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In both samples. >> they were indistinguishable, one from the other. so, we could conclude from that that they were made up of the same substance, and therefore, they could have common origin. >> but this wasn't conclusive. so, stanbro compared the paint chips from harry's body to the paint on floyd's boat. they were heated to 800 degrees centigrade and vaporized so that their chemical components could be measured by a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer. again, the chemical composition of both samples was identical. prosecutors now had enough forensic evidence to link floyd wright's boat to t...

So was the exposed metal on the truck. 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 won...

Headlight and replaced it with the headlight unit from his other truck. he fled the state the next day, driving 1,000 miles to tennessee, hoping the case would blow over and be forgotten. but by this time, too many law enforcement agencies were looking for him. >> all the planets were aligned because it was every single little piece of evidence together that made this such a strong case. and it just -- everything fell into place. >> the paint chips at the scene fit perfectly to huffman's truck. and the truck's grill also matched rafael's injuries. >> you could almost compare the height of the ...

To tennessee yielded no evidence, no forensic evidence. >> but investigators had the seven chips of red paint from the crime scene. was it possible that they were from huffman's truck? martinez measured the seven paint chips. each one was approximately a half inch in length. martinez and his colleagues noticed something. there were places on the front bumper of huffman's truck where the paint was missing. so, martinez started the painstaking process of trying to match the paint chips to the truck scratches. >> i wasn't sure exactly where it was going to match up specifically, so it was almost ...

Their original suspect, dale bradley, was now a suspect in yet another murder investigation, they decided to look once again at the evidence. and this time, on bryan ruff's boot, the one they found in the mountains near his burial site, they spotted something, some kind of scuff mark on the bottom of the boot that looked like reddish orange paint. >> when i saw that swatch of paint, it just flashed back to me that that was the same color of paint on dale bradley's car. and i got excited and i kind of got butterflies and thought, i got him. >> forensic scientist bill schneck examined this paint...