Out For Blood | TRIPLE EPISODE | The New Detectives

an abandoned car on the outskirts of Philadelphia brings anguish to a family and terror to the community a young woman is dead the killer is gone but footprints remain south of Chicago another mystery a missing child a frantic search Heartbreaking clues investigators fight to find the child and who took him when the victims were young, the crime hurts much more and when the criminals are repeat offenders, destiny changes. The authorities are dedicated to solving these crimes and ending the careers of those who go out to kill around there. from 2 a.m. m. on June 20, 1996. An off-duty ambulance crew saw an abandoned car on the road.

It was parked on an exit ramp off westbound Interstate 476, far from Philadelphia. The car was running and the lights and radio were on, but no one was inside. The driver radioed 9-1. -I have an abandonment, the emergency operator took the report and then sent two police officers nearby to the scene. State Police Lt. Lenny Bandy was notified and headed to the highway intersection when they discovered the car, found with the driver's door open, headlights on. The radio was playing and the engine was running, which was unusual for me, as if a criminal services unit arrived at the scene where there was

blood

in front of the vehicle and at that moment I knew that it was urgent that everything started as quickly as possible.

From the car there was an iron tire near it, a small puddle that appeared to be

blood

. To me it was more than just an abandoned vehicle at the time and it was a missing person investigation. It was certainly under suspicious circumstances with the presence of the iron rim. and blood in front of the car and the hurried manner in which it appeared the occupant had gotten out, we collected the blood with the packaged swab, sent it to the lab for DNA purposes, being careful not to disturb any potential evidence, they searched the car. Inside and found a backpack, it appeared to be a college student, there was no identification inside the car, it was registered to a woman in Brookhaven, Pennsylvania, investigators discovered the car was driven by her daughter Amy, 22, while the police spoke with Amy's parents, processing the crime scene.

He continued, one of the soldiers had seen a pair of panties and shoes lying on a hillside. We returned to recover the pair of panties and shoes at that place. Amy's mother later identified the shoes as those of her daughters. It looked more and more like a forced abduction. Along with the clothing, the police detected a distinctive tire print that was photographed at the end of the photographs and we used dental stone to mold the tire impression. The printout was sent to the crime lab. Amy's parents were worried because they knew firsthand the effects of the crime.

Her father was a police officer, her mother was an emergency room nurse, we wanted to do everything in our power to bring this young woman home safely to her family. They had been out of town and hadn't seen their daughter in several days, but knew that Amy had planned to go out with friends that night. Her parents gave a description of their 22-year-old daughter including the tattoo on her ankle if you don't mind me. I would like to keep this photo so I can distribute it. Do you want others, as the APB said? searching for missing college student the Philadelphia area press jumped on the story in the morning the media coverage brought to light Amy's friends who had been with her the night before we were trying to track down Amy's whereabouts reconstruct their activities from the time we last heard from her to the time they found her car, all of Amy's friends had the same story, it was an impromptu reunion of high school friends, they talked for a few hours to catch up day with friends, they said that when Amy left the bar around 1:30 a.m. m., she was alone, no one had seen or heard from her since then tell me what happened at the Delaware County Criminal Investigation Division.

Detective Sergeant Greg Seltzer and Detective Charles List were shocked to learn their friend's daughter was missing. I have known Paul for several years. I know Amy's mother said we wanted to do everything we could to help with the investigation, Detective Sergeant Seltzer contacted his superior, who immediately put them on the case. I went to the captain, who was the county's chief of

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, and explained that we have a police officer's daughter who has been missing. While search teams searched for Amy, a task force met at the State Police Headquarters to plan the intense investigation. We use what is known as victimology.

We wanted to learn about Amy and her behaviors and patterns of her behavior. We learned that she was a normal girl. Willard was a star athlete at George Mason University, a responsible student who took summer classes trying to track down any links to anything or anyone dangerous at 5 p.m. 15 hours had passed with no sign of the missing girl while we were at the meeting, they received a call from Philadelphia police saying they had a body matching Amy's description. The children had discovered the naked body that afternoon in a secluded area of ​​North Philadelphia. I was 25 miles from Amy's car.

There was no bag or clothing on or near the body. everyone knew who she was the physical characteristics, size, height and weight matched the description given to us by Amy's family and more specifically the presence of a tattoo on her right ankle that matched the tattoo Amy had upon finding Amy. In this way it was difficult for everyone involved. Thank you. Before the autopsy, her parents confirmed the identity of their daughter. The medical examiner determined that the young woman had died from multiple blunt force trauma to the head and the body. It was a cruel attack when we were at the autopsy.

We noticed there was a pattern on its right side that was in the shape of a square with an x ​​in the middle of the squares that were actually burned on its right side. The burning pattern was so distinctive that investigators believed that if they could find its source they could find the killer, the medical examiner also recovered semen, but the victim was sexually assaulted and samples of Amy's blood were sent to the laboratory for analysis in the Pennsylvania State Police regional crime laboratory in Lima. Experts determined that the blood found near the car was Amy Willards.

The seminal fluid recovered from the victim was also analyzed using a technique known as PCR. Examiners made millions of copies of an isolated DNA strand until it was large enough to decipher, once they could read it they put together a genetic profile of the possible attacker, but we didn't get results in any DNA database, still It was crucial evidence according to Delaware County Assistant District Attorney Dan McDevitt, we have the genetic profile of the killer, we just didn't have a name to go with his profile, they also believed they had his tire. Lt. Dennis Loose, commander of training and technical support at the crime lab, examined the tire mold.

