Blood & Lust | DOUBLE EPISODE | The New Detectives

A teenage girl is found murdered in her Indiana home and the police soon suspect that she is not the only victim of this killer. Detectives race the clock to track a serial killer across the country or he strikes again. Someone is targeting older women in a gated California community. Witnesses and little physical evidence Investigators struggled to find a link between the murders Homicide investigators find it difficult to predict when and where a serial killer will strike next, but with the help of forensic examiners they can isolate small clues that may lead them to the killer who is driven by

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some of the names have been changed and hours of travel south of Chicago Griffith Indiana is home to 18,000 people attracted here by the quiet lifestyle and low crime rate around 7 p.m. on October 13, 1987 Christine Gallagher, age fifteen When she returned home from school, she called her older sister, Wendy, but there was no answer, although Mrs.

Gallagher was still at work. The wind should have come back from school hours ago. Christine checked the bedroom and there she found the lifeless body of 16-year-old Wendy on the floor. Police and crime scene units were immediately dispatched to Gallagher's apartment. The distraught teen was taken to a patrol car as police entered the residence. Thank you. Inside the apartment, the living room was clean and tidy, but in the bedroom the police made a shocking discovery. At the scene, the half-naked victim had been gagged, with her hands tied to the sheet, she had been stabbed repeatedly. It appeared that she had been sexually assaulted, but no biological evidence was recovered for Lt.

John Mowry of the Griffith Police Department. The scene was difficult to comprehend when I walked into that apartment and saw the victim Wendy Gallagher and saw the savage way in which she had been killed. I had never seen anything like it. I was in the department 17 years before that. Other homicides have been investigated that I have never seen. anything descriptively close to what the scene was like, investigators began to methodically process the scene next to the window, discovered

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spatters on the wall and curtain, hoping to find Prince, treated the wall with silver nitrate, a chemical that reacts with oils. found on the fingers and palms they then scanned the area with a light source a partial palm print and more blood spatter emerged a section of the wall was removed and sent to the crime lab in the living room investigators collected a glass with smudged fingerprints they also found a jean jacket hanging on the back of a chair searching the pockets they found a driver's license belonging to a teenager with a local address on the kitchen counter

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recovered a woman's purse there was no identification inside Christine told the police that her father had fallen She left after a swimming meet at school and said that since her parents recently divorced, she and Wendy were sometimes alone after school until Ms.

Gallagher returned from work shortly after, as Christine continued to answer questions, one of the investigators removed the purse found in the kitchen. show her something Christine said it was hers and added that when she got home she didn't remember seeing Wendy's purse anywhere, so Mrs. Gallagher returned from work and found out about the murder, overcome with grief, she told the police that I couldn't believe anyone would want to do it. kill her daughter Wendy was such a beautiful and cheerful girl when they were shown the identification on the jean jacket the Gallaghers immediately recognized the boy as Wendy's boyfriend looking for any clue to the identity of the Killer.

Examiners at the Lake County Crime Laboratory began analyzing the recovered prince. from Gallagher's apartment began with a stained glass when sprinkled with black powder revealed two distinct sets of fingerprints. Arches' analysis of the swirls and loops that make each print unique established that one set was Wendy's, but the second set of prints was not. It doesn't match any of the Gallaghers. The next examiners headed to the section of wall removed from Wendy's bedroom to preserve the fragile drywall. They worked from photographs again. The partial palm print did not match samples taken from either of the Gallaghers.

Its position on the drywall in relation. to the blood found around the window lead evidence technician Ronald Latch to conclude that whoever came out had been scared had put a hand on the wall and looked through the curtain because blood could be seen on the edge of the curtain and on a wall and Keep an eye out to see if anyone was coming, maybe you heard their voice or a car door slamming, but the worry must have been short-lived. Analysis of the crime scene uncovered no signs of forced entry or exit, it seemed that after committing this brutal murder, the killer calmly left the apartment, probably through the front door, convinced that the unidentified Prince was the key to revealing the identity of the Killer.

Investigators ran them through aphis, a computer database containing millions of fingerprint records, but no matches were found. The

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turned to Wendy's boyfriend for the answers they wanted. To find out why his jacket and identification were found in the Gallagher apartment, the teenager explained that Wendy had been cold that day at school, he had lent her his jacket and she had earned it at home, he said she was in home with his parents during the time of the murder, he also told police he had no idea who might have hurt Wendy. She was very popular at school, where she was an honor student and a Pom-Pom girl.

He said Wendy was so much fun to be with and he couldn't. I don't think she's gone. She was in the back of the class. I'm going to go get this folder so she has a solid alibi. Detectives took his fingerprints before letting him go, but the Prince's analysis of him later confirmed his innocence. Police spent the next few days interviewing. Dozens of Wendy's friends and neighbors were developed, more than 50 potential suspects, but fingerprint analysis eliminated them all because of the clothes Detective Carl Grimmer said Tensions in the small town grew as the investigation reached to a dead end within the Griffith community after this occurred. very scared we didn't know who we were looking for we didn't know if we were looking for someone who lived in our town someone in a neighboring town or if it could have been a Drifter but a week after the murder the police got a solid lead a woman in Chicago found the lost purse by Wendy.

I understand you found a bag that we would have been looking for for the person that ended up in my car. She explained that her own purse had been snatched during a robbery when she was then recovered from a dumpster and returned, opened it and found Windy Gallagher's purse and ID stuffed inside, then learned of the murder in Griffith, put in an alley and this car stopped, the woman said that when she left work from the back. Through the door a man with brown hair and a mustache jumped out of a blue car, grabbed her and threatened her with a knife as they struggled, the delivery truck stopped.

Salen grabbed her purse and fled, but he had left behind valuable evidence, a witness she was able to identify. him and a physical link to the Wendy's killer, police quickly released a composite sketch of the suspect along with a description of her blue car. Over the next few weeks, they received many leads as a result, but none of them came to fruition despite the lack of progress that investigators rejected. to reveal everyone who had entered the crime scene that night and seen Wendy huh, that's all the incentive you needed to keep finding out who did that to her.

Griffith detectives had a composite sketch and fingerprints that could prove they were murder vehicles, but even they were able to identify their suspect, the evidence was meaningless and all signs suggested that Wendy Gallagher was not going to be the last victim of this killer. Chicago is where several months had passed with little progress in the murder case of sixteen-year-old Wendy Gallagher, although Griffith Indiana police had a composite drawing of their suspect and Prince recovered from the crime scene her identity and whereabouts remained. being unknown as they struggled to keep the case alive. Police in Pasco County, Florida, located more than 1,100 miles away, called in an unlikely lead.

