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In Virginia, a classified ad lures a crazed gunman to his victim's home. The police must try to unravel the identity of the murderer through a few bullet casings. An online

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and Texas authorities have no way to identify the suspect. They turn to computer experts to track a murderer through cyberspace in California two women are murdered in a movie studio theme park on Mother's Day

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must rely on the victims themselves to point out the murderer often the victims of homicide are lured to their deaths by someone they know and perhaps even trust, but forensic examiners can expose the deception and reveal the killer harboring

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intentions on the night of September 24, 1997, Newport Police Department officers news virginia were sent to the home of 35-year-old harry kaiser, one of the man's friends was concerned for his safety and called 911 when the officer arrived a few minutes later, no one appeared to be home, but when he walked around the On the side of the house he saw a man lying motionless on the floor tied to a chair, unsure if the attacker was still in the house. the officer entered cautiously after securing the scene he went to the aid of the victim the man identified as harry kaiser was gagged and bound with duct tape although he had been shot in the head he still had a weak pulse 21-24 send me a doctor at this location and a man with a gunshot wound in front the paramedics rushed to the scene harry kaiser was in serious condition after removing his gag the response team went to work on the victim pride of the officers a .22 caliber pistol from kaiser's grip The gun appeared to be jammed.

Kaiser was rushed to the hospital shortly after arriving there, however, he fell into a coma and forensic technicians were summoned to the scene to begin their investigation inside the house. They found no signs of forced entry, but they did find clear signs of a violent struggle and indications that it had turned into a shootout. A small caliber bullet consistent with having come from the Kaiser's .22 was found lodged in the wall. Several projectiles were also recovered. spent nine millimeters near where the victim was found on the ground, examiners found and collected a hoop earring and There was another potential clue: the title to Kaiser's Porsche, which was still parked in the driveway, was found thrown away All items were collected and sent to the crime lab.

It was noted that there were mostly two taillights. Detectives began interviewing Kaiser's neighbors. Only one was useful. information a few hours earlier, a man who lived across the street saw a tall, dark figure run toward a vehicle parked in front of Kaiser's house and then quickly drive away, but the witness was not wearing glasses at the time and was unable to offer no description. of the man you saw, detective richard gattis was only able to discover one on the tarmac, this witness noted that the vehicle this figure entered had a third tail light mounted on the rear, that's all he could see with his poor vision as he walked down the street his relationship in hopes of finding more useful information investigators turned to the woman whose 9-1-1 call led police to Kaiser's home the night before and explained that Kaiser was selling his Porsche through an advertisement in the newspaper that I had told him.

She told him that a potential buyer, a tall young African-American man, repeatedly called him on her cell phone and stopped by the house unannounced on a few occasions. The friend stated that shortly before the shooting, the Kaiser called her and told her that the buyer had stopped by again. After a brief visit, the man left saying he was going to the store and would return shortly, but Kaiser sensed that he was up to something. armed with his .22 caliber pistols and asked his friend to call him in half an hour Although

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were sure the car deal had somehow turned violent, they struggled to identify a suspect, investigators hoped that an examination of physical evidence could help them develop a profile of the man responsible for the assault.

The Newport News police crime lab processed the victim's clothing for stray hairs. or fibers that may have been left behind, but other than the tape used to bind Harry Kaiser, examiners found nothing that would provide a clue. Detectives revealed details of the assault and investigation to area law enforcement agencies shortly after receiving a tip from police in nearby York County, Virginia, a few months before Harry Kaiser, a York County man who selling a luxury car had a confrontation with a threatening car buyer. I am asking. A tall young African-American man accused the salesman of not thinking he was good enough. have a fancy car, hey, I can afford this car, man, the salesman was so afraid of him that he immediately reported the incident to the police.

