The Robbery That Turned Into A Gruesome Double Murder | The New Detectives | Real Responders

A friendly Midwest Lodge becomes the scene of a

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double

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, two men are dead and a safe full of cash is missing, but the investigation stalls until several crucial tips and equally solid lab work crack the case open. In Michigan, an old man is found. brutally beaten dead in his own home, let's see the

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have more questions than answers, this is probably the most likely choice, as they follow a forensic trail of lies and deception that leads to an unlikely killer, two completely separate crimes, two different killers with a common thread that they both possess. a

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ous rage arising from raw greed in this episode some of the names have been changed Dayton Ohio the heart of the Midwest where old-fashioned values ​​are cherished and crime still shocks the core of the community St.

Patrick's Day is often a moment of celebration, but In March 1994, the consequences of the party took a deadly turn. Mary Pickett's husband Frank arrived unusually late that morning; He had re

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to the local shelter to clean up after the St. Patrick's Day party the night before. Mary hadn't heard from him at all. day, so she decided to drive to the shelter to see if he was okay. Frank's vehicle was still parked outside and the side door of the shelter was wide open. Frank Frank instinctively began to fear the worst and called the police. Dayton police officers responded to the scene my husband didn't come home last night so I called here and there was no answer.

I'll stay at the front nervously. Mary waited as the officer entered the shelter, she noticed something disturbing: the St. Patrick's Day decorations were still hanging and he was eerily silent and then on the kitchen floor she discovered a lifeless body. I'm going to need you to stay by the front door, don't let anyone worry, as Salant may still be in the building, the officers cautiously searched the area the perpetrator was long gone but before fleeing left another business card a second victim another body on the floor of the men's room another man was dead and there was nothing much to investigate the police launched a full-scale murder investigation Mary picket confirmed the identity of her husband and The other worker at Victim maintenance, Boyd Walker, explained that Frank and Boyd were on the cleanup committee and were preparing the shelter for their weekly meeting.

Dayton Police Detective Doyle Burke examined the bloody scene and began to piece together the events that led to the murders. The first thing that caught my attention was that the doors were formidably locked, however, they did not appear to have been tampered with, so I felt like there was definitely no, definitely no forced entry. Detective Burke looked around for other clues and saw that the cigarette machine had been Pred opened and almost all the money was gone, then he found a bloody hammer on the floor of the back office. Looks like some blood and hair here or there.

I think we want the crime scene technicians to photograph the possible murder weapon. carefully collected and sent to the laboratory for analysis. Detective Burke's next step was to reconstruct the crime step by step. The victim was in the bathroom area and appeared to have been laid there and then beaten to death rather than simply being caught by Sur. A The other victim in the food preparation area was very different, he appeared to have been taken by surprise before being hit. I thought maybe he was the one who may have opened the door to the suspicious blood samples found in Both rooms were preserved and sent to the lab along with the other evidence gathered at the scene.

Detective Burke took note of the blood spatters around the walls and floor, hoping the pattern was a clue as to how these two men died when coroners removed them. The bodies of the shelter victims Detective Burke had many questions about the killer. He believed that the men not only knew his killer, but perhaps opened the door for her. I believe the autopsies were performed at the Montgomery County Mechanic's Office by Dr. Russell. Upstairs Grove is going to palpate some skull fractures here we're also going to need a photograph. Preliminary findings indicated that Frank Picket was struck 19 times in the head.

Boyd Walker had been hit 18 times. Both victims suffered brain concussions with a hard tile floor surface and By observing the blood, it appears that he may have been taken by surprise behind Dr. Grove's findings also revealed that the murder weapon left crescent-shaped marks on the back of their heads upon closer examination of the individuals in the injuries sustained in the uh. The heads of these individuals were consistent with the types of injuries that could be inflicted with a hammer. Forensic scientist Denise Ranken processed the hammer at the Miami Valley Regional Crime Laboratory. I examined the hammer for blood and hair.

