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Do that, but it certainly was an interesting element that we pursued for some time. >> after several months with no forensic evidence and very few leads, the investigation into john helble's murder was starting to turn cold. so investigators turned to helble's dog for more information. >> as it turned out, that dog was going to play a very important part in solving john's death. bulldog: ah, the dog days of summer!
Prized possessions was missing, his 3-year-old husky, keisha. >> oh, he loved his dog. his dog was his life. she was his baby. >> she had a lot of hamburgers, a lot of pizza, hotdogs, things like that. i think she ate mostly people food. she was very spoiled. >> police soon learned that a dog matching keisha's description was found a month earlier, wandering aimlessly several miles away. >> she was just standing in the middle of the street, dazed, looking around like, where am i, what am i doing here? >> john's parents identified keisha. the evidence suggested she had been driven there and dro...
Had been used to transport the dog and dispose of the dog. >> this was just one unusual detail in an investigation that was to become even more bizarre.
>> it will not be as unique a profile as i might get from blood or saliva or hair with a root, but it will still allow me to say, yes, this sample matches the reference dog or it doesn't match the reference dog. >> halverson performed a pcr test, which stands for polymerase chain reaction. >> it's basically like taking one page out of a book and ignoring the rest of the book and xeroxing that page a million times. and now you have that page in so much quantity that you can see it. >> then the sample was sequenced to get a visual representation of the dna type. when she compared the dna from th...
His 3-year-old husky, keisha. >> oh, he loved his dog. his dog was his life. she was his baby. >> she had a lot of hamburgers, a lot of pizza, hotdogs, things like that. i think she ate mostly people food. she was very spoiled. >> police soon learned that a dog matching keisha's description was found a month earlier, wandering aimlessly several miles away. >> she was just standing in the middle of the street, dazed, looking around like, where am i, what am i doing here? >> john's parents identified keisha. the evidence suggested she had been driven there and dropped off. >> keisha was found du...