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Investigators find a clue they believe will lead them to a killer's front door, but instead find themselves heading down a dead end. Now their most important evidence is fading before their eyes when a man reports that his wife lost her abandoned car. It becomes the most important clue, but it's intrusive. The neighbors drive the investigation four months after her marriage, a woman disappears, but when her body appears it becomes clear that she was not a runaway bride. Investigators must rely on flimsy evidence to catch the killer for some lovers. Marriage can be murder, although proving it can be risky.

Defiance Killers Can't Divorce the Consequences of Their Broken Vows In the early morning hours of December 28, 1995, Melinda and David McLean entered their sister-in-law Becky Vargas' apartment. The phone and electricity to his unit were out. It wasn't on yet, Becky was separating from her husband and had just rented her apartment in Ogden, Utah. Becky had told her husband Stephen Vargas that she was going to try to start organizing her belongings and that she would return in an hour or two, but that was several hours. Hours ago, Stephen had asked Melinda and David to keep an eye on her since they lived close to her.

Melinda, who was Steven's sister and Becky's best friend, was glad to go even though they didn't see Becky. Everything seemed calm and safe, leaving them unprepared for what they found. Becky Vargas. She was lying dead in the leaves outside the building before the sun even came up. The Weber County, Utah, crime scene investigation unit began their day processing the crime scene. The victim's blouse had been lifted at first glance. The state of her clothing made her look like the victim of a random sexual homicide, but a closer look revealed that the story wasn't that simple. Criminologist Russ Dean thought the scene might have been staged.

It was as if her body had been moved from one place to another. Her arm was under her body as if she had been dragged, her coat was taken off and it was under her body, the leaves were bunched in certain places around her arms and legs and there was no other obvious indication of any type of sexual assault, in fact, although the victim had suffered a head injury. most of her blood had reached her feet, suggesting she had been turned over. Whoever did this had apparently tried to mislead investigators, the forensic team documented and collected a set of car keys, a lighter, fragments of blood-spattered blades and, most significantly, the apparent murder weapon - a

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, stained flashlight. of blood and tangled with hair they spent six hours checking every inch of the area before they were satisfied they determined that although the body had been repositioned the victim had not been moved very far only blood was found Just a few centimeters from where he lay because the flashlight stained with blood was the most compelling clue, it was first analyzed at the Utah State Crime Laboratory in Salt Lake City.

Investigators were able to see that she had a partial fingerprint stamped in blood based on the latent print. examiner scott spute a bloody fingerprint can be even better than a smoking gun when we have a bloody fingerprint, for example, it's the victim's blood, it's not his finger, it's someone else's finger on the evidence, it's a crucial piece of evidence to identify someone being at the crime scene leaving that bloody footprint at the scene when they left, it would be bad practice to focus on that footprint, the lab had to inspect the flashlight for additional footprints, the obvious ones and the ones that remained invisible, it took two separate processes the blood stains because they are not oily they can be chipped or rubbed to fix them in place the flashlight was heated to 100 degrees celsius for 10 minutes after heating it, then I put a stain there that It is called metallic black which reacts to the blood and makes it very visible and often highlights areas of blood that were invisible before treatment to reveal the latent or invisible prince the flashlight was exposed to super glue vapor the adhesive adheres to moisture in the impression creating a durable cover that exposes and preserves it then a fluorescent dye is applied that adheres to the super glue the latent prints glow under ultraviolet light the tests revealed that there are no blood stained prints other than the original along with the latent prince would have to be enough once the suspect was isolated investigators were sure the bloody fingerprint was all they needed as they examined clues melinda mclean and her husband david went to the police station to give their statements melinda told the police who had been becky vargas's best friend for 14 years alone and then we came back.

Becky had been married to her brother Stephen Vargas for nine of them, but it seemed like her marriage was coming to an end, as far as she knew, the split was amicable, but you know he's trying to work things out. Becky was having an affair that her husband Stephen Vargas may have suspected. There didn't seem to be much tension between the couple. It was Stephen who called the mcleans to investigate her after the police told him they had no officers available. to check on his wife, David McLean, down the hall, told police a similar story. He said Stephen Vargas had called him just before 11 p.m. the night before the murder.

