to tennessee yielded no evidence, no forensic evidence. but investigators had the seven chips of red paint from the crime scene. was it possible that they were from huffman s truck? martinez measured the seven paint chips. each one was approximately a half inch in length. martinez and his colleagues noticed something. there were places on the front bumper of huffman s truck where the paint was missing. so, martinez started the painstaking process of trying to match the paint chips to the truck scratches. i wasn t sure exactly where it was going to match up specifically, so it was almost as if it was a game, trying to find and put the piece of the jigsaw puzzle back to match that area where it came from on that vehicle. the pieces were jagged, and so was the exposed metal on the truck.
he fled the state the next day, driving 1,000 miles to tennessee, hoping the case would blow over and be forgotten. but by this time, too many law enforcement agencies were looking for him. all the planets were aligned because it was every single little piece of evidence together that made this such a strong case. and it just everything fell into place. the paint chips at the scene fit perfectly to huffman s truck. and the truck s grill also matched rafael s injuries. you could almost compare the height of the grill on that truck to the height of where the bruises were located on rafael, and they matched up almost
they were indistinguishable, one from the other. so, we could conclude from that that they were made up of the same substance, and therefore, they could have common origin. but this wasn t conclusive. so, stanbro compared the paint chips from harry s body to the paint on floyd s boat. they were heated to 800 degrees centigrade and vaporized so that their chemical components could be measured by a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer. again, the chemical composition of both samples was identical. prosecutors now had enough forensic evidence to link floyd wright s boat to the hit-and-run accident. [ male announcer ] this is the age of knowing what you re made of. why let erectile dysfunction get in your way? talk to your doctor about viagra. ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain. it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure.
floyd wright and john ottenschot admitted they were drinking, but claim they weren t intoxicated. they said they didn t see harry s boat because its lights weren t on. the propeller tore through nasreen s arm and the boat s upholstery. the hull struck harry in the head, killing him instantly and leaving paint chips on his body. some think floyd turned around to see what he hit, and not only saw the damage, but also heard nasreen s screams. floyd wright and john ottenschot deny this. wright took his boat out of the water and stored it in his barn so he could begin to make repairs. he always claimed he didn t know
that s not a good feeling for me. it feels like a heavy part on your chest. feeling something like that for someone is not good. i don t like to feel that, but i do. in return for his testimony at the grand jury, john ottenschot was given immunity from prosecution. he now admits that he and floyd were intoxicated. i ll say, legally, we were probably drunk. we d have got a dwi if i had have gotten pulled over on the way home or if we had gotten pulled over on the way home. probably definitely. it was the paint chips, the accident reconstruction, and particularly, the tiny piece of foam trapped in the crack of the propeller that proved the case. the most damaging part of the evidence was that piece of foam that had stayed on floyd wright s boat from harry s boat, told everybody that that was the