The suspect was allegedly driving a geotracker, a vehicle with a high-mounted third taillight, like the one seen leaving Kaiser's home. The night he was shot, Newport News police were convinced the same man was responsible for both incidents. Investigators knew they had to find a way to identify this violent suspect before he found another victim. Detectives obtained a warrant for harry kaiser's cell phone records and searched for unknown numbers we sat down with the phone records and eliminated all the people known to harry kaiser's family his friends there was a phone number in that phone record that was unusual for him to be traced to a house in nearby hampton virginia and had been placed at 6:45 on the night of the shooting, the number here looks familiar, the owner didn't know anything about the call or Harry Kaiser, so he probably no property called it, the trail seemed to be a dead end, nothing of that kind. but then the woman added that her 22 year old son had recently been looking to buy a new vehicle just a car just a car his name, she said, was james gatling, they contacted gatling and brought him in for questioning during the altercations, although he matched the descriptions given by kaiser's friend and the york county man did not seem like a person capable of violence sir gatling admitted to having a geotracker and was candid about having visited both the york county man and harry kaiser I don't know, I don't like him He did not care to admit that he was in fact the person who had been at Harry Kaiser's house on several occasions looking at this Porsche but simply denied having anything to do with the shooting or being there when the shooting occurred when asked about an injury to one of his earlobes Gatling could offer no explanation and although the injury was consistent with evidence recovered from the crime scene, the police had no way of proving it.

After several hours of interrogation, they had no choice but to release James Gatling. three days after news of the shooting broke that Harry Kaiser had died. Due to injuries sustained during the assault, James Gatling was now the prime suspect in a murder investigation and accounts of his unpredictable behavior led police to fear that he was capable of further deadly violence. Police in Newport News, Virginia, were closing in on a suspect in the shooting death. of 35-year-old auto mechanic harry kaiser although james gatling admitted to being at the victim's house the night of the murder investigators lacked physical evidence that could directly link him to the crime looking for a way to connect gatling to the murder investigators sent the nine millimeter pistol bullet casings recovered from the crime scene to examiner john ward of the state of virginia office of forensic sciences in norfolk we became involved in this case when I received a phone call from detective gaddis who indicated that there had been a murder in their city and that there were some bullet casings at the crime scene and they had a suspect but there was no firearm.

Was there anything we could do for him using a comparison microscope? We confirmed that all of the nine-millimeter casings were fired from the same weapon after carefully photographing the evidence using a digital camera room. Then, the images were entered into a national computer database called drug arson. This database can tell examiners whether bullets found at a crime scene were fired from a particular gun that has previously been tested in connection with another crime when a bullet is shot imperfections in the barrel of the gun record a pattern on the cartridge examined microscopically these scratches and swirls are as individual as a fingerprint the drug fire database looks for other archived casings that have similar markings when Ward finds a possible match, he superimposes the images to see if they share the same signature Uniquely, Ward discovered that the gun used to kill Harry Kaiser had been tested in connection with another crime less than a year before police now needed to find out who owned the gun at the time investigators requested The Case File. case and learned that James Gatling, 22, had owned the gun nine months earlier.

Gatling was suspected of firing the gun into a restaurant, but ballistics testing at the time showed that Gatling's gun had not fired, although he and his gun were acquitted in the attack, a record of his gun would remain as an entry. permanent in the drug fire database once a gun is analyzed and connected to a person it remains as a digital image forever, so in a way you will always have that gun even if you don't. Not having the

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gun, having all of its markings and knowing who it belonged to at least at one point for investigators was a big break in the case, not only did Gatling admit to knowing the victim he was now linked to. the murder weapon on october 2, 1997 james gatling was arrested on suspicion of his murder was towed to the police depot for further examination exited the vehicle the police obtained a warrant to search gatling's home but the nine millimeter weapon was nowhere to be found without it, investigators had not yet conclusively linked the suspect to the murder.

