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Picking up evidence, wandering through the brush, not supervised that i could see, at least not in sight of the video that i saw, and they were picking up what seemed to be evidence and putting it in a bag. that is way out of protocol for law enforcement when they are gathering evidence. these two people, the parents of the suspect, picking up and bagging evidence at a potential relevant crime scene. >> doesn't that taint the potential -- potential to taint the evidence? what? right? >> absolutely. absolutely. i mean, evidence has to be gathered the correct way to preserve whatever hairs and f...

What? right? >> absolutely. absolutely. i mean, evidence has to be gathered the correct way to preserve whatever hairs and fibers or dna or whatever trace evidence is on that piece of evidence, it has to be collected and it has -- properly, and it has to be stored properly in the proper container. to just pick it it up and drop it in a dry bag, unsupervised, on their own, it seems very bizarre to me. >> yeah. it is. listen, chris, our chris asked him about the, you know, maybe the parents, the possibilities of planting it. he said, you know, in nice terms, it's hogwash. you know, he didn't bel...

Disturb trace evidence. the police will be looking to see if there is any tire marks or shoe prints that might just be to make sure that nobody else had been involved in that, for the death of whoever is there. but yes, putting up a barrier to sunlight, the sun can pause dominant cause postmortem decay more quickly. decomposition. and to keep away insect and animal activity and allow the coroner, the medical examiner, to do a thorough job at the scene as to what he, or she, can learn. this would include looking at the teeth to see if his teeth match the x-rays that got them from the dentists, ...

Program. yeah, so manual strangulation is generally when hands or some sort of body part are used to, you know, cut off the circulation of the blood versus a ligature strangulation which would be some sort of object, whether it's clothing or, you know, a string or something like that. so in this case, now that we confirmed it's manual strangulation, it could only be assumed it was probably with the hands. and that potentially is significant. if there's some sort of struggle going on, that could indicate that close contact and, really, maybe some of the trace evidence that we've been looking fo...

Disposition by the family of the remains. for it to be a homicide, you have to know what the cause of death is. that would have been known on the day the autopsy was pe formed. it was the cause of death and manner of death was determined at that time. why they delayed and only released the homicide, the manner of death is very unusual. and it isn't the matter of hiding something from the perpetrator. the perpetrator knows what the cause of death is. it's the public doesn't know. the coroner knows, the police know, the fbi knows the cause of death. there's no reason to hold on to the body, what...