I tried to remove the hairs from the hammer. and there were red stains that I examined to determine if they were blood and determined that they were blood and were a mixture of the blood of both victims the analysis performed at The Hammer came up empty the investigation stalled a task force meeting was convened to determine the following movements at this point we have nothing on it you are the main

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of the Crews center, Burke, joined Detective Tom Lawson and together they headed the task force. An officer learned that a homeless man named Timothy Clifford had been trying to scam money. from a local church on the day of the murder, was the first solid lead and follow-up to Timothy Clifford, who was the initial suspect in these crimes.

The first thing we obviously did was take measures to locate him. Detectives found Timothy Clifford at a local homeless shelter not far from the shelter on March 19. Clifford admitted that he was panhandling at church that day, but claimed that he was at the shelter all morning. I went to church to get some money. Detective Burke said the shelter had a book that kept a record of the resident's whereabouts. It was a locked facility and during the period of time these homicides occurred, his whereabouts were verified at that shelter. The lead was a dead end. He hoped the lodge manager could provide the investigation with a much-needed boost so the manager told the detective that the safe was missing and that it contained all of the proceeds from the party.

He also said a two-wheeled dolly was missing from the back office. The manager explained to Detective Burke that Frank Picket had an unusual habit of sealing deposit bags with duct tape. Before depositing them all in the bank, and as detectives believed the men knew their killer, the lodge manager provided them with a list of employees and members both past and present. He had a firm belief that he was someone familiar with the operation and, of course, the first. The place I'm going to look is former employees and then current employees. The next step was to locate anyone who might know why Frank Picket and Boyd Walker ended up dead.

Hello, after talking to dozens of people, the police came up empty handed. All of the former workers and members had solid aliis and no motive for the murder, but at the station the calls and tips were pouring in and this time there were some promising leads. Police began to see a pattern. Most of the information revolved around one man, Edmund Emer. The caller said Emer bragged about being able to lift a safe without help and another caller said he once saw Emer open a cigarette machine in a bar, but the biggest break came when a telephone informant came to the police station, no one tipped and In itself, that was enough to say that em committed these crimes, but when the volume kept coming with information about emck and multiple tips and information about Emer, he certainly became an individual in which we were very interested in.

I think it's something interesting. The piece will make 52 layers viewable on mobile devices or the big screen, all free, no subscription required. What you have to see right here. The informant was a local man familiar with Edmund Emer. He knew that Emer had worked at a bar in the neighborhood. Emer said. He had a reputation for hitting customers in his own bar, then calling the police and saying they had passed out. He said he saw Emer at another local hangout being changed by the bartender when his bar ran out. He said Edmund Emer could be intimidating a local who clearly knew the bar district, he also told police.

Emer boasted that he knew where the shelter kept him safe. There was information that Emer had lost her job and needed money and then shortly after these crimes she had money, so every bit of the basically the pie in and out of the elves wasn't enough, but when they culminated it became clear. which was of great interest to us. The police needed to find as much information as they could about Edmund Emer, it didn't take long to find out. He had a police record, a record that included an outstanding traffic warrant and, most interestingly, an arrest for safecracking in the state of Ohio.

Once his name came up in the investigation, detectives began monitoring him, the outstanding traffic warrant giving them what they needed. I needed to get him off the streets, stop right there sir, take your hands out of your pockets for me, stand still for a minute, talk to him, the warrant gave the detectives the perfect opportunity to question Emer for a much bigger crime. Insidious, the

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murder in the During the course of the investigation we followed several leads, but again everything came back to them and for the first time in this particularly violent and frustrating case it seemed as if Detectives Burke and Lawson finally had a solid lead and a possible murder suspect.

Dayton Ohio detectives were moving forward on the

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double murder that took place at a local shelter the morning after St. Patrick's Day. They had some clues: a stolen safe, missing Dolly and a bloody hammer, but nothing added up after they arrived. To several dead ends, a name appeared repeatedly. the crime tip line Edmund emmer this my partner Emer worked in several bars around the shelter and had a reputation for being impulsive and dangerous he had an outstanding warrant for his arrest and the police arrested him what happened Detective Doyle Burke believed they were In The Right Way there was information that Emer was very brutal and very physical after his arrest.

