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Episode. if the police and fbi have already ruled out whatever the cause is either strangulation that cannot be an accident, cannot be self-inflicted. or blunt force injuries. head injuries, bodily injuries that cause death, that could not be from an accidental fall. otherwise they wouldn't call it a homicide. they know what the cause of death is. they know a lot of information that we don't have. the toxicology will be important. they will even do a rape kit to see if she had been sexually assaulted. judge jeanine: you are absolutely right and i am only going to interrupt you for a second. th...

Have seen in the videos is that there was no attempt to bury the body or to conceal the body. >> martha: what does that tell you? >> that doesn't tell me anything in particular except that the person doing it may have been in a frenzy and didn't know what to do. the death occurred, whether he meant to kill her or not is hard to explain till you get to interview him. one of the things that did a lot of dna swapping of the clothing and him. the boyfriend's dna will be on that because they were together. but if per chance that they found the dna of a third person, then there would be an issue whe...

On her body after that lapse of time? >> if there was a thinker person involved? >> shannon: right. whether it was a boyfriend, whether it was someone else, would there be after all this time still dna on the body, clothing, that would help to lead police to the right suspect? >> since they lived together, so much time together, having hairs or dna from the boyfriend on her clothing, which could be found, wouldn't tell you who has done it. the only thing that would come up with the dna, if there were a thinker person, his dna on her body, her clothing, or in a rape kit, for example, is -- tell...

They have already codified very extreme laws in many states, including mine. the day after the supreme court does away with roe v wade in missouri, it is really questionable whether or not a women can be arrested for using an iud. whether or not couples will be able to participate in invitro fertilization in order to have a family. it will really be a question of whether or not they can actually have the morning after pill for rape victims in emergency rooms when they come in to have a rape kit done after they have been physically assaulted by their rapist. all of those things will happen beca...

Samota files, took a look inside and found some promising evidence. >> in'06 when she decided to reopen the case, she went over to the lab and realized they did have a rape kit. they did have a sample that in today's technology could be tested to try and find a dna standard. >> by 2006, of course, dna testing had evolved. some of angie's other friends also approached police about reopening the investigation, but it was sheila who eventually made more than 700 phone calls over the years. trying to move angie's case forward. she even offered to pay for the dna testing herself. >> i said, okay, i...