Griffith Indiana, that's the correct method of operation, yes, while investigating the homicide of a 14-year-old girl there. Police in Florida believe a resident had discovered a connection to the unsolved murder of Windy Gallagher. Both detectives on this case, resident Diane Collins had just moved to Pasco County from Griffith Indiana when details of the Florida murder became public, Diane immediately noted similarities to the Griffith homicide. Her frighteningly familiar details forced her to contact the police. I was very surprised by the fact that this was another young teenager who was murdered at her house after school, just when Wendy was in the community.

I had just left Griffith. Griffith police were skeptical that such a tenuous lead would affect her case, but they didn't have much else to go on. They asked Pasco County investigators to submit case files based on police reports. In January 1988, 14-year-old Janet Clark was discovered in her bedroom by her younger brother shortly after 6 p.m. He and Mr. Clark had just returned home from running an errand. Janet had returned from school just a few hours when the police arrived and found Janet's body partially clothed, gagged and bound, with her hands tied with a sheet, she had been brutally stabbed and raped.

Prince had not been found at the scene, and although DNA evidence was recovered during the autopsy, investigators had no suspect to link him to, but now Griffith Detective Carl. Grimmer realized that Diane Collins' instincts might have been dead. We thought it was a remote possibility that the two cases could be connected, but as we sat and studied the photos, studied the crime scenes, we became stronger and stronger in our belief that they probably were. connected it's just that he had to watch it to see the similarities it's almost like there was a signature believing they were Now looking for the same killer the two departments began exchanging information Pasco County police in Florida stepped up their investigation one of Clark's neighbors He remembered a man in In the Neighborhood at the time of Janet's murder, he had never seen him before.

He described the man to a police sketch artist as being in his 20s, with dark hair and a mustache. He believed he was driving a late-model red Corvette with Missouri plates. although the vehicle description was different, Griffith police couldn't ignore the striking similarities to their Maori detective suspect, there was little doubt that their serial killer was on the loose, he was definitely our enemy, we knew from what we had seen so far how Savage. this person was so we were, we were practically racing against the clock, we want to knock randomly as quickly as possible to prevent him from hurting anyone else, but the police knew that tracking down a killer across several states would be difficult until he struck again all what I could.

What they had to do was wait and they were afraid that this murderer would not make them wait long. Two months later, police in Beaumont, Texas, responded to a local motel. The officers burst into the room where the shots had been heard and there they discovered one of their own officers, Paul Halsey. The victim was left unconscious due to a gunshot wound. The downed officer had notified headquarters a few minutes earlier that he was checking on the driver of a stolen vehicle who had just entered one of the rooms. Officer Halsey was rushed to the hospital, but his injuries proved fatal.

He died a short time later a witness at the motel testified that he heard gunshots and looked out the window he saw a man with dark hair and a mustache speeding away in a red Corvette and the all points bulletin was issued for the red sports car about minutes Dispatchers reported that the vehicle had been seen. The sports car was able to elude police for more than 20 miles. The driver suddenly lost control and the car went off the road. He bled to death on foot in a wooded area and disappeared. Texas authorities began preparing their Manta for a suspect. cop killer while police in Indiana andFlorida was struggling to locate a serial killer who preyed on girls in Beaumont, Texas, they were on the trail of an alleged cop killer, although the suspect had managed to escape, the police had his red Corvette abandoned, how are they doing?

Just inside they recovered a blood-stained 357 Magnum that had recently been fired. They also found stolen license plates, including a Missouri set. Now his attention was focused on finding the driver. Detective Ray Beck of the Beaumont Police Department organized the manhood. He spread the word. We had officers who came from all over and volunteered their time and effort, so Manpower was incredible. Witnesses, the suspicious officers quickly caught up to the cat. Active drivers get out of the back seat of the car faster, raise their hands and take responsibility for the murder of Officer Halsey. The suspect identified as Michael Lee Lockhart, 28, was arrested and questioned at the Beaumont police station.

He immediately confessed to shooting Officer Halsey but offered no explanation. It seemed too easy. Robert Hobbs, an investigator with the Jefferson County District Attorney's Office, remembers the Lockhart case. interview he was very calm he was very collected we knew right away we were that this was not our typical criminal in Southeast Texas and so we would have a lot of work ahead of us their instincts told them that Lockhart would not have killed a police officer over a stolen car There had to be more, much more to this murder Investigators took Lockhart's fingerprints and collected hair samples He was held without bail on capital murder charges Ballistics results backed by Lockhart's confession gave Beaumont detectives An airtight case, but Lockhart's quick confessions still seemed overly calculated, as if he might be trying to avoid further investigation.

Evidence recovered from Lockhart's motel room indicated that he had been on the move for months. Would you look at the police? He had recovered several receipts from hotels and restaurants throughout the Midwest, but what was he running away from in hopes of finding out? Detective Ray Beck wrote an article profiling Lockhart and the details of Officer Halsey's murder for a national law enforcement magazine. The tactic worked for a detective working on Janet. Clark's murder in Pasco County, Florida, read the article about Lockhart and the murder of Officer Halsey, whom he then called. Beaumont Police Department Detective Beck quickly understood why one of the missing links in his case was the fact that his red Corvette had Missouri plates and that was one of the One of the pieces of evidence we had here were license plates. of Missouri that we found in the Corvette.

Detective Beck later learned of the connection to Wendy Gallagher's murder. Investigators working on that case in Griffith, Indiana, were immediately notified and requested that Lockhart's prints be sent to the lake. The county crime lab hoped to have the evidence they needed to prove that murder examiners went to work comparing Lockhart's fingerprints to those recovered from the Windy Gallagher crime scene after examining and comparing both sets of prints. Examiner Ronald Latch was certain that Wendy's killer had fingerprints found on him. We found out that at the scene we put Michael Lee Lockhart in that apartment and the palm prints placed him right next to the victim's body, where there was blood and on the curtain on the wall, almost eight months after Windy Gallagher was found murdered in her home.

