Patterns Of Guilt | FULL EPISODES | The New Detectives

a quiet Maryland suburb is shaken by a brutal double murder to solve this case investigators must retrace the killer's steps the body of a missing girl is found in an Oregon highway rest area strange marks on the arm of the Victim are investigators' best hope for identifying her killer A Minnesota man finds his ex-wife dead in their home, apparently the victim of a sexual assault, but

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soon discover that things are not always what they seem. Some crime scenes have few clues to offer, but killers always leave some trace of themselves. To develop their case, investigators turned to forensic examiners to isolate hidden impressions and convert them into

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In this episode, some of the names have been changed. The affluent suburb of Annapolis, Maryland, is a quiet alternative for those looking to escape the hectic pace of Washington. In this peaceful DC community violent crime is almost nonexistent on Monday, May 16, 1994, all that changed when prominent DC lawyers, Jean Gamble and her husband, Joseph Thomas, failed to show up for work. A secretary asked Ricky Cole, a handyman who worked at the couple's house to check on them at the front door found a note indicating that the couple was on vacation but that didn't make sense this was their vacation home Cole entered With the key that the couple had given him, no one seemed to be at home, but in the bedroom he made a horrible discovery under the sheets.

Gene Gamble and Joseph Thomas lay murdered in their bed. Anne Arundel County Police Department Crime Scene Officers and Technicians were quickly dispatched to the scene. Investigators discovered that each victim had suffered a single gunshot wound to the back of the head at close range. Blood was splattered on the wall above the bed. Anne Arundel County Homicide Detective Tim Zwalik was on the scene when we saw the scene. of the crime and we realized that they were contact wounds and that the people were basically executed, it was such a horrible crime that at that moment we knew we were dealing with something that was very, very unusual when the forensic technicians began to trace the scene looking for clues to the identity of the murderer.

Investigators found Joseph Thomas' wallet and his wife's purse, cash and some credit cards appear to be missing. The double murder appeared to be a robbery gone wrong. As police continued to search the house, they found no signs of forced entry, but a pile of wood mulch on the floor near the open kitchen door suggested the killer was likely. point of entry in the hope that the suspect had inadvertently left footprints behind forensic technicians applied fingerprint powder to the floor the tactic paid off a sneaker print was revealed a gelatinous substance was applied to the print and left harden to preserve it as evidence convinced that the killer left the note to keep people away, investigators tracked him down for possible clues, the way the date had been written, first the day and then the month, took them to believe their suspect had served time in the military, although no usable prints were recovered, tiny brown fibers were removed from the tape's adhesive with no witnesses to the double murder and no obvious suspects to pursue.

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knew this would be a difficult case to solve and feared time was working against them. This person who committed this crime needs to be taken off the street if he can do it. a murder like this, so cold and bold, then this person is going to commit it again and again and it's just terrifying to think that the autopsies had a little more information to offer the levels of rigor mortis led the medical examiner to conclude that the couple had been dead for at least 24 to 36 hours before being discovered, placing the time of death at late Saturday afternoon or early Sunday morning.

Anne Arundel County Crime Lab examiners believed the key to the killer's identity lay in the shoe print recovered from the scene. After identifying a New Balance logo on the shoe print, examiners searched catalogs for a model with a similar tread design and concluded that the footprint left at the scene came from a New Balance model 480 bk running shoe, size seven and a half. To learn everything they could about the victims, police began canvassing the neighborhood. A neighbor described Jean and Joseph as a bright, hard-working and well-loved couple. She said she had last seen them on Saturday afternoon when they were out to dinner at Jean's.

Red Accuracy: She didn't remember seeing the car the next day and she simply assumed the couple had decided to drive back to Washington together. It seemed more likely to investigators that the car had been stolen. An arrest warrant was issued for the vehicle a short time later. The local bank manager, who had been following the investigation in the media, contacted the police. One of the victims had used bank cards to withdraw cash from an ATM. The transaction came just hours after the couple was murdered, although less than a third of the total. ATMs were equipped with security devices in 1994 this one had a surveillance camera attached the man was sitting in the driver's seat of gene gamble's red acura investigators believed they were looking at the face of the couple's killer they worked feverishly to establish his identity pliers containing the suspect's photograph were distributed to the public the publicity bore fruit a second bank manager handed over surveillance tape revealing that the same suspect was using a credit card belonging to the victims this second transaction had taken place on day after the murders and this time the suspect's shoes were partially visible in the photograph the photograph was sent to the Anne Arundel County Crime Laboratory.

