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reporter: but then the long-awaited results from the dna found at the crime scene came back from the forensic labnd in the local media, janet called for him to be freed. >> we've been telling everyone you know he didn't do this. nobody deserves to be accused of a crime of this magnitude without something to prove that he did it. >> reporter: but even without forensic evidence tying david dooley to the crime, prosecutor linda tally smith remained confident, deciding to move forward with the case. this past september, david dooley went on trial >>> good morning. breaking news coming up on "early today," new detailing in the search for the missing airasia passenger jet with 162 people on board. >>> then hundreds of passengers await rescue from a heavily damaged ferry. all that and much more on this early december 29th "early today" starts right now. >>> good morning, i'm dara brown, rescue search efforts are once again under way for the missing airasia indonesia flight. officials believe the jet to be at the bottom of the sea. officials told reporters about the next step to find the plane. >> we hop

reporter: but then the long-awaited results from the dna found at the crime scene came back from the forensic laburned out, david dooley was not a match. and in the local media, janet called for him to be freed. >> we've been telling everyone you know he didn't do this. nobody deserves to be accused of a crime of this magnitude without something to prove that he did it. >> reporter: but even without forensic evidence tying david dooley to the crime, prosecutor linda tally smith remained confident, deciding to move forward with the case. this past september, david dooley went on trial for murder. >> the truth is there is no smoking gun. there is no one fingerprint. there is no eyewitness. >> reporter: so just what did the prosecutor have on david dooley? >>> coming up -- >> our belief has always been that david dooley was in the middle of breaking into her office when she came up the steps and surprised him. >> a break in? what was he after and how could he have managed such a spotless escape? >> he has a clean pair of jeans clean shoes. >> when "dateline" continues. coughing can really be disrupt

also, there's so many things in there that are like, you'd never have living plants in a forensic lab. that's like total integrated. that's cool they're making forensic anthropology cool. >> you could wear stilettos. >> do not, all right. thank you. >> who needs fake tv shows when mutter is more interesting and real? the term psi meez twins existed? >> i know those guys. chez and ank bunker. they're the first siamese terms because they were born in siam. there's conjoined twins in scientific history. side shows and circumstansicirc. they bought adjoining farms in north carolina. >> conjoining farms? >> conjoining farms. they married sisters and had 21 children between them. a couple days at the other brother's house. that's who was boss, that's whose wife they were with. chang liked his alcoholic beverages and ank was a tee totaler but liked to stay up playing poker. they were born conjoined and died conjoined but it was interesting to note at the time of the autopsy, they found they had conjoined livers and that's the liver right here. >> i knew it. >> had they tried to get separated

also, there's so many things in there that are like, you'd never have living plants in a forensic labthat's like total integrated. that's cool they're making forensic anthropology cool. >> you could wear stilettos. >> oh, yeah, sure. do not -- all right, thank you. >> who needs fake tv shows when mutter holds stories much more interesting, twisted and real. >> would you like to know why the term siamese twins existed? >> is that bunker? i know those guys. >> chan and ang bunker. they're billed as the first siamese twins because they were born in siam. we use the politically correct term con joined twins now. they were a lot of con joined twins in scientific history. they went to side shows and circuses. they bought adjoining farms in north carolina. >> conjoining farms? >> conjoining farms. they married sisters and had 21 children between them. a couple days at the other brother's house. whoever's house they were at, that's who was boss, that's whose wife they were with. chang liked his alcoholic berchl beverages and ang was a tea totaler. but he liked to stay up late playing poker. t

