primarily in the evening. some of the victims were young teenage girls, 15, 16 years old, with parents sleeping in another room within the household. when questioned by police, sanchez admitted he was the simi valley rapist, but denied having anything to do with megan barroso s murder. very hesitant to answer, didn t want to talk anymore. said he didn t know her, didn t know what i was talking about. had nothing to do with that. investigators searched sanchez s pickup truck for possible clues. it was clear the truck had been thoroughly washed and cleaned, but tape lifts of the upholstery found something very difficult to get rid of tiny specks of red glitter. investigators also found red glitter in the green jacket found outside sanchez s home. they even found one microscopic
speck on the ak-47 rifle sanchez s roommate turned over to police. to find out if all this glitter was from the same source, investigators sent it to edwin jones, a forensic scientist with one of the largest collections of glitter in the world, with close to 1,000 specimens. i have an unusual hobby of collecting micro things and i ve been collecting glitter for many years before this case and i ve been collecting glitter since this case. under a microscope, jones discovered that this red glitter was a hexagon shape, approximately 250 microns. it s red on one side and silver on the other. it was a very unique type of glitter that just this one company had made. jones discovered that this glitter was not a bestselling item. only 10,000 bottles had ever been made.
pixie glitter. that was amazing that they could put those pieces of pixie glitter together and show that it had been located in all those different areas and it was consistent amongst each other. up next a young aspiring singer disappears. a telltale sign of somebody who is running away from something. she had a history of running away. she has always come back. surveillance cameras tell at least part of the story. when i saw the video, i started feeling very confident that we were focusing on the right guy. all they had to do now was to find him. i wanna love someone who ll stand by my side 16-year-old joshan ashbrook had dreams of stardom.
investigators learned that during the fourth of july party megan attended, the host threw red glitter on everyone, including megan. i said, do you still have the bottle? she said, yes, i do. so we then went and recovered the remaining portion of the glitter. scientists confirmed the glitter in megan barroso s hair came from megan s friend, and it was the same glitter found in sanchez s truck, on the ak-47 rifle, on megan s jacket found in sanchez s trash, and in megan s own car. it was the only piece of evidence that tied sanchez to everything. investigators also searched sanchez s truck for blood. when the tech put a luminol on the inside of the vehicle, it lit up like a christmas tree. dna testing revealed blood on
the defense in this case, their main objective was to save him from a death sentence. but given sanchez s past, jurors concluded he did sexually assault megan and sentenced him to death. no one doubts that sanchez would have claimed more victims, but a strange combination of evidence, ranging from laser ballistics, to analysis of a car s onboard computer, to something as seemingly insignificant as glitter, proved his guilt. it was just amazing what the criminalists were able to do and the experts were able to say, to put together a very vivid picture for the jury as to what happened out there. i would say the most compelling science was the blood, the blood found in vincent s vehicle and also the