they found a used roll of crepe paper, the same make and color as the paper found with the ransom notes. the fbi was able to match up the tear from that roll of crepe paper which was in the trash at the bookstore to one of the actual flags. they also found bits and pieces of paper. the fbi painstakingly pieced them together. and that note actually was a duplicate of one of the notes that was left at one of the sites that mr. weiner was directed to go to after the kidnapping of his wife. armed with a search warrant, the fbi found a stack of metal file cabinet rods in kopenheffer s shed, similar to the ones found with the ransom notes. the fbi s forensic metalurgist analyzed the rods with a scanning elect tron microscope and discovered some unique marks on the side of the rods created as they were manufactured. individual characteristics
the tear from that roll of crepe paper which was in the trash at the bookstore to one of the actual flags. they also found bits and pieces of paper. the fbi painstakingly pieced them together. and that note actually was a duplicate of one of the notes that was left at one of the sites that mr. weiner was directed to go to after the kidnapping of his wife. armed with a search warrant, the fbi found a stack of metal file cabinet rods in kopenheffer s shed, similar to the ones found with the ransom notes. the fbi s forensic metalurgist analyzed the rods with a scanning elect tron microscope and discovered some unique marks on the side of the rods created as they were manufactured.