I finally had the evidence they needed to charge Michael Lee Lockhart with his murder. I felt a great sense of relief because I knew he couldn't commit any more crimes and I also felt happy that we could contribute and help achieve something similar. of the Gallagher family closure on June 30, 1988. DNA analysis confirmed that Lockhart had murdered and sexually assaulted Janet Clark in Florida, working together. Three law enforcement agencies had linked three apparently unrelated murders to a predator based on evidence police believe Lockhart traveled across the country. Searching for his next victim Hey, there was a breakdown on the road He prowled an area looking for vulnerable young victims When he knew they were alone He made his way to their homes where he raped and murdered them Michael Lee Lockhart was tried for murder in all three states He was sentenced to death in every trial in Texas on December 9, 1997 Michael Lee Lockhart was executed for his crimes it took the cooperative effort of three police departments to track a transient serial killer across the United States here he is, he's talking but a Sometimes killers who stay in one place are equally difficult for investigators to find 75 miles from Los Angeles Riverside County California is a haven for retirees and people looking to escape the problems of urban life, but on February 16 19 04 to 911 from the Riverside County Sheriff's Office to a condo in the exclusive community of Canyon Lake.

There, investigators found the body of Norma Davis, 86, slumped on a couch, a telephone cord was wrapped around her throat, and knives protruding from her chest and back. Investigators began searching. the scene looking for anything that might tell them who had murdered Norma Davis and why robbery seemed an unlikely motive the victim was still wearing an expensive ring on her finger as expensive as that ring some desk drawers were open but there were no signs of Los Looting forensic technicians processed the body for any loose hairs or fibers that the killer might have left behind, but from the position of the body it was clear to California Department of Justice criminologist Alyssa Mayo Thompson that there was little interaction between the victim and the murderer.

She seemed to just be sitting in her chair, as if she might be reading or watching television. She didn't look like she had struggled much or tried to get up from that chair, which told investigators that Norma Davis probably knew her killer. to the crime lab to be with Prince a search of the condo confirmed that robbery was not a motive on the kitchen floor investigators found a huge purse still containing credit cards and cash in the hallway investigators saw a faint fingerprint shoe on the floor to get a better look, the room was dark. Closer examination revealed that it was a sneaker print left in the dust, and recovering such fragile evidence would be difficult, but in a crime scene that yielded few clues to the Killer's identity, the print could prove a clue. vital piece of evidence afterwards.

Painstakingly photographing the print, technicians carefully applied an adhesive gelatin to lift it, but the minute details of the print did not survive lifting, it would be up to examiners to determine if there was a sufficient sample to make future comparisons when and if a suspect arose. Outside detectives spoke with Alice Williams, who had found the victim. She said she had come to pick up Norma for her weekly hair appointment. She came in when Norma didn't answer her calls and that's when she discovered the body she couldn't. I understand how something like that could have happened in Canyon Lake.

It was a gated community with 24 hour security. Norma's former daughter-in-law, married to Pierce, had also arrived where she also lived in Canyon Lake. She told investigators that she and Norma were very close, but as Mary continued to describe Norma in greater detail, the detectives looked down and noticed that she was wearing Nike sneakers and asked if there was anyone close to Norma who wanted Norma dead. she. Mary reacted with surprise and insisted that no family member could be involved, but Now the detectives were not so sure that they went to the crime lab in search of answers, but criminalists at the California Department of Justice forensic laboratory determined that all the evidence recovered of the condominium had been cleaned and the impression they hope that the recovered shoe print can guide them. to a huge killer for Ricky Eldon Cooksey, a criminalist at the Department of Justice crime lab in Riverside.

Shoe print evidence can lead investigators to the crime scene can help investigators if we can identify what type of shoe made that print and the miraculous data banks they store. With that type of information we can tell them what type of shoe they are looking for and the size of shoe they are looking for after reviewing hundreds of different sneaker designs. Cooksey believed that the print recovered from Norma Davis's house had been made by a Nike that he acquired. a similar shoe from the manufacturer and made test impressions the tread design was identical Cooksey had determined that the suspect's print had been made by a size six and a half Nike Air tennis shoe for detectives the news was not so encouraging talk to you later tracking down a specific purchase of such a popular shoe would be nearly impossible.

Thank you. The only thing Homicide Detective Joe Greco could infer from the analysis was that the suspect was a small man or possibly a woman and he already had a potential suspect who fit that description. Goodbye, we suspect ex-daughter-in-law Mary Pierce because of the shoes she was wearing when she arrived at the crime scene and Shu's make matched the make of the shoe we found at the door and she was also the caretaker she was the obvious choice the police questioned to Mary Pierce in greater detail by carefully observing her behavior she would take her medicine Mary said that her former mother-in-law was a wonderful, warm person who had no enemies most days she simply watched TV or read after answering dozens of questions it became clear to investigators that Mary was not involved in Norma's murder, your cooperation and pain were sincere, I appreciate your time, thank you, detectives reviewed dozens of interested parties provided by Norma's family friends and neighbors, but no one. had any useful information the case quickly threatened to go cold with no suspects and no solid sheets it seemed the murder of Norma Davis could never be solved in Riverside California the investigation into the stabbing and strangulation death of 86 year old Norma Davis murdered in her Canyon Lake the house had stopped care units we have a gospel homicide while investigators struggled to keep the case alive another 9-1-1 call came in from residents of Canyon Lake another elderly woman had been found murdered in her home there police discovered 66- June One-year-old Roberts dead on the floor of her office, to everyone present the crime scene looked eerily familiar, although June Roberts had not been stabbed, she was still wearing an expensive ring and a telephone cord wrapped around her neck, cards of credit scattered throughout her bag. but nothing seemed to be missing for Thompson, it was obvious that the murders of June Roberts and Norma Davis were connected.

The type of crimes both brutal homicides occurred within a few days of each other in this area led us to think that these two crimes may be related. Investigators searched the house. A Bible caught the detective's attention. Inside was a handwritten prayer list. Norma Davis's name was on that list. The two victims were friends, but it was unclear to Detective Greco how they were connected to the killer. He could be sure of one thing, but one thing. The serial killer was targeting older women in Canyon Lake. This whole case is overwhelming because it's not something anyone in law enforcement encounters every day, it's a serious crime of violence and it didn't stop, I mean it was just the beginning.

So far, this killer had made few mistakes, but one week after June Robert's death, everything seemed to change. June Robert's daughter took a statement from one of her mother's credit card companies to police. Credit card. Someone had spent a lot immediately after June's death, cashing in jewelry. clothing and other merchandise was the brick that the detectives were waiting for now that they had a paper trail to follow. They began in a jewelry store where the first purchase had been made with the card of a murdered victim. The clerk vaguely remembered the transaction. He remembered that a blonde woman entered the store. the store and bought an expensive set of earrings.

The woman carried the items and signed her name. June Roberts' employee couldn't provide enough detail for a composite sketch, but she gave investigators a Xerox copy of an identical pair of earrings. A blonde woman, whoever she is. She had been linked to one of the victims The next purchase at June Roberts The credit card came from a hair salon A stylist there remembered the woman who claimed to be JuneRoberts and said the woman was about 30 years old with shoulder-length blonde hair. Hazel eyes and a medium build, he added that the woman had a small child with her according to her schedule.

