Im jamie colby, in laguna beach, california, about an hour south of l. A. I think my favorite strange inheritance stories are about regular folks who discover something in moms attic or grandpas basement that not only changes their lives but reveals something i never knew about american history. My name is marty dolan. For decades, a few boxes collected dust in my mothers attic. When i opened them, i discovered my familys link to some of the most sensational crime stories of the 20th century. I meet marty, a 70yearold retired anesthesiologist. Hi, marty. Im jamie colby. Welcome to my home. He tells me this true detective story begins in 1960, when martys greatuncle, mike malone, a longtime irs employee, passes away. Martys grandmother, molly, heads to st. Paul, minnesota, to collect her brothers personal effects. Its there she makes a bizarre find under the pillow a gun. No serial numbers on the gun. They were etched out. Why would he, as a government employee, have a gun with no seria
Hiatus. Today, thursday, december 19th, 2013. From nbc news, this is today. With matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. 7 00 a. M. On the west coast on a thursday. Im savannah guthrie. Im matt lauer. Attention target shoppers. Some 40 Million People had perhaps information from their debit cards and their credit cards revealed. Its hard to fathom. Couldnt come at any time and think it would be good. At the holidays, the height of the holidays when everyone is shopping, it is bad timing. This is our top story today. Went on for weeks at one of the largest retailers. Cnbc Mary Thompson has been looking into this. Mary, exact lly how did the breh occur . Impacts customers who use their debit or credit cards at one of targets 1,800 stores. The breach took place for 19 days starting on november 27th through last sunday, december 15th. In a statement ceo saying we take this matter very seriously and are working with Law Enforcement to bring t
The crucial bit are these chains which encircle the rod, one, and here is a second and entwine. This is the double helix. An extraordinary feat of intellectual deduction, and it led to a whole new branch of science molecular genetics. More recently, dna has given us new insights into the family relationships of animals using a technique called dna fingerprinting. It was developed by sir Alec Jeffreys of Leicester University in 1984, and using just a simple smear of blood, its possible not only to identify one particular individual, but to establish whether or not its closely related to another. For example, we used to think that most birds lived in straightforward pairs. We watched them courting and mating and rearing their young, and so we assumed that they were faithful to one another. But dna fingerprinting showed us how wrong we were, as i explained in the life of birds. Perhaps the most bizarre behavior of all takes place in the suburban gardens of england and it seems that until
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