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in Miami it looks like a robbery gone wrong at least that's what the killer maintains, but two

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, if the clues reveal the truth, a man dies in the flames of his burning truck, but the real crime scene is miles away away, can forensics prove that connection? In a double homicide, the only witness reports that the victims were killed by a ninja assassin. Some kill out of hate, others kill out of love, but for others, murder is part of a day's work. His services are available to anyone willing to pay the price of his death. feelings in the early morning hours of March 7, 1986, police received a call from the home of Stan and Joyce Cohen in Coconut Grove, Florida, at 5:25 a.m. m.

Joyce had frantically dialed 911, an intruder had broken into her home. Stan Cohen, a 52-year-old owner of a construction company, had been shot four times in the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene. I am a psychic detective. Baldy led the investigation. It was John Spear. When I arrived at the place, I met Joyce Cohen, as there were only two people in the house. to Joyce Cohen when this homicide occurred now my teachings and my beliefs are that when you have two people in a house or a room or anywhere and one of them ends up dead you should suspect the other person until your suspicions are allayed, the suspicions They can only take one investigator so far and ultimately mean nothing in a court of law, the truth is told through evidence.

Meanwhile, the medical examiner performed an autopsy on Stan Cohen and ruled that gunshot was the official cause of death. He was told that the victim was murdered between 5:15 and at 5:20 that morning he had no reason to question it as the forensic team invaded Cohen's home. Joyce went to the police station and agreed to a routine swab test for gunpowder residue, any gunshot, traces of gunshot residue while she waited for the results she gave. her statement according to Joyce, she and Stan were awakened by a noise downstairs. Stan took the gun from him and the two went to investigate.

A quick search of the house showed there was nothing wrong. Relieved, the couple returned to bed, but Joyce claimed that she couldn't sleep, so she went downstairs at approximately 5:00 a.m. m. A friend called from Colorado while they were talking, she heard a noise in the kitchen and noticed the glass on the kitchen door was broken, she said she hung up on her friend and then saw a figure running down the stairs. she and she walked out the door and ran up the stairs to see Stan. She found him bleeding in bed. She couldn't wake him up.

She dialed 9-1-1 when I informed her that there were some inconsistencies in this particular story she told me about the homicide. She irritatedly demanded that the forensic team immediately leave her house and not return without a search warrant. She said that she did not want them to take or touch any of her husband's things. Detective Speer couldn't understand her hostile reaction now if a loved one of mine or anyone else I know of was murdered. I think they would cooperate 100% with the police. She wasn't cooperating with Speer. It appears that she knew more than she was letting on until warrant position investigators were excluded from the Cohen Four home.

Hours later, the documentation arrived. Joyce Cohen was served with the injunction and the team was back in action. They went in to look for fingerprints. Joyce was called to the police station to continue questioning her. The residue evidence on her hands had already returned. from the laboratory tested positive showing that she had had contact with gunpowder. She calmly gave

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an explanation when she discovered her husband's body in bed. She grabbed it and a pillow and possibly that was what caused her to have gunpowder residue on her. The investigators took note of her response and continued, noting that her story changed slightly from her first interview now, instead of saying that her friend called from Colorado at 5:00 a.m. m., she said it was closer to 3:00 a.m. m., which left a The two-hour gap between the time of the robbery and her call to 911 means nothing, it was too early to tell.

Evidence was still being gathered outside the house. Police discovered a gun on Gartner and she was taken to Miami police. crime scene investigation unit where it was examined by technical supervisor Silvia Román after photographing the weapon tried to lift fingerprints by smoking the weapon I found some evidence of fingerprints they were not of much value but the most significant thing I found was It looked like the gun had been cleaned. Ballistics showed it was the gun that killed Stan Cohen because it was one of the victim's guns. It seemed like a dead end, except it had a small clue.