Steve went there. Steven was worried because he was away from the apartment for so long. It didn't have lights he said he and Melinda drove by even though Becky's car was in the driveway there was no answer they went to a window to see if everything was okay but they stopped when they heard moaning they thought maybe her boyfriend was there like that They went to a pay phone to tell Stephen that everything was fine, told him what they had heard, and then left. David told police that out of curiosity they returned to Becky's house a short time later and were surprised to see Steven Vargas' Jeep parked.

The front soon appeared from the side of the building, got into the vehicle and drove off, David said they caught up with him, bundled up, Steven was wearing his bathrobe and slippers, he told him he wanted to see Becky himself, but asked them to the mcleans not to tell anyone. He was there when David revealed this detail to the police. Melinda reluctantly admitted it was true. David told police that Stephen called him one more time early the next morning. He said Becky was still not home and asked him to check on her again. That's when they found. his death at the autopsy, the medical examiner determined that the flashlight found at the scene was not the actual murder weapon, but may have been used to subdue the victim because of the shape of the wound, apparently it was hit with a hammer or something similar .

When said object was located, the killer was smart enough to take or eliminate some of the most incriminating evidence. Authorities hoped he had left enough at the police station. Investigators continued talking to the mcleans. Its detailed story seemed to revolve around Stephen Vargas. It then took a more provocative turn when the police operator told Detective David Wheeloff that Vargas was on the phone but not calling about his wife, she said he was on the phone asking about his sister and brother-in-law and if in fact , we were at the police station and I told the operator that yes, we are talking to her and if she would ask if she would mind going to the police station too, the police told her about Becky's murder and told her that her his in-laws were fine, but he might not be because Melinda and David saw him at the crime scene.

He admitted that he was there that night just as the mcleans had said. He looked out the window, but he didn't hear or see anything because the window was fine. next to where the victim was found, Wheeloff didn't believe him if Steve had gone there to look and listen, I don't think it would have been likely that he wouldn't have seen Becky lying just a few feet away, her suspicious behavior and the El The McLeans' eyewitness testimony was enough to obtain a warrant to search Stephen Vargas' Jeep and take his fingerprints and a blood sample. Investigators were looking for anything that could link it to the crime scene and found nothing more than tiny fragments of leaves and not even many of those.

I actually wish I could find my little one. The jeep looked freshly vacuumed. Vargas and they sent him home the forensic team hoped they wouldn't have to rely on the sheets now that they had Vargas' fingerprint. I could compare it to the ones on the flashlight, most of the prints actually matched Steven Vargas's, but that made sense. He was the owner, so the only one that really mattered was the one stamped in blood. The bloody fingerprint had a shape called a blood-stained arch. The three features of fingerprints: looped arches and spiral arches are the least common and tent-shaped arches are even rarer.

Only five percent of the population has them. Stephen Vargas was among that group, but the fingerprint on the flashlight was not clear enough to make a definitive comparison. Vargas could have left it and maybe not. I can't say he didn't leave that mark. I can only say that it is not enough to positively identify it. They thought the flashlight would illuminate the killer without it. Their hopes of solving the case seemed considerably higher. Shadowy investigators working to solve Becky Vargas' homicide saw her most promising piece of evidence turn useless according to Detective Wheeloff. A case that seemed cut and dried was now relying on very fragile leads after we lost the flashlight on the last piece of physical evidence we had.

The ones we could try to do anything with were the leaf fragments recovered from the jeep, if investigators could find flecks of blood on the small fragments it would support the idea that Stephen Vargas was close enough to the body to have traced them to his jeep it was the criminal supervisor's turn short-sleeved pillar to analyze the tiny samples trying to see blood on a small piece of colorful leaf was difficult, so we used a stereo zoom so we could crouch down and look very closely at the leaves and then make a kind estimation If we had any stains and then we did some preliminary tests with the five leaf samples, Pilar Short Sleeve found traces of blood on two, but she had no evidence that the blood was from the victims, she took the samples to a DNA laboratory for your analysis.

Fearing that it is already too late when blood or body fluids are left on the ground or in samples containing many possible bacteria, the bacteria immediately begin to destroy the sample, destroying not only the cells, but also entering the DNA and starting to break down. . DNA took three months for the results to come back from the lab. The researchers had to bide their time but they did not do so idly. They had to assume that the results would be negative and began to build their case differently. Police served a warrant to search Vargas' apartment. They were looking for the bathrobe and slippers she was seen wearing at the crime scene.

