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When a wealthy

family

is murdered in their home, it seems like a professional hit until investigators begin to suspect that it was actually the work of a talented amateur. The investigation into the drowning death of a woman in Pennsylvania has repercussions as far away as North Carolina, where some dark secrets begin to surface. Detectives on a murdered woman's case get more than they bargained for when they uncover a sinister

family

business. Every family has its problems. Every home has its secrets, but when the skeletons in the closet are

real

, forensics are called in. get to the bottom of those family plots on easter sunday 1992 the yule family was finishing up a weekend getaway at their beach house dana a 20 year old college student bad goodbye to his older sister tiffany and parents dale and glee Dana stayed the night with his girlfriend's family while the others made the 200 mile trip back to Fresno See you at home Have a good flight Dana last saw them alive two days later when He couldn't talk to his family on the phone.

Dana called a neighbor to check on the house. The neighbor, accompanied by Christmas's housekeeper, made a gruesome discovery. Mr. Ewell lay dead on the floor. He appeared to have been shot in the back of the head as Fresno County Sheriff's Department investigators searched the home. They

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ized that Dale was not the only victim, his daughter Tiffany and his wife Glee were also found dead as if their father Tiffany had been murdered execution style, ambushed with a single bullet to the back of the head, but Glee knew what was coming, it seemed. that she had attempted to run before bullets to her back and shoulder stopped her, gunpowder residue on her sweatshirt told investigators that the killer had then shot her body at point-blank range based on the victims' condition, investigators They knew that Yules must have been murdered almost immediately after returning from the beach, two days earlier, five spent bullets were collected from the crime scene, one more was found on Glee's body in the master bedroom, investigators found a open box with nine-millimeter ammunition and an empty gun holster, as the owner's manual showed. that the missing weapon was a Browning nine-millimeter pistol, since much of the house was ransacked.

Detectives first theorized that this was an attempted robbery gone wrong, but the evidence did not support that theory. No, it's like an amateur job. There was no forced entry. Items, including Dale Ewell's gun collection, were left in the house instead of using pillowcases to collect the loot. Sheets were laid out and loaded with worthless items, such as audio cassettes and coins, for homicide detective John Souza, even though the killer came and went without warning. It just didn't seem like a professional robbery. A good thief searches dressers and stuff starting from the bottom and going up that way.

He never has to close a drawer, he opens the bottom one, searches it, opens the next one and they. everything remained open, well, here it was a combination of everything, there was no pattern, the crime had been planned by a team, although many neighbors were in their backyards on Easter Sunday, no one noticed anything strange at the Ewell house nor had they heard gunshots. With the amount of foresight that must have gone into the murders,

detectives

could not rule out a professional hit nor could they overlook the possibility that someone might return to take down the family's sole survivor, Dana Ewell, returned from school and was killed. met with investigators if he feared.

For the life of him she was hiding it along with his pain. I really appreciate that you told her that his family is dead. His entire family is not a tear-jerker and they know it. He just amazed me. I'm good. I'll give you a benefit. I doubt maybe he's in shock. He told police that his mother had once worked for the central intelligence agency. His father, who owned an airplane dealership, had a reputation as a ruthless businessman. As Dale's eight million dollar fortune grew over the years, it seemed likely that some enemies were made. Investigators dug deeper into the family's personal and financial background, looking for dark secrets.

None were found. The story of Glee as a translator. With the CIA it was uneventful and although many people seem to have disliked Dale Ewell, no one had a motive to kill him and his family. What is it? Dana was asked to inspect the house and keep an eye out for anything missing as blood stains can be seen here. We're not sure whose blood it was. The

detectives

noted that he seemed unaffected by the blood-stained carpet, but he became outraged when he saw that the investigators had damaged a lamp. What happened here? Do people do this immediately after the funeral? he started spending money he lavished expensive gifts on his girlfriend and bought a plane for 130,000 it was suspicious behavior but dana had an alibi during the murder he said he had been away for four hours with his girlfriend's family the girl's father , an FBI agent confirmed that Dana would make millions of dollars from the death of his family, but his perfect alibi meant he couldn't have been the shooter detectives hoped coroners would help figure out who he was, but there was little they could do. , there were no footprints or fingerprints, even the casings had been removed, the only physical evidence was the six nine-millimeter bullets fired at the crime scene, all hope of solving the case was in the hands of ballistics.

