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
Takes longer to happen. We will see more ice and less rain but it looks like rain takes over for all of us as we head into the afternoon and evening hours and that rain will be heavy at times as it pushes through into monday evening. I will show you how much your town could see, coming up. Myra true to many predictions it is getting nasty on the campaign trail in South Carolina as republicans get ready to take part in tonights debate at the peace center. Gabe gutierrez is on the trail across the country and has more. Reporter fresh off autograph and a baby in louisiana, donald trump is leaving a new signature on this race, threatening to sue ted cruz for not being a natural born citizen. On twitter, the billionaire calling the texas senator a liar for running negative ads against him. More than a little irony in nasty giving the insults that come out of his mouth. Reporter these voters have concerns about trump repeating a vulgarity and described in this way. Off a dog. Rich. Inspirati
To a mrs. Begg. Just as today, they focused on individual letter shapes the spacing between words, and the way letter pairs like th are made. In addition to these physical comparisons they pointed out that the notes were written as if by an immigrant. This is the first ransom note that was left in the nursery. We warn you from making anyding public or for notify the police. Its an odd way of writing. The dear sir ends with an exclamation point. The dollar sign is put after the dollar amount, which is a german way of writing the money. Also there are misspellings of words. The word signature is spelled singnature. Narrator but the defense expert using the same comparisons said hauptmann was not the author. So who is right . We might know if we had taken hauptmanns begg letter envelope, retrieved a dna sample from the licked flap and compared it to dna samples from the ransom note envelopes. But new jersey refused our request to do a dna analysis. Today handwriting analysis has become mo
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
Bruno Richard Hauptmann was put to death for his part in the case in 1936, and Charles Lindbergh - the first pilot to traverse the Atlantic - was never even considered a suspect.