If he had beaten his wife to death, they would surely be splattered with blood. Vargas left his clothes visible. Detectives easy to find. he was supposed to be wearing a bathrobe and a pair of slippers the bathrobe was freshly laundered the slippers had no trace of debris on them which in itself was strange considering he admitted to walking outdoors in them it looked like Stephen Vargas was one step away ahead of us Getting rid of any physical evidence that could link you to the crime scene, it seemed like every step we thought of to locate that evidence was thwarted, Robert, but there was one clue I couldn't bury because it was 375 miles away in Cheyenne Wyoming.

After several weeks of wrestling with his conscience, Vargas's half-brother, Robert Esquivel, called the police to tell them about a favor Stephen had asked of him before Becky's murder, Steve had asked him if he would come here and kill Becky. For him, the police installed a wiretap in Esquivel's apartment and asked him to call Vargas to talk about their previous conversation. steve had gone through this, denying it, not remembering that part of their conversation that had been a joke and towards the end it even became threatening, although it stopped short of a confession vargas had said enough for the police to arrest him on the 11th January 1996 for the murder of Becky Vargas but they were not sure they had enough evidence to convict him a month after the results of the DNA test on the blood-spattered leaves found in Stephen Vargas' Jeep came through a comparison of DNA from blood inleaves matched becky vargas's dna blood on the blood fragments matched rebecca vargas now authorities were confident in a conviction based on evidence police prepared a probable scenario stephen vargas angry with his wife for her infidelity and upcoming divorce confronted her in her new apartment, they fought and he hit her with a flashlight leaving her unconscious, he moved her to the side of the house thinking she was dead, he was wrong, he wanted someone else to find her. her body, so she asked the mcleans to check on her, they mistook her deadly throws for the throes of passion when they told Stephen that she returned to finish what he had started using a more lethal weapon. .

Small fragments of leaves told the whole story well. In this particular case we had this flashlight that had a possible fingerprint in blood and that would have been the piece of evidence that closed all the loose ends, but it didn't happen in this case, it was a very small piece of blade that was found in a vehicle that had blood coming from the victim and it was the interesting and exciting part that something so small could be so integral to a case. Stephen Vargas was convicted of first degree murder and is now serving 20 years. years to life the case of becky vargas began with the discovery of her body but when a person simply disappears it is not clear that a crime has been committed in this story the names of the victim and the murderer have been changed on the morning of July 311987 Dan Remington from San Diego, California, was taking his children to the ymca on the route and noticed his wife's abandoned car on the side of the road, not wanting to alarm his children, he dropped them off at daycare and then rushed to house to call the police. sent an officer en route to Remington's home, he stopped to examine the vehicle, the car apparently had a flat tire, the doors were locked and he could not see any spare parts or any sign of Liz Remington, 29, the officer arrived at Remington's house, Dan Remington. told him he last saw his wife at 10:30 the night before when she left for work after he saw her car at 7:30 he called the hospital where she was a maternity nurse but she hadn't shown up Remington admitted that their 12- The year the marriage was difficult, Dan gave the officer a car key and granted him permission to impound it for clues, while it was possible that Liz's disappearance could be logically explained.

Missing persons cases fell under the domain of the homicide unit they were in charge of. Skills in collecting and preserving every piece of potential evidence found at the scene. You verify this and tow the car to the police garage. Any overlooked clues will be retained in case the car requires a closer look. Detectives visited a nearby convenience store thinking Liz might have done it. He went there after his tire went flat, the employee told him that she had been out the night before he needed to tear up a 20 bill to make a phone call, he didn't know who he called, police recalled Dan Remington telling them He said there was no call home, it seemed reasonable to believe he had simply run off with someone else.

Liz's sister told police it was inconceivable. She wasn't the type of woman to run away from a failed marriage; no matter how bad things got, she would never leave her children behind, Sergeant. Dennis Brugos of the San Diego Metro Task Force found that this was the consensus: She was very devoted to her children and her family, she helped at school, she helped in Little League, and she just wasn't the kind of woman who would ever move away from his family. Liz's sister. She told police it was strange that the spare tire was missing. Dan had changed the oil two weeks earlier and made it a point to thoroughly inspect the car, including the spare tire.