Experts from the Fresno County Sheriff's Department Crime Laboratory determined that the bullets came from the ammunition box found on the victim's nightstand. Identical scratch patterns told investigators that all six bullets had been fired through the same barrel, but when these marks were compared to each other. of a browning pistol like the one stolen from the Yule house investigators found an obvious discrepancy the scratches indicating the speed of rotation did not match the speed of rotation is the distance it takes a bullet to complete a single rotation the browning has a speed of twist of 10 inches but the murder bullets showed a twist rate of 12 inches for criminalist alan boudreau there was no doubt about the findings for me that ended the problem it is not a browning pistol that fired the murder bullets but these were not The only marks on the slugs, each of the six bullets had deep scratches.

Boudreaux was puzzled by these peculiar markings. He had never seen anything like it before, although he had about 24 or 25 years of experience. Enlargements of the bullet marks were sent to police laboratories across the country, but none. was familiar with the engravings or the unusual speed of rotation six bullets had been fired, but no one had heard the shots unusual marks from gun barrels had etched a mysterious signature on the resulting bullets, this suggested that the weapon had been modified perhaps by a silencer, but the sheriff's department had little experience with them. I have never come across anyone who has used silencers, I don't want to say they are used and you see them a lot on TV, but I think it is more of a dramatic movie than silencers in real life. no it was not used in crimes and that was unusual in itself before souza had only theorized that murder was the motivation if a silencer had been used now he had the physical proof you have a silencer he got a killer who came to the house to kill People, that was the only purpose after their ballistic analysis the researchers studied the microscopic residue from the Glee sweatshirt.

It's common to find metal debris near gunshots at close range, but this one contained an unusual mix of rubber steel wool and bright yellow fibers that the forensic team was unable to identify the source of these materials, but knew somehow. they had been used to modify the weapon. His findings corroborated the silencer theory. They showed that on Easter night someone had entered the Ewell home with a deadly agenda. He ransacked the house to make it appear. as a robbery and stole the victim's gun to throw detectives off, but he had used ammunition he found in the house and that meant the killer would have had to know there was a box of nine-millimeter ammunition hidden in the nightstand. by Dale Ewell, only a handful of people had intimate knowledge of the house and three of them were dead detectives.

Detectives dug deeper into Dana's background. College classmates in Santa Clara described him as a preppy loner, obsessed with wealth, so it was strange that they thought they had been best friends. with a student named joel radofsitch who was almost expelled from school for stealing furniture joel seemed defensive towards investigators he told him he barely knew dana his whereabouts could not be confirmed on easter sunday look I told you so now I don't know I don't know anything about it. Dana's surveillance showed that Joel moved into the Ewell home two months after the murders and lived there until the following October, during which time Dana paid his friends' bills and treated him to thousands of dollars in helicopter lessons. , but when Dana was asked about Joel, she denied knowing him.

Detectives had caught both young men in a blatant lie. They needed to find out what else they might be lying about more than a year after the triple homicide of a wealthy Fresno family. Detectives still did not have enough evidence to prove that Dana Ewell and Joel Radofsitch were involved and the couple was well aware of that fact. When Dana returned to Santa Clara the following spring, they communicated only through pagers and pay phones. Dana was skilled at dodging. to the detectives that dana was always watching Shoulder was very cautious, he went to the Jet Center at the San Jose airport and they had pay phone booths with insulated boots and most of the calls were those and he couldn't even stand outside the cabin and listen to what was said.

