february. now denise cox says her nephews would still be alive if police had done their jobs. we re going to take a closer look at this with doug burns, a former prosecutor, and john is a criminal defense attorney joining us as well. so, doug, let s just give law enforcement the benefit of the doubt that they would have arrested this guy if they had enough. what do you think was missing? well, first of all, what was missing was the decedent s body, and that always makes it a lot harder to prove. now, obviously, all experts will tell you you don t need the body to go forward with the prosecution, but that might have been part of it. look, i don t blame the sister for being extremely upset. um, after all, there was blood found right in the living room on the couch, and it was the victim s blood. there was also a note from her which, apparently, sort of alerted police that he would be the number one person and that she felt that she was under fear for her life. so that s sort of the inf
1999, the diallo case, and she brings out sean bell and all of these other names, and what does this this do when you feel like the justices, and feel so hard and even the initiation feels like? le well, to me, it does feel like the diallo case, and i lived in new york under rudy giuliani as mayor. there was a constant fear of this, a young black man would be shot in this case, by undercover police officers and suddenly the victim s past with law enforcement would come out and a total justification of the shooting as if somebody deserved it, and never any sympathy of the families and the mayor would not go to the decedent and said, i feel your loss, but that era was so stark for those who lived
who once spoke out against the killing of civilians in a war zone. sergeant bales identity had been withheld for six days because of the pentagon s concerns about his security and that of his family. athena jones is live for us out of washington. what more do we know about bales, his state of mind before his recent deployment to afghanistan? reporter: certainly as you mentioned he s 38 years old. he s the father of two young children. he had deployed to iraq three times, was on his fourth deployment to afghanistan when this shooting rampage that he s accused of occur. if you talk to his lawyer and we ve heard from his family, his neighbors and friends, they all say that he s a family man, a love husband and they are shocked by hearing this news that he s accused of this. let s listen to what his friend and his neighbor had to say. he had such a big heart too because he was in the financial world as a financial adviser. he couldn t even take that, like losing people s mon
the best way to help the decedent at this point is to remain objective. on this day her job is clear-cut. we want to determine the cause of death. in a case of a gunshot wound case, we re going to recover the bullet or bullets. the posterior aspect whatever she finds will be turned over to investigators. my role is to do a complete examination, to gather all of the physical evidence that i can, to document that physical evidence to the best of my ability and by doing so, that allows the victim to tell me the story and then i should tell the story to those people who have the right to know. dr. corey finds that the victim s wounds provide clues. clues that will help investigators determine a key detail how close the gun was to the victim. we can, by looking at the skin surface, get an estimate as to how far away the muzzle was from the skin surface when the
remember for a while. you know, i mean, that s a big part of our job is we re there for the family. you re there for the decedent because you need to collect the evidence and figure out what happens and a case like this after examining her i was not concerned at all but he needed us. coming up next, no one s seen her in a week and now she s gone. far gone. she was found in her residence in a fairly advanced state of decomposition. is this what we re doing now? i don t want a plunger anywhere near my coffee. not in my house. with maxwell house french roast,