Killer Confessions | DOUBLE EPISODE | The New Detectives

In December 1989, along a Florida highway outside Daytona Beach, agents found an abandoned car registered to a Tampa man named Richard Mallory who had been missing for several days. Another week and a half passed before Mallory, 51, was found naked and shot several times. with a .22-caliber handgun and abandoned two miles from where his vehicle was found, police sealed off the area to look for clues. Investigator Larry Horza with the Volusia County Sheriff's Office led the investigation at that time, we weren't exactly sure what we had, so in all of our homicide investigations that we do, we did a complete sweep of the area and basically collected everything What we were able to find and that we thought could be related to the crime, but the investigators found very little evidence that pointed to the Killer, the investigation was stymied. for lack of leads while Volusia police were working the case, police in three other counties were struggling with their own murders immersed in their local crime scenes, they had no knowledge of the other murders, they had no idea they were connected, no We knew about the other murders.

That had been going on for almost a year, we were basically operating solely on our own, as the body count increased, police realized a deadly pattern was developing across Florida, eventually the separate police departments joined forces. resources, we found similarities in the fact that all of the men were men over 45 years of age who were basically all traveling alone who were traveling on main roads we found that the bodies were all discarded near a main road and the fact that the vehicles they had were placed elsewhere the

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had been methodical and consistent all but one of the victims had been shot in the torso with a .22 caliber pistol a relatively small firearm in all cases the driver's seat was close to the steering wheel the Evidence suggested that the

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was a short person, possibly a woman.

If this were true, it was one for the books, there had never been a female serial killer or at least not one that the police knew of, but at this point it was just a guess that the killer had been thorough. wiping off all fingerprints, then on July 4, 1990, a woman reported to police that she saw a car crash through a fence and then drove off. There were two women, a blonde and a shorter brunette, a few miles away, a car matching the description was found abandoned. Witnesses at this scene also described the two women. The car's license plate revealed that it belonged to Peter Sims, 65, a traveling missionary who had been missing for almost a month.

Police saw a possible connection to the series of homicides that the car was given to Merv. Stevens of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the vehicle had been basically cleaned inside and out. The crime scene analyst had gone to the driver's side armrest of the car and removed it. Upon removing it, they noticed what it looked like. The pee appears to be a palm print, a bloody palm print, the only print was the only clue to him and potentially damning, but Prince and blood are notoriously fragile. Forensics would have only one chance to read the print, only one chance to link the killer to the crime scene.

They couldn't afford to make a mistake as a last resort once they discovered what they thought was a blood printer. It looked like a blood print: it was reddish brown and when photographed and using different lighting techniques, a blood print will tend to dry out. Once the Blood Prince dries, it becomes really brittle and simple, moving it and handling that type of item, the print will basically deteriorate and fall into pieces after the print was photographed. Clear tape was carefully placed over it with even greater care. the tape lifted slowly, any small bend in the tape would crack the print and compromise the lift once the print adhered to the tape, it stuck to a white card the technicians were home free, the lift was a success, they analyzed the palm print and compared it. to those of known criminals in the state of Florida Stevens found a match in a woman named Lori Grody who had been convicted of a weapons charge Grody was also known as Cami Green and Eileen Warnus because several of the missing cars had been stolen, he began police.

Checking pawn shops hoping to find stolen goods in one, they found a pawn ticket in the name of Cami Green for a particular brand of camera and a radar detector. Items missing from murder victim Richard Mallory's car Florida requires pawn shops to take fingerprints Cami Green's print from the pawn ticket was matched to the prince in Stevens files the prince matched the print The bloody palm and stolen items were now linked to a single person, a woman named Eileen Warnes. Investigators tracked Warnes to Daytona Beach, where she was part of the biker crowd she frequented at a bar called The Last Resort where she slept in these benches behind the bar, undercover police kept her under constant surveillance until they could gather more evidence of her crimes, but when they learned that a statewide biker barbecue was scheduled for the following weekend they were afraid of losing let us know We in the crowd on January 9, 1991 the police made their move and arrested her a key found in her possession led police to a locker full of items stolen from murder victims the case against Juanes grew Then, with more force, They pressured their friends for more information to keep them out of this.