His name was Jonathan Weaver. An artist was hired to translate The Stylist's description of the blonde woman into a composite sketch. Little by little, a face of hers took shape. but the police still didn't know how this woman fit into the murders and they had no way to put a name to her face. Lead investigators began searching for young Jonathan Weaver who had been at the hair salon with the blonde. Woman, yes, they contacted Area Public Schools and found a child with that name at their address and they waited, but when they saw the child and his mother arrive home, they realized that the mother did not look like anyone of the descriptions.

Interrogation confirmed that the boy had never been. I didn't go to that room at all and no one recognized the woman in the composite image. No, I've never seen it despite the setback, investigators refused to reveal the locations of the murders and the credit card purchases were made within a five-mile radius of each other. They knew their killer had to be hiding right under their noses, which made more shopping there, yes she did, in hopes of generating a lead, they decided to run a check on all recently reported violent crimes within that same area. , the tactic revealed a possible lead for an elderly man.

A woman who owned an antique store a few blocks from Canyon Lake had recently been assaulted and this young woman arrived with Dorinda Hawkins still recovering in the hospital and having barely survived the attack. Investigators said a blonde woman walked into her antique store to ask about the frame when she took the customer to the back to show her some samples, the woman suddenly attacked her from behind Dorinda felt a rope tighten around her neck, he told detectives who then began to beg for his life, you know, you can have what you want, take what you want.

I have eight children, let me live and the suspect told him: "I'm not doing this for the money Dorinda had been left for dead, but she managed to regain consciousness when she got to her rolled up red keychain that contained the keys to the money." the cash register was missing from her wrist the money from the cash register had also disappeared when she was shown the composition, she positively identified the blonde as her dark assailant, it was now evident to investigators that the suspect was not simply an accomplice to the other crimes , she was the serial killer and the weirdest guy of all Investigators were quick to put a name with the face in the composite sketch since Mary Pierce knew the two murder victims, the police hoped she had crossed paths too with the Killer, let me ask you this, can you name this face?

Does he look familiar when shown the sketch? Mary said the face looked a little like her stepdaughter Dana Sue Gray as Mary described her stepdaughter the pieces started to fall into place the information fit the description of the suspect she was looking for who had a key to the house of the first victim, knew the second victim, had a pass to enter Canyon Lake and was familiar with the area. Mary added that Dana owned a house in Canyon Lake, so I don't know those two, but Dana had just gone through a fierce divorce battle and was trying to sell the place due to the resulting financial ruin.

Her job as a registered nurse was not enough to maintain the affluent lifestyle she had come to enjoy. The positive identification of the sketch and the information provided by Mary Pierce LED detectives to obtain a court order to search the property of Dana Sue Gray , but that would take time and given the suspect's propensity for violence, they didn't want to give him the opportunity to kill again. The undercover agents immediately placed her under surveillance. Riverside County investigators continued to look into Dana Sue Gray's background to learn that she was currently dating a man who had a young son named Jonathan Weaver, the same name as the child who would benefit from the salon, but this Jonathan Weaver was enrolled in a private school, yeah, I'm not sure if you remember that previously detectives had only Later that afternoon, one of the officers searched public school records and found Dana's Trail in nearby Sun City as she entered to a bench when he emerged a few minutes later.

Dana was seen stuffing a large amount of cash into her purse a few hours later. Riverside Police had obtained their search warrant, Detective Greco briefed the team on the evidence they were looking for once they entered the suspect's home. Thank you, we had receipts from the different places where purchases were made for these various items, so they knew exactly. What they were looking for had also ordered The Searchers to collect all the shoes inside the residence because obviously the first victims, the shoe print in the case of the first victims, in the early afternoon hours of the 16th March 1994, Riverside County investigators took Suspected serial killer Dana Sue Gray was arrested and taken to the Riverside Police Station for questioning inside the residence.

Investigators uncovered a large amount of evidence and located a red coiled key bracelet identical to the one stolen from Dorinda Hawkins at the antique store they also found. Merchandise similar to items purchased with June Roberts credit cards. Yes, inside Dana's purse, the police made a sinister discovery. There was nineteen hundred dollars in cash and a checkbook made out to Dora Bibi. The address on the checks was Sun City, although the name Dora Bibi meant nothing. Investigators knew that Dana Sue Gray had been in Sun City that same day the investigation continued in the bedroom there, the evidence technicians found a pair of Nike sneakers, the evidence was sent to the crime lab, do you understand why you are here, do you understand?

It is not like this? At the police station, Dana Sue Gray appeared calm and unaffected, denied killing or assaulting anyone, and admitted using credit cards belonging to June and another woman whose name she did not remember, but claimed she had found them lying next to a dumpster. do you know what i can? see those earrings, investigators picked up Dana's earrings, which appeared to be the ones she bought with June Robert's credit card, these look very familiar when the detective left the interview to process the earrings, another investigator was waiting to speak with him outside, there had been another murder at that time.

Identical to the homicides of Norma Davis and June Roberts, the last victim had been murdered that same day in her home located in Riverside, California. California police believed the suspect in the murders of Norma Davis and June Roberts was finally in their custody as they questioned Dana Sue Gray. Regarding the murders, detectives were informed that Dora Bibi, an elderly resident of nearby Sun City, had been found murdered. The crime scene had the same signature as the other homicides in Canyon Lake. Thanks, the detectives realized they had found cash and a checkbook in Dora's name. Bibi while searching Dana's house, Dana Sue Gray had killed again shortly before surveillance on her began.

Now they needed to be sure that she would never again be free to kill in the crime lab. Examiners analyzed slippers recovered from Dana Sue Gray's bedroom. They were size six and a half Nike Air sneakers, the same style and size as the print recovered from the Norma Davis crime scene. Analysis of the characteristics that distinguish one shoe print from another left researchers with little doubt that Dana Sue Gray's shoes had left the print. At Norma's condominium, unable to explain all the evidence accumulated against her, Dana Sue Gray had no choice but to confess to her crimes.

Riverside County investigators believe Dana Sue Gray was pushed to the edge by her financial misfortunes resulting from her divorce. Envious, she chose a fluid victim, sometimes unknown but mostly friends and family, as murder targets to avoid the death penalty. Dana Sue Gray pleaded guilty to the multiple murders. She was given two life sentences without the possibility of parole. When I think of Dana Sue Gray. Anyway, the first thing that comes to mind is evil, it is simply evil, there are usually patterns in serial murders, although they are often difficult to detect, only time, patience and meticulous forensic science can delve into the unknown and finally bring them to light.