Examiners studied the image in an effort to determine whether the shoes worn by the suspect were the same make and model as the shoe that had left the print in the crime. The evidence collection supervisor from the scene, Jeff Cover, contacted a New Balance shoe designer and we actually took a trip to the factory in Lawrence Massachusetts and met with their shoe designer there, who was able to identify the sole in the ATM photograph as a New Balance 480. The same type of shoe that had left the imprint on the victim's kitchen floor, believing robbery was the motive behind the murders, investigators They began tracking down dozens of robbery reports in hopes of finding photographs of known robbers who resembled the murder suspect. look at the atm look at his height this guy can't be that big but they found nothing as homicide detectives continued to search the reports a robbery division detective caught a glimpse of the suspect in the atm photos it was scotland williams a suspect in a series of robberies arrested eight months Before, when we had this break, it was the break you dream of having, it was suddenly, we already had the guy identified, we had to move quickly and for the first time we had a name to accompany the face he had physically. linked scotland williams to the murdered victims ATM card and missing vehicle investigators obtained an arrest warrant at six o'clock the top stories on all the news channels was this murder case.

The image of scotland williams accessing the ATM was shown to the public. our surveillance team was on scene and at 605 the front door opened and scotland williams was running out of the house, the police came in and arrested him. Scotland Williams insisted he knew nothing about the murders, seeking to prove otherwise, investigators searched the residence inside the house, police found what they were looking for several pairs of sneakers, including some New Balance running shoes, all were size half past seven. They also collected a pair of brown cotton gardening gloves and sent them to the crime lab during questioning.

Williams maintained his innocence and, although the records indicated it. He had served 12 years in the military, he insisted that the note found on the victim's front door was not his handwriting. Investigators confronted him with the ATM photos, he admitted it was him at the ATM when I showed him the photo of him, he looked at the photo. and he said yes, that's me, he entered the ATM but he never made any other confession to us. He refused to talk to us. Investigators turned to forensic examiners to present his case, but analysis revealed that none of the shoes recovered from William's home had left.

The fingerprint found at the crime scene Police were convinced that Scotland Williams was responsible for the brutal murders of Gene Gamble and her husband Joseph Thomas, but until they could find hard evidence linking him to the crime scene, their suspect was probably he would get his way. police in anne arundel county, maryland, believed they had arrested the man responsible for the murders of prominent washington d.c. lawyers jean gamble and her husband joseph thomas suspect scotland williams had been captured on tape using the victim's ATM and wearing shoes that matched a footprint recovered from the crime scene, but none of William's shoes recovered during a search of his residence produced a match in hopes of finding something that may have been overlooked .

Detectives combed through every page of Scotland Williams' burglary reports from eight months earlier and found the only clue they needed. To make their case, detectives from the robbery division had photographed the soles of William's shoes. In the file was a photocopied copy of the shoe print, using the manufacturer's reference shoe as a point of comparison. Technician Eric Love was the first to determine that the shoe print on the xerox copy had been made with a size seven and a half New Balance 480 bk model. He then compared the unique wear

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and nicks on the sole of the crime scene shoe print to those present on the xerox copy of the Scotland Williams shoe. of the unique characteristics compared for the evidence technician eric love the evidence was overwhelming we knew that scotland williams owned a pair of model 480 copier we also knew that scotland williams was wearing a shoe that was consistent with a model 480 bk the day after the murders, so analyzing all this evidence we were able to conclude that Scotland Williams indeed had a pair of 480 bks, that that type of shoe was found at the crime scene and that the photocopy of Scotland William's shoe was consistent with the one found at the scene of crime.

If there was any doubt about William's

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, further analysis was erased, examiners concluded that brown fibers recovered from the tape on the note taped to the victim's front door matched fibers from gardening gloves found in the Williams House. Police believe Williams entered the victim's residence. He intended to rob the house, but when he discovered Gene Gamble and Joseph Thomas sleeping, he pulled out his gun and shot them. He fled with cash and an ATM card, unaware he had left a trail that would lead police directly to him in Scotland. Williams was tried and convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole plus 70 years in Scotland.