Police searched Gatling's vehicle for anything that might help physically link him to Kaiser's murder, although no weapon was found. Police discovered something they hoped would finally seal the case: a roll of black electrical tape. Similar to the tape used to tie Harry Kaiser to the chair in the lab, technicians unrolled each piece of tape that had been collected from the crime scene and compared the broken or torn ends to the end of the black electrical tape. found in Gatling's car. The tears on the two pieces of tape lined up perfectly. Now there could be no doubt that James Gatling was responsible for Harry Kaiser's death.

The police believe that shortly after Harry Kaiser spoke to his friend on the phone, James Gatling returned to the house. Motivated by an inexplicable rage, Gatling overpowered his victim and tied him to a chair after firing one shot. Kaiser's gun jammed Gatling. He then shot the 35-year-old mechanic and left the scene. James Gatling was found guilty of first-degree murder. of harry kaiser and sentenced to life in prison in the gatling case detectives tracked a murderer who tried to hide behind the anonymity of classified ads to catch a murderer in texas investigators would have to follow a mysterious woman through a maze yet more complex In April 2000, 20 miles southwest of Austin in the mountainous region of central Texas, a rancher surveying his property noticed a blanket lying on the side of a trail, when he looked underneath he discovered the remains of a decomposing human body .

Hayes County Sheriff's Office deputies and Texas Ranger deputies were quickly dispatched to the scene. After securing the area, the team began processing it for clues, but little physical evidence was found. Recent reigns had eliminated any trace of the murderer that might have been left behind, aside from the victim himself and the blanket used to cover him. Nothing of any forensic value was found. Investigators speculated that he had been lying there for about two weeks and that prolonged exposure to the Texas sun had left the body in a severe state of decomposition, according to Capt. Sam Williams of the Hayes County Sheriff's Office.

Being challenging due to the advanced state of decomposition, there were no fingerprints available, so we weren't going to be able to find anything there. At the autopsy, the medical examiner determined that the victim had died as a result of a .22-caliber bullet to the head, probablywas made with a high-powered rifle, but there was no way to determine the victim's age or what he looked like in life, and with more than 70,000 missing persons cases reported in Texas each year, investigators

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ized that by searching Among those reports, a match would be overwhelming. The victim's teeth were carefully documented and photographed for future comparisons.

To aid in the identification process, investigators turned to the expertise of Dr. Dave Glassman, professor of forensic anthropology at Southwestern State University. from Texas, one measured the width of the eyebrow arch. and the dimensions of the eyes and nose, dr. Glassman found that this skull was consistent with a Caucasian man. To determine its age, he examined the sutures, the areas where the bones of the skull connect to each other and which close over time, called the basilar suture due to its location at the base. The skull closes in most people between the ages of 19 and 24. The determination I made was that the basilar suture had closed, suggesting that the individual was older than 19 or 20 years old, but the internal sutures were just right. in its initial closing stages, which indicated that the individual would have been between 19, 20 and 30 years old, according to the analysis of Dr. glassman, detectives were able to narrow their missing persons search to young white males, and while several files met those criteria, only one had been reported a few weeks before this victim was discovered, a records check indicated that kerry kuyava, A 20-year-old sophomore at the University of Texas Am, he had been reported missing to campus police two weeks earlier by his parents and his college roommate, leaving only the victim's body. teeth to help them make an identification, detectives quickly contacted Kuyava's family dentists.

Over the phone, his dentist described literally word for word every tooth in his mouth with an exact match that in the forensic world is almost as good. like a fingerprint or as good as a fingerprint. The search for a missing college student had run head-on into a murder investigation, but with no solid evidence pointing to a suspect, investigators were still a long way from putting an end to this case, Texas authorities had identified human remains found at a secluded ranch as belonging to missing 20-year-old Texas sophomore Kerry Kuyawa, seeking to identify a suspect. She questioned Cuyba's college roommate who had reported him missing.

He told detectives that just before the disappearance, Kuyava had made plans to visit a San Antonio woman he befriended three months earlier in an Internet chat room. She is a beautiful man, let's take a look at the photo of her. Very quickly, although they had never spoken directly, Kuyava seemed to be enamored by the photographs sent by the young woman whose name was Kelly McCauley. Detective Will Scott of the university police department learned the details of the affair in the chat room. The day Kerry left Texas was the day Kerry left Texas. She was supposed to meet Kelly for the first time in person in San Antonio, uh, the reason is that they hadn't talked before, according to roommates and friends.

