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Much of his time he spent on a lathe. >> this was suspicious since metal fragments were found on both stephanie dittrick's body as well as arlene jensen's. with a search warrant, investigators found metal shavings on ackley's jeans, in his car and in his workplace. when tested with energy dispersive x-ray spectronomy, scientists discovered that the shavings from gary ackley were the same as those found on both murder victims. but ackley's lawyer said this proved nothing. they claimed it shouldn't be surprising the metal shavings were the same because ackley knew both victims and could have tra...

Killed her mother. so after his conviction, she cemented their common-law relationship by formally marrying him in a prison ceremony. >> i don't know. i've tried to understand that before and all i can make of it is domestic violence in its severest form. the brainwashing, the abuse that just makes that person just not even think for themselves because it's so plain to see. you know. >> two murders, seemingly unrelated, but unmistakably connected by a series of microscopic clues. >> detectives all over this country are solving murder cases that are 20 or 30 or 40 years old based on science tha...

Of his car, creating the fiber cross-transfer. ackley dumped her body a mile away in a field near the railroad tracks unaware he left more metal shavings there. he also left another calling card. an empty pack of his favorite brand of cigarettes, the same brand he left in his mother-in-law's bathroom. but what was the motive for stephanie dittrick's murder? >> by all accounts gary ackley had a big mouth. >> prosecutors think in a moment of weakness, ackley told stephanie that he killed arlene. prosecutors found a witness who saw ackley and stephanie camping together on the fourth of july weeke...

Yeah, there wasn't a whole lot of movement with the jacket. if you're sitting in the rear seat of a car and you never move, that's where the transfer would be. >> finally, in the national park near where stephanie dittrick's body was found, investigators discovered remnants of a campfire. some of stephanie's personal items were strewn in the grass along with a plastic shopping bag. >> there was a shopping bag from a local grocery store and once it was submitted to the washington state patrol crime laboratory, what we found was a very clear latent fingerprint left by none other than gary ackley...

Daughter. >> the offensive thing about stereotypes, i think most people would agree, is that they're oftentimes true. but i will say that one stereotype that i think gary ackley is a perfect example of is a domestically violent woman-abusing killer. >> prosecutors believe ackley had access to arlene's apartment key and used it to enter her home late one night after she was in bed. the autopsy results aren't clear about how he killed arlene, but the evidence suggests she was killed while in bed. metal fragments dropped from ackley's clothes on to the sheets, fragments he couldn't see. he stayed...