joining me to talk about all of this, again, let me bring in forensic audio expert, paul ginsberg, president of pro audio labs. les abend, flies a 777, also a contributing editor of "flying" magazine. les, this is a question we ask time and time again after mh-370 disappeared. and that is, realtime streaming data, why is it that we still do not have realtime streaming date to so that someone on the ground can no at all times exactly what's going in the cockpit, exactly what is happening? >> well, it's a matter of cost. now, we do have some aspect of streaming data in the form of adsb, automatic dependent surveillance broadcast which uses it, so forth. the north atlantic uses it all the time. the particular part of the country you refer to in mh-370, that was available, but there was only a certain point of it available that was subscribed by malaysia airlines. so it comes down to cost. iko that mary skioff you referenced with the international -- >> the regulator. >> the regulation that governs a lot of the airlines to fly into various countries is pushing for this. for the airlines. and i think honestly the

let me bring in forensic audio expert paul ginsberg president of pro audio labs and les abend, fliesbuting editor of "flying" magazine. this is a question we asked time and time again after mh-370 disappeared, and that is realtime streaming data. why is it we still do not have realtime streaming data so that someone on the ground can know at all times exactly what's going in the cockpit, exactly what is happening? >> well it's a matter of cost. now, we do have some aspect of streaming data in the form of adsb automatic dependent surveillance broadcast information which uses broadcast so on and so forth. the north atlantic uses it all the time. the particular area of the country you refer to in mh-370 that was available but there was only a certain point of it available that was subscribed by malaysia airlines. so it comes down to cost. iko that mary schiavo mentioned -- >> with the regulators. >> the regulation that governs a lot of the airlines that fly into various countries is pushing for this. for the airlines. and i think honestly the airlines are cooperating because this is unu

joining us from new york is forensic odd wroe expert paul beginsberg president of pro odd wroe labs.urselves here but we do want to talk about the possibility of flight data recorders and what they could possibly tell us about what may have happened to this flight once they are discovered. let me ask you this paul. first of all, what is it that the first thing the investigators will want to know from these so-called black boxes, and i should point out there's really two. there's one that reports what the aircraft did, and there's another one that records the conversations that the pilots had, correct? >> was there a malfunction, or was this something from outside the airplane that happened? >> there will be warnings alerts the conversation of the pilots. we can tell whether the wind chill was punctured by a bird strike or we can tell whether it was varying or slowing down. there are a number of different clues that we will get to see whether it all comes together. >> right. will these recorders tell us all we need to know about the affects of weather? right now bad weather seems to b

. >> reporter: sabra botch-jones is a forensic toxicologist at the boston university school of medicine. she didn't work on linda's case, but in her labften deals with the same challenges when finding out how someone died. >> linda suffered from dizziness, weakness, vomiting after eating. what's that sound like? >> definitely the nausea and vomiting that's persistent suggests something that's actually being ingested that the body cannot handle. >> reporter: something ingested that the body can't handle? that's what linda's friend merry seabold had thought all along. she says she shared her concerns with linda. >> let's have someone go into the house. and just check it. let's see if there's anything foreign in here. let's see if there's something in your lipstick, maybe something in your cream that you use every night. >> reporter: but she says linda never took that advice, never had her home tested. now, they all waited for the toxicology tests on linda's body. and sure enough, the lab that examined linda's samples did detective -- detect and identify something quite curious. linda curry's body contained lethal levels of nicotine, whi

when they turn to the system, they often find that the very forensics that are needed to go after the perpetrator are either stuck in a crime lab somewhere with a backlog or, even worse, sitting in a police locker instead of being tested. so they wait days, weeks, months and even years. but we've gotten into this. thanks to our vice president, joe biden, who really is -- was the originator of the violence against women. he has the justice department -- he asked the justice department to go to police department says ans andsay, where is this evided why isn't it being processed? well, they found that there were over 400,000 sexual assault kits sitting in police lockers instead of getting tested. can you imagine? 400,000! well, we've got, thanks again to the advocates -- you know, the best ideas come from the people. and i think somebody's calling me now about it. 400,000. we can't -- what we have here now is we've added a $40 million grant program. again, a bipartisan effort to go after -- to work with local police departments to bring down this. where we order know that they've gotten underway with existing funds, they're findin