Warnes confessed when she was convicted in Florida for the murder of six men. Warnes had the distinction of being one of the first deadly serial killers as a man, but why start in December 1989 when she became a murderer by hitchhiking with middle-aged men, suggesting sex for money in a secluded place and then shooting them to death. Warner claimed that she had acted in self-defense, a claim that Larry Horza found hard to believe, I think. as he applied his craft as he went, for whatever reason, whether he needed more money or decided that this would be an easy choice, um at one point in his life, starting with Mr.

Mallory, he decided to put a weapon into play of fire and once he went ahead and fired that first shot and killed that first man he felt it was easy and why not do it again and Rule has studied the women who kill Ed. He disagrees that the robbery was the reason why she believes Eileen Warnes felt abused by the men in her. her life and the murder was her attempted retaliation, her anger was typical of serial killers, but of all the women I have studied, she is the only one who seems to have a particular type of victim who has a particular Mo who kills From stranger to stranger and fits Anne Rule's pattern of serial murder, the most chilling aspect of serial killers is that their lack of remorse for their crimes makes them feel better, no matter who gets hurt, as long as they are happy because they are real and the rest.

We are all paper doll characters, we don't feel like them with every murder. Serial killers lose a little more consciousness, making the next murder much easier as police departments across the country begin to share information and can more quickly see deadly patterns emerge and then be able to stop them. to serial killers in Fairfax County. Virginia police find a decomposing body but have no reports of a crime in Fort Myers, Florida. A murderer confesses to a gruesome crime but the police can't find a body. A serial killer can walk free unless police find the evidence to put him behind bars.

In each case, forensic scientists must find evidence of the crime in the bones of the murder victim, using scientific studies of human decomposition to discover when he died. the victim so that the killer can be traced in the hope To prove that there is no such thing as a perfect crime, dead men speak December 1993, in a wooded area near Washington DC, a surveyor made a gruesome discovery while mapping a new suburb in the Virginia countryside, he stumbled upon a body buried in a shallow grave. Fairfax County Police Department officers arrive at the isolated area where the body was found.

The first homicide detective on the scene is Detective Jerry Farrell. Mr. Gregory, what good decision do you have here? The police assume it is a homicide, but there is no answer. Immediate clues to help identify the victim and Lt. Wilson. He is there. He wants to take a look. What he's going to need is to start mapping the area. Secure this area here and then we'll need an area of ​​at least 50 feet. perimeter established around it, the team of investigators will search a wide area for scavengers who have dragged parts of the body. Police meticulously document the position of the body with photographs, sketches and notes.

Detective Dennis Wilson heads the cold case team that investigates crimes where the evidence has cooled to the point of being similar in such cases. Every track. Every piece of evidence, no matter how small, may be the key to solving the crime involved in the murders of a couple of prostitutes in an adjoining county. How many clothing and hair samples? Detectives Wilson and Farrell are pretty sure the victim is a woman, as decomposition often leaves greasy residue. Officers take soil samples near the body. Chemical analysis could help determine when the victim was buried. Well, you only get one chance at a crime scene and you have to do it.

Get it right the first time to slow things down, at that point there is no rush and the body has obviously been there for some time, we are going to try to gather as much evidence as we can and make sure we don't miss anything there. perhaps a small clue here that leads to his identity or the identity of the perpetrator. Thank you because the body is so decomposed that

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call nearby Washington D.C. Dr. Douglas Owsley of the Smithsonian Institution is an anthropologist whose specialty is identifying human remains, from soldiers who died in the Civil War to modern-day homicide victims.