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, thank you, foreigner, a young woman is hit by a train, but what looks like a suicide could be a killer covering up. traces, a woman disappears from her home in Arizona without a body, police must rely on a few drops of blood to determine her fate California police are called to the scene of a gruesome

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homicide. Only forensic examiners can prove whether it was the result of self-defense or cold-blooded murder. Some murderers go to great lengths to manipulate a crime. scene, but the truth is difficult to disguise and forensic examiners can see through the deception, especially when it is written in tainted blood around 4 a.m. on December 5, 1993, a freight train passed through the small community of Crestview , Florida, on an isolated stretch, the engineer noticed something lying around. across the tracks ahead and the body, frantically blew the whistle and struggled to stop the train beneath the 120-ton train, discovered the lifeless body of a female engineer, quickly radioed for help within minutes, police and emergency personnel from the Crestview Police Department were dispatched to the scene the young victim had suffered massive injuries to her head and chest she was partially covered by a blood stained black trench coat police began searching for any form of identification to tell them who this woman was, they did not find any blood accumulated on the tracks and on some rocks, a few meters from where the victim landed, the point of impact was found.

Some hairs and small drops of blood were found on the front of the train, but investigators found no blood stains on the tracks leading to the victim's body. When questioned, the engineer told police that while he was working for stopping the train he thought he had made eye contact with the woman lying on the tracks, she didn't even flinch as the train approached, she just seemed to be looking at it before leaving the scene. Evidence technicians photographed the area at the autopsy. The medical examiner determined the cause of death was severe trauma to the head and chest of the unidentified victim.

She had suffered multiple skull fractures and a broken rib. According to the medical examiner, all injuries were consistent with having been caused. on the train with no obvious signs of foul play noted during the autopsy investigators began to look for other explanations behind the tragedy for boss Maxi Barrow there seemed to be only one we were thinking it could possibly be a suicide it could be someone who was depressed and lay down on the train tracks and let a train run over them to confirm their suspicions. Investigators first had to identify the young woman. Several local residents believed it was Sherry Morrow, 24, who lived with her husband less than a mile from the railroad tracks.

They went to the address where they were met by John Morrow Sherry's husband and the couple's roommate. Investigators showed the husband a photograph of the victim. John Morrow couldn't believe what he was seeing, the woman lying dead on the train tracks was his wife, Sherry Morrow said. that he and Sherry had fought the night before she believed he was flirting with another woman who was at a party at the couple's house she became enraged John followed her outside determined to convince her she was wrong they walked up the street to a pay phone she She was cold so John gave her his raincoat despite her efforts Sherry remained angry and seemed depressed John returned home believing the best thing to do would be to leave her alone he thought Sherry called a friend to come pick her up John never he imagined that she would take her own life the couple's roommate corroborated John's story the husband's story in addition to the autopsy finding left investigators with no reason to doubt the suicide theory the investigation into Sherry's death Morrow was ready to close the next day however Sherry Morrow's mother arrived to speak to the police, she could not accept that her daughter had taken her life.

John said that he had had numerous affairs that Sherry found out about asresult. Sherry had recently decided to end the turbulent marriage and had started looking for her own place, so she could be closer to her mother in this case, and although Sherry was upset to learn of her husband's infidelities, her mother was sure that he would never have committed suicide; In fact, Sherry was set for an expensive divorce that John desperately wanted to avoid. It's not unusual for a family of a suicide victim to determine that or say that they didn't do it, that they didn't kill themselves, but in this victim's case, her mother was pretty convincing to me that that victim didn't do it. . that and would not have done so despite their new suspicions, investigators found no evidence to suggest that Sherry Morrow had met with Foul Play almost a month after she was discovered along the railroad tracks, the young woman was buried Over the next few years, investigators interviewed dozens of Sherry's friends seeking to uncover evidence that she had been murdered, but found nothing.

The investigation into Sherry Morrow's death has been halted. The case was turned over to Crestview police. Lieutenant Jerome Worley decided to breathe new life into the investigation he began. Interviewing the couple's friends and associates, beginning with his roommate, the roommate again corroborated the story John had told two years earlier, the night Sherry died. He said John followed her after she stormed out of the house, but she returned shortly after her and never left the house. House detectives again felt the roommate was not telling the truth under threat of prosecution. He changed the story of him. John said he was fed up with his wife and often boasted about how easy it would be to kill her and make her death look like a suicide or an accident.

He said that on the night Sherry died, John was away for hours after leaving with her when returned, John was agitated, his knuckles were red, he told the roommate it was done, although the roommate's testimony confirmed the investigator's suspicions that John Morrow was involved in his wife's death Lt. Worley knew that it wouldn't be enough to prove murder, the roommate would contradict himself with a new statement and it would simply be his word against the husband's word in court, so we knew we would have to have some physical evidence. try the case, but with the victim buried and little evidence recovered from the scene, finding evidence of the murder wouldn't be easy for nearly three years, even as police in Crestview, Florida, struggled to make sense of the death of 24-year-old Sherry Morrow. years.

All evidence suggested that she had taken her own life by lying in front of an oncoming train. Investigators suspected that her husband John Morrow had murdered even the slightest evidence of her. Investigators sent what little evidence they had to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement crime lab in Pensacola. There, examiner Jan Johnson, an expert in interpreting bloodstain patterns, began examining photographs of the scene and the victim's clothing, starting at the spot where Sherry was hit by the train. Johnson began to analyze the bloodstains in general terms, if he would have a body lying on a railway track and the body still there is no movement, therefore when the tri, the train would hit the victim, blood would be splashed at that point from the impact, but in the photographs there were no blood spatters in that place.

The blood pooled for Johnson, the only way to explain the findings were that Sherry was already bleeding when she lay down on the tracks. The lack of blood stained along the tracks leading to Sherry's body was also concerning. If this was a train hitting a woman lying on the train tracks, you would expect to see a trail of blood leading from the point of impact to her final resting place; in fact, no bleeding had occurred on either side. injuries caused by the train, that would only make sense if she was dead at the point of impact once her heart stopped blood flow. she ceases, therefore any injury that occurs after that fact will have very little bloodshed, but if the train had not killed her, the question remained what she had to discover.