The Romans found a piece of facial tissue trapped between the frame and the grip suggesting that the weapon had been wiped with a tissue. It also suggested another lead to look for facial tissue samples that were collected around the house in a trash can in the back bathroom down the hallway from the crime scene detectives found. a soil tissue with black residue was sent to the laboratory, the laboratory could not determine if in fact the tissue found in the gun exactly matched the tissue that had been sent to the laboratory, however, the tissue did have gunshot residue and also had Joyce Cohen's blood mucus in his nasal mucus which matched Joyce Cohen's blood type, it strongly suggested that Joyce had shot her husband and then wiped the gun with this tissue, but the facial tissue is not proof solid to win her Speer case.

He needed something more substantial. What he got was a confession from someone who wasn't even a suspect in the case against Joyce Cohen. Miami police were hampered by a lack of solid evidence, but a month after Stan Cohen's murder, the investigation took an unexpected turn in his career. A thief named Frank Mag Lyon was arrested for a separate crime he knew about Cohen's murder and wanted to make a deal. We learn that he and two other companions assisted in this homicide and that Stanley Cohen's wife, Joyce Cohen, paid them to commit this homicide. Joyce Cohen Magglio knew things that only someone involved could have known, so it was clear she was telling the truth, but even this shocking confession did not ensure that Joyce Cohen's conviction on the stand would come down to the words of a grieving widow versus the testimony of a career criminal.

Feeling that he did not have enough evidence to obtain a conviction, Speer spent two years pursuing the other men Magglio implicated, but they did not break, he had to rely solely on Mag Leone and forensic evidence to prove Joyce Cohen's involvement according to Mag Lyon. Joyce met with him and the others at a restaurant to plan the attack. Joyce had everything planned. It was supposed to look like a robbery gone wrong. They had to arrive home between 2:00 and 3:00 a. m. and they used Stan's gun. To kill it, Magli's own story had a persistent inconsistency. The time of the blow.

Phone records showed that Joyce called 911 not at 3:00 a.m. m. They also showed that her friends called from Colorado shortly before the 9-1-1 call around 5:00. It didn't make sense for Joyce to wait two hours to call the police and yet at 3 a. m. It is also the time when Joyce gave in his second statement what seemed like a possible slip of the tongue suddenly became crucial to the case, the police suspected that Joyce may have waited. To create her alibi, they followed that lead and learned that a guest at a neighbor's house was awakened the night of the murder by what sounded like gunshots.

She remembered looking at the clock. It was around 3:00 a.m. The information supported Spears' theory. but even this report was nothing more than circumstantial to truly determine the time of death needed the testimony of the victim Stanley Cohen originally the medical examiner had no reason to doubt the time of death according to Joyce Cohen and now recorded it at 5 :30 determining the time of death was more complicated, the body had been buried a long time ago, all that remained were photographs taken upon arrival at the medical examiner's office hours after death, blood deposited on the parts lower parts of the body in a process called lividity that creates pooled blood. telltale red marks due to the extent of the lividity marks a medical examiner can estimate the time of death Joyce Cohen's attorneys hired an expert witness who requested copies of the autopsy photographs and determined that there was no lividity when the images were taken photographs, which means the victim was murdered shortly after. after 5:00 a.m. m., as Joyce originally claimed, but because the defense was viewing reprints of the second generation photographs, the subtleties of the images were lost.

When testifying for the prosecution, the medical examiner reverted to his original photographs, the lividity was evident , meaning the victim was murdered around 3:00 a.m. m. Joyce had waited two hours to call the police and prove that she was part of the conspiracy to kill her husband. Magli's own testimony cast doubt on the moment of death. Autopsy photos confirmed her story. Forensics worked on Spatha's facial tissue. Furthermore, it demonstrated Joyce Cohen's connection to the murder of her husband at the agreed time. Magley himself and his team arrived at Cohen's house. She was awake and let them in.

They already knew where to find Stanley's gun. They went to the bedroom. She was shot four times and then ran away. the way they dropped the gun Joyce picked it up, wiped it with her handkerchief, and threw it out the window into the garden. She then perhaps blew her nose on her handkerchief and threw it in Far's bathroom, although it was never proven that she could have done so. She agreed with her friends in Colorado to call her and thus establish her alibi. Unfortunately, her friends called too late or there was some confusion over time zones.