The mold we were looking at was a tire that had four grooves and five raised areas, so when we did our database search we were just looking. tires that had the same number of grooves, we determined from the database that it was a Firestone FR 440 tire, although it was a common tire, it could help confirm or eliminate a suspect. Investigators also needed to examine the burn pattern of the victim's body, we believe that if we could find the source of that injury pattern we could discover who the killer was from the burn pattern a pathologist tried to determine the shape and dimensions of the object that did it although he couldn't tell us what the object was that he was able to draw a picture of what the object looked like, the research team had a large amount of evidence, the burn pattern, the tire track and the genetic profile of the killer, but they had no idea who it was, knowing why Amy stopped her car could help identify the killer.

I have no idea, both mom and dad assured us that the only reason she would stop would be if a police officer had pulled her over, so we just rounded up a police impersonator, a scary but real possibility as they went by the first crucial days of the investigation. With no solid leads, the law enforcement community was frustrated, it was a virtual whodunnit, it was a needle in a haystack, a cruel killer had stolen the life of this much-loved young woman, the daughter of a police officer and a nurse, one of their own. , Delaware County investigators would never give up until they found him in Delaware County.

Pennsylvania State Police and county

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were investigating the brutal homicide of 22-year-old college student Amy Willard. Many knew that Amy, the daughter of a local police officer and a nurse, had a good physique. The evidence includes a distinctive burn pattern on the body and the DNA profile of the alleged killer, but there are no suspects. One theory is that Amy stopped that night because someone posing as a police officer forced her to stop. Detective Charles List sought information on known police impersonators. He surprised me. How many police impersonators were out there, we had to do a lot of interviews, many of the interviewees had solid alibis, but not all of them didn't, I have no record, one suspect had a record of trying to arrest women, the one from Route One A.

The crime rate investigators Daytime interests were unable to corroborate his alibi for the night Amy was murdered and he worked near where the body was found. Detectives obtained a search warrant that allowed them to take a blood sample from the suspect to compare her DNA to the DNA collected. of the victim State Police Lieutenant Lenny Bandy knew that genetic material was his greatest ally. That was the most conclusive evidence we can use to include or exclude someone in our investigation. The sample was sent to the laboratory for processing. Yes, the suspect in question. He also drove a car that could withstand the type of tire that left the impression near Amy's clothes.

Examiners compared the molded tire from the scene to an inked impression of the suspect's tires, but reported no matches. DNA experts eventually reported similar results, there was no match, the suspect was acquitted. There were numerous calls, advice from the public. We felt overwhelmed from the beginning despite checking all the clues they found. Months didn't pass. Frustration grew. Detective Charles List and Detective Sergeant Greg Seltzer eliminated all known police impersonators. They had no idea why Amy pulled it off. On the road, Sergeant Jordan Late on the night of May 29, 1997, almost a year after Amy Willard's death, Patty Jordan, a 19-year-old nursing student, had just left a nightclub in Philadelphia and I was driving home.

I noticed a car coming behind me with its headlights. speeding up behind me so I just kept my eyes on them and I changed lanes and then he changed lanes with me and I did it again and he did too and I sped up and I slowed down too and hey too, the daughter of an officer Philadelphia police officer Patty knew she needed to find her father. I thought I was going to the 2nd Precinct, which is the police station near my house, and I would just stop there and call my dad from the interstate. She stopped at a red light. and that's when he slowly walked out behind me.

I could see him, I could see his headlights and I thought to myself that this guy was going to hit my car and that's when he hit my car and that's when I thought, oh my God, what is it? this guy was waving me over and pulling me over just to stop I was angry and I was scared but Patty Jordan wasn't going to stop me I just thought I was getting this guy's license plate number I'm going to tell my dad that the guy finally stopped He turned and left, but not before Patty took the plate.

I said it over and over again and as soon as I got home and saw my brother I ran into the kitchen and wrote it down. Sergeant John Jordan is from Patty. Father, Amy Willard's murder had been in the news. So I entered the tag into the National Crime Information Center (ncic) and went back to Arthur Bomar and noticed the registration was for a Ford Escort, but Patty said the man was driving a Honda Sergeant Jordan also found out that Arthur Bomar was a convicted murderer who was wanted for a parole violation in Nevada and the more I thought about that and what had happened to my daughter, I just called Delaware County Detective Sergeant Sergeant Seltzer and his partner detective.

Charlie List talked to my daughter and I could see the look on her face. I will never forget the expression of both of themas they listened to Patty tell what happened to her. Patty's description of the driver who hit her matched that of Arthur Bomar. Can you tell us what happened even though the license plate was registered to a Ford Escort. Patty said she was sure there was a dark colored Honda behind her and that's when I realized the license plate might have been changed, it was by far her best asset. the whole case was the whole case there was nothing I can't describe how important it was for her to just take that license plate number and tell us that we really wanted to talk to Mr.

Beaumar at first they couldn't find the person on parole but After After such a long and frustrating investigation, investigators were surprised at how quickly the case took off. We had been investigating for a year and followed all the leads we could. Arthur Bomar Enters the Scene in Three Days Arthur Bomar is in custody, Detective Sergeant Seltzer and The Detective List went to interview Bomar at the Lower Marion Police Station, where he was being held on robbery charges. He denied knowing anything about Amy Willard and said she had never been to the part of North Philadelphia where her body was found.

He admitted that he had been at the bar that Amy went to the night of her murder, but claimed that he was not there that night. He was at a birthday party. After speaking with family members, we discovered that it was a lie that he was not at the birthday party. A search warrant, investigators took samples of cells from Beaumar's cheeks and hair to match his DNA with DNA recovered from the victim. Analysis at the state police's busy crime lab would take a few days, but because Bomar was in jail on another charge, assistant district attorney Dan McDevitt knew they had time for a Montgomery County judge to deny him the opportunity to Bomar Bale, so there was no chance of him returning to the streets before we concluded our investigation.

