that new jersey mall where a gunman opened fire this week is now back open for business. retailers and employees at the paramus mall were allowed to return to work early today to prepare for the reopening. and to collect their personal items left behind the night of that shooting. customers were allowed back just a couple hours later. police say 20-year-old richard schopp fired at least six shots in the mall monday night. he did not shoot anyone. he later turned the gun on himself and left behind a suicide note. his reason for the shooting still remains a mystery. this is just heartbreaking. imagine waking up, your house is on fire. you get out okay. but you suddenly realize your 3-year-old child is still inside, trapped. you think, obviously, you try to rush in to save your child, but police arrive and they stop you. and when you resist, police tase
london. thank you. still ahead, this absolutely heartbreaking story out of a small town in missouri. there s this house fire and a father tries, wants to run inside to save his son. but the police arrive and they stop him. they don t allow him in the home. we ll tell you how the story ends. and the question we re asking, did the police have a right to stop that father? we re on the case next. life with crohn s disease or ulcerative colitis
well, i think it s a long shot because in 33 years, lots of stains can happen. but anything they find, they have to investigate. if the stain turns out to be if there s d.n.a. in the stain and the d.n.a. turns out to be patz, that s very important but the chances are it s going to be unrelated. so also in this particular building in the basement it was a workshop of this guy named mr. miller. apparently, there was new concrete put down there 33 years ago right after this little boy went missing. is it just because we re so used to shows like c.s.i. and other police shows that you say why didn t police take up that floor 33 years ago? there are other connections. patz had to be to that spot. they had a playground area for the local children in that basement. so if somebody goes missing, whether an adult or child, and
yes. the bedroom is on the first floor. actually it is a one level house and that is the way that we have approached this, looking to all the areas of the house to see if any clues are available. you ve had volunteers in the neighborhood over the weekend as well trying to see if they could find any traces of the little girl. and i know that that s what you re going to be doing all day long today is looking for her. chief roberto, we thank you very much for joining us today. he s the chief of police in tucson, arizona. thank you, sir. thank you very much. all right. 25 minutes before the top of the hour. more headlines. jennifer hudson heads to court today for the murder trial of three members of her family. william balfour is charged with murdering hudson s mother, brother and nephew. prosecutors say he unleashed his deadly rage after learning that hudson s sister julia, his estranged wife was dating another man. hudson has vowed to be in the courtroom every day for the trial.
statement that the body was moved. so let s say that that happened. could they still find traces of that little boy 33 years later in this basement? that s a very good question. if a body is put into a grave site and then moved months or weeks later, any bacteria not bacteria, maggots, insects that are on the body which would stay in the in that hole and still be there after 33 years dead will contain d.n.a. of the person they were on. so that it is possible even if a body is moved from a grave site to find remnants of the individual with the d.n.a. of the individual and the insects. finally 33 years have passed. how has technology improved in the last three decades to help police and investigators and yourself solve crimes like this? the most important thing that s happened is that because