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>> it was beautiful. i didn't expect this or i didn't expect it to be that clear, but details are suddenly just the hdtv analogy. they were popping off the screen that you did not see before. i mean, you could see formations, but you weren't seeing the details. and now all of a sudden, you were seeing those details. >> and there was a remarkable amount of detail. >> here we have pretty much half of a hand from the fingers all the way down to the base of the hand that's in view that is readily visible. so, we had just a tremendous amount of information as far as doing latent print examination o...

Dawn ferring fit right in. >> she was interested in foreign languages and an exchange student first, learning french. then went to austria and learned german. >> dawn was an accomplished violinist and dancer, who returned from japan where she was doing christian missionary work. she was living in this apartment in kirkland for just two weeks, when her neighbor, a local fireman, noticed her front door was left open and decided to investigate. >> so he grabbed his portable phone, knocked on the door, called out to see if anyone was there. and when he didn't receive a response, he entered into th...

All-american of events, which was making cookies for her mother for mother's day in the privacy of her own home. >> a background check revealed dawn was a very private person who did not date, drink or use drugs. she had been in town for only two weeks. >> one of the interesting things that you learn when you do this kind of work, the medical examiner and their observations that they make of a person and the remarkable observation that he made about dawn fehring was that she was so modest that she didn't even have pierced ears. >> investigators checked the whereabouts of all registered sex off...

Evidence. the evidence is what it is. we will take away that that is interfering with our ability to identify, subtracting, but we're not going to put in a fingerprint ridge or a palm detail or anything that's missing. >> the judge left it to the jury to decide. eric berg brought his computer into the courtroom and demonstrated the process. >> everybody looked at it, and they were just amazed. >> it was readily apparent that it was a palm print. and i remember, i was standing back behind the jury, looking at them look at eric berg. and in the background was the defense counsel who took one loo...

As eric hayden awaited trial for the murder of dawn fehring, prosecutors had to deal with a number of problems. the technology used to reveal the print had never been admitted as evidence in a criminal trial. >> the standard argument in this particular type of case is that the evil empire, the cops, are out there, and they're just trying to convict innocent people out here of murder and all kinds of terrible crimes, and they'll stop at nothing to do that, including taking computer evidence, manipulating it, adding information, putting stuff in there that would unfairly bias the case against th...