Edmund Emer jumped to the top of the list of suspicious detectives when they noticed blood stains on his clothes. I cut myself shaving. It looks like blood to me, he stated. He had cut himself shaving, but the detectives remained skeptical that something didn't add up. His alibi was too much. What I want to do is have someone tell me, minute by minute, hour by hour, exactly what they had done. Detectives suspect Burke. and Lawson asked Emer to turn over his clothes as evidence. The blood that was found on Emri when he was first arrested was on his shirt, on his shoes and also on his jacket.

She spent the night in jail while her clothing was sent to the lab for blood testing. Detectives hoped the blood on Emer's clothing would match the victim's blood. The evidence was analyzed at the Miami Valley Regional Crime Lab. Denise Rankin explains. that there was blood on the clothing that was consistent with the uh suspicion that his own blood on his own clothing but Like the hammer, the blood on the clothing did not bring the detectives any closer to catching the killer; In fact, the jacket seemed to support the suspect's story that he had cut himself shaving, but Detectives Burke and Lawson weren't giving up on Edmund Emme.

A warrant was issued to search his home, they discovered a deposit bag sealed with duct tape and we'll see what else we can find, an informant had told detectives that one of the murder victims sealed his deposit bags the same way that bag technicians photographed the evidence and took several other items of Emir's clothing for further forensic testing. I need you to come down to that door for me without immediate evidence to stop Emer. The suspect was released, but Burke and Lawson believed they had his man. They just had to prove it. The day after his release, detectives seized evidence from Emir's car.

The technicians checked the car with a fine Toth comb inside the car, found an extra hammer and a lug wrench, each was gathered and sent to the lab to obtain that sample. Technicians took samples of gray paint. From the stains found inside the door of Emer's car, investigators believed the paint could be from the Lodge's missing safe. The stains ofpaint were analyzed at the Miami Valley Regional Crime Lab by Director Ken Bets, we are looking to determine if the paint is gray. The safe was also left in the vehicle without questioning by the suspects. What can I do for the researcher?

Burke and Lawson's next step was to verify Emer's ever-so-careful alibi. Yes, starting with her

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ly interested family. Emer claimed to have spent the morning of March 19 visiting. her father before heading to a local landrat, I think maybe5 the detectives weren't surprised or convinced when Emer's father confirmed her alibi sweatshirt and someone called a laundry employee, but she was more helpful in punching holes in the emer story, said said His behavior was suspicious that day. You think it was unusual because she parked unusually far from the front door, especially since she had an incredible amount of laundry to clean.

The amount of clothes Emer had collected that day was unusual and I think. That was part of the prepared alibi that she wanted to make it so memorable that the laser mat would remember this. This guy had so many clothes. It was such a big order, but the most damning thing the laundry worker remembered was them leaving. a two-wheeled cart in the laundry parking lot just like the one that was missing from the shelter and his alibi in the end was part of his downfall since it leads us to be able to verify that he took a two-wheeled cart from the scene . of the crime and Emer was in possession of a two-wheeled Dolly, uh, moments after the crimes occurred, a phone call came to the Dayton Police Department, it was the break the detectives had been waiting for for a while.Box discarded fort found right in the area where Emer had based her entire alibi.

A safe so heavy that even a strong man like Emer would need a dolly to transport it. Police examined the abandoned safe found outside a hardware store. The front door had been completely Pride out of the The employee at a local hardware store said she had seen a white mailer that matched Emer's description. Carrying the safe down the street on a two-wheeled dolly was like the dam had burst open on the safe, and the safe and dolly were just the beginning. The test results arrived. Upon returning from the forensic lab there was blood on one of Emer's shirts and it matched the blood of one of the murder victims.

The blood on the shirt was from the scene and we were able to link it to that scene with that blood. The evidence was mounting and detectives were closing in on Edmund Emer, but it would take more forensic evidence and an eyewitness to bring this killer to justice. Local bartender Edmund Emerich was the strongest suspect Detectives Burke and Lawson had in their investigation of a brutal double murder and

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. at a local shelter in downtown Dayton, Ohio, that's right, Emmer had a reputation for violence and a criminal conviction for safecracking. A combination of circumstantial and definitive evidence was building a case against the suspect, but it was a paint stain found inside Emer's car that provided a crucial piece of physical evidence at the State Crime Laboratory, director Ken Betts compared the stain of paint found on the car with the paint scraped from an abandoned safe, we were able to determine that the paint found on the vehicle was consistent with the Big Pain safe and became another investigative tool for police detectives. of Dayton to move forward after chasing leads for weeks.