He is testified in many criminal trials as a forensic scientist, forensic meaning, science used as evidence in a court of law and receives the call from the Fairfax County Police. he agrees to visit the site where the skeleton was found. Murder victims are assigned to medical examiners who dissect the body to find the cause of death, but medical examiners are used to dealing with fresh bodies, here only bones remain to tell the story, which requires special attention. skills of the anthropologist it takes three days of careful excavation to remove the body from the foreign soil owsley looks for signs of the victim's age, sex and manner of death, it immediately becomes apparent that the victim is female the pelvic bone is wider in the women than to accommodate childbirth, although Ousley believes the victim was a young adult, it is difficult to be more precise, she does not show any signs of arthritis, it is not severe arthritis, if you look at her spine, there are only minor changes, there is no development of arthritis, his pubic bones show a stage of maturity that would be consistent with someone who is around 30 years old.

In a young person the sutures of the skull are clearly visible as a person grows the sutures tend to fuse, so in his skull on the victim's skull the sutures are beginning to disappear, confirming that the victim was a young adult only five feet and one inch tall. She had been stabbed repeatedly. The knife blade left marks on his collarbone, ribs and vertebrae. By looking at the pattern of cuts in the bone, you can tell that the individual was behind her at least part of the time. She has knife wounds that penetrated her back in the midline.

The cut is on the collarbone and the collarbone is there. many different positions that could explain that, but one would be that of the individual reaching out for her, oh, putting a name to the body will not be easy to shed more light on this mysterious case. Police must determine the identity of the victim in Fort Myers, Florida. The police will have the opposite problem. A crime without a body. What is your emergency? Yes. Well, wait a minute, sir, I found a tip: someone was just murdered at a police communications center in Fort Myers, Florida. A call to 9-1-1 will lead to the discovery of a gruesome crime dating back to 1989. 9-1-1, what's your emergency? you did it the personThe caller reports a murder he recently committed.

Why did you do it? He says he has thought about turning himself in but hasn't decided yet. Are you going to wait for us there? The 9-1-1 call is traced back to a mall phone booth the operator tries to keep the killer on the line while a message is sent to law enforcement units in the area Lake County 2 11 1 1065 a possible signal 5 in the Coral Gate shopping center our Orange Grove and Pondella Orange Grove and Pondella Officer Paul Rose monitors the call and finds no one in the phone booth of the shopping center where the call originated, but less than a mile from the shopping center he detected a possible suspect.

The suspect had been walking hurriedly on the side of the road away from the mall. The suspect whose name is Paul Klein quickly admits that he made the 9-1-1 call and confessed to the murder. He was informed of his rights and arrested. The night before he had broken into a house and strangled an elderly woman. On the sofa where he lay there is no sign that anything has disappeared. Robbery had not been the reason Paul Klein not only had Lt. Jeff Taylor enter the house and find the victim just as Klein had described her, but he would soon discover that she had not been Klein's first victim. , Klein told me that he heard voices and the voices made him angry and every time he got angry he had to kill someone and when he said that he indicated to me that maybe there were other victims too and I asked him at that moment if he had killed before and he said yes.

Twice Fine had murdered another woman in a trailer a few months earlier, but his first victim had been a friend named Danny Webster murdered a year and a half earlier, in August 1989. Webster in a field looking for aluminum cans. Klein had beaten him to death with a lead pipe at the crime scene. The search unit canvasses the area where the murder supposedly occurred. There you go. I have something here. Oh yeah, he's been there for a while or we had information that we believed at the time the crime was committed. The original act of homicide was committed in this. field so what we did we did a grid search of this entire field and in doing so we located a shoe.

It's early to say now if it really belongs to the victim, but we think it's a good possibility that it does, so once we find the uh, shoe, we have to treat it as evidence, according to Klein's confession, there was Returning to the crime scene three days after the murder, arriving at night to avoid detection, he swam with the body to a swampy island where he dismembered the corpse with an ax and a paring knife after so thoroughly disposing of Webster's body. and getting away with it for a year and a half, Klein has now decided to confess that crime scene search officers find a small piece of bone photographed exactly where it was found, but no we will not find a body without a body the police have no enough evidence to convict Ive Jack interrogated Klein under tight security Klein had once bent a stop sign with his bare hands we needed positive identification of the body even if someone told us who they killed and they were killed, we still have to prove who it was murdered, how they were murdered and when they were murdered, the best we can is the Corpus delecti, the body of the crime, we have to be able to establish that yes, this person died and that this person did it well I guess I should actually hit him I don't know about that time more than 200 times I'm not sure I kept hitting everything I did on my legs arms everywhere I could reach his face I didn't do it with reason it was more or actually I had more anything but that was after he I was already dead there, you know, I kept pushing.

