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Clothesline post. >> in about 20 minutes, i got a signal that was in the proper reading range as far as the detector was concerned for a shell casing. and i went down, so we cut a little plug, turned it over and there sitting right in the plug was a .25-caliber shell casing stuck to the bottom. when you look at it and you see the patina on it, you know it's not a freshly buried object. >> my first thought was this is too good to be true, this cannot be the one that he actually fired. >> investigators hoped that after 15 years in the ground, the shell could still be tested. they make little hea...

Then hinks got a signal near a clothesline post. >> in about 20 minutes, i got a signal that was in the proper reading range as far as the detector was concerned for a shell casing. and i went down, so we cut a little plug, turned it over and there sitting right in the plug was a .25-caliber shell casing stuck to the bottom. when you look at it and you see the patina on it, you know it's not a freshly buried object. >> my first thought was this is too good to be true, this cannot be the one that he actually fired. >> investigators hoped that after 15 years in the ground, the shell could still ...

Junk went out there. so the challenge was working through 130 years of trash and picking up the single .25-caliber automatic shell casing that we were looking for. >> modern metal detectors use computer processors to measure levels of conductivity. which enables them to identify the type of metal and the depth of the object underground. >> they are basically computers that can pretty well tell you what happens down there how deep it is. it does everything but dig for you today. >> hinks and his team found many shell casings, but none that were .25-caliber. then hinks got a signal near a clothe...

Clothesline post. >> in about 20 minutes, i got a signal that was in the proper reading range as far as the detector was concerned for a shell casing. i went down, got a plug, turned it over and sitting in the plug was a .25 caliber shell casing stuck to the bottom. when you look at it, and you see the patina on it, you know, it's not a freshly buried object. >> my first thought was this is too good to be true, this cannot be the one that he actually fired. >> investigators hoped that after 15 years in the ground, the shell could still be tested. it doesn't operate out of basements or back all...

>> but there was so much trash out there, so much farm equipment, this is the place where they would throw the garbage along with the tin foil and toothpaste tubes and all the junk went out there. so the challenge was working through 130 years of trash and picking up the single .25-caliber automatic shell casing that we were looking for. >> modern metal detectors use computer processors to measure levels of conductivity. which enables them to identify the type of metal and the depth of the object underground. >> they are basically computers that can pretty well tell you what happens down there...