visually compared samples from michele s hair brush to the braided hair, looking for similarities in color, consistency, and structure. microscopic characteristics were very consistent with each other. the widths were the same. the medullary component was the same. the center portions and the mid-region portions of the hair were the same. but this was not conclusive. microscopic similarity is still not a match. but with this new evidence, detective ireland was not willing to let the case go cold again. so she contacted a group of scientists with an odd mission and an unusual name. they called themselves necrosearch, and they find bodies no one else seems to find. we are a multidisciplinary, entirely volunteer organization
hair and beautiful smile becoming the face of missing kids across the country. thousands of flyers were plastered across new york city, buildings, canvassed hundreds of people interviewed back then and the search expanded worldwide and over the past three decades ten detectives were assigned to head up the search and we have seen times when they thought they had a break, only to have the case go cold again and now, after a decade of relative silence, a cadaver sniffing dog picked up on a scent in an old basement down the street. authorities ripping up concrete with jack hammers and saws and we watched it and carefully setting the piece aside hoping they ll find any answer. our reporter is live in soho in new york city looking into this. anna? reporter: harris, investigators are wrapping up a third day here for the first time, they begin digging into the soil beneath where the concrete that you mentioned had been, we re told they will be going 4-6 feet below where the basement was and