Detectives Burke and Lawson were finalizing their case against Edmund Emer, but there was one more piece of evidence: an eyewitness came forward. His name was Brian Towns, a local homeless man. man who actually saw Emer enter the shelter on the morning of the murders, by interviewing him we were able to determine that not only did he see Emer at the crime scene that day, he saw the door he entered through, he also saw him leave and even spoke with Emer during the period of time in which we were sure these homicides had occurred. Eddie became nervous when Emer left the bar.

Towns took $20 from him and watched him go on his way. Detective Burke showed Towns some photos. and the homeless man positively identified that he saw hoies that day, yes, after hours with only two people there, you're not going to let a stranger in and we found out that Emer knew both individuals. Emer, of course, through Brian Towns was identified. Being on the scene, the detectives now had a man placing Emer at the crime scene at the time of the murders, but they were taking no chances before arresting Emer again at the crime lab, another piece of forensic evidence showed that Edmund Emer was the murderer. tool Mark examiner Tim dur cast Impressions of the wrench found in Emer's car Identifying a tool Marking a specific tool is like identifying a latent fingerprint at a crime scene with a known fingerprint of a suspect Impressions of the wrench were then compared to molds of impressions found on both the cigarette machine and the lodge safe matched perfectly the castings of the cigarette machine were compared microscopically to the castings of the test tool tire marks of iron when comparing them um several matches were found between the two in which one can conclude that the tire tool made the tool marks on the cigarette machine to the exclusion of all other tools, the coincidence of the impression of the tool was the final piece of the evidence puzzle, not only did the police have an eyewitness who located Emer at the location they now had clear evidence that he had broken into the cigarette machine and the security police came in to do An arrest was made, although Emer tried to flee, the police completely surrounded the house, there was nowhere for Emer to hide.

The police came here after weeks of tracking. The murderous detectives caught their man and were now about to get the full story of what happened at the lodge that tragic morning. As suspected, Boyd Walker knew his killer and naively opened the door to his own killer. He had no way of knowing that Emer had entered the bar with the intention of murder and

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when Walker

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his back on her. Emer grabbed a hammer and brutally killed him with the same cruelty with which he had beaten Boyd Walker. Emer killed Frank Picket within minutes. Both men were dead.

Emer scrambled and grabbed the dolly. and he took out the safe from the hostel. He later abandoned the dolly in the laundromat parking lot. Amam urgently needed money and this was an opportunity to take advantage of two people who would trust him. Edmund Emer was found guilty of two counts of aggravated felonies. murder for his fatal assault on the two bar workers, as well as robbery, he was sentenced to two life sentences in prison. Some assassins prey on unsuspecting targets, making it easier for them to conceal their identity. Ask Frank. Others strike closer to home and leave.

Behind the traces of pure greed, EMT Township is a rapidly growing community of 12,000 people located on the eastern border of Battle Creek, Michigan. They pride themselves on being a close-knit, safe haven, which is why what happened on the morning of April 26, 1996 was such a shock in the small town that morning Sharon Zachary went to see Bob Rogers. She had been caring for the 81-year-old man and rented a house on the same street. Sharon was worried that she hadn't heard from Bob all morning when she saw his car on the side of her house and she was particularly worried because he never parked there and hadn't answered her phone.

Her concerns were instantly confirmed when she saw that the sliding side door of the house had been completely smashed and she ran to help. Sharon Zachary panicked. Her friend Bob had been the victim of several burglaries in recent months. It seemed as if this was just another one. EMT officers are to go to 7419 Jefferson Drive our welfare check possible assault the officers were familiar with Bob Rogers was not the When they were first called to his residence, they knew the elderly man had a reputation for being a pack rat and guarding large amounts of cash in the house, they entered the house carefully and cautiously so as not to disturb any potential evidence, but this time. the crime was worse there, lying on his back in his family room was Bob Rogers and he was dead hello Bob it's ok no no it's not man we have signal 15 here going to n TCH also pleas from fire command EMT the Police now had what appeared to be a homicide.