Colorado was two hours ahead of Florida. Her own alibi betrayed her. Joyce Cohen received 40 years for murder and conspiracy to commit murder Frank Magli himself received 10 years The co-conspirators were also arrested and received sentences of no less than 39 years The murderers are optimistic and always believe they can get away with it, but Reality has a way of reaching you one fact at a time. On a sleepy Saturday morning in August 1988, a driver driving on a rural road outside Oklahoma City was startled by the sight of a burning truck. He got out to get a better look.

Curiosity turned to horror when he saw the body of a man lying there. the driver's side of the cab his leg dangling out the open door after the fire department put out the fire Oklahoma City police investigated the scene the vehicle was totaled one man was dead while police traced the vehicle to determine who it was victim The Sheriff's Department received a call from a woman whose husband had not returned from work Marilyn Plantz, an Oklahoma City homemaker, told the sheriff that her husband Jim, a newsroom supervisor at the newspaper , should have been home two hours ago.

She was distraught, it wasn't like him to be late. Marilyn said she had last seen her husband at dinner the night before, it was like any other night after dinner, he went to work, he didn't mention anything about having to stay late, the make and model of the truck Jim's Planes coincided with the burn. Later, dental records from the vehicle show that the victim was actually Jim. City officials had the unfortunate task of telling Marilyn Plantz that her husband had died in a horrible accident, but investigators weren't entirely convinced it was an accident. The road behind the truck raised questions about the condition of the truck itself, investigators quickly ruled out mechanical failure or a cigarette accident, as the source of the fire, Lt.

Ralph Gibson, led the investigation, we found there was a rag of cotton and partially a burn on the gas tank indicated as if someone tried to set it on fire to make it explode the actual fire was so hot that gasoline was used or something in that order that a burn so hot that the glass actually melted in the vehicle The ferocity of the fire gave investigators reason to suspect that the truck was intentionally set on fire, the autopsy fueled those suspicions and revealed that Plants suffered head trauma and broke his forearms, but his truck showed no signs of a collision, suggesting that they beat him and then placed him in the vehicle.

The gases in his lungs showed that he was still alive. When the truck was set on fire, the case was officially converted to homicide to find the killer. Gibson first needed to find the reason. Gibson learned from the plants as an employer that the victim had recently increased his life insurance.fifty thousand to two hundred ninety thousand dollars company that he had. a separate policy for an additional $20,000 for Jim's dead plants was worth over three hundred thousand dollars the increase in insurance definitely caught my attention as a motive for a homicide the beneficiary of the money was Jim's wife, Marilyn Plantz, it didn't seem likely that the the young mother would be strong enough to beat her husband to the brink of death and then drag him to her truck.

The investigators asked her routine questions about the state of her marriage, her financial situation, any enemies her husband might have had, and her answers were equally routine, no. Motives or enemies emerged from the conversation. It began to look like Plants may have been the victim of a random act of violence. Gibson persisted in the investigation as a routine we do when a job commits homicides. I do a background investigation on the victim and her associates. and their vehicles when Marilyn Plantz checked her vehicle I determined that there was talk about it a week before driving the car it was a man named Clifford Bryson Marilyn Plantz was the passenger police wanted to know if they witnessed the robbery of a van that just occurred Bryson said He believed recognize the driver.

It was a man named Roderick Ferris, with nothing else to turn to. Investigators followed this flimsy lead and decided to talk to Ferris. He didn't have to go far. Ferris was in the city jail accused of stealing the truck. Maybe he would be willing to trade information for a more lenient sentence. I asked him if he knew Marilyn Plantz and he said yes, he knew Marilyn. He said it was strange. She offered him $10,000 to kill her husband. He claimed them since he was in the city jail he had no knowledge that he had been murdered thanks to Ferris the cast of characters in this

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drama began to reveal themselves Ferris said that Marilyn made the same offer to Clifford Bryson said that Bryson and Marilyn were having an affair Bryson was called in for questioning and the finger- At first, Bryson claimed to have limited knowledge about the incident, but as the interrogation continued, he admitted that he knew about it beforehand and was not involved.