We had a lot of forensic evidence and we wanted to gather it carefully because we only have one chance against him in court and we wanted it to be a good one. Police searched the area near where Beaumar was arrested for robbery. Officers found a car with the same license plate numbers that Patty Jordan had given to her father and whose license plate was registered. a Ford Escort but he was in a black Honda just as Patty described, the technicians later found no evidence in the Honda related to the Amy Willard case, they needed to find that escort, but the mysteries remained the missing car that fueled his pattern of burns and whether DNA would work or not.

Clear this suspect after a year-long search, Delaware County investigators hoped to solve these mysteries and find some degree of justice for a murdered young woman. Willard was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered, left with a distinctive burn pattern on her side. A year later, Pennsylvania investigators had a suspect in custody. Arthur Bomar said he had nothing to do with Amy's death and claimed that he was not at the bar where Amy was last seen alive, but detectives located Bomar's girlfriend and she had a different story. she was hiding and afraid of Bomar, she said. Bomar told her that he was going to the bar in question on the night of the murder.

Bomar confessed to her girlfriend that he saw Amy Willard leaving the bar and followed her and forced her to stop through her girlfriend. didn't know how Bomar said he then knocked Amy unconscious drove her to North Philadelphia where he raped and killed her the girlfriend said Bomar was driving her Ford Escort that night the girlfriend was a major breakup but investigators needed evidence to back it up Detective Delaware County Court Charles List and Detective Sergeant Greg Seltzer believed the key was Beaumar's Ford Escort. His vehicle is very important because at some point Amy was in that car.

We went to an insurance company and found out that they had been in an accident shortly after Amy was kidnapped. Detectives learned the car was towed to a salvaged lot. We got a search warrant. We were hoping to find some kind of bloody hair fiber linking Amy Weller to Arthur Bomar when the tow truck lifted the car. The researchers were stunned. The oil pan had a familiar pattern they believed it was the object that burned Amy's body in the State Police garage the Forensic Services Unit processed the car on the passenger side door panel they found what appeared to be blood dry I will go to another lab they removed the oil pan so it could be compared to the photographs of the burn pattern on the victim's body.

Thank you. Technicians also collected the car's tires to compare them with impressions from the kidnapping scene. Corporal Alan Stewart was part of the Forensic Services Unit. We send the oil. frying pan to a military pattern expert who actually compared the oil pan to the pattern that was on Amy's body. Lieutenant Dennis Loose compared the molded tire from the crime scene to the tread on a Firestone fr440 tire on Bomar's car which we were able to determine by comparing the tread to the suspect tire which both had the same amount of wear Sergeant Loose I finished looking The tire track that you sent on that tire that you sent is consistent with the tip of crime scene serology expert Cecilia Casiola examined the door panel and found Amy Willard's blood.

Finding the victim's blood in the suspect's car places the victim as the suspect's car, but the most important forensic evidence came with the DNA results. It was a coincidence, Assistant District Attorney Dan McDevitt, the DNA evidence was irrefutable here. There was a 5 and 1 billion chance that Arthur Bomar was not the person who contributed the DNA found during the autopsy. So obviously that was the basis of our case, plus we were able to link the car he was driving to the thermal injury to Amy's body. Amy's blood was found behind the door panel of her car. The tires of Arthur Beaumar's car left tracks.

Impressions at the kidnapping scene were enough to convince the jury on October 1, 1998. Arthur Bomar was found guilty of first-degree murder, rape and kidnapping. Sentenced to death, Amy's family has fought to change laws to keep criminals behind bars, but the law was not passed in time to protect an Illinois family. Aroma Park is an hour south of Chicago on an afternoon in 1995. Micah Moulton became nervous when his 10-year-old son, Christopher, did not return home from fishing at five o'clock as expected. It didn't take long. before she felt something was terribly wrong. I jumped up and looked at the clock that said 5 22.

And I knew immediately that she needed to go get him. I had to go get him right then leaving her other children at home in case Christopher came back. She went down to the Aroma Park boat ramp on the Kankakee River, where Christopher normally fished. I walked around the area, you know? She called her name and started yelling at her after more than an hour of searching. Micah called Kankakee County Sheriff's Department Undersheriff Brad O'Keefe, he was concerned when he heard where the boy was last seen, the speed of that river, we have a lot of drownings. of people fall and disappear into that river, making it dangerous in itself, it's not a Royal Park Yacht Club right away.

You're going to lose. Micah, 10, told Deputy Rich Burns about Christopher, she had already checked with all of her friends, no one. She had seen him since 4:30 at the jetty, it was very unusual for her to do this because she did not return home on time and we knew it was very important to get things going to start the search in the woods and search. to me he said just wait he said wait and made a couple radio calls and the next thing I knew there were dogs and search teams and uh the fire department was there we didn't know if he had fallen into the river or if was gone, if it was lost immediately, they put all the resources into the search, all the local police agencies sent people, so we had the Romeo Park and Kankakee fire departments, they had the boats in the water doing the search once they knew what We were looking for many of the citizens who volunteered for the search party who described Christopher as his bicycle.

The searchers were instructed not to touch anything. They found that train test technicians must collect any evidence. We are going to process it and handle it accordingly. evidence Jack ET, okay so everyone and stay organized, we have an assistant in the command center who keeps track of who is where and who is doing what searches, fire department personnel check the water and search dogs of Riverbanks tried to track down the young man they all prayed to find. Christopher quickly interviewed anyone they could locate on the pier. What did you do? USA. Two boys said they saw Chris with a man that afternoon.

