breaking news tonight, live to connecticut and the sudden disappearance of a gorgeous, young ivy league doctoral student just before she's set to walk down the aisle. the 24-year-old beauty last spotted on grainy surveillance video walking into a yale research building. a false fire alarm mysteriously goes off in the building. people rush out. annie le is never seen again. at nearly the exact hour le is set to walk down the aisle, wedding dress on the hanger in the clods debt, flowers ordered,

the girl's body found stuffed in a wall, there in a yale university research building. bloody clothes found high over investigators' heads. hidden behind ceiling tiles. bombshell tonight. in the last hours, police storm the tiny apartment of a 24-year-old yale lab technician. raymond clark. clark, in handcuffs, escorted to police headquarters for questioning. spends his workdays in the research basement cleaning cages. cages that house experimental mice. multiple search warrants, 250 pieces of evidence, dna samples, clark's ford mustang, all seized as evidence. as we go to air, we learn le's official cause of death. traumatic asphyxiation due to neck compression.

le brutally strangled to death, but tonight, 24-year-old raymond clark walks free from police headquarters. that's right. he is free. free to go back to the tiny apartment he shares with his fiancee and three cats. why? with a community and a university reeling, a family grieving, and a young groom left at the altar with a broken heart, we want justice. for 24-year-old bride-to-be annie le. >> a judge did sign a search warrant for the residence at 40 ferry street, apartment 1-a in middletown. that's the residence of raymond clark, who's an employee of yale university. he cleaned the cage, the mice -- the mouse cages. did cust doedall-type work. lab type work. >> a yale lab worker in custody

today for the murder of annie le. >>'s a person of interest. we'll take samples. we'll take a saliva sample from him. scrape his fingernails. >> we saw raymond clark led out of his apartment in middletown, connecticut, in handcuffs and also police offered a search warrant on him to take that dna evidence. evidence that was taken from saliva, from hair, from fingernails. >> at this point, we have looked at about 700 hours worth of video, we have interviewed over 150 people, some we have interviewed a second time. we have approximately 250 seized items now. if we have one match of a person that we know was at that location, we will be going for an arrest warrant. >> a medical examiner said she was strangled, traumatic asphyxia. breaking news tonight.

satsuma, florida, vanished, back door propped wide open. daddy comes home from the night shift to find not a trace of little haleigh. tonight the brother of girlfriend turned new stepmother, misty croslin behind bars. >> new details emerge in the case of missing florida girl haleigh cummings. the brother of step mom/babysitter misty croslin has been arrested for theft. tommy croslin arrested tuesday accused of stealing a neighbor's handgun. >> people think that i had something to do with it, if i had something to do with it, i knew where she was, we wouldn't be sitting here today.

we would have her. >> meanwhile, chelsey croslin says she doesn't believe that misty has enough book smarts to fool investigators. chelsey croslin told fox affiliate waws -- >> she doesn't have that much of book smartss to be able to fool the fbi and fdle and every other person that came there and talked to her and sberkted her for hours and hours. >> misty croslin's mother believes her daughter, misty, knows more about what happened to haleigh than she's admitting. lisa croslin told fox affiliate -- >> deep down in my heart i think my daughter is holding something back. i think they are both holding something back. that's just in my heart. >> now that you have been told whether you accept it or not that your wife has flunked a poly, have you asked her what happened? >> i asked her, but i don't get any answers from her. good evening. i'm nancy grace.

i want to thank you for being with us. at almost the exact hour, gorgeous young ivy league grad student annie le set to walk down the aisle, wedding dress on the hanger in the closet, flowers ordered, the girl's body found stuffed in a wall there in a yale university research building. in the last hours, police storm the tiny apartment of a 24-year-old yale lab technician, raymond clark, but tonight, clark walks free? >> police are calling this man that you see here, raymond clark, a lab technician at the university, a person of interest and he has been forced to give dna samples to investigators. clark was taken from his apartment in handcuffs. >> the basis of the investigation now is on the physical evidence. we know where mr. clark is at all times. >> police are taking dna samples, saliva and also fingernail samples for testing.

