CNN Forensic Files June 29, 2014 06:34:00
Shaking, shaking. i can just equate it to advanced par kinson's. >> joe snodgrass never left the base that night, so he was never considered a suspect. but who wanted to harm his wife? ♪
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Shaking, shaking. i can just equate it to advanced par kinson's. >> joe snodgrass never left the base that night, so he was never considered a suspect. but who wanted to harm his wife? ♪
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Investigators found two floppy disks on joe snodgrass's desk which they thought might hold evidence in his complicit with his wife's murder plot. before they checked the disks, investigators wanted to make sure that they actually belonged to joe snodgrass and weren't someone els. so she asked him to come to the interrogation room to identify them. >> snodgrass was in a cooperative posture. he was a law enforcement official so someone is investigating, well, naturally you try to cooperate and help so you can get him off the suspect list. >> as snodgrass examined the disks, investigators were mo...
Missing from the car so robbery was also a possible motive. >> unemployment in the filipino community was 60%. if any filipino had a job they were often supporting ten or 15 people who didn't have a job. >> but investigators were more intrigued by the rumors of problems in the couple's marriage. >> his wife and he had been separated. they had gotten back together. they got divorced. they remarried. there was a lot of turmoil there. >> as word of julie's murder spread, local informants told investigators that they might want to question the family's filipino housekeeper. >> her first name was l...
Comfortably from the policy. snodgrass was sentenced to life in prison without parole. lucy was convicted of a philippine court and was sentenced to one year in prison. the third man involved in the murder has never been found. >> this was the third case where digital evident and the term forensics are put in the same sensence. computer crime investigation was not a discipline until we put these disks back together. >> they blazed a new path in the field of forensics. >> this case not only made forensic hift are ri but changed protocols around the world. >> the inimplications was for