Williams killed his victims while they lay in his own bed, but for some killers the first step is to take the victim as far from home as possible. On June 17, 1986, a motorist passing on Highway 97 in Klamath Falls, Oregon, saw something lying on the side of the road. It was a sleeping bag and appeared to be in good condition, but when he looked inside he found items that looked like be stained with blood and worried the motorist. They collected the items and took them to the Klamath Falls station of the Oregon State Police, there the detectives began to search the bag, they discovered some articles of clothing, a pair of white tennis shoes with wings, a woman's purse and duct tape attached to green paper towels, all items.

It appeared to be stained with blood inside the bag. Investigators found an ID belonging to a 20-year-old woman named Carrie Love on Detective Kenneth Cooper. The articles suggested a viral game. It was obvious we had a missing woman or possibly a homicide due to the amount of blood. There was tape on the tennis shoes and the sleeping bag and the wad of paper towels in different places.layers and when I started to open the paper towels I noticed a clear indentation of what I thought was a nose and chin area and it appeared that the paper towels were put on the face other items found inside the bag indicated that Carrie Love worked for the Northern Star trucking company located over 400 miles away in Seattle, Washington, he contacted the company and learned that Kerry had recently gone on a business trip from Seattle to Los Angeles with the owner of the company, jesse pratt, 42, you heard from him recently were traveling in his 18-wheeler and their route would have taken them through klamath falls the information along with the blood-stained items found along the highway led Fearing the worst, investigators decided to return to Highway 97 but now believe they were searching for Carrie Love's body for three hours.

The search turned up nothing and with the vast stretch of highway and dozens of rest areas, Kerry Love could be anywhere but then Detective Cooper remembered one isolated place in particular, the chelmoth rest area, there are no facilities there, it is totally unlit, it is behind a wall

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of trees, it is totally secluded and at night it is completely dark and that would be an ideal place to take out a body and cover it. with the gravel when the detective arrived at the scene he realized that his instincts had died partially buried under a pile of gravel lay the lifeless body of a young woman for investigators there was no doubt that Kerry Love had been found blood-stained items.

Found along a highway in Klamath Falls, Oregon, led police to the body of Carrie Love, 20, an employee of a Seattle trucking company who disappeared while traveling to Los Angeles on business with her boss and the evidence suggested her death had been brutal one she had been stabbed repeatedly her crushed head and torso indicated she had been hit by a large vehicle strange bruises on her arm appeared to be tire tracks detectives meticulously documented and compiled every piece of evidence upon seeing the young woman so brutalized only intensified Detective Kenneth Cooper's determination to see his killer brought to justice when you encounter something this bad it's hard not to get personal it's important that you get everything right because At this point, you know beyond a doubt that If you don't do it perfect, you could lose it in court and you can't afford to do that because at that point we become the spokesperson for this person and we are the ones who are going to shout justice. for her because she can't do it right now.

In the autopsy, the medical examiner determined that Kerry had been asphyxiated and then stabbed 12 times before being run over. The stab wounds were consistent with those caused by an ice pick or a knitting needle, although she had also been raped. No usable biological evidence was recovered other than footprints, the only clues to the killer's identity were some red cotton fibers found on the victim's hands the day I left her when news of Carrie's murder spread through her hometown of Seattle, where her boyfriend arrived. She spoke to the police there. He believed Carrie's boss, Jesse Pratt, 42, had something to do with the murder.

He said Pratt had a strange fixation on Kerry. In fact, a month earlier, he and Carrie attended a high school prom together while leaving her boyfriend. he saw jesse pratt sitting in his car across the street, he was just looking at them the boyfriend confirmed that the last time he saw carrier was when she and pratt left the northern star trucking company heading to los angeles, that was two Days before Kerry's body was discovered in Seattle, Oregon police began trying to locate Jesse Pratt, the last person seen with Carrie Love. The receptionist at Northern Star Trucking had not heard from her boss since she left for Los Angeles a few days earlier while the interrogation continued.

She got a call. This is Mona. Hello. Jesse, it was Jesse Pratt who seemed eager to cooperate. He told police that he and Kerry had left Seattle together on June 16, but an hour or so after leaving, she decided she wanted to fly to Los Angeles; instead, he believed she was uncomfortable being Pratt said he took her to the Seattle airport and continued to Los Angeles. He said that he was currently in Phoenix, Arizona, making a delivery, but that he would return to Seattle the next day, but the police did not want to wait for an approval request.