>> annie le was found stuffed inside a wall panel the day she was supposed to be married. >> investigators are trying to look to see if any of that evidence could be matched to the 100 pieces of evidence they say they have already. and police say by the end of the week, they should be able to determine whether clark is in fact linked to this murder. >> they have been aware of where he was all along and he is indeed a person of interest. >> we're also making sure that there's not other potential suspects so we're avoiding the issue of tunnel vision, we're looking at everyone that had access to that building and could have been there during that time period. >> the medical examiner's office in new haven, connecticut, says 24-year-old annie le was strangled to death. >> he cleaned the cage, the mice -- the mouse cages. did custodial-type work. >> straight out to suzanne wrath cnn affiliate wsfb. susan wrath, what can you tell

me about lab technician raymond clark being taken into custody and given dna samples? >> reporter: nancy, we heard yesterday probably around 9:00 that a search warrant had been obtained. they went into this apartment. first they took him out, as you mentioned, in handcuffs. then they won't into this apartment and began search for evidence. we were told, actually, when he left his apartment on ferry street in middletown, he was actually taken to the state crime lab. it was not open, and a team of scientists were taking all types of samples, blood, we're told, hair, fingernails and that's exactly what they did last night. >> to paul bass, editor with the new haven independent joining us also at the police station. paul bass, thank you for being with us, along with you, susan wrath. paul, a lot of questions. i've asked them, myself, about why dna is taking so long to be returned and now i'm starting to

think that, first of all, we know police had staked out clark's place for a couple of days now. their presence has been very obvious. i'm wondering if they were hoping to get his dna on their own, such as out of his trash, on a coca-cola bottle or some manner, from his toothbrush, i don't know. somehow get it independently and ultimately they took him in with a warrant to get his dna? >> that could be, nancy, unlike you, i'm not skeptical about the extra days. the police department has been very methodical, they have collected 250 pieces of evidence. they've learned from cases that have been botched here in the past, one including a yale student that was murdered. impressed at how the investigation is going and i think you're not going to be in the end concerned about the length of time for the dna. we're only talking a couple of days and they said tonight they have had this man in their

sights at every minute. he's not going anywhere. when they make an arrest which they are expecting to make, it's going to be a solid arrest. >> well put. paul bass joining us. let's unleash the lawyer. robin sax, prosecutor and author of "predators and child mole molesters." mickey sherman joining us out of vegas. and hugo rodriguez. i don't know about you, but i have never known of the crime lab to open up after hours to process dna. just, i know this is going to be hard, but yes/no, have you ever seen that happen? >> no, i haven't. >> what about it, robin sax? >> no, i have not. >> as soon as we get sherman's satellite up from vegas, we'll go to him. everyone, we're taking your calls live, but i want to go to thomas kaplan who's been with us from the get-go, the editor and chief of "the yale daily news." paul bass tells me i'm going to

be very happy with the job the police have done, but i'm still wondering how to explain why the known crime scene, this woman's body was stuffed into a two-foot hole for cable. two feet. her whole body was crammed into a two-foot opening for cable boxes. and the basement was not cordoned off. it was not kept pristine for five full days. in fact, thomas kaplan, you told me, yourself, that some of your co-workers there on "the yale daily news" managed to go down there and take photos. >> yeah, last friday, two of our reporters actually went into the basement, swiped their yale i.d. and looked around. they couldn't get to the whole basement but they did take some pictures. but what the police have said, i guess, you know, what they say is you can't shut a building

down every time a person goes missing and that's sort of been their explanation for why they didn't close the building at first. >> well, that's good to know that the police don't believe they can shut a building down. paul bass, where is raymond clark tonight? >> i don't know where raymond clark is right now, but the police do know where he is. >> the breaking news out of new haven, the connecticut medical examiner does confirm that the yale graduate student annie le was strangled to death. her body was found sunday in the wall of that basement lab. ever worn your clothes in the shower? if you're using other moisturizing body washes, you might as well be.

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breaking news, the murder investigation of the yale student annie le, her body was found stuffed inside a wall at a campus medical research lab. the discovery made on what would have been her wedding day. she was only 24 years old. >> police have been focusing their investigation on raymond clark, someone they call a person of interest, a 24-year-old lab technician at yale university. >> the physical evidence we're looking for is dna and so we'll be looking for those types of physical evidence that could be present. we'll take samples of his hair, we'll take a saliva sample from him. scrape his fingernails. >> police say they're analyzing dna samples. they also went through his apartment with a search warrant trying to see if any of that