Joel was not as careful as he was heard telling Dana that he was worried about what the investigators might have on them. Unfortunately, it was not enough to link the young men to the murders. Investigators obtained a search warrant for a duplicate pager so they could monitor Joel's pages. It passed without any suspicious calls. Then, in October of 1993, Joel received a call from a man that detectives knew very little about. His name was Jack Pontz. Well, there it is. He and Joel used to go target shooting together. Const admitted that just 11 days before the Ewell murders he had purchased a nine millimeter semi-automatic rifle from Feather Industries, he said he had bought it to kill opossums, detectives thought it was an odd choice of weapon and when they asked to see it, Ponce He said the gun had been stolen if investigators could somehow link the missing people. rifle with the bullets and crime scene residue, they could connect radofsitch and yule to the triple homicide when they realized that he was involved in the murders and became state evidence.

He admitted that he bought the rifle from Joel days later, Joel told Ponce that I killed the ewels and asked him to get rid of the gun. Ponce threw it. The murder weapon was missing, but another piece of the puzzle fell into place when investigators learned that Dana had purchased a book on how to build a homemade silencer. I bought the same one. The books that she made she bought and brought home and of course I gave them to Alan Budrow and he says "Make a silencer." I listened to this book. Boudreau built a silencer to the book's specifications.

Among the materials were tennis balls and steel wool that matched the residue found in Glee Ewell's sweatshirt, but the real proof was in the shot that they would need the gun after interviewing 90 firearms manufacturers around the world. , researchers discovered that the rare Feather Industries rifle is the only nine-millimeter made with a 12-inch twist rate even though it did not have Kant's rifle. Boudreau could still conduct tests with other weapons of the same model. He spent months tracking down nine-millimeter pens with

serial

numbers close to the one recorded in Pots. The barrels of these weapons would be almost identical.

Boudreaux tested the weapons. through sticky paper to catch any microscopic particles ejected through the barrel, this trail of evidence was compared to the residue found on Glee Yule's clothing, the unusual yellow fibers, rubber particles and steel wool matched exactly and It was not difficult to reasonably conclude that it was. There is tennis ball material on Mrs. Ewell's sweatshirt and it is consistent with the silencer I built based on Detective Susan's information. The test bullets matched.closely with the characteristics of the assassin bullets the twist rate was correct the deep scratches were almost identical to the assassin bullets and finally the weapon expelled the same residue that was found near Glee;

No other type of weapon could have matched so closely. In March 1995, almost two years after the murders, arrest warrants were obtained for Dana Yule and Joel Radofsitch, here's the plan. Based on their extensive investigation, detectives had finally pieced together the entire story of her father's fortune-hungry Dana conspired with Joel a year earlier to shoot his family and make it look like a robbery in exchange for Dana splitting the $8 million inheritance. with him while dana established her perfect alibi 200 miles away joel slipped into the ewell house with a spare key he shot dana's sister and mother first and then they waited for dale, they had thought that without the gun they wouldn't They could be linked to the murders, but as cleverly as they planned for Dana and Joel's designs to not be bulletproof, neither of them confessed.

In May 1998, Yule and Radofsitch were found guilty of three counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to life sentence in the yule case growing suspicions undermined a secretive conspiracy elsewhere a murder investigation was sparked by an innocent comment on november 7, 1994 police in pennsylvania responded to a 9-1-1 call from a man distraught named timothy baskowski wait sir calm down what's your address lee we have a detail on raw starship it's a white woman found in a hot tub of his wife marianne had lost consciousness in the hot tub he couldn't revive her the police arrived and saw the paramedics trying revive her what happened tonight her efforts failed she's going to be fine I was inside she was here in the hot tub and I saw her and her heart just stopped when they rushed her to the hospital.

The 35-year-old woman was pronounced dead on arrival. She had an alcohol concentration of .22 in her bloodstream, more than twice the legal limit for intoxication that my wife drank. She told the nurse that Marianne had been a heavy drinker and that he blamed her drowning on her drinking in Allegheny County. Accidental death cases are police matters, so technicians processed the scene. Investigators questioned Baskowski's parents, who had been called in to watch the children while Timothy was in the hospital. It's a shock, it's really a shock, Baskowski's father made the comment that this was not the first time his son had endured such a tragedy.