She was issued for her truck a few hours later, Arizona authorities spotted the 18-wheeler outside of Phoenix when Jesse Pratt failed to provide a valid trucker's license. The police arrested him. His truck was impounded for thorough examination. Oregon State Police detectives flew to Arizona. to question Pratt themselves when they arrived, however, Pratt had hired a lawyer and advised his client not to answer any questions, insisting that he had nothing to hide, Pratt agreed to give the police his red shirt to to be examined more closely as she took off her shirt. They observed and photographed several suspicious scratches around his ribs, convinced that the injuries had been caused during a fight.

Police searched Pratt's truck for signs of violence inside the cab, recovering a briefcase, duct tape and a roll of unopened green paper towels similar to those found. with the victim's belongings along Highway 97. Forensic technicians also examined the tires on Pratt's truck, although the treads did not appear to resemble the bruises found on the victim's arm. The tires were removed and stored as possible evidence for Oregon Detective Sergeant Richard Strupup. State police's search for Pratt's truck had failed to produce evidence of murder. Interestingly, the truck itself didn't provide us with any significant evidence and I think that in itself was significant at least to me because it was so obvious that this thing had been clean.

It was spotless. No forensic evidence was found in the vehicle and one would have expected to see something there. So it was obviously obvious to us that Jesse Pratt had cleaned that truck quite thoroughly. Investigators examined the contents of Pratt's briefcase. They found a potential clue: a receipt. of gasoline from a truck stop located one hundred miles south of the Seattle airport. The receipt was dated the afternoon of June 16, two days before Carrie Love's body was found. Maybe someone there remembered seeing Pratt. The manager who worked that night was shown a lineup of photos and asked if anyone looked familiar, without hesitation he pointed to Jesse Pratt, yes sir, the assistant remembered him well, what came to mind was the lack of a coincidence between Pratt's unkempt appearance and that of the attractive young woman traveling with him who they had stopped to fill.

Upstairs, the young woman asked about using the bathroom, but the driver seemed to be in a hurry and yelled at her to hurry up. The assistant recalled feeling like the two seemed like an odd couple when he was asked if he could identify the woman traveling with Pratt that he chose. Carrie Love Investigators knew that Pratt could not have dropped Carrie off at Seattle Airport since he previously claimed that Jesse Pratt had been caught in a lie at the crime lab. Examiners compared the fibers from Pratt's red T-shirt to those recovered from Carry Love in the autopsy of the The shape, color and texture of the fibers were all consistent, although the case was largely circumstantial.

A jury found Jesse Pratt guilty of first-degree murder, but this case was far from over in January 1990. Pratt's conviction was overturned on appeal and a new trial was ordered in the state of Oregon. The police wasted no time preparing for the upcoming trial, that's the actual tire we think he ran over. They were determined to present the new jury with a bulletproof case and the best way to do so was to prove the strange bruises found on the victim's arm. They came from the tires on Pratt's 18-wheeler. Photographs of Kerry Love's injuries and ink impressions of Pratt's tires were sent to renowned tire expert Pete McDonald in Hudson, Ohio.

He first confirmed that the bruises on the victim's arm had been caused by a tire, but not from the outer tread, the marks that appeared as bars on the victim's arm came from design patterns located on the side of the tire. and all the bars were the same size and shape, except one for McDonald, which was a telltale sign that the tire he was looking for had been retreaded. The bruises on the victim's arm captured the exact spot where the old tread had been retreaded. Spliced ​​with the new one looking for a match he traveled to the Oregon crime lab to see the evidence himself after seeing the lateral design patterns of the 18 wheels McDonald believed the right rear tire that had been retreaded looked the most consistent with the injuries found On Carrie Love's arm, using carbon paper, he traced the tire, creating an exact reproduction for later comparisons.

McDonald measured the tire's unique bar patterns and compared it to scale photographs taken of the injuries. All dimensions matched. McDonald then created a model that would help the new jury understand how an 18-wheeler could hit a person with just one tire. He made a small model of the victim. scale body with this tractor trailer and then I moved the tractor trailer and as you can see this right rear tire and just the right rear tire is making the tread and now the inside of that tire still crosses the inside of the arm of the victim. McDonald knew from experience that his analysis was not infallible.

