something like... like benford's law. benford's law? that's a simple probability observation.not all it is. if you take any table of wide-ranging values-- census data, test results, land mass sizes-- 1 appears as the first digit in more than 30% of the values. 2 appears 17.6%. 3 appears 12.5%. and so on... larry: you know, the old story goes that simon newcomb discovered it by flipping through books of logarithm tables. he discovered that the earlier pages are more worn than the later ones. benford's law is not about conscious decision making. it is a statistical phenomenon. precisely. which is why it's highly unlikely that ron allen spent... nine years working at a specific theft?! i mean, after all, the most valuable machines today didn't even exist nine years ago. that's right. ron's knowledge base would pull him more toward one target than another. so, he opens his book of knowledge to a well-worn page where the spine is already cracked. university of hawaii's telescope. he worked with cosmic gravitation signatures. which explains his familiarity with ligo's raison d'etre.

. >> timothy benford and james johnson are westfield area natives and co-authors of "righteous carnage," a book about the list murders. >> i was a young household owner in westfield with two daughters. the news terrified everybody. >> helen list had been shot in the left side of the head in the kitchen and dragged down the hall to the ballroom. 16-year-old patty lay on her left side shot in the head. frederick was lying on his stomach, a pool of blood beside him. >> the blood on their faces was dried. the blood on the floor was dried. you could see the drag marks where they dragged them from wherever he shot them to the ballroom. >> john jr.'s death seemed particularly cruel. >> he was shot as least ten times. it appears as though he tried to put up a struggle. it is possible when he came in, he saw what happened and tried to get away. >> just as shocking as the crime scene itself is the trail of incriminating evidence purposely left all throughout the house. >> we found numerous bags that were filled with bloody rags mops that were used to try to clean up the blood. there was like a l