His first wife, Elaine, had died four years earlier, almost the same day Baskowski returned from the hospital that investigators were waiting for. He Baskowski described the incident throughout the day and into the evening he estimated that Marianne drank between 13 and 15 cans of beer around 11:30 that night the couple drank a bottle of wine Marianne was an alcoholic, her husband said Baskowski claimed that marianne stayed in the jacuzzi after going out the next time he saw her he said she was lying on her side in the water the detectives searched the house and found beer in the refrigerator and a container of empty cans, but these cans were completely dry for Inside and had obviously been collected over several days the cans that had been opened that night would still have contained some liquid.

The evidence contradicted Vascouste's claim that Marianne had consumed beer after beer well into the night. They also learned that a friend of Marianne had spoken with her on the phone for an hour. That afternoon and a half earlier, friends said Marianne didn't seem drunk. The more the detectives learned, the more they suspected that Mrs. Baskowski's death was not an accident but a case of deadly deja vu if Marianne Boskowski was murdered in her hot tub. Detectives in Pennsylvania. He had very little physical evidence to prove it. No signs of violence were found in or around the bathtub.

All they really had were some contradictory statements. Timothy Baskowski agreed to go to the police station for further questioning by Detective Jimmy Svedic. His demanding story seemed staged. one of the things that he was so consistent with his times too consistent ten to one i did this uh marianne did this at one to eight five after one i was putting my shoes on in this interview this afternoon is that it's okay while baskowski he was telling his The detectives in the story noticed a scratch on his neck, could you tell me how they knew that my wife and I went on a cruise and I asked him to take off his shirt?

We might even want to take a photo of her on her back. They saw a pattern of scratches Baskowski explained that he and Marianne had been on a cruise recently while he was in the bathtub he had asked him to scratch his sunburned back given the suspect's pale skin and deep cuts the explanation seemed implausible uh okay , are some scratches that looked like marks from A Fight when investigators questioned Baskowski because, without enough information to stop him, he was free to leave. Investigators immediately contacted police in Greensboro, North Carolina, where Baskowski and his first wife had lived.

They discovered some strange similarities between the two Maskowski ladies. Baskowski had known both wives. marianne and elaine in church singles groups did you look at this both already worked as religious school teachers had exactly the same weight Even more chilling were the similarities between their deaths according to north carolina police baskowski had called 9-1-1 on a Sunday night In November, just as they had in Pennsylvania, paramedics arrived to find Elaine on the bathroom floor with her husband attempting CPR. Okay, so we're here. You asked some questions about what happened last night. Baskowski claimed his wife had been drinking heavily that night. fell unconscious north carolina detectives suspected they did not have enough evidence to refute the husband's story the cause of death was left blank on the death certificate baskowski was never charged i tried to get him to stop but now, four years later, detectives from Pennsylvania were faced with the possibility that their case would end the same way to take it to trial you need more than just suspicion you need you need a case you have to gather the evidence and everything has to be there and they just didn't have what they needed, although The strange circumstances of her wives' drowning deaths indicated foul play, it would be a challenge for investigators in Pennsylvania to differentiate an accident from a murder, especially when there were no witnesses, unless Marianne's body had a compelling story to tell. .

Baskowski would have just washed his hands of another suspicious death the autopsy began with an inspection of the body there was no evidence of external trauma just some fresh bruises but the bruises were not enough to disprove Baskowski's story the paramedics could have caused the body was the After being examined for signs of drowning by Allegheny County Coroner Cyril Wet, it was evident that something had cut off Marianne's breathing, but it was not water. These lungs were not wet or heavy at all and if she had drowned in this bathtub, I think she certainly would not have drowned.