evidence matches what they say is about 150 pieces of evidence they have seized. >> we have a lot of evidence from the crime scene and we'll be looking at that to see what matches and what doesn't. >> police say they should know by the end of this week whether or not clark will be arrested or be cleared. >> straight back out to susan wrath of wsfb. correct me if i'm wrong, but hasn't there been 250 pieces of evidence seized by police? >> reporter: you're exactly right. at first it was about 150 and today they released about 250 pieces of evidence. they say they collected that not only at the scene of the crime, but i believe a lot of that has come from his apartment. they have interviewed over 100 people. i want to point out something that came out of the press conference today, while clark is certainly not being called a suspect at this time, he is also a person of interest, and right now they say they have no other person who's a person of interest. i think that was very clear at today's press conference, he's not a suspect, they have

interviewed lots of people but he is the only person they are focusing on in this investigation. >> susan, what can you tell me about the manner in which he was taken in for the dna samples? what happened? >> reporter: well, when they took him into custody with his handcuffs, and it's very unusual, as we should point out with handcuffs, because he's not a suspect, he has not been charged. but there's something that i'm told because they want to preserve evidence under his fingernails, that's why he was taken in handcuffs. they took him to the state crime lab, we're told that he left about 3:00 in the morning, they took blood, hair samples, saliva, they actually swabbed the inside of the mouth so they can get dna testing or samples. that way. you would have thought he would go home at that point. but he did not. at 3:00 in the morning he did not want to go back to his apartment in middletown. we're told he's in cromwell right now. apparently he has family in the area. cromwell is actually a

neighboring town to middletown. so that's where he's staying and police are keeping a very close eye on him, because flay don't want him out of their sight, they don't want him to leave, and he's waiting right now, obviously, until all of this dna evidence is processed. >> back to thomas kaplan, editor and chief of "the yale daily news," thomas, what was his connection to annie le? i know he worked in the basement where her body was found. he had access to that and it's my understanding that he tended the lab rats, the laboratory mice, some of which le used in her experiments? >> well, that's what we think, nancy, it's unclear the exact tie. but we do know that annie did work with lab animals, did work with mice in her experiments, so it's logical to think that they worked together in that setting. >> and what can you tell me about the building now? is it now released to the public? can anybody go back in there? >> it has been reopened, but

with extra security. there are officers patrolling at all hours, but as of today the building has begun to re-open and get back up to speed. >> paul bass of "the new haven independent," what can you tell me about raymond clark? what do we know? i know that he was engaged, there was an alleged date for a wedding, that he lives with his fiancee and her three cats and that she also works at yale. what more do we know? >> mr. clark grew up in a suburban town of branford. he eventually moved to new haven. as you know he now lives in middletown. he played high school sports. >> ray clark was led away from his apartment by police last night. not under arrest but as a person of interest. the yale university lab technician spent five hours in custody and submitted a dna sample. police are trying to determine if the 24-year-old is responsible for the murder of annie le.

the doctoral student whose body was found hidden in a wall in the lab basement. yesterday police searched through clark's apartment in middletown. you've worked all your life.

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while ray clark has not been official lib named a suspect, he is a person of interest. he is listed in the directory as an animal technician. for the animal resources center. it is believed some of the animals used for research are kept in the basement of 10 amistad street. after she was missing for five days, le's body was found sunday in the basement. police say her body was hidden behind a wall. >> straight back to the lawyers.

robin sax, mickey sherman, hugo rodriguez. mickey sherman, what do you make of them taking him in? he's in handcuffs. they take him -- okay, i'm glad to see that you managed to jerryrig being with us tonight. thank you, mickey. his satellite, everyone -- >> i blew your budget for the studio here on the table last night so we're going to have to do with this. >> good to know. >> he's a suspect of a search warrant for his body and fluids and whatever. i don't get why he is handcuffs. he is not in custody. >> what we learned earlier is they're trying to preserve possible evidence under his fingernails. hold on before you answer that. susan wrath, what can you tell me a of the state of his arms and hands? were there scratches on them? susan wrath, are you with me? i've lost audio with susan. paul bass, what do we know?

i think i've got paul bass. okay. satellite down. back to you. mickey sherman, there are reports his arms have scratches on them. now, friends and family explained that away by saying that one of the three cats did that to him. we know that they found bloody clothes in the building, hidden up in the ceiling tiles. so if they were looking under his fingernails, if they were observing the scratches on his arms, that may have explained why they handcuffed him. i have never seen that done before with anybody but a suspect. >> and obviously he's under close surveillance. i assume they have got a 24/7 guard or surveillance group at his home or wherever he's staying. you know, it's not his finger tips they're going to account, it's hers. because that's where the scratches most obviously came from. this is a forensics case. whatever's under her

fingernails, if it's his skin, game over. >> 24-year-old raymond clark, a technician who worked in the same yale lab building as annie le was taken from his apartment in handcuffs last night. police obtained warrants for dna and other evidence to determine if clark is connected to the murder.