Johnson began analyzing the blood stains found on the victim's clothing and found blood spatters on the victim's shirt that did not match any of the head injuries noted in the original autopsy report, the size and spatter location on the shirt were consistent with a specific type of injury if I hadn't known it was a train box and just received the clothing only at the lab. Clearly I would have thought someone had been beaten just by looking at the clothing because again we have this mass pattern on the shirt and this would be consistent with someone being beaten stabbed something of that nature Johnson relayed his findings to the Crestview police the forensic analysis convinced detectives that Sherry Morrow had been murdered to bring this case to a jury;

However, they needed to find the fatal injuries that had somehow gone unnoticed years before. Three years after she was buried, Sherry's remains were exhumed and sent to the medical examiner for a second autopsy. A new medical examiner began searching for evidence of homicide. On the back of the victim's skull he found injuries consistent with blunt force trauma. The injuries were not consistent with any of the injuries caused by the train. Medical Examiner Dr. Michael Berkland then reviewed the original autopsy photos for other anomalies. He noticed strange bruising on the victim's neck that had not been noted in the original autopsy reports.

X-rays revealed the presence of a broken hyoid, a bone in the neck located at the base of her tongue. Dr. Brooklyn did not believe that the train could have caused the injury, it would be extremely unlikely that the train could have hit her in such a way as to fracture her hyoid and leave her jaw intact because it is a protected structure high in the neck, behind jaw, the most reasonable explanation for the broken hyoid was that Cherry Morrow had been strangled. Blunt traumatic injuries found on the skull and broken hyoid bone gave investigators the evidence they needed to prove that Sherry Morrow had been the victim of a homicide, and although investigators suspected her husband John Morrow of committing the murder, they needed to find a way to link him to the crime scene, although several years had passed, the police tracked down all the railroad engineers who had passed through the area the night Sherry was murdered, they immediately recognized photographs of John. and Sherry Morrow, the couple who she said were walking dangerously close to the tracks, appeared to be having a bitter argument and seemed oblivious to her warnings.

The engineer specifically recalled that the man identified as John Morrow was wearing a black trench coat on April 29, 1997. John Morrow was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, although he maintained his innocence. Police believe that when Sherry decided to end the marriage, the stress of the divorce was too much for him. Yeah, well, if you decide to answer questions like the The couple argued while walking along the train tracks, Jon grabbed the blunt instrument and hit Sherry on the back of the head, but when she didn't lose consciousness, he finished the job. hitting her and then strangling her, breaking her hyoid bone in the process. on the tracks and covered her with his blood-spattered raincoat Sherry probably died within minutes a jury convicted John Morrow of murder and sentenced him to life in prison without parole John Morrow attempted to deceive investigators by disguising the cause of death his victim in a suburban community just north of Phoenix Arizona investigators would have to prove murder without the victim's body on the night of June 4, 1989 Maricopa County sheriff's deputies were called to Earl's home and Ruby Morris, the couple's daughter, Cindy, was worried that something had happened to them.

Her mother, Ruby, 49, had made plans to meet that day, but Ruby didn't show up when Cindy stopped by to check on her and discovered that the room of her parents was unusually disorganized and noticed that her .22 caliber pistol was missing. She said that her father Earl was currently in Los Angeles, California, but would return early the next day, but the next morning neither Ruby nor her husband Earl had returned. to home. Maricopa County Sheriff's Lt. Lee Lugenbule was asked to investigate the case after reviewing the daughter's statements. He agreed to open a missing person investigation. Well, her daughter Cindy was supposed to meet her for lunch that day and she never showed up and this is unusual for Mom.

Mom was a very punctual person, she always kept her appointments and was very tidy around the house, so there were some things that were out of place in the house that she just wasn't like Ruby. Later that afternoon, the detective returned to the Morris residence to interview family members when they asked him about his mother and her father's relationship. Cindy told Felice that her parents' 30-year marriage had turned ugly in recent months. What is this? Earl Earl had been caught having an affair. Upset and angry, Ruby began threatening to end the marriage and vowed to ruin her husband financially.

Earl. A successful 49-year-old accountant promised him that. This would never happen, but Cindy couldn't imagine that her father would be capable of committing physical violence while the interrogation continued. Earl Morris returned from his trip. Cindy commented that she didn't drive her own car. Earl explained that his car in El Camino had broken down. 200 miles from home on the way back from Los Angeles, after several hours stranded on the road, he managed to hitchhike to Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, where Earl said he rented a car to get home, but almost immediately the detective became suspicious of Earl's story. also looked at his clothes at his general demeanor, he was tidy, he didn't seem to be out, you know, trying to stop a car, he was all put together, the detective also noticed new airport tags on Earl's luggage, suggesting that he had flown and not driven from California and the luggage tags originated in San Diego, not Los Angeles.

His suspicions increased. The investigator questioned Earl about Ruby's disappearance, although he could not explain why the couple's .22 caliber gun was missing. He seemed not to care about the whereabouts of his wife. Ruby said she would often take her. away for days without saying a word Earl told me that he didn't think it was unusual for Ruby to be gone for a couple of days, that you know, she had to have credit cards to be able to go out and visit other people and leave like that. he again said as if it was no big deal that she was gone.

Investigators felt otherwise when seeking to corroborate Earl's story, they began searching the interstates for his disabled El Camino, but hours of driving found no sign of the vehicle and no records of After it had been towed, an APB was issued for the automobile shortly afterward Earl Morris's El Camino was located. It was found nearly 400 miles away parked near the San Diego airport. San Diego authorities confiscated the vehicle and arranged for its transportation back to Arizona, very well, thank you goodbye to the investigators, it was now clear that Earl Morris's story was a lie. To discover what he was hiding, they obtained a search warrant.

Later that night, police returned to his residence having observed no obvious signs of foul play. Investigators began searching the bedroom for trace amounts of evidence they discovered several blood stains on the carpet near the bed. Maricopa County Sheriff's Crime Lab Supervisor James Serpa noticed something strange about its appearance, we saw visible signs of the carpet and the master suite had been disturbed in a circular pattern that could indicate the use of a carpet cleaner. Technicians also found a fine mist of blood spatter at the headboard of the couple's bed. The evidence was collected and sent to the crime lab for analysis for investigators.

The discovery of so much blood was not encouraging. The amount of blood in the suite main was a significant amount of blood and someone would have been at least directly injured had she not died, although investigators believed someone to be Ruby Morris, they soon discovered that the blood recovered from the house was too degraded for DNA analysis technicians to definitive. He began searching Earl Morris' vehicle for clues. The search revealed the presence of several large blood stains on the passenger side carpet. Samples were collected and sent for DNA testing, although analysis would take time. Police speculated that Earl Morris had murdered her wife and then transported her.The body in his El Camino and that meant Ruby's body could be anywhere between Phoenix and San Diego when investigators began the difficult task of trying to locate Ruby's remains.