He said the man they were looking for was named Clinton McKimble. Bryson was arrested as an accomplice shortly. order Clinton with Tyndall was also questioned and arrested admitted that both he and Bryce and were the participants who were requested by Marilyn Plantz to kill Marilyn's husband, Jim, they waited inside the house they beat him with baseball bats until he was unconscious they took him to 50th Street and before and lighting the fire when the smoke cleared, Gilbert had confessions from the killers, but only had their word that Marilyn was the mastermind, unless he could find some physical evidence to back that up, she would be left free.

The police had every reason to suspect Marilyn Plantz. she planned the murder of her husband the problem was that they couldn't prove it confronted by the police she denied everything a search warrant was served on her home the alleged crime scene investigators removed what looked like a new carpet that was hiding stains and bleach stains On the wall-to-wall carpet below, they cut into the carpet revealing what looked like blood stains soaked into the padding that was collected for testing in the lab. Small telltale splatters were also picked up on the curtains and wall in the boy's bedroom closet; stained baseball bats were found, Bryson told police. that after burning the truck they returned to Marilyn's house because her clothes were covered in blood.

Marilyn gave the victims clothes to wear, they put her own clothes in a bag and threw them in a creek half a mile from her house floors. To corroborate bryson and mckimble's story, evidence was searched in the creek, the odds of finding this evidence were actually against us because we had several days of rain in the creek and the diligent team managed to find the clothing, evidence from the creek and the plants. The house was packaged, labeled and sent to the Oklahoma City police DNA serology lab, where each piece was tested to see if it contained blood and if that blood matched that of Jim Plants.

Only then would Bryson and Mckimble zyk demonstrate the result of the investigation. The case fell on the shoulders of forensic chemical supervisor Joyce Gilchrist, but some of the evidence did not seem hopeful. I was very surprised that when evidence was sent to our lab from clothing that was taken from a creek, the request was made by Detective Gibson. For me, to see if he could find blood or blood stains on the clothing. Cold running water is the best way to remove blood stains. The clothes had been in the stream for over a week. Gilchrist was fighting the odds, she knew the chances of detecting blood let alone. writing it would be difficult to find traces of blood Gilchrist used luminol which makes blood stains glow in the dark the luminol solution should be mixed just before use and applied immediately it was sprayed on the jeans then the lights were turned off the faint glow provided a flash Hoping the blood hadn't been washed away, he now had to see if his proteins were intact enough to identify whose it was before the advent of DNA testing.

The researchers relied on blood type, which is less accurate in determining blood type based on the evidence Gilchrist used. A technique called absorption illusion, bloody strands of genes were glued into small wells using ordinary nail polish, then human antiserum was added, incubated overnight at a controlled temperature, the next day the blood was analyzed to determine its type A B for Oh, surprisingly, the blood tests. They were a success despite his time underwater the blood was in good condition to reveal he was type A just like the jimp glasses the results were encouraging but inconclusive because type A blood is shared by millions of people to be sure that the blood was the victims were subjected to a more complex test of specific enzymes in their blood the chances that anyone else has the same set of enzymes are thin proteins that are added to the samples extracted using an electrical current the samples react creating light and dark bands if the bands in the sample matched the bands created by the victim's blood.

Gilchrist could be sure that the unknown sample is plants. His blood matched her. The blood on the jeans was without a doubt that the victims this part of the killer's story proved did so well. work of wrapping the garments that protected that blood for us so that when it entered the water, the blood was protected from being carried away by the water itself and when our researchers found the items and then brought them back to the laboratory. to be analyzed, could make an association with the victim very easily according to bryson and mckimble the murder occurred in the airplane house the blood evidence collected there suggested that was the case so it was Gilchrist's job to prove it beyond a doubt the blood The blood collected from the carpets on the walls and the curtains was not as conspicuous as the blood on the clothes, but the small drops were in much better condition.

