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Come to the nelson-atkins museum in kansas city, missouri. they want to analyze an ancient treasure reputed to be the finger of john the baptist. could it come from the same individual as the bulgaria find? >> this is containing the relic. it's gilt silver. it dates from about the year 1400. >> what's really exciting about the kansas relic is for the first time we'll be able to compare the carbon data relic with the one we've already obtained from bulgaria. >> the bone has been identified as a human bone coming from a hand. >> what's interesting about the finger is it's part of a medieval trea...

Nurse. she confirmed that that looked like a femur bone and i should call the authorities. >> finding a bone, even a human bone, is not unusual out here on albuquerque's west mesa. this is storied territory where native american tribes, conquistadors and cowboys once roamed. the bone could have easily belonged to one of them. but the police who arrived at the scene shortly after nightfall soon determined that this was no ancient artifact. this bone belonged to someone who had died in the not-too-distant past. >> february 2nd is when one of our violent crimes detectives said, oh, they found a b...

Desert west of town, where people frequently dump things they no longer have any use for, was simply too big an area to launch a search based on just a rumor. and so this case was going nowhere until late in the afternoon on february 2, 2009, when christine ross decided to take her dog ruka for a walk. >> okay. >> they strolled out of her new subdivision, one of many that had recently sprouted up on the desert west of albuquerque, and then over to an abandoned construction site where christine let ruka off the leash to run. >> she ran up ahead of me and she was messing with something on the gr...

But, in the light-spangled darkness of albuquerque's war zone where women sell themselves for as little as $20 a trick, truth and rumor are interchangeable commodities. still, in her quieter moments, ida allowed herself to fear the worst. >> i've just always felt that they were going to be together. >> in death as in life? >> yeah. i just -- you know, there was nothing that led me factually to believe that. i just always felt that if you find one you're going to find them all. unfortunately, ida's theory would soon be put to the test. >> one of our violent crimes detectives said, oh, they fo...

Police have been tracking michelle's electronic trail-- video, audio, text messages, cell phone pings. so many clues that seem to have picked up signs of michelle, but they've also picked up signs of someone else. here again, keith morrison. keith morrison: 49 days after michelle le disappeared, we stumbled over a human bone in the same area where michelle's cell phone had briefly pinged off a nearby tower. there'ss he short. keith morrison: but as the searchers scoured the immediate area, they understood it couldn't be her. the bits of clothing weren't right, and the bone was bleached by the ...