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I didn't open it up at that point. >> the note was immediately sent to the crime lab, where it was opened by forensic analysts. it proved to be nothing less than a voice from the grave. >> "to anyone interested in what happened to me, look first to david duyst. he could be my killer." >> for the first time, sandy described what really happened in the horse stable 18 months earlier. >> "on november 19th, my accident was no accident. david beat me with a hammer axe. he came up from behind while i was in dexter's stall. he hit me repeatedly. i figured he would come back to kill me." >> the only i...

Written by nancy, investigators sent the diary to a forensic document examiner, hartford kittel. >> handwriting examination's based upon two distinct facts -- no two people write exactly alike. within the writing of a single individual, there is normal variation. it's this normal variation that we associate or we don't associate with the questioned writing. >> surprisingly, nancy and richard's handwriting looked strikingly similar. friends said this was intentional. while in college, nancy had written some of richard's research papers, and she mimicked his writing. kittel first looked at known...

>> was it possible that chris davis never called his wife, but used those 20 minutes to drive home, kill dorothy, then return to the bar to establish his alibi? a police recreation showed it was possible. average time, 17 minutes. so, even though we were locked into that 20 minutes by our witness, we felt pretty comfortable it was still possible for him to have gone off, committed that crime, staged the scene and got back to the nco club within that time frame. >> but if this were true, what about the suicide notes? was it possible they had been forged? investigators sent these notes to forens...

Lots of handwriting samples of him, we would look at every case between an "e" and a "y" and look at the spacing. people unconsciously space letters similar, especially in cursive writing when they're connected. what you pointed out -- i see california all the time in my case work. people write the c-a corrected, sometimes not. what you're pointed out is an unconscious hesitation. when a d.a. calls an expert like me, we'll have the opportunity to have looked at dozens of other samples of his printing and i think we'll find a match. >> you going to get a call on this case? >> i might. i work in...

Battle over admiskt. these are very good lawyers, as we learned in texas. still no forensic evidence linking robert durst to susan berman. >> well not yet. >> right, they may have collected dna and other types of crime scene evidence that will now be retested. >> on that note the last trial was in early 200. has the technology around dna evidence and -- how much of that has advanced in the last 14 years? >> i think quite a bit, because before back in 200 or 2003 maybe we could only say a certain amount could be connected to one person or exclude one of person but now we can say it's a mixture ...