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one of the other top ranking police officers here told me one of the problems is that because this is an animal lab, there's a tremendous amount of dna evidence from these mice that they experimented with there. so they collected a lot of things and they have to have a lot of tests done and that's going to take time. they do not want to have the case spoiled by pulling somebody in and then having contradictory evidence. >> we saw raymond clark. this as police issued a search warrant on his apartment and also police offered a search

warrant on him essentially to take that dna evidence. evidence that was taken from saliva, from hair, to fingernails. >> at this point we looked at about 700 hours worth of video. we've interviewed over 150 pem. some we've interviewed a second time. we have approximately 250 seized items now. if we have one match at a person we know was at that location we'll be going for an arrest warrant. >> we are taking your lines. out to elizabeth in pennsylvania. hi, elizabeth. >> caller: hello, nancy. my question is in regards to the fire alarm. i know they said it was activated due to steam but i wonder if, perhaps, annie, herself, activated in an attempt to draw attention to her situation. >> excellent question, elizabeth in pennsylvania. let's go to susan wrath with wsfb. susan, what do we know about that fire alarm activation? we know it was false. we know there was not a fire in the building. we have been total through

numerous sources that one of the laboratory hoods were apparently -- was released releasing steam that caused the fire alarm to go off. what more do you know? that could be a crucial moment in the timeline. either she, as elizabeth in pennsylvania pointed out, did it for attention, to call attention to what was happening, or he, the killer, whoever it may be, did it to clear the building. giving him a chance to hide the body or escape the building. what do we know about how that fire alarm was activated? >> you know, i don't know if we know 100%, but i think at the time it seemed a little odd and a little curious why that alarm went off and there are some concerns and that woman raises a very good question, who set it off? police on the record have said that it seemed like it was an accident, it had nothing to do with the incident. so they're downplaying, perhaps, that whole incident and the alarm.

>> thomas kaplan, i do not believe when you were talking about a murder and a murder scene, that there is a coincidence in criminal law, i don't believe it. thomas kaplan, do we know where the hood was that activated the fire alarm? where in the building? >> no, nancy, that's a great question, and that's something we're trying to figure out now, again, the place are downplaying that this alarm had anything to do with it. we don't know if it was in the basement or anywhere else in the building. >> thomas, thomas, the police are downplaying it. that means absolutely nothing to me. those are the same people that said there's no foul play when she disappeared. her pocketbook, her cell phone, everything left behind and she disappears? no, it was clearly foul play. back to the calls. to brianna in iowa. hi, brianna. >> caller: hi nancy, me and my mom faithfully watch your show and she thinks you're an absolute angel. >> brianna, thank you, and thank

you to your mother and thank you for calling in. what is your question, dear? >> caller: my question is do we have any footage of raymond clark coming out of the building? >> coming out of the building? good question. paul bass, was he captured on the video? there's 75 security cameras leaving the building. >> i have absolutely no idea, nancy. i know they reviewed all the security cameras, all the footage. they re-reviewed the footage, slowed it down and brought in experts from the state crime lab. we do not know -- there's no way that guy left the building without being caught on tape. >> susan wrath, do we know if he left the building during the fire alarm? >> we don't and it's a question that we have asked and we don't know if, perhaps, because he's a person of interest they're not discussing it, but, no, we have not seen any tape. the only tape that we've seen is annie le who obviously went into the building but didn't leave. >> exactly correct. joining me right now, a special guest, renowned forensic scientist, distinguished professor at university new

haven, dr. henry lee. dr. lee, thank you for being with us. i want to speak to you about your expertise and in your experience, in all the years that you have done experiments, have you ever known the state crime lab to open up in the middle of the night for dna testing? >> yes. in the past we did numerous times. not only open up in the middle of the night, sometimes we work on the new year's eve and christmas and just like a law enforcement officer, police officer, every day they seek just working 9:00 to 5:00 shift, no, it's not. we work around the clock. >> good to know. dr. henry lee, when they say that they took dna from him, would that only be a buccal swab, an oral swab that you do with a q-tip like object? >> actually we have three

