >> in a clump of bushes, 80 yards in front of the fence post, investigators found a .308 caliber shell casing. to find the bullet that went through bruce's chest, investigators searched the area in the straight line path beyond where bruce was standing. with a metal detector, miraculously they found a .308 caliber round. >> at the end of the string was the bullet. i mean, it was stroke of luck, stroke of luck. >> this raised the possibility that there were two shooters. since a .308 caliber ...