He finds that the confession alone is not enough to prove the case. Beyond a reasonable doubt, police must find the body Klein pointed out. After a year and a half in the swamp, the case will go to Dr. William Maples of the University of Florida, a whole world away. A recognized authority on the identification of skeletal remains, in 1991 he led the team that exhumed the bones of President Zachary Taylor, who died mysteriously in 1850. Some historians say Taylor was poisoned, making him Abraham Lincoln, the first American president to be assassinated. after testing the dead. The president's hair and nails for poison Dr.

Maples put an end to the body and the Assassin's theories. In the case of Paul Klein, it is immediately clear to Maples that he is dealing with a possible psychopath who is completely unaffected by Death. Well, bodies in Florida tend to swell very quickly Florida. It is known for its sunshine and good weather, especially in the Fort Myers area where this occurred, so the first thing our killer tried to use was a paring knife, it is very flexible, it is lightweight, it can be sharpened, it can be serrated and maybe Sometimes it is very, very effective at cutting bones.

The so-called Ginsu meat knife is surprisingly flexible and yet pierces bone if used correctly, so our killer stabs the knife into this swollen body and pours a foul-smelling yellowish-green secretion onto it. fluid, this is enough to really upset anyone, even if they weren't disturbed to begin with, but the Killer's use of a paring knife may be the key to identifying the victim's remains and corroborating Klein's confession if we take a paring knife and rub. a stick or a bone or whatever the case may be, you notice the blade jump and vibrate. This noise produces a type of interrupted cut on the surface of the bone and we look for this evidence of vibration and that tells us how flexible or inflexible the blade is, on the other hand, if we take a good sharp heavy knife and cut the bone, it does not vibrate, it simply cuts the bone and this is evidence of a heavier and less flexible blade.

The crime scene search officers arrive at the island where Klein left the dismembered body, if they can find bones that were cut with a kitchen knife, they will have strong evidence that Klein's confession is real. Let's say that Klein must have accompanied the officers himself, but on the ship that was heading to the island. He had been too excited at the prospect of seeing the remains of his victims for his own safety, the officers decided to search without Klein's help. It's a serious mission because, unlike his other crimes, Danny Webster's murder was cruel enough to send Klein to Florida's electric chair or else it proves beyond a doubt that he is a dangerous psychopath who He must be locked up indefinitely.

He seemed like a normal person. You didn't notice any psychological problems or anything, but the more it went on and the more I realized that he was telling me the truth and that these bloody events that he was telling me really happened, then I'm starting to think, you know, look at a real weirdo here who can do this and talk about it so calmly and intelligently. Klein had a nickname that he didn't like because he had his arms outstretched. came out of his body as he walked the kids made fun of him calling him Popeye uh only uh what I did was I had killed Danny Webster for insulting him repeating it over and over again it was because Webster had bullied him uh I feel pretty good everything is okay, I just have to get on with it and I don't know, I think I feel almost a little busy, I have to eat a little something to take my medication, uh, yes, ma'am, yes, that's him.

That was him Hey, thank you ma'am, I appreciate it all. The island where Klein left the body is partially submerged and subject to tidal changes. The logistics of finding evidence are very difficult. Thank you. Finally more bones are found. The body is in pieces. The decline had said how you disassembled this body. I think his response was like I always do. I cut off his left leg, left arm, head, right arm, right leg and a circular motion like that, and he had used an axe. He told me where the ax was, which was in another state.