He contacted the manufacturer of the retread tire for specific information. Every time I end up going to court, I find that the defense attorney is going to logically say, "Well, you identified this tire track, but there are millions of these tires out there. I called this manager and he informed me that there were very few tires like 300 of this brand and only about a hundred of this actual size, the manager discovered that he still had the bill of sale for the retreaded tire that had been run over by Carry Love Northern Star Trucking, ironically, the check for the tire had been. signed by Carrie Love herself just weeks before she was murdered.

Police believe that when Pratt and Kerry passed through Klamath Falls, Oregon, on their way to Los Angeles, he made off on the highway at a rest stop and. He made sexual advances toward Carrie when Kerry resisted, Pratt raped and killed her, then buried her under gravel and drove his truck over her body. The jury found Jesse Pratt guilty of aggravated murder on April 16, 1991. sentenced to death by lethal injection all of his subsequent appeals have been denied jesse pratt believed burying his victim would conceal his crime but others would tamper with the crime scene in hopes of sending investigators in the wrong direction saint paul minnesota march 20, 1996 Early Morning 9- The 1-1 call led police from the Saint Paul Police Department to the home of 31-year-old Stacy Brown.

Stacy's estranged husband stopped by the house and discovered his wife dead on the couch. She had been brutally beaten and strangled to death. Of her body on the couch and the fact that she was naked from the waist down suggested she had also been sexually assaulted. While examining the body, homicide detective Keith Mortensen found a strange clue: There were oddly shaped contusions and bruises inside. of the victim. leg, I thought it was a strange place for a bruise, since normally someone has a bruise. I usually think if you have a bruise it's in the shin area or the front of your leg, sometimes on the side from bumping into something, but more.

It is unusual to have it on the inside of the leg, although Stacy appeared to be the victim of a sexual crime. A closer examination of the scene led investigators to have some doubts: one of her legs was resting on the arm of the couch, and yet there was a coffee. table there with a number of items that were not touched her underwear was on the floor at the base uh or roughly next to her right foot and again she did not appear to be in the position she would be in if someone was sexually attacking her investigators Now they had to consider that the crime scene had been staged in an effort to conceal the true motive behind the murder.

They hoped an autopsy could tell them more. Police in Saint Paul, Minnesota, had no doubt that 31-year-old Stacy Brown. she had been brutally murdered in her home, but closer examination suggested that herkiller had staged the crime scene in an effort to make her death look like the result of a violent sexual assault. At the autopsy, the medical examiner concluded that Stacy had died as a result of asphyxiation, she had been strangled with a telephone cord and a wire coat hanger, and, although Stacy had been found naked from the waist down, he found no physical evidence of that she had been sexually assaulted, nor could she explain the origin of the strange bruises found. in stacy's leg convinced the crime scene had been staged to throw investigators off the killer's trail the police believed the suspect would be someone close to the victim, the estranged husband of lewis brown stacy, 34, and the man who discovered her body was taken in for questioning.

Devastated that Stacy, who wears leg braces as a result of childhood polio, had gone brown, said he stopped by the house early that morning to drop off gifts he bought for his youngest daughter when he noticed the keys hanging on the front door. and he went. Inside was when he discovered his wife dead on the couch. Brown realized that his impending divorce made him a logical suspect, but insisted that he still loved Stacy, his wife of eight years and mother of her three children the night she was murdered. . Brown said he was at a local bar playing pool until he returned home around 1 a.m.

He could only think of one person who would want to hurt his wife. A man involved with Stacy's best friend, Rebecca. Rebecca was contacted and she agreed to an interview. She admitted that her boyfriend quan. Tran and Stacy had not gotten along, Stacy felt that Tran was abusive and urged Rebecca to end the relationship, but Tran became enraged by Stacy's meddling a few days before the murder, she had smashed the windows of Stacy's car and later That same night there was another incident, a piece of brick suddenly crashed through the window of Stacy's house while she and Rebecca were eating dinner.

Attached was a terrifying message written in broken English, apparently from Tran. The message threatened Stacy's life and warned her to stay away from Tran and Rebecca's businesses. She had reported the incident and given the police the brick and the letter, despite her trans temperament, Rebecca did not believe she was capable of murder. The police felt the opposite. Kwon Tran was considered suspected of breaking the porch window, since he had just been there and escaped. some car windows also left him as a suspect in the murder case due to involvement, if we could link the other two incidents then maybe we can link him to the murder and Tran was detained and taken to the police station for questioning, He admitted to vandalizing the victim's car out of anger, but strongly denied throwing a brick through the porch window.