According to Kankakee County Chief Administrative Officer Joe Mulcahy, the man hit a fishing tackle box with him and in the box with some lures that were not appropriate for this area, they were saltwater lures and the man told them that they were originally from this area but had just returned from Florida. The kids said there was a fillet knife in the box with the lure. Christopher and the man emerged from the riverbank together, they could only give a vague description: a tall, white man with a mustache. We were concerned that there might be a possible abduction.

At that time no one slept. The detectives here felt calls all night. We had people searching the place. Woods, we looked for Woods 20 times hoping we could find something, but that night they didn't. Local news stations broke the story, airing descriptions of Christopher and the unknown man he was seen with and calling for more help from deputies at the sheriff's Emergency Operations Center. and volunteers answered calls, many of which were leads suggesting they investigate certain men as potential candidates. Suspicious investigators followed up on each lead as the search continued. Firefighters dragged the bottom of the river.

More than 18 hours had passed with no sign of Christopher. Then the next morning the searchers saw something in the water a child's slipper Micah identified it as Christopher's now we have a shoe in the water chances are better now that it's in the water or something serious let's intensify the search there The dive team looked for any sign of the boy or his bike, I listened to people talking, you know, some news, they found a body and I lost it a couple of times and said there wasn't going to be a body they were going to bring to home Christopher and I carried on, I just kept a positive attitude.

I couldn't let myself think or feel that he wouldn't come home. Those searching for Christopher would not give up either. That child was somewhere and they needed to bring him home in ten years. Old Christopher Meyer was last seen with an unknown man near the Kankakee River in Aroma Park. Illinois investigators did not know if Christopher had been kidnapped or if he fell into the river where they had recovered one of the boy's sneakers. Michael Moulton is Christopher's mother. I felt like everything was going to be okay or I was going to wake up eventually and I thought this was just a bad dream, but it wasn't a dream.

On the second day, a search party saw something. The first bicycle appeared. Someone had taken the bicycle to the deepest part. The woods and tried to hide it according to Deputy Sheriff Brad O'Keefe is much more critical we are no longer looking for a lost child we are no longer looking for a drowned childhood now that they knew someone had taken Christopher several witnesses said they saw Christopher pushing his bicycle with a white man who had a goatee, they said at one point the man was standing next to the open trunk of a gray four-door sedan that had fishing rods in the back window and had a fillet knife in a leather case. leather.

In his back pocket, some of the witnesses worked with a police artist to create a composite sketch of the man. Investigators released the sketch to the media once the image was published. Everyone had someone in mind, so we're getting all kinds of tips and hints. who could be the agents followed up each caller to the tip line, we took a composite sketch and asked them to look at it and identify it, one name came up more than any other Timothy bus, fairly new to the community, Micah Moulton didn't know the name. I remember someone came in and said Timothy bus, oh my gosh I can't believe this came out and they went on and on and I said who is a Timothy bus, who is this Tim bus, who is this Timothy bus and no one was telling me Investigators found a new bus in 1981.

Timothy Buss had kidnapped and murdered a five-year-old girl in thenearby Bradley Illinois. He was convicted and sentenced to 25 years, but had recently been released on parole. Lt. Larry Osenga of the Kankakee City Police Department's violent crimes task force. The force offered the help of his squad. They asked on the buses in the old neighborhood. They told the neighbors that yes, he was in the community. Kankakee police learned that the bus now lived in Joliet, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago. Lieutenant Osenga called the Joliet Police Department. Joliet agreed to take a good look at the bus apartment.

Joliet helped us, we went to where his residence was, he was not there at the time, but the Joliet police sat and waited. Searches in the Aroma Park area continued as another terrible night passed and then, two days after Christopher disappeared, the Joliet surveillance unit saw a man approaching the bus apartment. It appeared that the suspect was alone. Joliet contacted Kankakee officers, who immediately headed to the city. They searched the apartment, but no one responded. The place seemed deserted. A neighbor noticed the police and told them that she had seen the bus leave. through the back door he ran out of his apartment he got into his car with the lights off and drove away at high speed and ran away from us we started our perimeter search trying to locate him and we couldn't locate him in a The search of the apartment turned up no signs of the missing child.

PBS went to authorities throughout the Chicago metropolitan area with descriptions of Timothy Buss and his car. People began to recognize the drawing. A motel employee in Braidwood, Illinois, called to say she thought the bus was staying there. Kankakee County dispatched Deputy Brady Bertrand to the motel in Braidwood, 25 miles south of Joliet, around eight in the morning, the bus left the hotel and walked directly to a dumpster in the hotel parking lot. pair of boots in the dumpster Agent Bertrand radioed for help and then followed the suspect who had initially taken northbound I-55, which leads to the city of Chicago, but ended up getting off a little later and driving to Wilmington and stopping by the river and talking to some fishermen there Adjutant Bertrand waited for reinforcements to arrive while he did so.

Kankakee County Detectives Ron Killman and Randy Hartman responded to the Braidwood Motel to collect evidence that the boots were recovered. We're not sure what evidence there is. to be connected, but apparently he put it there for a reason to heal, if there was possible blood on his hairs or fibers, the boots were sent to the laboratory for analysis, Kankakee officers were hoping to catch a bus to talk, he was very Uneasy as he looked around as if he wanted to get away but had nowhere to go first, the parolee was evasive and unwilling to talk, but eventually agreed to go to the Kankakee County Sheriff's Department for an interview at the station, so he denied knowing. anything about Christopher Meyer hello your attorney arrived to discuss investigators request for a consent to search the bus car against the attorney's advice you must sign the consent form sheriff's department garage detectives Hartman and Kilman processed the suspect's car has a crime scene detectives we're basically putting a story together and if you didn't do your job well enough then you find the evidence that can tell you that story in the trunk they discovered a dent puller that looked like it had blood on it was also a tire and a tackle.