Investigators took statements from Remington residents. Many talked about the deterioration of the relationship between Liz and Dan. Information. was duly noted but in terms of evidence that any crime had been committed investigators had absolutely nothing at the time of liz remington's disappearance the san diego police were dealing with an apparent serial killer because there was no evidence that remington had abandoned against her will these more violent crimes took priority, there was no body, there were no weapons and therefore she was simply one of the many missing adults throughout this county and at that particular time, they were actually A series of things happened in which more than 40 women found themselves. murdered in the eastern area of ​​the county with such certainty that it would have a precedent for a missing person.

Four years had passed since Liz Remington's disappearance, most of the murdered women were passersby or prostitutes, so she was not considered one of the killer's victims, but when a task force was formed to investigate the serial murders , her file also turned up and investigators realized she was still missing after all this time. Neighbors recorded statements and detective reports were dusted long before Liz's disappearance. They had kept a close eye on the Remingtons and had helped Liz out when she went. Over time, friction between the couple increased and neighbors became concerned about her and her children. One even kept a record of what happened in the house after Liz disappeared to show how Remington's relationship had deteriorated.

A neighbor told investigators how Dan tried to sell Liz's car without her permission according to the neighbor Liz was not only shocked, she was furious, a big fight ensued, he said the only reason Dan didn't sell the vehicle It was because Liz had the only key he wouldn't give it to. him, but police recalled that on the day Liz disappeared, Dan had the key to her vehicle in her possession. Police also learned that neighbors had reported seeing Dan Remington filling in a ravine at the back of his property with an excavator shortly after Liz disappeared. after her disappearance, he was seen visiting that part of the property every few days.

He never ventured back there before she notably disappeared because the case had never been officially closed. Liz's car had remained impounded this entire time. Dan had filed a lawsuit to have him released, but it was technically lost. It was still considered evidence and would now be examined further. The first thing investigators found were coins in the ashtray. Liz had allegedly last been seen by a convenience store employee when she wanted change to make a phone. The employee's statement suggested that Now the investigators weren't so sure since she had a lot of change in her car, they contacted the employee to interview him again.

That store employee actually said that he wasn't too sure it was her, which helped us establish the fact that we really didn't know for sure if she was there. Suspicions of foul play had been raised. Rubose wondered if the flat tire could have been faked. Sent the flat tire on Liz's car to Goodyear Tire and Rubber in Akron, Ohio, their lab is designed to evaluate the causes of tire failure here the tire was examined on the tire report if the tire was underinflated it is still underinflated Investigators found no external signs of damage only a small puncture that would have led to slow deflation once the leak was isolated Product Analysis Manager Chester Patterson removed the tire from its stand and examined it further for its appearance.

The tire went flat after the car stopped. We didn't see any damage to this tire. We saw no reason to have alerted any driver in the vehicle that anything was softening. or if the tire was going flat because to do that the tires began to come apart and that damage was seen in the tire itself and we did not see such damage, but he did see something that he had never seen in his 35 years of experience. . The tire removed from Liz Remington's car had been punctured from the inside out. I see these two impressions, circular impressions just below the punctures on the tire and we noticed the rust in them and they told me that someone had taken a nail and hit it on the inside. of the tire to cause those circular nailhead impressions in the liner itself, concluded that the tire had definitely been tampered with.

Four years after Liz Remington's disappearance, investigators had enough to obtain a warrant to search Dan Remington's home. , they found nothing of importance inside outside different floors in the yard a police backhoe went to work excavating the filled ravine the backhoe had probably been on the job for two or three hours when it got caught on a piece of chain link fence that was lying flat the digging slowed down what we found Under that chain link fence was a tire, the tire was the missing tire from Liz's car and under that tire wrapped in sheets and blankets was the body of a woman and a missing person investigation It officially became a murder case, the body was considered a Jane Doe.

Until a positive identification could be made, a forensic anthropologist determined that the remains were those of a Caucasian woman who had died from blunt force trauma to the head. She was in her 20s or 30s, about the same height as Liz Remington. It seemed like they had found what they were looking for, but the law required more evidence than that forensic dentist. Norman Sperber was called on everything that depends on teeth. Teeth are the most durable part of the body and luckily we had dental movies from his dentist. We were able to take movies. of his teeth because they were in very good condition by comparing the shape and position of the fillings and the victim's teeth with Liz Remington's dental records.