different type of applicanters to collect buccal swab evidence. you're right. some of the media report saliva sample. we are actually not looking at the saliva, we're looking at the cheek cell looking for nuclear dna, trying to extract a dna as a known control. then we have to compare those samples. there are reports of 250 items of evidence. actually that's 250 items, not necessary evidential value. the crime lab people, scientists have to go through those 250 items item by item, separate them, any evidential volume, hair, fibers which can provide a linkage to the victim and try to solve the case. >> dr. henry lee, if the buccal swab, which of course you're absolutely correct, it is not

the saliva that the doctor -- the scientist is trying to obtain, it is the cells off the inside of the gum. >> yeah. >> if you obtain dna from an oral swab, why would you also take blood? >> well, sometimes you want a control just in case the oral swab may have contaminations, i'm sure they probably also take the fingernail scraping and also take the hair sample. >> yes, and dr. lee, as far as clipping his nails, do you really believe that this many days later that there would still be evidence under his nails or the killer's nails, not necessarily him, he's not a suspect, he's a person of interest, but the killer, would he still have evidence under his nails, do you believe?

>> you know, as time goes by, the chances to recover the victim's dna under fingernail become less and become very remote. however, you cannot just say, well, five days go by, we don't take the fingernail. you still have to try. >> yes, you still have to try. >> maybe not necessarily finding anything, but definitely have to try. >> you must try because that's the first thing they'll say at trial as a defense, you didn't take his fingernails, you're absolutely right, dr. lee. joining me now, dr. kent e.harschbarker, joinings out of dayton, ohio. esteemed in his field. thank you for being with us. doctor, what do you make of the official cause of death? >> it's kind of a long stretch to get to strangulation, they have used a lot of generic terms. asphyxia really means lack of oxygen of the cells. neck compression is very broad. it tells me one, convention the

office uses or, two, hiding something from the public record. that death certificate becomes public. it could be from a ligature. >> it said traumatic asphyxiation. of course, every strangulation is going to be traumatic. why did they add that? >> i assume it's office convention. some people use the same term as mechanical asphyxiation. they're interchangeable. it really applies to a mechanism, the chest not being able to expand. really putting it into a category. due to is the key part, due to neck compression. >> when we come back i want to ask dr. harschbarger how a body could be folded into a two-foot cable box space, which is what happened in this case. we are taking your calls live, but very quickly. protecting yourself during tornado season. before the storm hits, have a plan in place, know the signs of a tornado, including swirling

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annie le here was strangled to death, that is according to the connecticut medical examiner's office. her body was found this weekend stuffed behind a wall in a lab where she worked. here's the name, raymond clark, that's a technician at the same lab.

he was released yesterday from police custody after police took samples of his dna, important to point out here he has not been identified by police as a suspect. >> they did say that they had been watching him from the start, because there were questions last night, did he try to get away? in their words, we have been with them since they took this case over. >> it's not like there's video cameras down there, and it's dark and there's pipings down there so there's places where people can hide. >> joining me right now, pat brown, criminal profiler, author of "killing for sport." pat brown, what to you think of motive? >> i think he's one of those kind of obsessive stalkers. remember that thing happened back in his high school where he had that little incident with his girlfriend? i'm thinking that's the same kind of thing. he has power and control issues, he likes to control women, he's a date rapist kind if he's guilty. that's what he wanted. he wanted this girl, she didn't want him, he got angry about it and he took it out on her. >> he's got a fiancee with a

wedding date. >> one woman is not necessarily a month. the woman who is dissing you may be the woman who hasn't given you the time of day and not enough respect. it's a psychopath's mind and just because you got the woman, he got what he want. >> to dr. dell tito, professor of psychiatry, what do you make of a possible motive? >> i think we don't know enough to put a motive together. i think that your previous guest is doing wild speculation and we don't know enough about what's going on here and i don't think we should outstrip the data source. we don't know the nature of the relationship, even if it was this guy. and it could be something as simple as he was stealing something out of the lab. >> to lou palumbo, former nassau police investigator, now private investigator. lou, weigh in on why this guy is walking free tonight. they're saying he's just a person of interest. if the dna doesn't match and they've named him as a suspect, when they go to trial with the

actually suspect, this would come back to haunt them if they named the wrong person as the perp to start with. >> absolutely. it's going to destroy their credibility and could harm their case going forward. why he's walking free tonight is because i don't think they're comfortable in the gathering of all the information they feel they're going to need to charge him. and the fact that they put a surveillance on him, i'm listening to all this terminology, person of interest versus a suspect. i think part of that is driven by the fact that we're now a little more politically correct in how we address these people because there's a stigma when you attach to someone when you say suspect versus a person of interest. >> put palumbo up on the screen. i appreciate your sensement. but you're hauling me in in a police car and they open up the crime lab in the middle of the night to take my dna? stigma has attached, okay? stigma has attached.