In a box like the one described by the guys who saw Christopher last, there was no fillet knife inside, as we removed the items one at a time and then we could see on the carpet under the tools that there was a considerable amount of blood. Find an important one, if in fact this was going to turn into a homicide, we needed to be able to put the boy and a suspect inside together, the technicians also found a hammer, they had dirt on the claw part, which told us that it was from someone. We have been doing some digging with this hammer in the passenger seat, the technicians recovered several hairs from the head, like the other evidence, the hairs would be sent to forensic experts at the Illinois State Police crime lab, they had a suspect under custody and disturbing evidence of Foul Play, we still don't know where Chris is.

We don't know if Chris can be heard bleeding. We hope we can find him hiding in a cabin or something along the river so we never give a damn that he would still be alive. 1995 Investigators in Kankakee County, Illinois, were searching for ten-year-old Christopher Meyer, who was kidnapped while fishing for evidence. Technicians found bloody hairs and a hammer with dirt embedded in the car of Timothy Buss, who had been seen with Christopher the day authorities disappeared. He arrested a bus and charged him with aggravated kidnapping of a child. You know this is not right. You know the right thing.

He refused to cooperate. He remembers that at the Illinois State Police forensic lab, DNA investigation coordinator William Frank examined evidence from the bus trunk and matched the blood. From those elements to a DNA relationship profile created from Christopher's parents and to a probable sample of the child's DNA called a convenience standard, the convenience standard used was the child's asthma inhaler from the inhaler swabs and blood samples from the parents, Frank created a genetic. The profile that used the PCR test, the relationship comparison of the child's parents was consistent with an inhaler. He then compared that profile to the blood from the car when I compared the profile that was identified on the asthma inhaler to the profile that was identified on the blood stains from the suspect's vehicle, the two profiles matched, they were still hoping that the child was alive.

Kankakee County Sheriff Bernie Thompson, after the Tennessee bus was stopped, we were still looking for Christopher and there was always hope that we would find him alive a few days later. The search party that included Sheriff's Investigator Kenneth Ponton discovered a pair of boy's underwear and then a fishing rod and part of a T-shirt. We called Investigator Mulcahy and gave him the description of the items and asked him to check with the mother of the missing child, which she did and the mother was able to identify these items belonging to her son three days later in a part of the State Park Kankakee.

Will County deputies made the discovery that would finally end the search. Under a partially buried piece of plywood was the body of a young boy who had been stabbed more than 50 times with a thin knife. It was Christopher's evidence. Technicians collected a pile of dirt containing a rave site. They also collected soil samples in the area. Hair and fiber expert Ralph Meyer compared the hairs found on Timothy From Buss' car to Christopher's, using a comparison microscope, we observed the general appearance, length, distribution of pigmentation, the few sides along the axis, The ovoid bodies, the hairs were microscopically consistent in all respects, geologist Ken Knight examined soil samples taken from the grave. and the soil found in the hammer we have tried to determine if the Gnomes and the unknown ones had the same characteristics the same number of crystals or mineral particles the same colors the same angularity of those particles the same general type of botanical term again coincides with the fact What they saw from the hammer is consistent with a mixture of soil samples from the grave indicating that the hammer was used to dig the grave.

Part of that floor had a partial impression of a boot print. Forensic scientist Robert Hunton compared the boot bus everywhere. in the motel to that impression, so that particular portion of the boot that had a similar pattern to the piece of dirt, I compare them side by side. He could tell that that impression could have been made by that portion, that little area on the right. Boot investigators hoped the DNA lab would provide more definitive evidence. William Frank compared samples of the victim's femur with evidence that he already had the genetic profile of the femur bone matches the genetic marker profile identified for the child's inhaler and also matches the identified blood stains.

In the trunk of the suspect's car, forensic evidence showed that Timothy Buss kidnapped Christopher Meyer, assaulted the boy, stabbed him repeatedly, and then buried him in the woods. Bus was found guilty of kidnapping and murder and was sentenced to death; That sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in January 2003, but this time there will be no possibility of parole. Christopher's mother, Micah Moulton, the anger, sadness, pain and everything is so overwhelming, but she knew she could use it in a positive way to make a difference. I want the laws to be changed. I helped lobby for the No Second Chances for Murdering Rapists and Child Molesters Act, also known as Amy's Law.

That law, named after murdered college student Amy Willard, seeks to prevent the most violent criminals from being released on parole. It was passed by the United States Congress in 2000. A friendly Midwest Lodge becomes the scene of a gruesome double murder. Two men are dead and a safe full of cash is missing, but the investigation goes cold until several crucial tips and equally solid lab work open the case in Michigan. An old man. He is found brutally beaten to death in his own home. He watches the detectives have more questions than answers. They follow a forensic trail of lies and deceit that leads to an unlikely killer.

Two completely separate crimes. Two different murderers with a common thread. Both possess a murderous rage that emerges. of green raw meat in this

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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 usually a time of celebration, but in March 1994 the holiday was celebrated. The consequences took a deadly turn. Mary Pickett's husband Frank arrived unusually late that morning. He had returned to the local shelter to clean up after the St. Patrick's Day party the night before.

