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Another story out of washington, d.c. >> sure. jon: a guy named mark who was found guilty of violating the very strict washington, d.c. gun laws, because he was found to have muzzle loader bullets. that is just the lead shrug slug go in a muzzleloading rifle. found to have him in his possession. i shouldn't call bullets. they didn't have cartridges or powder attached to them. but they were the slugs. he was charged with having a single shotgun shell in his car. those charges were dropped but the guy was convicted. what is this all about, judge. >> rewind the movie 18 years when i was assistant...

The furnace while she got them ready. >> pavatt fired the first shot from behind the van. then handed the rifle to brenda. the blood spatter on brenda's pants proved she was less than two feet away. pavatt used a .22-caliber pistol to shoot brenda's arm, but he fired it from a couple inches away, leaving the burn marks. >> i've been shot! my husband's been shot! >> brenda called police with the fake story of the two masked men. pavatt hid in the empty house next door. the homeowners had given brenda the key for safekeeping. pavatt stayed there for at least a day until police were finished at t...

Longer there. then we decided to look around the other bedrooms. that's when we discovered the spent shotgun shell in one of the bedrooms. >> the shell was from a .16-gauge shotgun. it was immediately sent to the forensics lab for testing. an analyst placed it under a microscope to compare it to the .16-gauge shotgun shell found in the andrews' garage. he looked specifically at the brass casings at the base of the shells. when casings are ejected, each gun creates a unique mark on the brass. >> and depending on the amount of correspondence and the preponderance of these matching striations, an...

In the wall of the garage. it was from a .22 caliber pistol. police found a spent .16-gauge shotgun shell on the roof of brenda's van, an indication there were two different weapons used in the attack. the empty cans on the garage floor indicated rob saw the gunmen and grabbed the bag of empty cans as a shield. >> as the second gunshot wound is about to be inflicted on him, he is looking up and looking at the face of his killer. >> the motive apparently wasn't robbery. >> his wallet was not taken. in fact, some of the pellets from the shotgun went through his wallet. >> the andrews' two childr...

So my expectation is that gary ackley, one, was not a very intelligent fellow and two, there was not this blitz of information from the media about murder investigations that would have never given him any pause to consider the fact that he was bringing to each of these two crime scenes the most compelling evidence that would be used to convict him there was a shooting in an upscale neighborhood in oklahoma city. ballistics identified the use of two different guns which meant at least two shooters. these small marks on a shotgun shell, some singed fibers and a crime reconstruction revealed a...