knocked off his paddle board and got a gash in his leg from a shark bite. he said, i paddled like hell after a couple strokes, a wave broke and pushed me to shore. i did a quick check and thought he didn t get me and saw the blood running down my leg and one clear bite mark. he believes it was a sand tiger shark and first time he had seen a shark and he s been surfing this area all his life. the beach was closed while park rangers, drones and life guards unsuccessfully searched for possible sharks. both beaches reopened later in the day. if you wonder if shark sightings will become more common, officials say probably. what we re looking at is something of a new normal in that sharks are tiger sharks
i paddled like hell after a couple he will before strokes. a wave pushed behind me. i thought a quick check i thought maybe he didn t get me. blood running counsel my leg and one clear bite mark. he believes it was a sand tiger shark. and first time he has ever seen be a shark in this area and he has been surfing here all his life. sand tiger sharks are typically no it threat. drones unsuccessfully searched for possible sharks. ultimately both beaches reopened later in the day. if you are wondering if more shark sightings will become the new norm, officials say do not rule it out. what we are looking at is something of a new normal. in that tiger sharks are just a little bit closer to shore than they have been. so. even though shark sightings
enforcement find the person who did this. meanwhile, that the glacial place these things occur, the crime lad worked on the dna. and poured over those photos of the bite marks. one on tas s arm was the impression of a big ugly bite. they compared the top contours of that by two a mold of nicky s mouth. the similarity was uncanny. nikki was the most likely source. had their mother between them trying to fight off the attack? the bite mark on tas s arm, it was as if she had her mother and a chokehold from behind. and her mother, nikki, is biting her trying to get away. and when when detectives saw themselves biting themselves right after the murder. maybe that was an attempt to cover-up that. then the dna results came. back they knew they d find nicky s blood. but remember, one of the twins had fresh cuts on her hands. and sure enough for nike s
parents offered to have the saliva sample the bite mark for dna, and even pay for it, but the lapd declined. she said we don t have a suspect. if we had a suspect we would have something to match. the case sat for another decade. but then in 2004, the lapd was conducting cases on cold cases and one of them was the murder of sherri rasmussen. it took two months to find that saliva sample buried in a refrigeration unit. the envelope was tattered, label torn, but the saliva was still inside and the dna was just enough to blow this case wide open. in that lab report, it indicated that the suspect that had bitten sherri rasmussen
they found vcr and a disc player that was stacked one on top of the other in the front door. as if somebody was about to steal them? yeah, giving the indication this was a burglary or a home invasion gone wrong. sherri s purse was missing, as was her new bmw, an engagement gift from john. there was no sign of the murder weapon, but detectives did recover two. 38 caliber slugs and something else that caught the detective s attention. on the inside of sherri s left arm, they found a bite mark. a crime scene analyst went ahead and she swabbed that for saliva that could pertain to the killer. saliva that contained dna from whoever bit sherri. remember, this was 1986, years before dna technology testing would arrive, which could link a suspect to a sample like this one. so, back then, the dna wasn t much help. but the swab was carefully package and bundled with all of the other evidence. for now, detectives didn t have