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doing drugs in there or if somebody was just up to no good. i knew that it was not supposed to be there. >> coming up. a breakthrough new clue. >> as we were driving down the road there, i noticed a car parked off to the left-hand side of the road that wasn't there the night before. >> there were shoe impressions, tire impressions. >> something happened to my daughter. i couldn't get to 29 palms quick enough. >> it must have been excruciating. >> it was. the plane could not fly fast enough. >> when dateline continues. ♪♪ voltaren. the joy of movement. ♪♪ how do i love thee? voltaren. ...let me count the ways. ♪ love can get a little messy... good thing there's resolve. love the love. resolve the mess.
criminal cases the defendant really doesn't have the ability, doesn't have the resources, doesn't have the lawful authority to execute search warrants, subpoena documents, to prove his or her innocence. and so a defendant cannot secure a crime scene, cannot lift the crime scene for fingerprints, shoe impressions, cannot secure telephones and get electronic data in the course of an investigation. so the defendant is limited on what they can do. in this case, on june 7th, 2021, alex murdaugh called 911 and officer deputy green and then followed by other deputies rolled up on the scene and he is standing on his property. his wife and son lie dead in a
still no sign of her. that is until this woman noticed something strange. something she had never seen before. >> i don't know if someone was doing drugs and their or if somebody was just up to no good. i knew that it was not supposed to be there. >> coming up. a breakthrough new clue. >> as we were driving down the road there, i noticed a car parked off to the left-hand side of the road that wasn't there the night before. >> there were tired precious, shoe impressions. >> something happened to my daughter. i couldn't get to 29 palms quick enough. >> it must have been excruciating. >> it was. the plane could not fly fast enough. >> when dateline continues. ontinues nothing kills more viruses, including the covid-19 virus, on more surfaces than lysol disinfectant spray. lysol. what it takes to protect. ♪ my name is austin james. as a musician living with diabetes,
fair assessment? >> police say there were more people inside the house before the call was made. >> trace: does that mean more dna, more possible discernment's? >> shoe impressions is the thing that comes to me, and the leaves and debris on the ground, dragging it into the house and they're so much evidence. but it does not mean that they can't get through it. they will get through it, but it will take a lot of patience and time. >> trace: moreno connell, matt finn, great stuff. we will see you later, matt. thank you, marine. reporting extensively on the historic overhaul of the criminal code in the nation's capital that will drastically reduce criminal penalties. now in a deadly and awful coincidence a former marine who worked on that legislation was shot and killed hours before the bill was passed. jacqui bonnie is his life with more on that. good evening. >> good evening, trace, this was a man that was pushing for an overhaul of the criminal code they are in washington, d.c. so many questions surrounding
investigators knew immediately when they entered the scene was that whomever it was that did this was a smoker. >> they knew this from the ashes on the mattress and the burn mark on the table where he put the cigarette out. he didn't leave the cigarette butt behind. >> that means one of two things, either he had a cigarette in his mouth when he went in, or after he had realized what he had done, he said to himself, oh, my god, what am i going to do now? and it was then that he lit the cigarette and thought about what he might do to try and cover it up or clean it up or abandon it. >> there was also a bloodstain on the fitted sheet. tests showed the blood was dawn fehring's. investigators didn't find any any foreign fingerprints or shoe impressions at the scene. none of the neighbors saw or heard anything suspicious, and nothing had been stolen from the apartment. >> from a prosecutorial perspective, most of the time you get killed for a reason.
preserved with a substance called denstone. >> kind of like pancake batter. then you're able to lift those impressions and bring them back to the crime laboratory. >> inside though home, investigators lit the hardwood floors from various angles and saw two more sets of shoe impressions. criminalists lifted the prints with gelatin strips. >> you roll the gelatin with the black side down on to your questioned shoe impression. and when you peel it off, the adhesive in the gelatin adheres to the dust particles on the floor. >> with some research, investigators identified the prints outside as a pair of size 10 nike air jordans. the perpetrators inside also wore nike shoes. one wore the air medal force model, the other the shocks trainers.
here. >> today, forensic analysts have access to sophisticated databases of all kinds of shoe impressions. it includes men's, women's, even children's shoes, both dress and leisure from all over the world. this database is called sole mate. >> elements of the shoe patterns will be entered in by the operator. so, if it has squares in the ball area of the shoe or the toe area of the shoe, you would enter that in, and then the computer comes back with a list of possible shoe treads, and you can pull those up and look at them to determine, you know, if any of those are the shoe you're actually looking for. >> checking and cross-checking finally gave investigators their first solid piece of information. >> the footwear impressions were consistent with having been made by a spalding tennis shoe. >> unfortunately, the print wasn't complete, so some details were unclear. >> the fact that he's wearing
front of his wife certainly hit a nerve with society in general. >> the shaws' home was only a few months old. not all of the landscaping had been completed. and this produced the first piece of evidence. >> it's a new construction. there was builder's sand in the back of the house. so, as the suspects stepped in that sand in the back of the house and went through the house, they left real nice shoe impressions down the hallway. >> the outside print was preserved with a substance called denstone. >> kind of like pancake batter. then you're able to lift those impressions and bring them back to the crime laboratory. >> inside though home, investigators lit the hardwood floors from various angles and saw two more sets of shoe impressions. criminalists lifted the prints
>> i remember looking at the glass and saying, we have some really good footwear impressions here. >> today, forensic analysts have access to sophisticated databases of all kinds of shoe impressions. it includes men's, women's, even children's shoes, both dress and leisure from all over the world. this database is called sole mate. >> elements of the shoe patterns will be entered in by the operator. so, if it has squares in the ball area of the shoe or the toe area of the shoe, you would enter that in, and then the computer comes back with a list of possible shoe treads, and you can pull those up and look at them to determine, you know, if any of those are the shoe you're actually looking for. >> checking and cross-checking finally gave investigators their first solid piece of information. >> the footwear impressions were consistent with having been made by a spalding tennis shoe. >> unfortunately, the print wasn't complete, so some details were unclear.
caribbean vacation. the expenses exceeded her family's discretionary income. sharon was a part-time car salesperson. her husband was a sales representative. and investigators also learned that rogers named sharon the sole beneficiary of his multimillion dollar estate. armed with a search warrant, investigators confiscated sharon's shoes for analysis. >> i believe we got over 20 or 30 pairs of shoes into the laboratory. >> one pair caught michaud's attention, a pair of size 6 1/2 tennis shoes. michaud dusted the shoes with powder and applied a sticky sheet of acetate to lift the print. all shoe impressions are distinctive. >> when a shoe is made, and it comes out of the factory, it's exactly like every other shoe made in that particular mold.