Kerry had told them that Kelly's jaw was broken by an ex-boyfriend, so her jaw was closed and she couldn't talk on the phone, however, she was able to communicate during that three month period through computer study, so It is unlikely that the roommate said that Kerry left in his car for San Antonio and was supposed to return at the end of the weekend but never showed up, however, over the course of the next few days he received emails from Kuyawa saying that he was having a great time with Kelly and would stay a little longer. Investigators needed to question Kelly McCauley, possibly the last one. person who had seen Carrie Cuiah alive, but the whereabouts of the young blonde turned out to be a mystery in itself, investigators were unable to find any record of her in San Antonio or anywhere else in the state and track her through her chat room login name proved more difficult than Detectives anticipated with a simple email which is fairly easy to trace, but when you get into the realm of

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relay chat it is quite anonymous and there are many different levels per the ones you can pass to make him increasingly anonymous as Hayes County detectives continued searching for the elusive kelly mcauley campus police at the university of texas am discovered that kerry kuyava's car had been located at an airport near the campus A parking stub indicated it had been left there on April 10, just days after he left for San Antonio to find Kelly's car was impounded and taken for closer forensic evaluation.

Detectives processed every square inch of the car for any clues to Carrie's murder. In the hatchback they found analysis of dried human blood that later showed that it had come from the body of the murdered student, but no fingerprints were found to determine this. who had been behind the wheel it would be difficult the next day kerry's roommate contacted investigators while sitting at his desk he had remembered something he now believed to be of vital importance in the days after kerry had left for san antonio He returned to his dorm and found a young man working on Carrie's computer.

The man introduced himself as Kelly McAuley's brother. Hi, well, he said he was making up Kerry Kuyawa's schoolwork, not knowing that his roommate was in danger. He didn't think anything of it. At the time the police were convinced that Kelly and her brother were somehow involved in Carrie's murder, but tracking these mysterious brothers along traditional routes had not been successful if the police were ever going to solve this case. they had to find a way to track them in the complex world of cyberspace there was no one who was initially involved in this investigation from any of the agencies that we knew that had any kind of experience in the irc platform or this form of communication or chat rooms or Anything like that, so it was virgin territory for us, things were looking bleak.

Until an article about the case in the local newspaper brought police to a chat room veteran named Carrie Lee, she had interacted with both the victim and the suspect online and Kelly McCauley just couldn't stop talking about her new

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blossoming and we would hear from her that he was at her house or apartment or wherever and that he was in the kitchen studying where he was on the couch watching TV or that Carrie and I are going to see a movie tonight and we would hear details again we didn't really want to Listen, but it was the only thing I wanted to talk about and this went on and on and on and on and on and on.

Investigators realized days later that Kerry was already dead. Police were learning a lot about Kelly Mcauley, except where to find her or her brother Lee. offered to help gave him a disk containing a phone number kelly mcauley had once given him investigators traced the number to a woman in san antonio there was no kelly mcauley living here she said only kenny lockwood her 31 year old son at this time he was sick in the hospital too sick to work kenny had two loves in his life his mother said computers and the university of texas bad since he was rejected by the university the year before lockwood spent at least 12 hours at day chatting on the university website with a warrant in Investigators searched the house and noticed a red stain on the carpet under the couch.

Tests showed that the substance was human blood. Investigators searched Kenny Lockwood's room in the back of his closet and found a gun consistent with the guy who had killed Kerry Kuyava. However, it is more incriminating. it was a photograph found on kenny lockwood's desk it was the woman they had been hunting a photograph of the person they knew as kelly mcauley and it had been torn from a magazine now it seemed to investigators that kelly mccauley was a fictional creation the dream of kuyava The girl was nothing more than a decoy. Investigators seized floppy disks from Lockwood's computer and a number of documents.