Heavenly Father had gone to his house in another state and left her there before returning. Pieces of bone found on the swampy island are sent to the FBI for examination. The FBI confirms that the bones show evidence of ax trauma. An ax or hatchet had been used to cut down the body, but according to his harrowing confession, Fine had reserved special treatment for the victim's head. Yes, you have to start with the paring knife and the head. It was pretty much in pieces and I threw it right up an embankment about 25 or 30 feet from the mangroves and stuck it there for like uh look, I had it there for a long time, I guess something like three and a half months for I who would, he took the head and kept it to come back and visit.

You can visit her every night, talk to her and after about two weeks it got to the point where he deteriorated to the point where he didn't want her anymore. Klein had taken the head with him in a paper bag, he often struck up conversations with her upon seeing a police car, on one occasion he panicked and threw the head into a canal, but he couldn't remember where a Police dive team searched the area. where Klein may have discarded Danny Webster's skull is an area of ​​murky water frequented by foreign alligators nothing but coconuts unless the head is found it may be impossible to identify the remains as those of Danny Webster here as in suburban Virginia the Police must team up with science to bring a killer to justice at the Washington D.C.

Museum of Natural History. Tourists gaze upon the wonders of the natural world, unaware that just yards away, a storage area holds the unnatural work of a ruthless killer cop in Fairfax County, Virginia. They have called on forensic scientist Doug Owsley to help them identify the victim of a brutal homicide. The body has decomposed, only a skeleton remains. Owsley has determined that the victim was a woman between 27 and 34 years old. She died from repeated stab wounds, but who? is she and where did she come from when you are when you are working with police cases and working on human identification problems often when the remains arrive at the laboratory or when you are involved in the recovery the identification follows very quickly there is someone missing there are records that can be obtain, dental records or medical records with which you can compare and you can identify that person in a very short period of time.

Well, if we can help, let's try, but Fairfax County police have found no immediate links. to a missing person what is your phone number owsley will need all the evidence he can find to produce a life story for the victim who will hopefully relate to someone who disappeared up to six years earlier a cheap hair clip a hairstyle to pick up his blue jeans had rotted his synthetic underwear was still light the sandals indicate the crime was committed in a warm climate his hair was a light brown color as determined by hair analysis found on this site we know that our nails were painted with nails that were recovered at the site it was a bright dark pink color so there is a lot of detail in the earrings found near the body it is a fragment of human tissue the metal of the earring had protected it from bacterial decay the earrings are included in sketches distributed Nationwide slowly and painfully Disturbing details of the victim's life are coming to light.

Focus on the spine are signs of trauma. Depressions in the vertebrae are evidence that the discs between the vertebrae have herniated. The victim may have performed a job that required heavy lifting. She once took care of her teeth but in the last years of her life she had allowed them to deteriorate. She had fillings in her front teeth to maintain her appearance, but five of her molars are missing. The black spots on the teeth are evidence that the victim was probably a smoker. Overall, the impression that she would have, but it is an impression based not only on the dentition, but perhaps on some of the things found with her, would suggest that she was an individual who did not have a lot of money and fairly limited financial resources.

Information collected by Owsley is transmitted to the Fairfax County Police Department, where Detective Bruce Guth heads the homicide section in our jurisdiction. Many of the murders are committed by people who know the victim. In the normal case, once the victim is known, the police will talk. to neighbors and family about the victim's lifestyle, who were her friends and enemies, a chain of evidence will often lead to the culprit; In this case we don't know the identity, so it's difficult to go much further until we know. who is detail by detail Fairfax County police re-examine evidence found at the scene a sketch of what the victim might have looked like is distributed to police across the country along with other details of the case despite This is two years old.