Mary hadn't heard from him all day, so she decided to drive. She went to the shelter to see if he was okay. Frank's vehicle was still parked outside. The side door of the hostel was wide open. He clearly began to fear the worst and called the police. Dayton police officers responded to the scene. The foreigners didn't come home last night so I called here and there was no answer, nervously Mary waited as the officer entered the lodge, she noticed something disturbing, the St. Patrick's Day decorations were still hanging and everything was eerily quiet, then in the kitchen floor, discovered a lifeless body for you to leave at the front door, don't let anyone worry, the attacker may still be in the building, officers cautiously searched the area, the perpetrator had already left long gone, but before fleeing he left another calling card, a second victim on the floor of the men's room, another man was dead without much to do the police launched a full scale murder investigation Mary Pickett confirmed the identity of her husband and the other victim, maintenance worker Boyd Walker, explained that Frank and Boyd were on the cleaning committee and were preparing the shelter for its weekly cleaning.

Meeting with Dayton Police Detective Doyle Burke, she examined the bloody scene and began to piece together the events leading up to the murders. The first thing that caught my attention was that the doors were formidably closed, however, they did not appear to have been tampered with, so I felt. Definitely not, there was definitely no forced entry. Detective Burke looked around for other clues and saw that the cigarette machine had been opened and almost all of the money was gone. He then found a bloody hammer on the floor of the back office. Crime scene technicians photographed the possible murder weapon was carefully collected and sent to the laboratory for analysis.

Burke's next step was to reconstruct the crime step by step in a foreign area and he appeared to have been laid out there and then beaten to death rather than simply taking the other victim by surprise. In the food preparation area it was very different. He seemed to have been caught off guard before being hit. I thought maybe he was the one who opened the door for the suspicious blood samples found in both rooms to be preserved. and sent tolaboratory along with the other evidence gathered at the scene, Detective Burke took note of the blood splatters on the walls and floor hoping that the pattern would be a clue as to how these two men died while the foreigners removed the bodies of The victims of the Detective Burke had many questions about the Killer and believed that the men not only knew their killer but had also opened the door for him.

Autopsies were performed at the Montgomery County Coroner's Office by Dr. Russell. Degrove's friend paid for some skull fractures here as well. We're going to need a photographer. Preliminary findings indicated that Frank Pickett was struck 19 times in the head. Boyd Walker had been hit 18 times. Both victims suffered brain concussions and looking at the blood, it appears he was simply called out from behind. 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, and the wounds sustained on the heads of these individuals were consistent with the types of injuries that could be inflicted with a hammer.

Forensic scientist Denise Rankin processed the hammer at the Miami Valley Regional Crime Laboratory. I examined the hammer and there were red stains that I tested to determine if they were blood and determined that they were blood and that they were a mixture of the blood of both victims. The analysis carried out in The Hammer came up empty. The investigation stalled. A working group meeting was called to determine the next step. At this moment we have nothing. You remain in the center. Detective Burke was joined by Detective Tom Lawson. Together they spearheaded the A task force officer learned that a homeless man named Timothy Clifford had been trying to swindle money from a local church on the day of the murder.

It was the first solid lead in the trail of Timothy Clifford, who was the initial suspect in these crimes. Obviously what he did was take steps to locate him. Detectives found Timothy Clifford at a local homeless shelter, not far from the shelter. Clifford admitted that he was begging at the church that day, but claimed that he was at the shelter all morning. He said the shelter had a book that he kept. Tracking the resident's whereabouts was a locked facility and during the time period these homicides occurred his whereabouts were verified at that shelter the lead was a dead end Detective Burke hoped the shelter manager could provide the investigation with a boost Much needed to the manager told the detective that the safe was missing and that it contained all the profits from the party.

He also said a two-wheeled dolly was missing from the back office. The manager explained to Detective Burke that Frank Pickett had an unusual habit of sealing deposit bags with duct tape. before depositing them in the bank, all in Alaska 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 felt strongly that he was someone familiar with the operation and Of course, the first place I'm going to look is former employees and then current employees. The next step was to track down anyone who might know why Frank Pickett and Void Walker ended up dead.

After talking to dozens of people, the police found nothing. The former workers and dedicated members had solid alibis 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. Emmerich, one caller said that Emmerich boasted that he could lift a safe single-handedly and another caller said that he once saw Emmerich open a cigarette machine in a bar, but the biggest break came when a Telephone informant entered the police station and no one kept an eye on him. and that alone was enough to say that Emrick committed these crimes, but as the volume continued to come with information about Emerick and multiple tips and information about Emerick, he certainly became an individual that we were very interested in.

The government was a local man familiar with Edmund. Emmerich knew that Emmerich had worked for a bar in the neighborhood. He said Emmerich had a reputation for hitting patrons at his own bar. He would then call the police and say that they had passed out. He said he saw Emmerich at another local location changing. When the bartender ran out of the bar he said that Edmund Emmerich might be intimidating a local who clearly knew the bar. District. He also told the police. Emrick boasted that he knew where the lodge kept him safe. There was information about the loss of his job. and needing money and then, shortly after these crimes, having money, so each little piece of the pie basically on its own was not enough, but when they culminated it became clear that it was of great interest to us.

The police needed to find as much information as possible. They were able to track down Edmund Emmerich, it didn't take them long to discover that he had a police record, a record that included an outstanding traffic warrant and, more interestingly, a security arrest. Breaking down in the state of Ohio once his name came up In the investigation, detectives began monitoring him the outstanding traffic warrant gave them what they needed to get him off the streets, stop right there sir, take your hands out of your pockets for me. Hold still for a minute, let me talk to him, the warrant gave the detectives the perfect opportunity to question America for a much more insidious crime, the double murder and of course the investigation.

