savvy and not giving in to neb or taking crap from anybody, that s what people want. reporter: they certainly wanted it in this rural corner of the state. all 14 counties here voted clinton but dig a little deeper and increasingly conservative in the south and west. the highest percentage of trump voters, 62%. ralph ledger retired defensively general employee spent his days building a 1964 corvette. so far, he sees only a smooth ride for the president. do you think the wall will be built? absolutely. do you think health care will be repealed? yes. it s going to take a while to get the people in. wouldn t it be nice instead of taking all of these vacations if they just stayed and got the work done? that would be great.
identifications. and it just doesn t work that way at all. in real-life cases, what happens when forensics fail? everything really comes down to the person making that judgment and how often do they get it wrong? and it s turned out that they get it wrong a lot of times. ernest willis is sent to death row for murder by arson. is faulty fire science to blame? everything that they said was obsolete. a fire don t happen the way they say it happened. in another case, riky jackson is convicted of a friend s brutal murder based on fingerprint evidence. but are the prints really his? they have used prints, judge jury and execution. that makes it a very dangerous science, doesn t it?
determination that they believed there was a match. sergeant paparo concludes that the partial print found at the murder scene shares several points of similarity with the prints of none other than the victim s friend, riky jackson. i did major case print rolls and spent another two days examining those prints and then going back and comparing them with everyone else to make sure that i had not misinterpreted anything, and then i made my identification. to be certain, paparo asks a fellow fingerprint examiner to substantiate his findings. the colleague agrees it s a match. for the upper darby police, that s enough for an arrest. riky jackson is taken into custody and charged with first degree murder. the single piece of evidence that identified riky jackson as our suspect was the print evidence, both the fingerprint and a partial palm print. despite the seemingly overwhelming evidence against him, jackson maintains his innocence.
and retired chemist named gerald hurst. hurst starts his investigation by examining the state s strongest evidence, the so-called pour patterns. without those patterns on the floor, no case would have ever been developed. based on the new science, there is a different explanation for the patterns the investigators found. it is not arson. what occurred between 1987 when he was tried and convicted and 2004 was a development in the science of arson. where suddenly, the pour patterns could be explained. as this fire investigation experiment demonstrates, accidental fires sometimes behave in ways that could lead fire investigators to believe arson is involved. over the course of several minutes, this fire reaches temperatures so hot that it begins to burn down. radiation goes in all directions. including down. and when the temperature of that hot gas layer gets to about 1100
for my arrest for capital murder. i couldn t believe it. i thought, well, i ll go up there and get this all cleared up and go home, you know? i had nothing to hide. i mean, i knew i hadn t done anything. the case goes to trial in july of 1987. the state presents its strongest evidence. the so-called pour patterns. prosecutors argue that the patterns indicate the fire started within feet of where willis claims to have been sleeping. his story was that he was asleep on the couch. where the pour pattern stuff was, where the hottest flames and stuff were in the house, if he had been on the couch, he probably would not have been able to get out himself. prosecutors also play up to the jury the fact that willis seems cold and remorseless throughout the two-week trial. i sat there through my trial just emotionless, in a daze. i didn t have any idea what all had went wrong. willis court-appointed