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Hotel parking lot. if he did cross the bridge that night, surveillance cameras would show it. >> they show clearly a 1996 red dodge ram pickup truck with a motionless body in the open bed with clothes similar to rachel siani's going through the toll booth at 13 minutes after 3:00 on march 29th. >> 25 minutes later, the truck returned with nothing in the back. >> what the tapes don't show, clearly, anyway, is who's behind the wheel of that truck. >> the license plate was impossible to read, but police now had probable cause to search denofa's truck. they discovered it had been thoroughly cleane...

They have to go out and get the transcripts, review them and they have to right the wrongs. >> and they brought you guys in? it's sort of amazing you're working together. >> we're working together, because we went to them. when there were three quick exonerations in rapid succession a few years ago in washington involving three different nba analysts who testified about hair matches where the dna exonerated them, we looked at the transcripts and in every single case they grossly exaggerated the probative value of the evidence. >> so you went to the fbi and said you have a problem here? >> yes,...

It's sort of amazing you're working together. >> we're working together, because we went to them. when there were three quick xon raise in rapid succession a few years ago in washington involving three different analyst who is testified about hair matches, we looked at the transcripts, and in every single case they grossly exaggerated the probative value of the evidence. >> so you went to the fbi and said you have a problem here? >> yes, and they acknowledged the problem, to their credit. they said will you work with us to try to fix it? >> very quickly 20 years from now, what will be the thin...

But there were no fingerprints found on the tape or the bags. the lake apparently washed away all other trace evidence. >> i have been in law enforcement 33 years and i have seen a lot of carnage. this affected me probably worse than anything that i have ever seen. we come by almost every day to deliver your mail so if you have any packages you want to return you should just give them to us since we're going to be here anyway it's kind of a no brainer

On the tarp. the rest of michael's body and the gun have never been recovered. >> he thought he could pull off this homicide and not get caught because he had it all planned out, and he didn't realize how tough it is to hide trace evidence, forensic evidence. it's always going to be there. >> zachary persitz pled not guilty by reason of insanity. the jury, however, rejected that, and found him guilty of first-degree murder. he was sentenced to life in prison. for michael prozumenshikov, the american dream had turned into a tragedy, but the trail of evidence left no doubt who was responsible. >...