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Stepped on a shard of glass, leaving his shoe impression? >> the theory of any crime scene investigation is that the suspect is always going to leave something of them self at the scene or take something away that's going to link them to the crime. >> the shards were collected and sent to the forensics lab. >> glass is such a smooth, perfect surface that it's really the best surface we can possibly hope for to get an impression on. >> the linoleum floor was dusted with a powder called aurora pink that sticks to any moisture present. then, using what is called an alternate light source, any pow...

Longer there. then we decided to look around the other bedrooms. that's when we discovered the spent shotgun shell in one of the bedrooms. >> the shell was from a .16-gauge shotgun. it was immediately sent to the forensics lab for testing. an analyst placed it under a microscope to compare it to the .16-gauge shotgun shell found in the andrews' garage. he looked specifically at the brass casings at the base of the shells. when casings are ejected, each gun creates a unique mark on the brass. >> and depending on the amount of correspondence and the preponderance of these matching striations, an...

Then the fluorescent powder that you use to dust up the impression is very bright and so it makes a very good contrast. >> it was successful. tey saw one clear print, the heel portion of the killer's left shoe. it appeared to be an athletic shoe. >> most of the prints you see are partial prints. you may sometimes get some full footwear impressions, but with people walking over on top of them, it can destroy the prints and many times you only get partial prints. >> back in the forensics lab, scientists saw what looked to be another shoe impression on a shard of broken glass. so, they placed it ...

He was 25-year-old kent embry, who had prior arrests for petit theft and burglary. >> a suspect happened to be wearing spalding tennis shoes like we had told the investigators that they were looking for. >> since these are spaldings and we already know that we need spaldings, we needed to have these analyzed right away because this could be the big break in audrey's shooting. >> police sent the shoes to the forensics lab, where they were inked and printed. using transparent overlays, amy michaud compared them to the two partial prints found in audrey nichols' home. >> that was compared directl...

A store employee, 40-year-old cathy woodhaus. she was a married mother of three children. >> she was my mom, and she disciplined me and all those things, but she was also my friend. sorry. i'm sorry, guys. >> outside the store, police found a piece of pantyhose, which the killer may have used as a disguise. investigators wondered whether the man who made the 911 call was somehow involved. >> we listened to this 911 call. could he be a witness or was he the actually assailant of cathy woodhouse? at a certain point in the investigation, we were relatively certain it was probably the killer. >> a...