I'm still actively following leads that have occurred. I receive inquiriesapproximately two or three a month. I recently received one from Philadelphia, New York and Ohio, despite the continued efforts of Fairfax County Police, there is no match to the murder. victim with a missing person to facilitate the search for the identity of the victim Doug Owsley provides data for a second composite sketch using an FBI computer program when you are looking at a skull and are trying to assess what this individual looked like in the basic way you are going to be defined by the skull itself in relation to that, then you take into consideration the clothing found, for example, because the clothing helps you get an idea of ​​the size and weight of the individual, for example, starting with an image of the skull The computer adds successive layers of detail The markers indicate the likely thickness of the facial tissue The measurements are based on studies of populations of similar age and gender The hair found at the scene along with the plastic hair clip and bobby pin suggest a possible hairstyle the victim had Overbite: a gap in the front teeth and a cosmetic filling, as these features would have been visible in life, the victim is shown smiling in the final illustration, but despite the efforts made to create a realistic image , there is still no response when the image is published throughout the country.

Part of the problem is that the police are still not sure when the murder occurred when it was discovered in 1993 the bones were dry the flesh had long since rotted it would have to be said that it would be at least a year and a half before this could have been happened, but I actually think it could extend further back in time and so if we take the maximum range, one of the things found in a pocket was a quarter dating back to 1980. So if we look at the period of time in which we are terms of the extremes probably speaking between 1991 and 1980. the problem of dating murder victims found long after the crime occurred We may soon have an answer at a body farm in Tennessee.

An unusual study is being conducted using flesh and bones from the dead volunteers in Fairfax County, Virginia, police continue their search for clues to identify a woman found in the Washington suburbs of Fort Myers, Florida, a killer confessed serial has led police to a headless body barely identifiable as human, in both cases the work was done at the Tennessee Anthropology Research Center or tarf will prove invaluable its director is Dr. William Bass, an anthropologist coroner at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, his experience is the human skeleton found 10 days on the river bank when a person recently died.

Morphological characteristics such as prints on the fingers and palms. can help with identification when these features disappear and only the bones remain. The case is forensic anthropology. The Bass facility receives an average of one body a week for identification. Some parts of Tennessee have become a dumping ground for murder victims. We don't think the interstates are avenues of crime, but they are absolute avenues of crime. So you can kidnap someone in Chicago. You can go down I-75, which goes through Cincinnati. From Lexington, Kentucky to Tennessee, the first real area you get to on I-75 heading into Florida, which is really rural, is Tennessee and we dumped a lot of bodies there, so many bodies that Bass has invented a box system to store each skeleton. his own box, so we want to put them in a box because if you don't they will get lost and get dirty on the shelves around it.

There are more than 2,000 skeletons sent to the Bass facility by medical examiners from across the state with the help of graduates. Bass' students help police determine the sex, race and other identifying characteristics of unclaimed bodies, but in doing his job, Bass realized there were no reliable statistics on human decomposition rates. . He established near Knoxville an outdoor preserve known informally as Body Farm. has planted not living beings but dead please human bodies left outdoors to decompose it is an experiment that will tell you how body decomposition is affected by climate and the degree of exposure to the elements this is a body we are studying uh the effects of the body covering that the worms leave this body has been outside for a year the worms have eaten the inside but they left part of the skin for protection the worms don't like sunlight and what they do is leave this as an umbrella to protect from the sun and so you get bodies like this um that will have a covering that will hold the bones together even though there are no internal organs left there at all oh, the specimens used for Bass's experiments come from two basic sources: those who have donated their bodies to science and unclaimed bodies sent to the facilities by medical examiners after the bodies have been left outdoors to decompose, are returned to the laboratory for analysis, the dissection will tell how their exposure to elements has affected their skin, bones, and Tissue statistics from everything will help police departments determine how long a newly discovered homicide victim has been dead to keep them away.

Intruders with morbid curiosities. Security guards hold the body. The farm is under close surveillance. Bass has tried to duplicate all the common ways killers get rid of him. its victims, well we try to keep as honest an environment as possible, we try not to do anything artificial, it's exactly how it is in nature, what we have here is a car we've been watching people's decay rates. In cars, both in the passenger compartment and in the trunk, a body placed in the trunk for observation has since been removed, but its byproducts remain small pupils from which flies have emerged within minutes after it was When death has occurred, the flies are attracted to the body to lay their eggs.