A good amount of water had entered the lungs, the victim had suffered hemorrhages in the eye and the back of the tongue, the muscle tissue of the neck had suffered deep bruising, all of these were telltale signs of death by strangulation, the coroner concluded that after a tough struggle, someone had wrapped their hands around the victim's neck and ripped the life out of him. The findings in Pennsylvania caught the attention of John Butts, North Carolina's chief medical examiner, who wondered whether Elaine, Blaskowski's first wife, had also been asphyxiated four years before the autopsy. The reports showed no indication that she was, but the original examiner may have missed the telltale signs that allowed Baskowski to get away with it.

Elaine's body had been buried for a long time, but the photographs remained. Investigators hoped they would be enough to rectify a serious oversight four years after Elaine Baskowski. died in her bathroom investigators in north carolina finally had the chance to prove she had been murdered medical examiner john butts noticed a strange mark on one of the photographs taken at her autopsy one of the important pieces of the puzzle in this case involved some distinctive bruises that were present in the upper abdominal region of miss boskowski's lower breast this was the set of linear or elongated bruises illustrated in this photograph these parallel bruises called train tracks coincide with the shower door railing on Baskowski's bath at the autopsy was overlooked in importance, but knowing how Timothy Baskowski had supposedly killed his second wife helped Butts find clues to the first's death.

Was it our feeling or our conclusion that that is actually the mechanism of death based on what the North Carolina researchers had discovered? Detectives in Pennsylvania looked for more similarities between the two cases and discovered that both of Baskowski's wives were planning to leave the marriage. They had still canceled their life insurance policies that named her husband as beneficiary. It seemed that

killing

his wife would solve their financial and romantic problems. When history began to repeat itself, Marianne resorted to a plan that had worked in the past thanks to the clever work of investigators in north carolina and pennsylvania the staged drowning of his second wife would be baskowski's last in 1996 he was convicted of the murder of elaine in 1999 he was sentenced to death for the murder of marianne timothy baskowski timothy baskowski's past killer finally caught up with him in new Jersey police would again have to look back to solve a death in the family early on Saturday, March 4, 1995, a jogger was running through East Side Park while most of Paterson, New Jersey, was still asleep , one of its residents had apparently chosen to practically sleep on the floor. running trail, hello friend, only a couple of feet were sticking out of the sleeping bag, the runner wondered how the person could breathe and realized that the occupant was not breathing at all.

Police confirmed that the body in the bag was deceased, interviewed the runner and spread out. to look for evidence of a possible homicide, the victim was a young woman between 18 and 24 years old. They had beaten her. The inside of the sleeping bag was stained with blood but not soap, which suggests that they later put her inside, probably to move her to this place, detective. mike caseri we led the investigation we knew it was a murder we knew that wasn't the original scene it's just that we were trying to find out who did it and that's where it all started almost all homicide investigations start with the victim in this case she had no identity the cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head the medical examiner found no signs of sexual assault the blood-stained parts of his clothing were carefully cut away and the blood was compared to the victim's if anything didn't match Investigators were waiting that could be used against an alleged culprit, but all the stains matched the victim's blood.

No skin or hair of any potential suspect was found at the New Jersey state identification office. The victim's fingerprints were analyzed through Aphis, the automated fingerprint matching system. prints from police files across the country in a matter of hours found a match right in new jersey the victim was 18 year old tara carter her prints were on file because she had once been arrested for shoplifting her parents had moved out of state but the police found her the closest relative, her sister, they brought a photo of the victim. See if you see anyone. A friend came to help because she didn't dare look at her.

Yes, I recognize it. They made the identification. Now there was no doubt that Tara Carter was dead. Police. She found out that Tara said she was going to spend the weekend with her boyfriend. He was called by his original name. She didn't know his real name or where to find him. She also said that Tara had been living with a family friend, a widow named Celestine Payne. and her children, perhaps they knew more. Payne lived in a nearby neighborhood where she occasionally rented rooms in her house. The police visited her. Celestine offered to help in any way she could.