The only way to prove that he had lured Kerry to his death was to search his computers and belongings and recover all the conversations that had taken place online between the fictional Kelly and the unsuspecting Kerry Kuyava David Burns of the County Sheriff's Office. Hayes was one of the researchers who looked at the files we took, all this information, and then he started reviewing everything that had been talked about on all those computers that had what was talked about in chat rooms, what was talked about in emails. emails, what had been talked about, any conversations, uh, anything that had taken place online, that we reviewed and analyzed every bit of that information, the logs and conversations recovered showed that the fictional Kelly chatted online for hours Investigators suspect that when Kerry showed up in San Antonio, Lockwood posed as Kelly's brother, though no one will know. never what motivated lockwood.

The hole in Kerry Kuyava's skull told investigators what happened next. At some point things went wrong. Kerry Kuyaba was sitting on the couch when he received a .22 caliber gunshot wound to the back of the skull, he fell to the floor and likely died. Before falling to the ground, Lockwood placed the body in the trunk of Carrie's car, drove to a rural location and abandoned the victim to her. He continued the charade by writing emails from Carrie's computer to the victim's friends and family assuring them that he was alive and that he likely deleted a large number of files from Kerry's computer in the hopes that detectives would never find out about him. plan.

Here is Mr. Lopez on April 27, 2000. Kenny Lockwood, still recovering in the hospital from an unidentified illness, was arrested for murder during interrogation, he admitted. about the crime, he provided us with a partial confession. At one point, he admitted that the shooting had occurred at his residence. He explained to us the history between him and Kerry that they admit and that he was putting himself through this. kelly but would never be tried for his crimes a few months after his arrest kenny lockwood took his own life this is beautiful do you want to take a look at his photos kerry kuyava was tricked into believing that a stranger was a friend but even a night with one's own family can turn deadly los angeles, california is home to nine and a half million people, many of them drawn here by the promises of fame and fortune, but on the night of mother's day 1995, the upper level of the parking lot of the city ​​became the backdrop for a family.

Nightmare Around 11 p.m., paramedics and deputies from the City County Sheriff's Department were sent to the garage. Paul Karasi, aged thirty, and his two-year-old son had survived an attack by unknown assailants, but Paul's mother, Doris Karasi, aged 61, and his ex-girlfriend Sonia Salinas, aged 29, not the two women almost They had been decapitated in a brutal knife attack when Paul Karasi was taken to hospital with a serious knife wound to his hand the police began to process the scene personal items found near the victims were suggested The ambush had been sudden and, without prior notice notice, police carefully documented and collected dozens of bloodstains as investigators continued to search for evidence to help them piece together what had happened.

A call came to the police office. There had been another stabbing less than 5 miles away when Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office deputies continued processing the scene of a brutal double murder. He learned that another stabbing had been reported a few miles away lying on the side of the road. Police found Donna Lee, 44, barely conscious. She said someone had tried it. to rob her and steal her car after she ran off the road, she had been stabbed in the abdomen and was bleeding severely despite her life-threatening injury, somehow she managed to fight off the attacker she. Donna was rushed to the hospital.

Police began searching the area. Clues to the identity of the attacker a few meters from where they found Donna Lee They discovered several items belonging to the victims of the knife attacks in the Citywalk garage They recovered Sonia Selina's identification a fanny pack belonging to Paul Karasi and the blood-stained bag of his motherNearby officers found another clue: a blood-stained knife, possibly the one used in all the attacks. Apparently someone had started a violent rampage that spanned several miles. All evidence, including Donna's vehicle, was collected and sent to the crime lab for further examination, Sergeant Sam. Muñiz of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department was assigned to the case.

