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Okay? >> yes, sir. >> so, generally speaking, with your experience in law enforcement, within the context of what we will call lineups or whether that be a visual lineup or an audio lineup, what are the best practices as to how to handle lineups, generally? >> generally, just as in a, for example, photo lineup, you would show that photo array or that piece of evidence to a potential witness in a case individually. >> and what is the purpose of doing it individually, rather than in a group? >> so their decision is not influenced. >> one from the other? one witness influencing another witness? >...

Voice, correct? >> yes, sir. >> voice and photo lineups, you kind of do the same thing, correct? >> if you can, yes, sir. >> right. and when you say a voice lineup, you would actually have six separate recordings, to be fair, in terms of completely accurate, you would have six separate voices, then you would have the person actually look -- and listen to all six, and then say, if you did it similar to a photo lineup, you would have a person then say, which one do you recognize, correct? >> if you could -- if you could have six audit recordings that were similar in nature. and when you prepare ...

By then the kids were on the street. they were going from house to house. >> students are capturing all the action on video using their cell phone cameras. >> anybody who had a smartphone is like, i can't believe this is happening. they uploaded them to facebook or youtube right away. i got back to my room and was able to watch what happened an hour ago. video intended for the entertainment quickly becomes incriminating evidence against some of them. >> they took the youtube videos and made a photo array and went knew the neighborhood handing them out to students, trying to get them to match n...

Murder victim jason kinser. did that unidentified hispanic looking man finally have a name? >> it clicked. yeah. >> you told police in 1998 that there was a hispanic guy in the trailer when you got there. >> yeah. >> you didn't see a picture of mcmahon until 2009? >> yeah. >> and that was the guy. >> yeah. >> but how had polk county sheriff's detectives known to put tom mcmahon's picture in a photo array to begin with? it turns out when murder victim jason kinser had been arrested for selling methamphetamines six weeks before he was killed, guess who was arrested along with him? tom mcmahon. t...

They began trying to identify the hispanic looking man whom cannon had always claimed was at the mobile home the day of the murders, look what they found in the dusty court file. a photo array or throwdown, as it's called, made by polk county detectives in the hours after the murder. like a police lineup with photos. in it, only dark-haired hispanic looking men. mason, the reporter turned private eye, took the photo array to prison and showed it to convicted killer scott cannon. >> ten years after this crime, i walk into the oregon state penitentiary and i said if the person that was there at ...