One of the couple's daughters came forward with information that Earl owned a boat and kept it docked in San Diego. Diego, believing there had to be a connection, police contacted authorities there a few days later. San Diego Harbor Police sent a videotape to Maricopa County investigators. The tape filmed the same day Ruby was reported missing showed a boat burning at sea and authorities had positively identified it. As it belonged to Earl Morris to the detectives, the meaning was clear. We speculate that Earl rented another boat to tow her boat and actually set it on fire to hide Ruby's body and also the murder weapon.

At this time, the boat finally sank in a treacherous location. Waters too deep to recover Despite the clumsy lies Earl Morris was telling the police, it looked like he might get away with it. Murder detectives in Maricopa County, Arizona, were convinced that Earl Morris had murdered her 49-year-old wife Ruby and then buried her in a watery pit. grave several hundred miles off the California coast without a gun or the victim's body, they would have to rely on forensic evidence to prove the murder, first they would have to prove that the blood found at Earl's El Camino belonged to his wife without To compare Ruby's known samples with the evidence, examiners turned to a process called reverse paternity typing, which isolates strands of DNA that are passed unchanged from mother to child.

Maricopa County Sheriff's Crime Lab Supervisor James Serpa then compared the genetic profile of the samples collected in El Camino to those. generated from Ruby's two daughters and her brothers, the blood stain on the El Camino carpet was the mother of Ruby's children and the brother and sister of Ruby's brother, although her case was largely circumstantial. Investigators arrested Earl Morris and charged him with murder through his Attorney Earl declined to comment as the trial approached. Investigators struggled to find more incriminating evidence against Earl Morris. I found little else, then word came that Earl Morris wanted to talk and admitted that he had been lying to the authorities, but he said no.

To cover up the murder of his wife, Ruby said she had committed suicide. Earl said that in the early morning hours of June 4 he entered the master bedroom and found Ruby dead clutching the couple's .22 caliber pistol in her hand. There was blood everywhere wanting to save the family. The shame of suicide cleared the room and he took her body to San Diego, where he then disposed of her remains. He thought it would be easier for the family to accept that Ruby had decided to just get up and leave, even though the story sounded ridiculous. Police realized that Earl's suicide story had the potential to create reasonable doubt in the minds of jurors unless investigators could present compelling evidence to prove otherwise.

Earl Morris could be a free man without the ability to examine the victim's body. The story of Earl, Lieutenant, demonstrated it. Commander Rod Englert, an expert in bloodstain pattern analysis, was hired to assist in the investigation. Englert and Serpa began reexamining the headboard collected from the couple's bedroom when luminol was applied. Englert had no doubt that the blood spatter present looked like Fine Mist was the result of a specific type of injury, well, when there are crimes of violence, blood is classified into three main categories, the lower category uh, which is called impact low speed, splashes, just drops of blood, blood transfer stains, stains, the second category is from blunt trauma. which is called medium velocity and the third category that we are dealing with in this particular case is high velocity, which is a specific pattern, easy to identify, which is the atomization of blood and which comes from a gunshot.

The location of the splash on the headboard also allowed examiners to determine the position of the victim's head at the time she was shot. Ruby had been lying in a sleeping-like position, if that is the case, although the finding It was suspicious on its own, it did not contradict Earl Morris's suicide story after thoroughly photographing the blood stains Englert began to look for anomalies in the patterns, something immediately caught his attention when you look at the headboard from left to right, you have a pattern of blood going up in that direction, you have another blood pattern overlaying it and going in another direction, so you have his two conditions that do not occur at the same time, the blood stain patterns indicated that Ruby had been shot at least twice and if had taken his own life as a royal claim, it would have been difficult to get it right in the first place.

Ruby Morris would have been able to hit the gun which I was told was a 22 single action revolver. After a head shot into a large fountain of blood, she would have to be able to do it again and possibly even a third time and that is not Likely, investigators agreed based on forensic analysis, there could be no doubt that Ruby Morris had been murdered. Police believe that to avoid the financial ruin of a divorce, Earl Morris decided to kill his wife while Ruby slept in the bed of the couple he took out. .22 caliber pistol and shot him several times in the head after cleaning up the crime scene, he loaded his bleeding body into his El Camino and drove several hundred miles to San Diego, once there, he loaded his body and probably the murder weapon in his boat.

He set fire to the ship, returned to Shore, and began the process of covering up her crime with the help of Rod Englert's blood spatter analysis. Earl Morris was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. Earl Morris tried to explain the death of his wife. creating a story about suicide, but sometimes killers admit to killing their victims, the story they tell investigators is one of self-defense around 1:30 a.m. m. On October 18, 1984, the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department received a frantic 9-1-1 call. Brett, 24 years old. Harris said his mother Barbara had been murdered. His stepfather Bob Geisler was also dead distraught.

Brett was threatening to take his own life. Sacramento County Sheriff's deputies rushed to the scene as they approached the house, they made a strange discovery: a man identified as Brett Harris was hiding in a tree after convincing him, one of the officers entered the residence, come here, They come to the master bedroom. They discovered a gruesome scene: a woman was lying dead on the mattress and on the floor nearby there was another lifeless body. Sacramento County Sheriff's Department deputies were dispatched to the home of Bob Geisler, 52, and his wife Barbara, 55. Investigators questioned Barbara's son, Brett Harris, who had called 9-1-1 after some time and was able to tell what had happened.

Brett said that around 1:30 a.m. he heard a commotion and then a scream coming from his parents room when he entered his room he saw his stepfather standing over his lifeless mother he saw an ax handle lying on the floor as he went to grab it his stepfather then attacked him with a cutter Brett said he managed to overpower him and in self-defense his stepfather beat him to death the young man was transported to the police station the evidence technicians went to the bedroom according to Crime Scene Unit Investigator Brian Kennedy both victims had been Their heads were savagely beaten and their faces were grotesquely disfigured and there were blood stains everywhere.

The surface at some point in the air must have been filled with atomized fog or drops of blood falling from the air. It was quite a horrendous sight. Technicians began searching for evidence to help them piece together what had happened inside the room, in addition to the ax handle. Investigators also recovered a blood-stained box cutter that was found resting on Bob Geisler's chest. All of the bloodstain patterns were carefully photographed here as the search for the house continued. Officers followed a trail of bloody shoe prints leading from the bedroom to the kitchen. He stopped in front of an open drawer, not knowing what to do with the findings.