How many times did you see that particular night? The brutality of the murders that took place in the parking lot was difficult to comprehend. He's already late. What motivates someone to do that? Know? especially the way it's done because you look at these two victims and you see they're almost decapitated, I mean they're stab wounds from one side to the other and all over the bodies, I mean this guy was mad if I lost him mentally You know, a few hours after the attacks, investigators went to Paul Karasi's residence to notify his family that he was recovering in the hospital, although no one seemed to be home, they noticed something strange.

Paul Karasi shared an address with someone named Lee. Last name the victim found on the road, believing it had to be more than a coincidence, detectives went to the hospital to interview Karasi. He told investigators that he had taken his mother Doris, his ex-girlfriend Sonja and his two-year-old son. They were out for a Mother's Day dinner while returning to the car, someone suddenly attacked him from behind and forced him to the ground. He heard screams and tried to defend himself, but when he tried to take the knife from the attacker, his hand was severely cut. then he was knocked unconscious when he came to and discovered the bodies of his mother and sonja, well, like um paul, he said that he actually knew donna lee, the victim found on the side of the road, he worked with her at a local bank and she two were in a romantic relationship, they had recently moved in together, in fact, his relationship with donna had caused friction between him and his ex-girlfriend sonia salinas, who also worked at the bank, sonia was seeking sole custody of their two-year-old son and the garnishment of paul's wages for child support despite these tensions paul could not imagine anyone wanting to attack him or his family we had finished dinner convinced that the two attacks were somehow connected the laboratory examiners The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department criminal investigation team hoped an examination of the evidence would point them toward a suspect.

They began by analyzing the bloody knife found at Donna Lee's crime scene. Serological tests confirmed that the blood of all four victims was present on the knife, but no fingerprints were found on the suspect, desperate to identify the killer before he did. Struck again Investigators began tracking Donna Lee's car for clues, although no prints were recovered from the back seat, they found one vital piece of evidence: it was a copy of Donna Lee's divorce papers that ended her 15-year marriage to a man named openly to investigators. At the first hint of a motive and a possible suspect, detectives quickly obtained a warrant to search Frank Lee's home.

In the kitchen they discovered knives similar to the one used to stab Donna Lee and kill Doris Karasi and Sonia Salinas, Frank maintaining his innocence. Lee voluntarily accompanied investigators to the sheriff's department. A physical examination of the suspect revealed no signs that he had been in a violent struggle, but he admitted that his divorce had turned ugly and that he was bitter that Donna was leaving him for Paul Karasi. The impending divorce made Frank Lee the logical suspect. The motive didn't quite seem to fit the murders to investigators. Paul Karasi should have been the target of the jealous husband's wrath, not his mother and his ex-girlfriend, Frank Lee was eventually cleared as a suspect in the double murder, believing he had passed by. stop any clue as to the identity of the killer the examiners went back to the physical evidence the criminalist beverly kerr started with the t-shirt that paul karasi was wearing at the time of the attacks i took out paul's t-shirt and looked at it and we saw something that could have looked like a footprint hand with blood.

We all look at it. We all consulted and began to feel that this is possibly what it could be. DNA testing showed most of the blood on the shirt, particularly on the hand. The print area came from his ex-girlfriend Sonia Salinas, but Karasi never mentioned that he had touched any of the victims. The police decided to question him again when they asked how the blood got on his shirt. Karasi said that he had forgotten that he took Sonia's pulse after she regained consciousness and added that he had slipped and fallen in the pools of blood near Sonja's body.

He must have wiped the blood off of his shirt, but with each passing minute investigators began to suspect that Karasi was hiding something. He left, you know, confusing the interview. say well this and that and that suddenly hit me, so you know this guy has to be, you know, the person I'm looking for because he just can't understand a clear story, the best witness in the investigation suddenly became the The main suspect in the brutal Mother's Day massacre seeking to prove that Paul Karasi had murdered his own mother and his ex-girlfriend. The investigators turned once again to the crime laboratory, now they hoped that the murdered women's own blood would give them evidence that he was behind these heinous acts detectives from the los angeles county sheriff's department continued their investigation into a series of vicious knife attacks on mother's day that left two women dead and two more victims injured now they had reason to believe That one of the victims, Paul Karasi, was behind the murders of his mother Doris and his ex-girlfriend Sonia Salinas To prove it, criminalist Elizabeth Devine began reconstructing the events in the parking lot using Karassi's bloody T-shirt, even though Karassi had Previously stated that he slipped on Sonya's blood and then wiped his hands on his shirt.

