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Hours and came back with a finding of first-degree murder. in canada, a first-degree murder conviction carries an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years. >> this case ranks among the most unusual in forensic history. >> i have been policing now for 28 years and 20 years in the forensic business. i have never before or again had an impression in a tomato. >> it was amazing how dr. strong, based on a grainy mug shot of not great quality was able to determine all the nuances of these glasses and able to mathematically determine the chances of being another pair like that in...

>> there was a specific part of the design, which i'll refer to here as an "s" shape or a stylized 7 that became very apparent in the photograph. that really piqued my interest. >> but forensic investigator jerry webb had a problem. he needed to know if the weight of a 350-pound man created a different kind of a shoe impression on a tomato than one that you get by copying a shoe impression on paper or a transparency. so webb designed an experiment. >> i had a person that wore size 13 shoes put on a bomb suit and i added weights to the bomb suit in trying to increase the weight of this person t...

Then had his 350-pound model step on each one wearing the suspect's shoes. webb discovered that the test impression on the tomato was virtually the same as the one taken directly from the shoe and the photo taken at the crime scene. >> i was able to take those two overlays and put them over top of a photograph of the tomato itself and be able to illustrate that, in fact, that the pattern matched up on the tomato impression. >> although the size of brown's shoe and the tread pattern was the same as the shoe impression left at the crime scene, there was no way to tell if this was the actual shoe...