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Had taken paint samples from dale's car. >> there wasn't much else to take. >> he placed them on slides with an emersion liquid. this eliminated any air trapped between the sample and the slide. using a poleerizing litght microscope magnified up to 1,000 times. >> i received a paint chip known standard from a 1974. >> and he now did a three-way comparison. he examined paint from the boot, from the car and from the file sample of a 1974 camaro. all were identical. and with this evidence, dale bradley was arrested and charged

Unbelievable martinez discovered the paint chips did come from huffman's truck. they fit perfectly. >> a physical fit is the only sure thing in forensic science. there are no statistics that can duplicate that. that is the only thing in forensic that is a sure thing and better than dna. >> here is a paint chip that plugs in perfectly. that is hitting a home run in the bottom of the ninth with the bases loaded. >> investigators wondered, if huffman's vehicle hit garcia, why was there no damage to the headlight and turn signal. they found the answer to that question in his storage shed back in t...

Removed for later analysis. investigators noticed what was perhaps their first clue. >> and i looked at him and he looked at me and i said, did you see that? something shiny. and we kept moving it around at different angles until we could see something. >> the spheres were no larger than the head of a pin. under a fiberoptic microscope, the spheres looked like metal. they also found several red and blue fibers and a yellow paint chip. could these few microscopic items help investigators find a killer? in new york state, we're changing the way we do business, with startup ny. we've created tax ...

Could find. they also confiscated a pair of smithart's overalls. all of the evidence was shipped to chicago, illinois, to a research microscopist, skip palenik. palenik began looking at the small yellow paint chip found on mandy's clothing. using x-ray spectroscopy, he noticed something unique. >> glossy layers with no other layers behind it, in a variety of colors. that's quite unusual. and children's bicycles, of course, are painted with the single layers of the glossy paint. >> in the samples collected from smithart's workshop, he found a paint chip identical in composition to the paint chi...

Unbelievably, martinez discovered that the paint chips did come from huffman's truck. they fit perfectly. >> a physical fit is the only for sure thing in forensic science. its probabilities are astronomical. there were no statistics that can calculate or duplicate the odds of tearing any two pieces identical. it is the only thing that's in forensics that is the for sure thing and, in fact, better than dna. >> here's this paint chip that plugs in perfectly. that's hitting the home run in the bottom of the ninth, based loaded. >> but investigators still wondered, if huffman's vehicle hit rafael ...