The same tests were performed on these samples. The results came quickly. The blood belonged to Jim's soles. The murder had obviously occurred on the floors of his house. home just as bryson and mckimble had said, now Gibson had to prove that Marilyn Plants knew. They called her for an interview. She denied almost everything. At first she didn't know that any of the other two contestants were Bryce and Hema Kimball. then during the interview again she changed the story to fit the facts as she discovered that we knew more than she thought. Marilyn insisted that she was asleep until about 8:00 a.m. m.

She never heard her husband come home, she didn't hear any commotion if Bryson and McKimble killed the victim in her house, it was totally without her knowledge. Gibson had to prove that the new rug wasn't the only thing between the plants in her house. He knew that Marilyn was trying to cover up her involvement in the murder of her husband. The carpet could be the most damning evidence of her. I was trying to find a way to tie it to the purchase of that rug because it was a new rug so I checked with the manufacturer of the rug and they told me the main supplier was Walmart and there was a Walmart just a few blocks from the house.

Marilyn, so I have a subpoena for Marilyn Plantz's bank records and when I checked the bank records I found a check made out to Walmart on the day of the murder. Gibson visited the store manager. who recovered the original receipt for Marilyn's purchase. The detailed document showed that on the date of the murder she made two purchases, a soft drink and a rug. The transaction occurred at 9:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. This is a girl who just reported her husband missing and she is going to buy, okay I will have Nichole, however 11 minutes after she opened her store she didn't buy much either, the purchase of the rug was proof that Marilyn Plantz had

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intentional knowledge of her husband's murder, according to what police were able to discern when Jim Plants arrived home from work that morning.

Marilyn's lover, Clifton Bryson, and his friend Clinton, with Kimball, were already there waiting to beat him with baseball bats while Marilyn cleaned the house. The two men put the victim's body in their truck. he took it to the remote road he doused it with gasoline and set it on fire the victim should have been dead but wasn't he made a futile attempt to escape the flames then it burned down the truck should have exploded destroying the evidence but he didn't the three They conspired to kill Mr. Plans for insurance money. Kimble did it for forty-five thousand dollars.

They promised him his share. The other two were going to take the rest of the money to Texas and they went to this particular insurance. Instead, Marilyn Plantz and Clifton Bryson were sentenced to death clinton mckimble received a life sentence many so-called perfect crimes are marred by the confessions of a participant a single word from a reliable source can cause a solid alibi to crumble was the On the night of September 25, 1985, Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement had come to an end. Vera and Gerald Woodman marked their move at a dinner at Vera's sister's house in Bel Air, California.

After saying goodnight to their hosts, the couple got into their car for the 15-minute drive home. condo in Brentwood they did not know that they were watching their movements that they were heading into a trap Gerald Woodman was a self-made man who made his fortune with his plastics business he and Veera were married for 45 years and raised three sons and two daughters . Although he was 67 years old and had undergone bypass surgery, he was still energetic and refused to retire. He makes a turn on his path to wealth. Woodman had evidently made some enemies. The Woodmans pulled into their parking spot in the condo's garage around 10:30. p.m. but they never managed to get out of their car, the shots caught the attention of one of the residents who ran to see what the commotion was.

He could only glimpse a figure shrouded in black that disappeared into the darkness. He called the police. To describe what he had seen Detectives Richard Grumbles Lee and Jack Holder were assigned to head the case he knew it was going to be difficult. I received a call at home from my lieutenant Edie Henderson and he informed me that we had a double homicide. in West Los Angeles, part of Los Angeles, and that the suspect was described as a ninja warrior, the media pounced on the image of a ninja assassin lurking in West Los Angeles, the description was reinforced by the discovery of naked footprints at the crime scene, but the murders depended more on firepower than martial arts investigators eventually surmised that the ninja outfit was just a disguise and the footprints were made by the witness the media still They clung to the image of the ninja.

