couldn t feel. my body went numb. i told her karlyn s gone. she s gone. she was a beautiful young mom doing important work. she was an intelligence specialist. some of her work was very sensitive. top secret. i believe she had top secret clearance. when she was found dead, everyone wondered, did her work cost her her life? i remember them telling me did she come into a lot of money she couldn t explain? maybe she was selling secrets? maybe. that s like out of a spy novel. what about other secrets? the personal kind. we knew they were having issues. right before they got married she found out that he was cheating. but somewhere out there was a stranger keeping secrets too. my data guy starts going through her facebook. she made reference to firearms in her social media. we saw that they were communicating her gas mileage. what a weird thing to do. a mystery that would drag on for months. and then, one final secret uncovered by science. you s
i believe she had top secret clearance. when she was found dead, everyone wondered, did her work cost her her life? i remember them telling me did she come into a lot of money she couldn t explain? maybe she was selling secrets? maybe. that s like out of a spy novel. what about other secrets? the personal kind. we knew they were having issues. right before they got married she found out that he was cheating. but somewhere out there was a stranger keeping secrets too. my data guy starts going through her facebook. she made reference to firearms in her social media. we saw that they were communicating her gas mileage. what a weird thing to do. a mystery that would drag on for months. and then, one final secret uncovered by science. you start peeling the layers back until the number is visible. hello and welcome to dateline. texas native karlyn ramirez grew up surrounded by friends and family, then moved east after joining the army. she had a j
the results of that serial number restoration test he did on the gun recovered from the river. i wound up pulling up all but one of the digits. it wound up matching the bill of sale for ms. delgado s purchase of the revolver. is that like a bingo moment for you, when you put this stuff to the test and it works? finding out that the number i restored was basically the exact same one that was on her bill of laden, that was awesome. and mills had something else to tell the jury. remember, he d done a test firing like this one through the barrel of the recovered gun. and what happened when you testified those bullets and compared them to the bullets from the crime scene? when we did a comparison from the victim and we identified those three bullets as having been fired from that revolver that was recovered from the creek. the prosecutors introduced that interrogation video of maliek kearney. i love this woman. i loved her. i love her to death. we did that so that the jury
found forensic sunken treasure. there on the bottom, rusted, covered with seaweed and entrusted with barnacles, were the pieces of a handgun. the parts were rushed to the fbi crime lab in quantico, virginia. dateline was given rare access to the fbi s world-renowned crime lab. in his first ever interview firearms expert brett mills told us how he examined and reconstructed the weapon. first, he carefully cleaned the frame of the gun. when i finished cleaning it, there was no serial number there. from our reference collection i knew where the serial number should be. it was gone because delgado s ex-boyfriend had ground it away, totally obliterated it. or so he thought. mills had a plan. we call it serial number restoration. there are still compressed layers underneath that still has that impression of the serial number. using acid, we can restore that