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The glasses and had an officer pose as a nurse and offer them to brown. >> let us know whether their yours or not or what we do. >> no, they're not. >> jim smelled a rat. he looked at the glasses and said they were not his. >> it doesn't mean they're not his, it just means that we haven't got that connectivity yet. >> police search brown's apartment and his car. >> we found a pair of blue canvas running shoes on the floor of the rear right passenger side of the vehicle. >> we believe they were manufactured in czechoslovakia and were actually purchased by the ontario government and were provide...

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...

Transparency. the size and tread pattern were the same. more importantly, the wear patterns known as accidental characteristics were virtually identical. >> the right shoe that had been taken from whipple was the shoe to the exclusion of all others. >> derek also concluded this was the shoe which made the bloody impression on heather's shirt. >> the outsole design of whipple's shoes matched this bloody impression on the tee shirt. >> and tests showed that clothing in the car contained heather's blood. his very first interview with police james whipple confessed. >> i did it because of dam crac...

>> it was successful. they saw one clear print, the heel portion of the killer's left shoe. it appeared to be an athletic shoe. >> most of the prints you see are partial prints. you may sometimes get some full footwear impressions, but with people walking over on top of them, it can destroy the prints and many times you only get partial prints. >> back in the forensics lab, scientists saw what looked to be another shoe impression on a shard of broken glass. so, they placed it in a tank filled with heated super glue. the fumes create a permanent image of the print, and it looked like the toe ar...

The detective. so they did the right thing and preserved the tracks. they did a mold and everything else. and sure enough those tracks had the same tire pattern, tread pattern that the police cars had. but just because someone had a tire tread of the same basic pattern doesn't mean it was that car. >> his former boss, police chief michael brady, was also suspicious of the tire track evidence. soon after lake county investigators left the crime scene he made a discovery that convinced him the evidence was flawed. >> we went out and could find no evidence that the investigators had lifted any ki...