We followed several clues, but again everything came back to Emerick for the first time. In this particularly violent and frustrating case, it seemed that Detectives Burke and Lawson finally had a solid lead and a possible murder suspect to move forward with in the gruesome double murder that took place at a local shelter the morning after St. Patrick's Day. Safe was a missing Dolly and a bloody hammer, but nothing was adding up after hitting several dead ends. One name appeared repeatedly on the crime tip line. Edmund Emery Emmerich worked in several bars in the vicinity of the hostel and had a reputation for being impulsive and dangerous he had an outstanding warrant for his arrest and the police arrested him Detective Doyle Burke believed they were on the right track information was received that Emrick was very brutal and very physical after his arrest Edmund Emmerich jumped to the top of the list of suspicious detectives when they noticed blood stains on his clothes they said he had cut himself shaving the detectives remained skeptical something didn't add up his alibi was too good for anyone tell me minute by minute hour by hour exactly what they had done are suspicious detectives Burke and Lawson asked Emmerich to turn over his clothes as evidence.

The blood that was found on Emrick when he was first arrested was on his shirt, on his shoes and also on his jacket. He spent the night in jail while his clothes were sent to the lab. For the blood test, detectives hoped the blood on Emmerich's clothing would match the victim's blood. The evidence was analyzed at the Miami Valley Regional Crime Laboratory. Denise Rankin explains that there was blood on the clothing that matched the suspect's blood on his own clothing, but like the hammer, the blood on the clothing didn't get detectives any closer to catching the Killer, in fact, the jacket seemed to support the story. of the suspect that he had cut himself shaving, but Detectives Burke and Lawson were not giving up on Edmund Emmerich. was ordered to search his home discovered a deposit bag sealed with duct tape, an informant had told detectives one of the murder victims sealed the bags for deposit the same way technicians photographed the evidence and took several other items of clothing Emmerich's dress code for further forensic testing.

Immediate evidence to arrest Emmerich The suspect was released but Burke and Lawson believed they had their man They just had to prove him the day after his release Detectives confiscated Emmerich's car Evidence Technicians searched the car with a fine-toothed comb inside From the car they found an additional hammer and a wrench that were gathered and sent to the laboratory. Technicians took samples of gray paint from stains found inside the door of Emmerich's car. Investigators believe the painting could be from the Lodge's missing safe. The paint stains were analyzed at Miami Valley Regional Prime. Director Ken Betts' laboratory, we are seeking to determine if the gray paint found on the safe was also left on the vehicle in question by the suspect investigator.

Burke and Lawson's next step was to verify Emmerich's ever-so-careful alibi, starting with his family Emirates claimed to have spent the morning of March 19 visiting his father before heading to a local laundromat. Detectives were neither surprised nor convinced when Emmerich's father confirmed his alibi. The laundry worker was most helpful in poking holes in Emerick's story. He said his behavior was suspicious that day unusually far from the front door, especially since he had an incredible amount of laundry to clean. The amount of clothing Emory had collected that day was unusual and I believe it was part of the prepared alibi.

I wanted to make it so memorable that the laundromat would remember this this guy had so many clothes it was such a big order but the most damning thing the laundromat worker remembered was that Emmerich left a two-wheeled dolly in the laundromat parking lot like the one missing in the hostel and his alibi in the end was part of his doubt since it leads us to be able to verify that a two-wheeled cart was taken from the crime scene and Emirates was in possession of a two-wheeled vehicle. -rolling wheel moments after the crimes occurred a phone call came to the Dayton Police Department It was the break detectives had been waiting for a discarded safe found right in the area where Emmerich had based his entire alibi a safe so Heavy that even a strong man like Emmerich would need a dolly to transport it, he examined the abandoned safe found outside a hardware store.

The front door had been completely ripped off. The clerk at the local hardware store said he had seen a white man matching Emmerich's description carrying the safe down the street. A two-wheeled dolly was like the dam had been opened in the box and the safe and dolly were just the beginning. The test results came back from the forensic laboratory. There was blood on one of Emmerich's shirts and it matched one's blood. 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 piling up and detectives were closing in on Edmund Emmerich, but it would take one more piece of damning forensic evidence and an eyewitness who brought this killer to justice. Local bartender Edmund Emmerich was the strongest suspect Detectives Burke and Lawson had in their investigation of a brutal double murder and robbery at a local lodge in downtown Dayton, Ohio. Emmerich had a reputation for violence and a criminal conviction for security. An incredible combination of circumstantial and definitive evidence was building a case against the suspect, but it was a paint stain found inside Emmerich's car that provided a crucial piece of physical evidence at the State Crime Laboratory, Ken Betts compared the stain to paint found in the car with the paint.

By scraping it from an abandoned safe, we were able to determine that the paint found on the vehicle matched the gray paint on the safe and became another investigative tool for Dayton Police detectives moving forward with four weeks of the detectives were burping and Lawson was finishing his investigation. case against Edmund Emmerich, but there was one more piece of evidence: a witness came forward. His name was Brian Towns, a local homeless man who saw Emmerich enter the shelter the morning of the murders. By interviewing him we were able to determine that not only did he see Emerick at the crime scene that day, he saw the door he entered through, he also saw him leave and even spoke to Emrick during the time period that we were certainly in, these homicides had occurred. in anyone in hobbies when Emmerich arrived. outside the city bars he took twenty dollars from him and watched him go on his way.