Hand in hand with him, Lieutenant Thomas Hedley arrived ready to begin the investigation. His first step was to talk to Sharon Zachary, the woman who had discovered the body here. Mr Rers House left after asking him to come to the station to make a statement. He examined the bloody crime. Scene from the beginning, Lieutenant Hedley knew that this crime didn't happen like the others. This crime scene is a little strange to me, not consistent with what we know of Mr. Rogers' behavior. Okay, also the fact that the sliding glass door was broken. in the back of the house was not consistent with the other crime scenes people did not have to go through that effort to obtain insurance among the scattered clothing and blood spatter the crime technical team took measurements, photographs and samples of all potential evidence, forensic technicians paid especially Pay close attention to the victim's bent belt buckle, pick it up, we'll get another one.

More glass shards were photographed and collected for possible hand or footprints. I have more money here, what did not surprise Lieutenant Hedley was the large amounts of cash found hidden in various places. around the room was an older man he probably lived during a depression he carried the money on him uh probably as a feeling of security Headley knew one thing he was sure of the money was the reason now he had to find out who was responsible at the station EMT police Lt. Anthony Gel asks Sharon Zachary, she told Lt. Gel about her relationship with Rogers, you know, because from time to time he said she became friends with the Old Man and rented one of his many properties.

Zachary explained that she was worried about Mr. Roger's safety and even insisted that he move in with her. She said she was tired of standing by while the old man repeatedly fell victim to violent robberies. She went to the door. Zachary told the lieutenant that He didn't see anyone the morning he found Bob Rogers' body. He went to his house when he hadn't heard from him, but to Guel there was something a little strange about the story of Sharon Zachary and something strange about the whole crime scene of the murder. It matched what had normally happened in the past, the scene just had an aura about it that something didn't seem right, it almost seemed like someone went to great lengths to make this look like a robbery Bob Rogers' autopsy was performed at the Hospital Sparrow until Dr.

Joyce D Young took the victim's post-mortem fingerprints which she needed to determine which Prince found at the scene belonged to the victim and belonged to the possible murderer or murderers. D. Young noted severe blunt force trauma to Roger's head and body. Mr. Rogers received between 25 and 30 blows to the head, the majority of the head injuries were of the type behind and to the left side of the head, which would certainly suggest that the blows were inflicted by someone from behind, to judging by the position of Roger's body and its decomposition. Dr. D Young concluded that Roger's body was most likely moved after the fatal beating she called it.

Lieutenant Guel to report his findings there is a pool of blood near the body that appeared to be where the body was face down and then the body turns around and the hands are uh the hands and forearms are in the air uh After Ryer Morse had Having established the victim's fingerprints, forensic scientists began to reconstruct the murder of Bob Rogers using a technique specifically designed to lift fingerprints from porous surfaces. They analyzed the victim's belt. Numerous prints were taken from the belt, most of them belonged to Rogers, but one. In fact, if it was anyone other than the victim's fingerprint on his pants, then it was obviously someone who touched that area.

He probably would not have remained on the surface of the belt while the victim was wearing it conventionally. Scientists too. I found compelling evidence in one of the fragments of the broken sliding glass door. It was the imprint of a muddy tennis shoe simply from walking on the glass. The design elements of the shoe are reproduced on that glass in incredible detail, including the um, not just the design sign. but use characteristics size individual characteristics unique characteristics ofa shoe that allows us to positively identify the shoe the evidence was compelling but seemed to lead nowhere Lieutenant Guel had no suspects and each day that passed was another day the killer was free EMT Township police Police were investigating the death of Bob Rogers , an elderly man who had been the victim of repeated robberies.

They had evidence of fingerprints and a muddy shoe print. Lieutenant Headley Reed knew that the next plan of attack was compelling evidence in the case that would ultimately help him convict. The right suspect, EMT police organized a task force to brainstorm the brutal murder and made a shocking discovery. Apparently, Mr. learned that Sharon Zachary had power over Bob Rogers' finances, since she was the one who found his body and had unlimited access. to her house they needed to eliminate her as a still valid suspect, they obtained a search warrant and began investigating her affairs, we began talking to family members and as a result began to look at her a little closer as a possible suspect, their first stop was return to the crime scene.