Gerald had been shot at close range. Veera had been shot twice. The police discovered there were no shell casings, so they knew the weapon was a revolver. Ballistics determined it was a 357 magnum, an exceptionally powerful weapon. The motive for the crime was not immediately clear. Gerald still had his wallet. Beerus was still wearing his jewelry. Nothing in the car seemed to have been. touched or taken to Richard Crosley the crime smacked of a professional hit, so as no property of either Vera or Gerald was missing at the time and it seemed that robbery was not a motive, it occurred to us that suddenly this could be a murder because contract killers have no connection to the victim, they are more difficult to catch, and because the person who orders the murder can do so remotely and has time to establish an alibi, it is more difficult to convict.Investigators needed to work the case from two angles first they would have to process all the evidence at the scene to catch the gunman then they would have to compile a list of Woodman's enemies to find out who ordered the hit and determined that the killers entered the garage by cutting a chain securing a door apparently two pieces of chain link ended up in a nearby planter where they were recovered, there wasn't much to go on but the detectives knew that if they did their job right this little clue could be the first link.

In a chain of evidence that would lead to the killer in West Los Angeles, two chain fragments were the only clues in Woodman's double homicide. They had no fingerprints. They were taken to the Los Angeles Police Department's scientific investigations division for further analysis. A low-power comparison microscope revealed that the scratches and imperfections on both pieces were continuous, showing that there were two halves of the same link. The shape of the cut helped supervising criminologist Bill Llewellyn surmise the type of tool used to make the cut. I was able to further examine the pieces of chain link and determined that a tool that could have been used to cut the chain link would have been a bolt cutter.

While physical evidence was being gathered, the police were looking for a motive for the murders. The neighbors had told the police that Gerald Woodman was involved with racehorses and gambling that might have crossed his mind. A look at his gambling debts came up with nothing, in fact, he had done well, he had no outstanding debts, but another reason may have been closer to the office of origin. Woodman's daughter and sister had an interesting story to tell and proceeded immediately. to tell us about the dispute that had arisen between Gerald and his two eldest sons, Neil and Stewart Woodman, relating to the sons' acquisition of the family business, they were very intense and adamant that Neil and Stewart had killed their parents.

Gerald Woodman had built the Manchester plastics company from scratch, when he suffered a heart attack, he entrusted it to his sons Neil and Stewart to run it. The children left the majority of their father's shares, excluding him. Gerald spent most of his savings trying to turn the company around. The resulting hatred divided the family. Neil and Stewart were no longer welcome at family functions. Gerald and Borough were not allowed to see his grandchildren. Everyone police spoke to told the same story about the animosity centered around the Woodman boys. Finally it was time to speak. them directly, the brothers agreed to meet with investigators at their attorney's office Now, every time you want to interview a family member about their parents' death, why the hell are you going to get a lawyer right then and there?

I think Jack and I decided these guys are in on it now how are we going to prove it? While Crutchley and Holder were pondering where to gather their next lead, two former LAPD security guards walked through the door and paid a visit to the police. and said that a man named Steve Hummock who was an employee of Neil Woodman had recently hired them to keep Gerald and Vera Woodman away from their grandchildren's Bar Mitzvah, the former police officers told investigators that Hammock had given them some harsh instructions they had told us. that mr. Hammock had made the statement during a breakfast meeting before the bar mitzvah that the meal had told Steve what you're going to do if he comes back and Steven responded that he would waste it.

A background check on Steve Hummock revealed that he was a former resident of Los Angeles. police officer who had been fired after less than a year on the force, was now living in Las Vegas and under FBI surveillance for drug trafficking. He and a business partner had flown from Las Vegas to Los Angeles the day before the murders and had returned to Las Vegas. The day after placing Hammock in Los Angeles on the night of the murders was a start, but La is a big anomic city that could have gone anywhere. Police learned that Robert Hammock's brother lived less than four miles from the crime scene.

We also found out that Robert Hammock was involved in a traffic accident the night of the murders half a block from the murders this seemed more than a coincidence Tommix's accident took place in the alley behind Woodman's condo Robert Hammocks' record also showed that three months before the murders he had been questioned by the police for apparently hanging out for beer and Gerald's building was the date of Woodman's anniversary one of the few times Veera Woodman left the condominium investigators suspected that the Woodman boys had hired hummus to kill his parents, it would take more than the available evidence to prove it.

