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Were going to get him, and that he took off and hadn't been seen since. >> the man's name was robert huffman, a 49-year-old construction worker. vehicle records indicated huffman drove a red dodge pickup truck made in the year 2000. according to huffman's girlfriend, he disappeared the morning following the accident and she had no idea where he went. >> time is of the essence when you're trying to solve these crimes. and knowing that the truck is your big piece of evidence and knowing that it's out there driving around in the elements, which means you're losing physical evidence. >> making mat...

Back in texas. >> we went to robert huffman's house, and in the back shed we saw a '95 maroon dodge truck that was missing the passenger side turn signal light. >> apparently, huffman owned a second pickup truck, a 1995 dodge ram. interestingly, the 1995 model was similar to his red 2000 model, so much so that the headlamps on both trucks were dimensionally identical. >> the length, the width, the depth, all those features, the mounting points, they are all in the same location. we took a 2000 model year truck, we removed the headlamp module, and we inserted a 1995 headlamp module, and the two...

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 ...

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