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other key. and it worked in the front door of apartment 3. although, no one was home. >> it is absolutely classic shoe leather detective work. they had no idea which apartment complex they were dealing with. and they just had to go to one after another. >> the apartment belonged to christine hildreth, a registered nurse who worked at the local hospital. when investigators spoke with her, she was able to identify the victim as her 17-year-old daughter florence. >> it is rough. it's one of the hardest things to do in the job. but it's a -- it's a necessary thing to do sometimes. you have to get this identification so you can proceed backwards, backtracking this victim to track down the individual that's responsible, the suspect. >> what i can remember being is shocked. i was shocked that something
and it worked in the front door of apartment 3. although, no one was home. >> it is absolutely classic shoe leather detective work. they had no idea which apartment complex they were dealing with. and they just had to go to one after another. >> the apartment belonged to christine hildreth, a registered nurse who worked at the local hospital. when investigators spoke with her, she was able to identify the victim as her 17-year-old daughter florence. >> it is rough. it's one of the hardest things to do in the job. but it's a -- it's a necessary thing to do sometimes. you have to get this identification so you can proceed backwards, backtracking this victim to track down the individual that's responsible, the suspect. >> what i can remember being is shocked. i was shocked that something like that had happened to her.
>> he had not been in the area -- the delano area very long. he had come from los angeles. he was staying with ms. hildreth's cousin and residing at that residence and had a relationship with one of her female cousins. >> at first, investigators found no evidence in berryman's truck that could place the vehicle at the scene. but under the front seat was a clue that could have easily been overlooked. investigators found several links to a gold piece of jewelry which was sent to supervising criminalist greg laskowski. >> i received some individual links that looked like cut horseshoes or crimped horseshoes. and it appeared to be, they weren't heavy, so it was cheap jewelry, some kind of brass type jewelry. >> to make the chain, the manufacturer would have cut each link with a tiny tool. then attach it to the end by
surely florence hildreth's. >> it was consistent with having come from 0.068% of the african-american population, and miss hildreth was included within that group. so for pre-dna testing-type evidence, it was pretty strong. pretty strong indicator that it was her blood. >> rodney berryman unwittingly left a generous array of evidence at the crime scene which enabled investigators to charge him for florence's murder within 24 hours of the crime.
crimping the edges back together. under a microscope, laskowski saw the highly distinctive marks from the tool used to cut these links. >> i'm looking for striations that run across the length of the cut surfaces. >> the striations on each tool are different. they're created when the tool is made and by normal wear and tear. laskowski compared the striations on the links from rodney berryman's truck to the links on the jewelry found with florence hildreth's body. at 50 times magnification, the results were clear. >> i have links from the victim's body. they have markings on them that are of the same type, made by the same tool that made the markings that made up the necklace. it certainly indicates that the suspect would have some explaining to do.
area very long. he had come from los angeles. he was staying with ms. hildreth's cousin and residing at that residence and had a relationship with one of her female cousins. >> at first, investigators found no evidence in berryman's truck that could place the vehicle at the scene. but under the front seat was a clue that could have easily been overlooked. investigators found several links to a gold piece of jewelry which was sent to supervising criminalist greg laskowski. >> i received some individual links that looked like cut horseshoes or crimped horseshoes. they weren't heavy, so it was cheap jewelry, some kind of brass type jewelry. >> to make the chain, the manufacturer would have cut each link with a tiny tool. then attach it to the end by crimping the edges back
>> it was consistent with having come from 0.068% of the african-american population, and miss hildreth was included within that group. so for pre-dna testing-type evidence, it was pretty strong. pretty strong indicator that it was her blood. >> rodney berryman unwittingly left a generous array of evidence at the crime scene which enabled investigators to charge him for florence's murder within 24 hours of the crime. ñ
together. under a microscope, laskowski saw the highly distinctive marks from the tool used to cut these links. >> i'm looking for striations that run across the length of the cut surfaces. >> the striations are different on each tool. they're created when the tool is made and by normal wear and tear. >> laskowski compared the striations on the links from rodney berryman's truck to the links on the jewelry found with florence hildreth's body. at 50 times magnification, the results were clear. >> i have links from the victim's body, they have markings on them that are of the same type, made by the same tool that made the markings that made up the necklace. it certainly indicates that the
>> it is absolutely classic shoe leather detective work. they had no idea which apartment complex they were dealing with and they just had to go to one after another. >> the apartment belonged to christine hildreth, a registered nurse who worked at the local hospital. when investigators spoke with her, she was able to identify the victim as her 17-year-old daughter florence. >> it is rough. it's one of the hardest things to do in the job. but it's a necessary thing to do sometimes. you have to get this identification so you can proceed backwards, backtracking this victim to track down the individual that's responsible, the suspect. >> what i can remember being is shocked. i was shocked that something like that had happened to her and i was shocked that something like that had happened in delano.