The eggs will hatch into larvae or maggots that feed on the decaying flesh before turning into flies. We can tell you that this individual has been in this log for at least 21 days. from the fly pupae that are present from the pupil cases that are present here in the back seat of the car another body has been removed again leaving a clue about the time of death hair mask What is called the hair mask Hair falls off a corpse after a week under heat buildup in closed vehicles. It has been discovered that heat often accelerates the decomposition process.

Some of the bodies have been dead for only a week. Well, he hadn't gone very far. Well, they are both more or less at the same stage. Aren't they in that body? Others are much older. Well, there. There are some worms there, but those worms are frozen? It moved away from the body heat and didn't return to the body, so there's a couple there. I'm going to delay this a little bit. more here and we'll see if we can't get in there and I'm not really sure, well you'll see there are a lot of worms, hundreds and hundreds of worms in there, and they're slower or not.

They aren't doing much right now because it gets so cold every month. Bass sends bone and hair samples to the FBI for analysis. The samples come from several different specimens at a variety of locations within the farm. The FBI will study how long exposure to the elements and the environment in which a body is found can alter its DNA. You can do a DNA test on the worms and they will get the same DNA. If the individual has been taking drugs, the worms will pick up those drugs. You can know it from the analysis of the body. worm also the volatile fatty acids, which are the slimy substance that you see there, are the so-called volatile fatty acids that leak out of the bodies.

We have now been able to take this material, analyze it and determine the time since death. up to approximately two years in other parts of the facility the bodies lie in coffins above the ground the drainage tubes allow testing of fluids and air samples without opening the coffin lid this is close the bodies are buried in coffins six feet below land with a culvert allowing access down here and his associates study how underground burials affect the rate of decomposition, as murderers are known to dismember their victims and scatter them over another area reserved for body parts.

It's not always an exact science, but Dr. Bass's work is the first of its kind. Help police with murder victims found long after the crime in the Danny Webster case in Florida Police only have part of the killer's body Have done a thorough job dismembering and scattering the remains Filling in the grisly details of the murder and the Mutilation will be Forensic Science Work at the Lee County Sheriff's Office in Fort Myers, Florida, Paul Klein has confessed to the murder of Danny Webster, but the killer has dismembered the body and disposed of his head. The few bones found on a swampy island date back a year and a half, it may be impossible to prove it.

Beyond a reasonable doubt, they are the bones of Danny Webster. Klein had been ruthless in trying to hide the crime from him before decapitating the body. He had extracted the teeth knowing that they are often used to identify the victim. He explained that instead of digging a normal grave-type hole, he dug a round hole like to put garbage in or something, placed the victim on the ground buttocks first, and pushed him into the hole by his shoulders when he didn't go in. . All the way he jumped over the body until he could get it deep enough into the hole to think he had it hidden, then he brushed away weeds and dirt and lay face down and his words slipped back in. water like a big Gator and swam back home is Klein a psychopath or is he a man who is conspiring and planning the perfect crime, okay, a perfect crime, let's think about Jimmy Hoffa, how far have we come?

Jimmy Hoffa saw me, no. We don't even know where he is, how can we solve the crime if we don't know where he is? So someone, I mean, someone, already thought about this and said, "You know, if you leave the body, chances are you will." get caught because there's always a hair and fiber section of the FBI and everyone's forensic anthropologist, my colleagues were out there trying to figure this out, but if you don't have a body, how do you know you have a crime you say the detective Harry executed a search warrant on Klein's apartment, it soon became apparent that Klein may have learned killing techniques from books, we found probably every true murder story ever written.

Since Sam's son, the Hillside Strangler, was just book after book after book of scant remains, forensic science must identify Danny Webster's body, otherwise the case may be lost to corroborate Klein's confession and make the case remains in court. Anthropologist William Maples will attempt to determine age, sex and race. of the partial skeleton this is the shaft of the bone this is the epiphysis the end of the bone and they start from separate origins in a child um and they slowly change shape as the epiphyses reach the end of their growth they fuse with the shafts of bone over the bones in this case the fusion is not yet complete Maples is able to put the victim's age between 17 and 23 years the same age as Danny Webster Determining sex is almost always a matter of studying the narrower pelvic bones in men than in women.