She directed us to the bedroom area where Tara slept with the two of her. My daughters and I and Detective Reyes looked around, you know, it's common to look for phone books or anything with possible uh, you know names of friends or something, because we had nothing, we had nothing to go on to solve this crime. At that moment, oh. no wendy tara carterShe was treated as a member of Payne's family. She was the best friend of Wendy, Celestine's daughter, with whom she shared a room until Wendy moved to South Carolina. The detectives searched the closet where Tara kept her belongings and found no evidence.

They found nothing to indicate that she was in any kind of trouble with her mystery boyfriend or anyone else. When Payne was unable to offer any new information about the victim's boyfriend, the original police spread the word that they needed to talk to him while they searched. For more information about the victim, Payne directed them to the basement where more of Tara's things were stored. They didn't know what they were looking for until they found it in an area. Drops of blood splattered the basement floor. Detective Reyes automatically told Ms. Payne not to touch anything. You know it's possible. that the crime occurred here and she again said well, if it happened here I want to know this is my house look at these drops here the amount and position of the blood drops raised suspicions but did not suggest that this was the murder The investigators at the scene were not sure what the drops meant.

A trickle of steam could be seen coming down from the beam directly below. It was a stain, a blood stain, indicating that blood may have dripped from the upstairs to the basement. Celestine Payne gave her consent for a more thorough search of her house, she said, I want to know about this, whatever it takes to find out, you guys do what you have to do while the forensic team is sent. Detectives continued their investigation and headed back to the victim's closet, which was converted. Being directly over the blood-stained beams, they found blood on the wall and floor of the closet along with women's underwear and other blood-stained clothing.

It looked like a bloody murder, but investigators had to ensure samples were collected and sent to the new Jersey State Police Central Laboratory where genetic markers in the blood were examined. These proteins inherited from our parents do not change, although they are not as accurate as DNA tests. Testing for genetic markers is usually sufficient because certain markers are rarer than others. Senior Forensic Scientist Cynthia Mcsweeney analyzed the samples from the closet and was able to determine that this bloodstain was consistent with only three percent of the black population which three percent included the victim Tara Carter the evidence showed that she had found the Death Inside Home Celestine Payne accompanied detectives to the interrogation station, telling them she last saw the victim at 11 a.m. m.

On Friday, March 3, the day before her body was found, Tara said she was going to run errands, Celestine and her son had their own errands to run and they almost left. of the day when celestine returned a man named charlie pinchum was waiting on the porch pinchum used to go out with wendy, celestine's daughter, before she moved away, he had the habit of stopping by celestine's house and hanging out she didn't know where he lived because he could have committed the crime while the pains were absent charlie pinchum's name was added to the list of suspects while celestine answered questions investigators searched his house for more clues besides the bedroom closet traces of blood were found in the kitchen drain pipes were removed and traps were emptied to see what may have accumulated there almost 100 items of evidence from there including blood drops, swabs took apart the sink and removed it then turned out to be skull fragments inside the trap from the sink the toilet there was some hair and matter found in there from there everything exploded uh the investigation had already begun the victim's boyfriend originally heard that the police were looking for him and showed up along with an alibi that he did not have The list of suspects At least for now it left the equally mysterious Charlie Pincher and the grieving Dolor Celestino, but detectives did not know where Charlie Pinzum was and the forensic evidence did not necessarily place Celestino Dolor at the scene when the murder occurred.

The first time police were at Payne's home while reviewing the case, Detective Sergeant Ronald Humphrey recalled an earlier incident. There was a guy stabbed maybe a year and a half before Eugene Cooper. I remember Eugene lived there, but I never got to interview him. He was in the hospital's intensive care unit with a stab wound and we were unable to speak to him when Cooper left the hospital. He refused to press charges and disappeared now, 18 months later, detectives tracked down Eugene Cooper to see if there was a connection, Cooper told them that while he was living in the house, Celestine wanted him to sign her life insurance policy, he He didn't, but he hinted that he had done it shortly after Charlie Pinchim attacked him, he said, uh, the time he arrived.