Officers created a visual record of the evidence at the police station. Investigators struggled to get coherent answers from Brett Harris. He did not answer their questions and began to ramble about the devil and other things that made little sense. The officers photographed several superficial wounds on his body. The police also collected his blood-stained clothes with so many unanswered questions. The police hoped that the autopsies of the victims could tell them more the medical examiner concluded that Bob and Barbara Giesler had died of massive blunt force trauma to the skull the beatings had been so savage that both of the victim's arms had been broken while defending themselves during the assaults The Special Assistant Attorney General David Drewliner followed the investigation for him the results of the autopsy were worrying the cruelty with which the two individuals were murdered, Harris' mother and his stepfather were extremely similar and therefore if the stepfather had been the murderer of his own wife and then Harris had been The Stepfather's killer, I wouldn't necessarily have expected it to be so identical.

In this way the authorities could not ignore the possibility that a single person had committed both murders and if Brett Harris was responsible for the cruel

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homicide, investigators needed to discover what could have motivated such fury. Brett's stepsister told detectives that her stepmother and father had always maintained a good relationship with Brett, although Brett sometimes faced legal problems, his mother and stepfather always took care of him by bailing him out of jail on several occasions. Brett's stepfather even employed him in his tool-making company in the hope that the young man would recover. Although Brett suffered from a psychiatric condition, his stepsister said that he had made progress in recent months and that with the help of medication his prospects for life future were promising.

He added that Bob and Barbara's relationship was strong and that he couldn't imagine his father would ever hurt his stepmother. Nothing investigators had learned matched Brett Harris' version of events, believing the 24-year-old was hiding something, they turned to examiners at the Sacramento County Sheriff's Crime Lab for answers. There examiner Brian Kennedy looked for blood evidence to help him reconstruct. The crime, this was an interesting case in which we had three people in a house where only one person came out alive and he had a story, the story was not complete and it was totally impossible to reconstruct everything.

I tried to back up his story. I looked at him to see if I could prove him right, but in one of the photographs taken in the bedroom Kennedy noticed something strange, although the entire room had been saturated with the victim's blood, the carpet under the stepfather's body was clean to Kennedy, there seemed to be only one way to explain that fact: he falls to the ground and is incapacitated and protects the ground from any blood that may come from his wife, so we know that he falls first because she is then attacked and her blood covers the rest of the room. and we can, we can put her blood on top of him, but we can't put it under him.

The finding contradicted Brett's story that his mother had already been beaten and she was bleeding when she entered the room and the evidence now points to Brett. Harris, like the murderer of his mother Kennedy, began analyzing blood stains on his clothing as evidence, but serological testing showed that all the blood on his clothing had originated from his stepfather. . Kennedy now wondered if it was possible that Brett had hit his mother while he was avoiding getting her blood. To find out, he devised a blood splatter experiment that simulated the position of the aggressor. He began hitting blood-soaked sponges with a wooden instrument to see how the resulting blood spatters stained his clothes.

The result surprised him. The first two strokes I really swung. head to the side, you know, so I don't get splashed all over my face and found out I wasn't getting anything. I just started to relax and let go. I started hitting him even harder and everything was going off. On the sides, very little, if any, answered me Kennedy had successfully demonstrated that Barbara's attacker could have avoided being spattered by her blood and, along with the other findings, it was clear that Brett Harris's story was a lie. , so the conclusion is both. Deceased people who do notThey could speak for themselves spoke volumes about the bloodstain patterns that were produced from them and I was unable to support or substantiate anything the defendant had said after being charged with two counts of first degree murder.

Brett Harris underwent a psychiatric examination. At evaluation, he now admitted to both murders, but claimed he acted in self-defense after explaining that his parents were possessed by witches. Brett Harris pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, although Brett had previously been diagnosed with a mental condition. Prosecutors believed the story. what he was saying now was just a desperate attempt to escape Justice. He wasn't crazy and by that I mean, did he know what he was doing? Did he know that he was actually killing human beings? Did he know that he was wrong and that there is something?

There is no doubt that the answer to those questions was yes and yes, he knew he was wrong, otherwise why did he call 9-1-1 immediately afterward? He knew it was a crime, but to win a murder conviction, authorities needed to find physical evidence. that the cold-blooded murders were not the result of a mad mind: forensic examiners in Sacramento, California, had shown that Brett Harris, 24, had brutally beaten his mother and stepfather to death after being accused of two counts of first-degree murder, the suspect said. Psychiatrists claimed that Bob and Barbara Giesler were possessed by witches and that he killed the couple in self-defense.

Brett Harris pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity and proves he was lying to avoid the death penalty. Authorities once again turned to forensic evidence. Examiner Brian Kennedy began looking at all the physical evidence recovered from the crime scene looking for anything that could prove that Brett Harris knew what he was doing at the time of the murders. He focused on the cutter found in Bob Giesler's chest after reviewing the autopsy. reports that Kennedy believed it was unlikely that the box cutter could have been used as a weapon against Brett, as he had previously claimed that both of our victims had their arms broken if you defended yourself with your arms and had something to hold on to and it was sufficiently severe enough to break your arm, you're going to lose control of whatever you're holding in your hand, chances are I seriously doubt you'll be able to hold on to someone's arm being broken and then placed on their chest, probably not He believed that Brett Harris had staged the crime scene to mislead investigators.

Kennedy then searched for a way to explain the cutter wounds found on his body. It looks like someone has self-inflicted these injuries because they are in the right place for a right. left-handed person was cut on the left arm was cut on the right cheek was cut from left to right on the chest so it's all very consistent with the staging of his own injuries the forensic findings provided irrefutable evidence that Brett Harris had gone to Great He goes out of his way to hide his guilt, prosecutors, those are not the actions of a sane man.

He physically changed the crime scene anticipating that the police would arrive at the crime scene, so he tries to deceive the authorities. Why do it? Why give any kind of explanation? He wouldn't have to do it although he is not sure why police believe that on October 18, 1984, Brett Harris sneaked into the couple's room while they were sleeping in their bed using the handle of an ax and beat Bob and Barbara to death. Giesler after finishing the murder he did. on the way to the kitchen he cut himself with a box cutter he took out of the utility drawer and returned to the bedroom to plant the evidence confronted with Woody in Brett Harris dropped his insanity defense pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree murder and one count of second-degree murder was sentenced to 41 years to life in prison.

Killers skilled in the art of deception hope to confuse investigators by manipulating the crime scene, but forensic experts can find justice for homicide victims by uncovering the killer's lies written in tainted letters. blood