Sperber was able to make a positive identification. Liz Remington had been found because investigators found the victim wrapped in bedding. She believed Dan killed her while she was taking a nap before work, then took the body to the ravine, buried it in a shallow grave and then rented the earth-moving equipment, shortly afterward he piled up eight to twelve feet of dirt and then He drove to the scene and replaced the good tire with the one he had punctured the next morning, reporting his wife missing, confident that the police would never rebuild it. His unwitting accomplice was a suspected serial killer who demanded all the resources of the police department, but clues eventually resurfaced exposing the crime.

Although Remington's exact motive will never be known, authorities believe he could not bear the shame of divorce or the fact that he would lose half of his wealth and property in October 1992. Dan Remington was convicted of the first degree murder of his wife. was sentenced to life in prison without parole remington went to great lengths to conceal his crime others take an easier approach which sometimes makes his crimes more difficult to solve on september 21, 1995 a body was discovered in a wooded area in boise idaho plastic bags tied with duct tape wrapped around his feet and head due to his state of decomposition, he had obviously been there for several days.

No identification found. No attempt was made to conceal the body. It appeared to have been thrown there hastily due to its position and wrappings, investigators could not. Even the sex of the victim could not be determined without disturbing an already disturbing scene. At this point, anything could be a clue, so the body was not unwrapped or inspected until it arrived at the morgue, where it was examined under controlled conditions, the tape was care

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y cut and the bags removed and preserved. The victim was a woman around 60 years old the coroner determined that she was strangled most likely she was killed elsewhere wrapped and transported to the forest where she was found fit the description of juan de kuzma chef reported missing six days earlier Wanda had been reported as disappeared by her second husband, Ben Kuzmachef, when she did not return from work.

The couple had been married for just four months. Both had retired from the large company they worked for. Ben, a Russian immigrant who was once artistic director of the Idaho Ballet. He now worked for a security company after Ben reported him missing. Detectives wondered if Wanda had had second thoughts about her second marriage and had simply run away, but a check of her jewelry and possessions showed that she had taken nothing with her - never a good sign - and then her body was found in the car. The victim had not been found so the bag in which she was wrapped became the most important clue.

Criminalist Cynthia Hill went to work examining them, it was all she had good in this case we did not have a murder weaponThere were no eyewitnesses and the place where Wanda was found was not the crime scene, so all of these things were working against us. Hill sprayed the bags with superglue to highlight the fingerprints. The glue contained in the aluminum bags vaporizes and adheres to the print, preserving it. It can then be sprinkled with powder to make it more visible and then photographed to create a record. Only a footprint was found on the bag around the victim's legs, but so far he had no one to compare her to Ben Kuzmachef.

He was called to the police station to provide a set of prints for comparison in a murder investigation it is standard procedure to get a spouse usually eliminates the spouse as a suspect in this case that's not how it worked the print on the bag matched pens which did not necessarily mean that he would have had anything to do with his wife's murder if the bag had been taken from the victim's own car. Ben could have manipulated it before its use in the crime. The print was lifted from a portion of the bag where one would normally grab it in terms. of evidence it was not enough that these people live together, they are touching objects that others touch, you have to be able to find a fingerprint in a place where they normally would not have touched or it is in conjunction with another piece of evidence that puts them at the scene.

Hill still believed the bags could contain more prints, although he didn't have the technology to lift them. He knew the Royal Canadian Mounted Police crime lab did. If Prince was there, the cops could find them, or that's what she did. She hoped that she had care

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y packed her suitcases, she had sent them to Canada and was waiting for the results while Cynthia Hill was waiting for her prince to come from Canada. Investigators in Idaho found Wanda Kuzmachev's car. It had been more than a week since her body was discovered. The vehicle had been abandoned in a store parking lot four miles from where it was found.

Police processed the vehicle for fingerprints. Two prints were removed from the trunk lid. Their location suggested they were left by the person who was closing the trunk. inside investigators found something surprising nothing at all to detective david smith of the boise, idaho police department, which was an important discovery when talking to family members, they said she always carried her Jehovah's Witnesses literature in the trunk, in fact, they said that nothing could be put in their trunk because it was too full, but the trunk was not there. Completely empty, investigators found a single drop of blood belonging to the victim, who had put it in the trunk and had also left fingerprints on Prince's gear shift knob in the trunk and on the gear shift knob matching Ben Kuzmachet's.

