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They even found one microscopic speck on the ak-47 rifle sanchez's roommate turned over 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 ...

>> 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...

Only 10,000 bottles had ever been made. investigators learned that during the fourth of july party megan attended, the host threw red glitter on everyone, including megan. >> i said, do you still have the bottle? she says, "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 in sanchez's trash, and in megan's own car. it was the only piece of evidence that tied sanchez to everything. ...