Stabbed Charlie was the one who stabbed him and sold this pain that he caused them. Cooper didn't go to the police because he was scared and wanted to put the whole ugly incident behind him. He chose Pinchim's photo from some mugshots. Because Cooper implicated him in this stabbing, it was more important than ever to locate him now that Eugene Cooper was speaking had a lot more to say and the case took another unexpected turn. He told police that Celestine had set several fires in his house during the insurance money. He also admitted that he helped Celestine move a body but it was not Tara Carter's body.

Tara Carter had been found dead in a sleeping bag and was found dead. investigation into her murder began to reveal other skeletons in celestine payne's closet according to eugene cooper the death of celestine alfonso's husband years earlier may not have been accidental before his death alfonso payne suffered from severe hypertension and gout he was being cared for by his wife celestine in 1991 his body was found in a field across town in the At the time it was considered that Alfonso's death was accidental, that he was using drugs, he walked away and collapsed now, three and a half years later, Eugene Cooper He told New Jersey police that he had helped Celestine and her children dump Alfonso Payne's body across town with Cooper's new information Detectives pulled out Alfonso's medical records and the autopsy report and They discovered that before his death he had been too ill to even get out of bed, much less cross town.

The autopsy showed that the drugs in her system at the time of her death were not those prescribed for her medical condition, but high doses of five types of tranquilizers and antidepressants, all prescribed for Celestine, yes, sure, investigators had enough to obtain Another search warrant for Payne's house, they discovered that in addition to her husband Alfonso's policy and for fire damage, Payne also managed. to get one on eugene cooper even without his signature it looked like celestine payne may have killed her husband and once again insurance seemed to be the reason they also found a policy on tara carter's life it's like a couple of insurance companies this it was strange because like cooper she was not related to grief politics provided a possible motive there was not enough evidence to arrest celestine for murder having the right to talk to laurie and have a gift with you while you are at the time charlie pinchum had been found and arrested for stabbing Eugene Cooper eventually admitted it saying Celestine Payne instigated it and then investigators asked him what he knew about Tara Carter's murder.

He said he was there and tried to stop him but Celestine's pain killed her afterwards and he admitted to helping her move the body using a car he rented they had what they needed to arrest celestine payne then they tracked down the rental car cynthia mcsweeney examined the trunk in looked for traces of blood and found nothing, but his work was not finished his tests of the liner under the trunk mat It gave different results when I tested the liner and got a positive result. I began to think that perhaps the person had attempted to clean the area but had not done a thorough job, as an analysis of genetic markers in the blood had previously shown that it belonged to the victim Tara Carter in the trunk of a car rented by celestine payne linked the suspect to the crime you have a good reputation despite the evidence she adamantly denied any wrongdoing i know celestine was a devious woman um she would look at you and say girl i didn't commit this murder and i almost melted at you you know that I had nothing to do with this, I would never hurt anyone and she is using her children to kill people, including her own father, she is

killing

her friends, she is killing family members. she is she is

evil

it is just a word to define an

evil

woman she passed that evil on to her daughter investigators discovered that while wendy pretended to be tara's best friend, she also pretended to be tara at least long enough to sign a policy of life insurance in the name of Tara Carter Once the policy went into effect Tara Carter's days were numbered The unwitting victim lured into a false sense of security in the Payne home was marked for admitted death using a crowbar Her body It was hidden in the upstairs closet until it could be safely packed and moved without detection, eventually forensics closed the case and even Celestine Payne couldn't deny it.

The bloodstains, the financial motive and the opportunity all pointed to Payne, her daughter, Wendy and Charlie Pinzum, when faced with the evidence they negotiated with Celestine Payne and Charlie Pinzum. They were given life and Wendy Payne was given 28 years to solve some homicides. Investigators don't need to look further than the victim's own home, but just because a suspect is a family member doesn't mean the case will be solved relatively easily, a killer in the home will take longer. Care to cover your tracks, it's up to forensics to make sure deadly secrets don't get buried in family plots that you