to ebonita summers, a very dear friend of annie le, ebonita, tell me about her. you two were both in the scholarship program together. what kind of a person was annie? i think, okay, somehow i've lost ebonita, but i'm going to go back to susan wrath, susan wrath, what are police waiting on? the dna results? >> reporter: the dna results. something you were asking earlier about the blood and why that's important. keep in mind a piece of clothing was found at the crime scene. we're told a police of bloody clothing. at first people or investigators thought it may have belonged to annie le. it's leading more to, it may, in fact, belong to the suspect. they're very interested in looking at the blood on that pair of clothing. we're not sure if it was a t-shirt, a pair of jeans, a jacket. apparently a piece of clothing

was left at the scene with blood on it. they're very interested in looking at blood from clark to see if there's a match. very quickly, everyone, we're going to satsuma, florida. i want to give you the latest in the disappearance of 5-year-old haleigh cummings. straight to art harris. find him at www.artharris.com. i understand the brother of girlfriend turned stepmother, misty croslin, has been taken into custody. for what? >> nancy, hank jr., hank tommy croslin was arrested and has been charged with grand theft for allegedly stealing a colt pistol from a neighbor. you wouldn't think that was a, quote, serious crime, but the bond is set at $50,000. >> do you believe they have taken him into custody on this argument over a pistol in order to try to get him to talk about haleigh's disappearance? >> they want anyone close to the family to tell them what they

know about misty, about anything related to the crime. so i do. >> to ronald cummings joining us tonight, he's haleigh's father. he's joining us exclusively since this arrest. ronald, what do you make of it? >> miss nancy, i don't know what to make of it. i just don't know what to think. >> well, what is the brother-in-law telling you? what are you hearing from misty's family? >> miss nancy, we don't have much contact with the family. misty has an injunction against thomas, so we don't have any contact with them. >> to terry shoemaker, the the attorney for ronald cummings. do you believe he was taken into custody in order to put pressure on him to find out what he may or may not know about haleigh's disappearance? >> like was just said, $50,000 is very high bond for a grand left, you know? so i would imagine they're

looking at every angle they can and if they think they can put a little weight on him and get him to talk about anything he might know, i'm sure they're going to do that. >> now, let me ask you this. to. you say no more communications with misty croslin's family. what is misty croslin telling you? is there any possibility that she left the home that evening and hasn't told you? >> if there is a possibility of it, i don't know anything about it. >> do you believe that she will try again to undergo hypnosis to clear her mind regarding that evening? >> i'm not sure, but i don't think so. >> why? >> because i don't believe that it's necessary. ( clicking )

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investigators think misty croslin is the key to finding haleigh, saying she has never given a detailed account of her movement that night. >> i'm trying to do anything i can to have her and answer any questions i have to. >> ronald, you just told us that her going under hypnosis is not necessary. since she has flunked the holly graphs, don't you want to get to the bottom of what happened? >> of course i want to get to the bottom of what happened, miss nancy, but i don't know if hypnosis is going to do it. they already tried.

>> you of the mind that you should try anything? >> absolutely if that's what we need to do, then that's what we need to do. >> art harris, what do you make of this? >> you will see a major turn in the investigation. pressure is mounting and they will have to have heart to hearts about what may be coming out from her brother and other members of the family. the cousin in tennessee was interviewed by investigators and a lot of people are being interview and reinterviewed. >> ronald, as we say good night, i want you to know regardless our thoughts and prayers are with you. remember mark garner, 30 years old from north carolina. a west point grad and served afghanistan. received a good citizenship award and had a smile that lit up a room and loved running, sports, traveling with his wife. visited 52 countries and leaves

parents beth and dawn, sisters rachel and jo. widow makaila. mark garner, american hero. thanks to our guests, but especially to you. our friends of the show and law students. aren't they a beautiful bunch? happy birthday to south carolina friend, lieutenant matthew reece. happy birthday, matthew. everyone, i will see you tomorrow night, 8:00 sharp eastern, until then, good night, friend.

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