Thousands of dollars were found in the house. Hidden cash in every room. Investigators removed files and records from Roger's home. Upon reviewing their records, Lieutenants GLE and Headley learned that Sharon Zachary was using Rogers credit cards. Here is the same. I began to suspect that his hunch about Sharon Zachary had been correct. We also pulled bank account statements and discovered that she had actually been withdrawing some funds from some of her bank accounts, which led us a little bit to the reason that there could be more to this and there could be some money that may be a problem.

Handle all of her legal and financial matters in fact. To get more information about Rogers' finances, they decided to question her attorney, Sharon Zachary. Roger's lawyer explained Zachary. She was granted power of attorney four months before the murder, but just two weeks before being found dead, the old man had abruptly changed his mind, discovered that $10,000 was missing from one of his accounts and became enraged. The case developed further when we learned that Mr. Rogers had made a will leaving property belonging to Sharon Saary upon her death an offer Did you receive the information with a clearly stated reason?

Actually, Lieutenants Guel and Headley sent an investigator to Rogers Bank together and that's the form that's there, the bank manager. He said Sharon Zachary came to Bob Rogers about a year before her death asking to be put on her account. He returned alone and filled out a form to take it. He sat uncomfortably as the paperwork was completed. He aange, but returned only the next day requesting him. be removed from the account, he wanted her power of attorney removed as he wanted to handle her own affairs because he no longer trusted Sharon Sary. Mr. Rogers had not been able to get to her will, but she unfortunately murdered before I could do that, he was finally shocked.

Detectives spoke with a security guard at a local discount store. Zachary went to buy some shoes and tried to use Bob Rogers' credit card when the card was declined. Security was summoned to the counter. He called Rogers at his house and he told them that under no circumstances had he given Zachary permission to use his credit card. The young girl was trying to use her credit. She insisted. There was a confusion, the meaning of this card was that she made Mr. Rogers suspicious because at that time he would have felt that Sharon Saary was cheating on him.

It was a big break in the case. Detectives Guel and Hedley had confirmation that Sharon. Zachary was desperately trying to take advantage of 81-year-old Bob Rogers. They were increasingly convinced that it was Zachary who killed the old man in a fit of greed, but they needed proof if they could find a way to prove it directly. fault the detectives knew they had found their killer look what lieutenant guel and lieutenant hedley have were on the trail of the murderer of Bob Rogers, 81 years old what the man got was beaten to death in his own home and the evidence preliminary pointed to the guilt of his caretaker Sharon Zachary it seems she may have signed her name Zachary had been taking advantage of her power over Roger's finances it seemed clear that the old man did not appreciate Zachary spending his money.

We're trying to find anything that links Zachary to any kind of financial impropriety, anything we can find to help try to piece everything together, plus we still hadn't found a murder weapon, so another Lieutenant Headley from Discovery found out that Zachary had They attempted to take the plans to Rogers Land. They studied Bob Roger's land. They wondered why Sharon Zachary, who rented one of Rogers' homes, would request a copy of Rogers' property plan and walk away. What they noticed immediately was the amount of water on Rogers' property. They can do anything, they knew that one of the ponds would be the perfect place to hide a murder weapon.

There were three ponds adjacent to the house of Mr. Rogers and U. We thought that possibly they were accustomed to concealing the murder. Also interesting is that there is a worn path leading from this third pond area behind Mr. Rogers' house to the house where Sharon Saary lived. Divers were sent to check the pond and the detective's instinct paid off. Divers pulled a 3- A section of a pipe from the water at the crime lab, forensic scientists examined the pipe, although it is very likely that there is still evidence of blood in the pipe. Forensic scientist Margerie Harris has pores, cracks and crevices that allow blood to

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ly penetrate. the gun itself or dents, if you have cracks and crevices in a metal object, you still have pockets where blood can pool and actually dry out and stick to those surfaces, even though the pipe had been submerged in the pond, It still had remains of human beings.

