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>> the defense in this case, their main objective was to save him from a death sentence. >> but given sanchez's past, jurors concluded he did sexually assault megan and sentenced him to death. no one doubts that sanchez would have claimed more victims, but a strange combination of evidence, ranging from laser ballistics, to analysis of a car's onboard computer, to something as seemingly insignificant as glitter, proved his guilt. >> it was just amazing what the criminalists were able to do and the experts were able to say, to put together a very vivid picture for the jury as to what happened o...

Pixie glitter. that was amazing that they could put those pieces of pixie glitter together and show that it had been located in all those different areas and it was consistent amongst each other. up next, a restaurant robbery goes wrong. >> there was no reason for this to happen to stephen. >> this was a vicious, vicious attack. >> and the evidence is contradictory. there was somebody else bleeding at the scene of the crime. >> that blood and a partial fingerprint were all investigators had. >> i wasn't holding my breath for any real results. >> until the money trail provides investigators w...

Angry because she hadn't invited him to her family picnic. red glitter on everyone, including megan. >> i said, do you still have the bottle? she said, yes, i do. so we then went and recovered the remaining portion of the glitter. >> scientists confirmed the glitter in megan barroso's hair came from megan's friend, and it was the same glitter found in sanchez's truck, on the ak-47 rifle, on megan's jacket found

Head, like in a sleeping position. that wouldn't be a position that a body would land in. >> then the medical examiner noticed something unusual. red glitter. >> what they call pixie dust in megan's hair and on her clothing. and it was red glitter, in essence. >> megan's green jacket was found outside the home of vincent sanchez, a part-time electrician who came to police attention when his roommate found a homemade videotape of sanchez sexually assaulting several women. when police studied the videotape in detail, they discovered the women were the victims of the simi valley rapist. 15 unsolv...

To police. to find out if all this glitter was from the same source, investigators sent it to edwin jones, a forensic scientist with one of the largest collections of glitter in the world, with close to 1,000 specimens. >> i have an unusual hobby of collecting micro things and i've been collecting glitter for many years before this case and i've been collecting glitter since this case. >> under a microscope, jones discovered that this red glitter was a hexagon shape, approximately 250 microns. >> it's red on one side and silver on the other. it was a very unique type of glitter that just this ...