Federal agents had already placed traces on Steve Comics' phone in Las Vegas. Many of the calls were to his brother, to the homes and offices of Woodman's children and to two pay phones near their homes. Phone records of all suspects were analyzed. They showed up with a lot of activity right before the murders and as we looked at those records and ours we started putting it all together, there were all kinds of conversations linking these suspects to each other, it was enough to get a search warrant for Steve Hammocks' apartment , there they found abundant diaries detailing their activities, but he gave them all a nickname.

He wrote everything in code. The researchers were able to decipher it. One of the things the police learned from the newspapers was that Stuart Woodman had hired Robert Hummock to rob his own house so he could collect the profits. Sure, he also stole and set fire to a company car for the same reason. If Tomic was involved in the murder-for-hire, he was not rash enough to write about it, but his books suggested that his brother Robert was often his accomplice in the crime. Investigators then served a warrant at Robert Hammond's apartment, four miles from the crime scene.

There they found a new pair of bolt cutters, assuming that Robert Hammock had not traveled far to purchase the tool. Detectives spoke with the employee at the hardware store just down the street. Across the street from his apartment, the employee confirmed that the cutter could make quick work of chain links and recognized Hummock from the photographs. Detectives showed her that he had sold her the cutter. The bolt cutter was sent to the forensic lab to see if it was the tool that cut the link outside the victim's parking lot. Bill Llewellyn focused his microscope on the small scrapes or scratches on the blades, essentially the fingerprints of the bolt cutter, they are present on that bull cutter and no other bolt cutters will have the same set of stripe patterns.

What was really unusual about the bolt cutters in this case was that they were practically new and you could see marks on the jaws of the bolt cutters where they had been used to cut the chain link, which may bother you a lot more. John and that I had. a very small area on which to focus my examination of the scratch patterns after examining the blade, Ellen used it to cut a small piece of lead, the soft metal was impressed with the serration of the blade without damaging the tools, then compared the Austrian cutting surface on the LED. with the spline on the chain link from the Australian comparison Llewelyn was able to determine indisputably that this bolt cutter cut this link the broken chain was the missing link that the holder needed found Robert Hammock at the crime scene while phone records and Diary entries connected him to the Woodman brothers, but without witnesses or motives, the case was far from closed.

Investigators struggled for six months to build their case against Hammocks and the Woodman brothers and then came a breakup, one of Hammocks' associates was arrested on unrelated charges. to reduce his sentence he confessed to having been a lookout the night the victims were killed said the Woodman brothers ordered the hit which left only the motive on the surface it seemed that the Woodman sons had already gotten what they wanted they had robbed the successful company of their father got out of control why, except out of pure hatred, would they want to kill their parents the event was under the control of Neil and Stuart the company began to falter it came bad they were cooking the books according to the titular detective they were desperate they had milked the company for every penny they could they were being audited by the banks and they were about to go under and they couldn't stand the thought of their father watching them lose and go bankrupt shot by hatred motivated by greed and condemned by incompetence Neil and Stewart Woodman took his father's company and destroyed it.

Veera Woodman had a half-million-dollar life insurance policy payable to the company before it was not enough to get Manchester out of debt, but it was the only hope the Woodmans and Crosleys had. With the help of criminalist Bill Llewellyn they had their evidence in place and were ready to arrest and prosecute armed with phone records, diary entries, my entrance confession and the severed chain link, they were able to tell their murder-for-hire story. It was the first time the LAPD had been put in a case where they used to mark prints as evidence the evidence was enough to convince the jury of conspiracy to murder Veera and Gerald Woodman Neil and Stewart Woodman received life sentences Robert Hammock life without parole and Steve Hammock There may be honor among thieves but the same cannot be said for murderers when things escalate, confidences are broken, betrayed partners and a murderer who is only in it for the money is willing to pay any price to save his own life once he agrees to negotiate, it is up to forensics to determine. the truth of his story