The victim in this case was clearly a man, but determining race will be more difficult, especially since the foreign head is missing. Dr. Maples uses the femur or thigh bone to distinguish Caucasians from blacks. In a Caucasian, the femur is bold enough to allow your knuckle to pass underneath. in the case of a black individual the shaft tends to be much flatter and straighter and there is no anterior curvature, the amount of curvature in the femur clearly indicated to me that we are dealing with a white man, finally Maples examines the bones for evidence of the chatter marks that a paring knife would leave if used to dismember the body.

Murderers in general are not stupid enough to use paring knives, although we don't have much evidence, but the results are positive at the end of their examination. Maples has conclusive evidence that the bones match Danny Webster's description. The necessary corroboration of Klein's confession is available to Lt. Jeff Taylor. The case is closed. Paul Klein is currently in an institution in Chattahoochee, Florida, for the mentally ill, but in Fairfax County, Virginia, police have a more difficult problem: the murder victim remains unidentified a murderer may remain undetected free to return to kill. More than two years have passed since the discovery of a female body in Virginia Countryside, near Washington D.C.

Fairfax County investigators, including Detectives Jerry Farrell and Dennis Wilson, have sentan extensive investigation. information about the case, including descriptions of the victim, dental records and a description of some, but not all, of the injuries discovered by forensic expert Doug Housley. People have been known to confess to crimes they did not commit. Having learned the details of the crime from public sources by withholding certain information the police can be sure when a confession is fabricated or genuine. Okay, this will be the cut right here, away from having a confession. Police in Fairfax County, after two years of searching missing persons files, still don't know who the victim is.

In this diagram, even today we think about her a lot and we hope that through the facial reproductions that have been made, someone can recognize her and can contact the police and offer new ideas because she is someone we need. to be identified and we certainly need it to hopefully prevent this from happening again. Find out who did this. We've sent out hundreds of clues, hundreds of posters. We'll probably review this again at least once or twice a year. we try to cover it on the television stations, the media we try to get the newspapers interested to publish the image we want, not only the interpretations of the artist but we also publish photographs of the clothes, this is by no means a case that is simply on a shelf and nothing.

It is ending with a growing population and more and more people on the move. Many crimes may never be solved. Victims like the one found in Fairfax County. Her friends and family are unaware of her death. She may remain unidentified. The murderer freed her to kill again. I think, uh, homicide. investigations are getting a little more difficult, the national trend is stranger in Stranger MERS, as in previous years it was family members, domestic type murders nationwide, there are more stranger murders and forensics becomes a very important part of the investigation, was this the work of a The serial killer Doug Owsley believes no, the body was buried in a hurry, that the killer lacked the tools to dismember it so that it would never be found.

Serial killers like Paul Klein from Florida are much more efficient, in this case you don't necessarily get the same kind of sophistication. it certainly led to a tragic end, but in terms of accomplishing what he set out to do, he was much less prepared, on the other hand, he was able to take someone's life and has been able to get away with it all these years and so on. and so there is some peace that we have not been able to achieve in Australia despite the obstacles to solving the case. Fairfax County

detectives

haven't given up.

Sooner or later someone is going to talk about this. It is one of the premises of a cold case team that relationships are changing and technology is changing changes have become more advanced. I am optimistic that this case could be solved, so we continue to work to chip away at it. It will eventually develop. Oh yes, I believe optimistically. We will sometimes things just take a little longer that's all William Maples because you think few murderers escape detection no of course no they don't follow the rules of the barrel they will take risks and do things we don't we would do.

Do they just not follow the rules and that is useful for us because that means that they make a lot of mistakes and by taking risks, they invariably end up going cold turkey? Emotion is an important element and emotion means they are taking action. opportunities and God loves them the more opportunities to take advantage the more chances we have to catch them