The explanation did not fit well with the evidence, it was clear that a lot more had happened, there was blood spatter, there was a contact transfer that came from Sonia Salinas's neck, which was severely cut, I mean, her head was almost decapitated and soaked in blood until the end. your chest that is not a passive transfer of blood that is not blood on your hands that you wipe on your shirt that is something that bleeds is in contact with your skin for a period of time and the examiners determined that the handprint on Karassi's shirt did not come from him, Sonia Salinas had left him and there was more than what the blood pattern on the handprint could show, namely that the person who left the handprint was alive because the person he grabbed the shirt instead of just touching it.

He also showed that the person who grabbed the shirt was bleeding because we had excess blood around the fingertips. It wasn't like finger painting, where you put your hand in paint and then put your hand on a shirt. We had it extending beyond the margins of the finger, which means the person who grabbed it. the shirt was bleeding when the blood patterns on the shirt were compared to the post mortem diagrams of sonya's hands the injuries did not all match sonja had suffered further injuries after grabbing paul karassi's shirt she grabbed his shirt and had not suffered all of his injuries so it was right in the middle of the attack it was after the injury started and before the crime was over and seeing how he said he was on the ground and not involved along with the splashes and everything else showed that not only was involved but he was three feet away from her and she was able to grab him.

The analysis locked Karassi into the heat of battle and further investigation revealed that he had not acted alone. DNA testing showed that the blood found on Sonia Salinas' shoe came from Donna Lee, the woman who survived a knife attack shortly after the murders, which meant that the injury to Lee's abdomen had occurred in the parking lot, not on the side of the road as she previously claimed, and his shirt was here to prove that Donna Lee had lied to cover up her involvement. In the double murder, examiners began searching for answers about how blood from her wound ended up on the victim's shoe.

The only way to get blood to flow through the shoe like that was if the shoe was in contact with her abdomen. over a period of time and I tried a lot of different scenarios, a lot of different positions, a lot of different theories on how that could be done, really the only one I could think of is that she put her feet in her stomach while Paul slit her throat and that's for I put it. You know, that's the business end of the crime scene. Investigators concluded that Donna Lee had been accidentally stabbed in the abdomen as she and Paul struggled to subdue the victims.

Paul Karasi was given a lie detector test when he was asked if he had killed his mother and his ex. -girlfriend he responded no test result indicated he was lying to us along with the forensic evidence karasi was placed under arrest you have the right to change your mind at any time donna lee still recovering in the hospital from her injuries was also placed under arrest To double homicide, investigators believe Paul Karasi, with Donna Lee at his side, began planning the murders of his ex-girlfriend and her mother when the financial strain of their impending custody battle became too much to bear, as Paul Karasi earned limited money per week. and he had a lot of outstanding bills, so his problem is basically financial and, you know, taking the kids, so how do I plan to take my son and get all the money right?

So what he is doing now is angry at both of them because the mother backed off too. sonia so he's mad at both of them mother's day night while paul karasi and his family were heading to the car after dinner donna lee was waiting nearby with the murder weapon in her hand his plan to make the murders look like a robbery What went wrong backfired when Donnelly was accidentally injured during the assaults and was forced to seek medical attention while attempting to dispose of the victim's belongings. a jury found paul karasi and donna lee guilty of first-degree murder paul karasi was sentenced to death donna lee was sentenced to life in prison for investigators, when a suspect and the victim had an intimate relationship in life, proving murder can be A challenge when the line between familiarity and contempt becomes blurred, it is up to forensic examiners to find the truth and reveal the killer's deadly intentions.