He also denied any knowledge of Stacy's murder, but investigators noticed scratches on her hands and on the sleeve of his jacket. There were stains that appeared to be blood. He claimed that he had been injured at work. Police took the jacket and sent it to the crime lab. They also asked him to provide a writing sample. Mr. Tran didn't know exactly why we suspected him, other than that. He explained to him that he had been to the victim's house and had broken windows there and that the next incident that occurred was another broken window and then the next incident that occurred was a murder, although the evidence pointed to Tran as he suspected that he believed that They were framing him for Stacy's murder.

Analysis of the evidence at the crime lab appeared to support his claims of innocence. Handwriting analysis revealed that Tran had not written the threatening letter to Stacy, and DNA testing of blood stains found on his jacket showed that the blood did not come from the victim. The investigation had reached a dead end. The police were back where they started with a body and no solid suspects. The police in Saint Paul, Minnesota had problems. To identify a suspect in the murder of Stacy Brown, a 31-year-old mother of three who felt something had been overlooked, police began reexamining all the evidence, including statements made by her ex-husband. of the victim, Lewis Brown, 34, who had claimed that on the night of the murder he went to a local bar and played pool until 1 a.m. to corroborate the alibi.

The police decided to go to the bar there. Employees who had worked the night of Stacy's murder were shown photographs of Lewis Brown. Nobody recognized the man and they felt. Confident that they would have remembered, they claimed that they had very few Asian customers and that they would definitely have noticed someone with a marked limp wearing leg braces, although the information hardly proved that Brown was a murderer, it suggested that he had lied to them. Police about his whereabouts on the night of the murder To obtain more information Police visited the facility where Brown worked as an alarm technician for the Saint Paul school system Investigators asked his supervisor to look around Brown's work station, There the detective noticed and picked up pens and a yellow writing pattern that seemed consistent with the note attached to the brick that had been thrown through the victim's window.

When the detective left the building, he saw a broken piece of a brick that was being thrown. On the off chance that it was the same brick thrown through Stacy's window when the edges of the two broken pieces were lined up, Detective Mortensen was surprised to find a perfect fit. Lewis Brown did not when Tran had thrown the brick with a note written in torn letters. English through his wife's window, although Brown's efforts to frame Tran had failed. Police still lacked hard evidence linking him to the crime scene. They obtained a warrant to search his house.

Brown's roommate led police to the suspect's room. There the investigators found some articles of clothing that appeared. It was stained with blood as the search continued, Detectives noticed several leg braces scattered around the room, all items were collected, Detective Mortenson sent the evidence to the Ramsey County Coroner for analysis, there Dr. Michael McGee worked on the case after reviewing the autopsy photos; he believed that identifying the source of the bruises on Stacy's leg would be the key to exposing the identity of her killer. It had a peculiar appearance that was a broken line separated by spaces or gaps that were quite uniform and if you looked at it, you could tell. was caused by some type of object that was machined and had certain dimensions, so dr.

McGee learned from police that the main suspect, Lewis Brown, was wearing leg braces and began analyzing all the braces collected in the suspect's room, one in particular caught his attention. It contained a knee brace with an L-shaped hinge. Dr. McGee superimposed the hinge of the knee brace directly on top of a photograph of the wound. The knee brace in the open position exactly matches the abrasion and injury that is present. The open edges of the hinge. are responsible for the area of ​​a braided tissue present on the subject's leg the spaces in the mechanism part here are responsible for the clear spaces present in the injury the hematoma extending upwards is due to the smooth aluminum strut the only way in that the brace could have caused Stacy's leg injury was if the person wearing it had been directly on top of her.

Lewis Brown was the only person known to have worn such braces. He was arrested and charged with the murder of his ex. wife, i used to live here, police theorized that on the night of march 19 an argument between lewis and stacy turned violent after strangling his wife, he staged the scene to look like a sexual assault in an effort to divert Investigators tracked him down, but all the while his leg brace had pressed on his leg. On January 31, 1998, a jury found Lewis Brown guilty of murder. A few days later, he was sentenced to life in prison when he left the scene of a murder.

Most killers believe they have success

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y covered their tracks, but no matter how hard they try, clues to their identity always remain. Forensic examiners can uncover hidden fingerprints and impressions and expose patterns of guilt.