The researchers faced the same challenges as before. The car belonged to Ben's wife, it made sense that he could leave her fingerprints, but it seemed strange that his was the only clear prince found, especially since he told the police that, as far as he knew, Wanda was the last person in driving the vehicle. The evidence suggested that Ben drove him last, leaving the lighter Prince behind. Tests were done to show that in about 70 percent of all cases, the last person who drives the car and activates the gear shift will be the last to drive it. destroy the prince of the person who drove the car before and leave her prince at the gearshift level the prince assured the

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70 that ben kuznetsov was lying that was not good enough an inspection of the car seat revealed another clue he only wanted a height in which she was five foot four and weighed 140 pounds, when I looked at the seat it seemed like it was farther back than usual for a woman of that size to drive the vehicle, so I placed a five-foot-four, 140-pound woman inside the vehicle. she couldn't reach the pedals, what appeared to be a comfortable driving position.

On the contrary, I put a man with the corresponding bank description, five thousand one hundred and ninety pounds in the driver's seat and they fit very comfortably. The experiment provided more circumstantial proof that Ben was a liar, but it still did not prove that he was a murderer. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police laboratory had conducted its tests on the garbage bag used to wrap Wanda Kuzmachev's body. The test called vacuum metal deposition is a state of the art method of lifting difficult prints from plastic, the bag was placed in a vacuum chamber and then gold ions were applied to it that adhere to the plastic but not to the oily prince. , is then exposed to ionized zinc that adheres only to gold, leaving the prince intact. and in contrast to the plastic, the process revealed a second fingerprint on the bag, according to Cynthia Hill, the position of this fingerprint was much more incriminating.

The second fingerprint that was developed using vacuum metal deposition showed that he had direct contact with that bag because the position of the hand was in such a way that he would be gripping the plastic bag that was wrapping the tape around wanda and it would be the The only thing that would leave the fingerprint in that position at that time in most cases would be enough to win a conviction, but investigators weren't so sure that proving a marital murder with fingerprints alone would be a tough sell. The prints and other evidence they gathered gave them enough to obtain a search warrant for Kuzmachev's home.

They found no signs that this was at the crime scene but they did find literature about Jehovah's Witnesses that the victim's family said she never took out of her car. The articles presented more circumstantial evidence that Ben had been involved in the murder in January 1996, four months after crime investigators were still building their case against Ben Kuznetsov he began to feel the circle of evidence closing on him and announced that he would return to Russia at which point the police had no choice but to charge him. of wanda if he returned to russia he would be a free man beyond Although they had enough to arrest him, they were not sure they had a solid case for murder in the first between the time of his arrest and the trial date.

Investigators continued to gather evidence against Kuzmachenk's surveillance in prison. He couldn't make a statement. moving without authorities knowing, we placed monitoring devices on approximately 17 phones inside the Ada County Jail, giving us the ability to monitor their conversations as outgoing and whoever they were seeing as a visitor. The end result was that we received nothing that could be used in court. Nothing incriminating emerged from the phone calls, but help came from an unlikely source. Kuzmachev had confided details of his crime to his cellmate. The prisoner was disturbed by the prisoner's lack of remorse. Kuznetsov reported the details to the authorities with whom he had nothing to gain.

In doing so, Ben and his cellmate were watching television one night when the media reported that we had located a witness who had told us that there had actually been sold duct tape and trash bags to Ben. The inmate told us that Ben thought it was funny that he actually bought them from this lady, but they weren't the ones we were looking for, that he used the inmate's information in the crime, although the rumors provided one more blow against Ben. Kuzmachev. The researchers realized that they had gathered everything they were going to get. I'm not sure they had enough, but since Ben was likely to be released and flee to Russia, they had to take the case to trial from what the police could gather four months after his marriage.

Van Wanda's honeymoon is over. He had depended on her money, but he wanted her. to return to her homeland, she refused to go, their animosity grew and Ben strangled her, wrapped her body in plastic bags, emptied the trunk of his car, picked her up and dumped her in the woods, then abandoned the car in parking based on accumulated evidence ben kuzmachef was convicted of the second degree murder of his wife wanda and sentenced to 21 years to life in prison by detective david smith solving this case meant more than just delivering justice you get personally involved i mean , this guy has come to your town committed this heinous act and now he has this grieving family that he wants to do everything in his power to solve this case and that's how I take it personally and I know any other experienced homicide detective It will tell you the same thing when your spouse kills your spouse.

The clues are sometimes difficult to read, but combining forensic science with good detective work can piece together what the killer had been trying to tell us.