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The attorney representing the parents of Lisa Irwin said Saturday on a national news show that the cadaver dog "hit" referenced in the search warrant, could have other reasons, nothing to do with Lisa. "My understanding is that there are cold cases where dogs have hit on scents of decomposition that had been in the home for as long as 28 years," Cyndy Short, with McCallister Law Firm, said to ABC's Good Morning America. "This is an old home, 63 years old. There could be a lot of other explanations for that," she said. Nineteen days after 11-month old Lisa...

One of the biggest clues detectives have in the case of missing 2-year-old Caylee Anthony is a foul stench in the trunk of the car her mother, Casey, was driving. The family claimed the stench wasn't caused by Caylee's body, but instead by a rotted pizza. Eyewitness News has had plenty of viewers question how an old pizza could be confused with a decomposing body. Caylee's grandmother said that the car didn't smell of death, but instead rotting pizza in the trunk. So, Eyewitness News decided leave one in a car to see what happened. It's not the most scientific...

Five years later, many Americans still find it hard to face the assault on humanity that took place Sept. 11, 2001. In Nona Kilgore Bauer's impressive book "Dog Heroes of September 11th, A Tribute to America's Search and Rescue Dogs," the author introduces more than 75 highly trained dogs from across the country who helped bring closure to families affected by the terrorist attacks. Interviews with owners reveal that, for many dogs, a reward for a rescue can be a spirited game of tug. Yet with fewer than two dozen survivors found and more than 2,000 killed, the dogs who...