Blood was very happy to have found it. I don't think this has happened before. A murder weapon like this could be recovered by being submerged in water and still have reliable DNA that could be identified. Forensic investigators replicated the blood splatter from the crime scene using a pipe similar to the one found in the pond they hit a melon to simulate a skull. Comparing crime scene photos with the crime reconstruction, forensic investigators concluded that the pipe extracted from the pond was the same pipe used to kill Bob Rogers we like to do a crime scene reconstruction where we can tell a series or sequence of events what happened where it happened what was the order in which it happened the detectives felt they finally had all the ammunition they needed to go after Sharon Zery with a search warrant in hand entered her home confiscating the financial records uh in Sharon's home shows that she had an interest in Mr.

Rogers' finances and apparently wanted to know more about what kind of money he had available to him Sharon Zachary cooperated by allowing police to remove Bob Rogers' records from her home. I glanced at the officers and asked her for a pair of tennis shoes to compare with a shoe print found at the crime scene, without any argument, she produced a pair of white tennis shoes. The shoes that were quickly bagged for testing are back at the crime lab. The prints from Sharon Zachary's tennis shoes were compared to prints found on broken glass at the crime scene, although she insisted that she never entered the house that morning.

The preserved footprints matched those of Sharon Zachar perfectly, the individual characteristics are exactly the same, therefore the impression from the crime scene and the impression made by the suspect's known shoe are the same. The shoe print was enough to arrest Sharon Zachary, she definitely placed it at the crime scene. crime the woman who claimed to be Bob Rogers' caretaker was now being arrested for his murder he believed that the forensic evidence we located clearly established that she was at the crime scene we established that Sharon saary was a liar and we believe that Sharon saary murdered Mr. .

Rogers at the crime lab, forensic scientists were comparing a fingerprint found on Bob Rogers' belt with Zachary's prints. It was a perfect coincidence. We actually physically found Zachary's footprint on the back of Mr. Rogers' belt, showing that she had contact with the body that she did not. It doesn't match what she had initially told the officers about her because, as Zachary said, it was only natural that they would have evidence linking her to the crime scene. She got a little greedy, didn't she say that she spent so much time taking care of the old man that it wasn't surprising that his print was on his belt, but the forensics told a different story about the print: it is very fragile in nature and in all probability was would have been destroyed by simply placing the belt through the loops and attaching it to the pants if it has been on a person's clothing for a period of time, it is not likely that the victim's fingerprint or a suspicious fingerprint would be present on the bottom of that belt because there is no need, it was too late for Sharon Zachary, the evidence against her was overwhelming.

I don't believe you, I gave you a chance and everything pointed to her guilt. The forensic evidence we gathered at the scene of this incident was key to solving this crime. Everything from his thumb print to her shoe. Impressions that Were dragged towards the murder weapon that we started and that we finally found submerged in one of the ponds. What brought it all together made all the pieces fit and allowed us to solve this homicide. I knew it with Sharon. Zachary could no longer hide from what The detectives were able to piece together out of anger at not being able to spend Roger's money freely.

Sharon Zachary let her greed get the best of her. She continued searching on the morning of April 26. She went to her house while he kept some of the money she had hit. the old man repeatedly with a pipe. I think she finally saw the opportunity to get him out of the jar, collect all his assets and walk away from Scott free. She rummaged through Roger Pockets, turning them over and taking out the money. I guess she knew that. He knew exactly what he was going to do when he went there, based on his history of robberies and previous attacks on Mr.

Rogers, that he was going to make it look exactly like that, trying to make the premeditated murder look like a Random Robbery, then he went out and He broke the sliding glass door that Mr. Robert Rogers' officer would do and after doing so, he tried to make the place look like a typical textbook home invasion, but he forgot a couple of key facts and I think that was his last attempt. The fall Lieutenant Headley's strong detective work and gle stopped in court Sharon Zachary was found guilty of first degree murder and armed robbery was sentenced to life in prison without parole some are victims of the circumstances murdered for being in the Wrong place at absolutely the wrong time, the others are exactly where they belong, but remain unsafe from the murderers who seek them with a motive of raw greed, oh.