Detective Burke showed the town some photos and the homeless man had positively never seen him that day, yeah, off hours with only two people there, you're not going to let a stranger in and we found out that Emrick knew both individuals. . Emrick, of course, via BrianTowns was identified as being at the scene. The assets now had a man placing Emmerich at the crime scene at the time of the murders, but. They weren't taking risks before arresting Emerick again. Yes, at the crime lab, another piece of forensic evidence proved that Edmund Emmerich was the murder tool. Mark's examiner, Tim Duer.

Impressions of the wrench found in Emmerich's car, identifying a tool. Mark a specific tool is. How to identify a latent fingerprint at a crime scene with a known fingerprint of the suspect. The wrench impressions were then compared to casts of impressions found in both the cigarette machine and the lodge safe. They perfectly matched the castings of the cigarette machine test tool markings were compared microscopically with the test tool castings. Upon comparison, several matches were found between the two and with that it can be concluded that the tire tool made the tool marks on the cigarette machine to the exclusion of all other tools, the tire printing match.

The tool was the final piece of the evidence puzzle, not only did the police have an eyewitness placing Emmerich at the scene, they now had clear evidence that he had broken into the cigarette machine and the police were sure to move in to make an arrest. Although Emerick tried to flee, the police completely surrounded the house and Emmeric had nowhere to hide after weeks of tracking down the killer. The detectives caught their man and were now about to get the full story of what happened at the lodge that tragic morning, as suspect Boyd Walker knew. His murderer naively opened the door to his own murderer.

He had no way of knowing that Emmerich had entered the bar with the intention of murder and robbery when Walker turned his back on him. Emrick grabbed a hammer and brutally killed him with the same cruelty with which he had beaten Boyd Walker. Emerick killed Frank Pickett within minutes both men were dead. Emerick hurriedly grabbed the dolly and pulled out the safe from the lodge. He later abandoned the dolly in the laundromat parking lot. Hamrick was in dire need of money and this was an opportunity to take advantage of. two people who would trust him Edmund Emmerich was found guilty of two counts of aggravated murder for his fatal assault on the two bar workers, as well as one count of robbery.

He was sentenced to two life sentences in prison. Some killers prey on unsuspecting targets. making it easier for them to hide their identity, others attack closer to home leaving raw green trails. Emmett Township is a rapidly growing community of twelve thousand people located on the eastern border of Battle Creek, Michigan. They pride themselves on being a safe and close-knit community. shelter, that is why what happened on the morning of April 26, 1996 was a shock to the small town that morning Sharon Zachary went to check on Bob Rogers, he was taking care of the 81 year old man and rented a house in the same street as him.

She was worried because she hadn't heard from Bob all morning. Sharon saw her car next to her house. She became particularly concerned because he never parked there and had not answered his phone. Her worries were instantly confirmed when she saw the sliding side door. the house had been completely destroyed she ran for help Sharon Zachary was panicking her friend Bob had been the victim of several robberies in recent months it seemed as if this was another robbery that the officers were familiar with Bob Rogers was not the first Once they had been summoned to his residence, they knew that the old man had a reputation as a pack rat for having large amounts of cash in the house.

He entered the house carefully and cautiously so as not to disturb any potential evidence, but this time the crime was worse. There lying face up in her family room was Bob Rogers, who was dead. Can we have signal 15? Here we are going to need navigation. The technician also notified command, please. Emmett police now had what appeared to be a homicide on their hands. Lieutenant Thomas Headley arrived. Prepared to begin the investigation, his first step was to speak with Sharon Zachary, the woman who had discovered the body in the house here, where Mr. Rogers is staying, after asking her to come to the station to make a statement, examined the bloody crime scene from the Lieutenant Headley knew that this crime did not occur like the others' crime scenes.

It's a little strange to me, it's not consistent, but if we know if Mr. Rogers' behavior and the fact that the sliding glass door was broken at the back of the house was not consistent with the other crime scenes the people didn't have to make that effort to get insurance among the scattered clothing and blood spatter the crime tech team took measurements photographs and samples all potential evidence forensic technicians paid special attention to the victim's twisted belt buckle Pick it up , we'll get one more. Glass shards were photographed and collected for possible hand or footprints. It was no surprise to Lieutenant Headley at the large amounts of cash found hidden in various places around the room.

There is an old man who probably lived during a depression. money on him probably as a sense of security Hedley knew one thing he was sure money was the motive and now he had to find out who was responsible at the Emmett police station Lieutenant Anthony Geigel interrogates Sharon Zachary, she tells him She told Lieutenant Geigel about her relationship with Bob Rogers. You know him because she occasionally 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, even insisting that he move in with her; she said that she was tired of standing by while the elderly man was repeatedly the victim of violent robberies.

Zachary told the lieutenant that she didn't see anyone the morning she found Bob Rogers' body. She went to his house when he hadn't heard from her, but, to put it mildly, there was something strange about the Sharon Zachary case. Something strange story about the whole murder crime scene it didn't match what had normally happened in the past the scene just had a robot aura 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 Sparrow Hospital morgue. Dr. Joyce De Young took the victim's fingerprints postmortem, which she needed to determine which prints found at the scene belonged to the victim and which belonged to the possible killer or killers. .

The young man noted severe blunt force trauma. On Roger's head and body, the majority of the head injuries were to the back and the left side of the head, which would certainly suggest that the blows were inflicted from someone from behind, judging by the position of the body. of Roger and his decomposition, Dr. De Young concluded that Roger's body was most likely moved after his fatal beating, he called Lieutenant Geigel to report his conclusions: there is a pool of blood near the body that looked be where The body was face down and then the body is turned and the hands and forearms are in the air after rigor mortis had been fixed with the victim's fingerprints.

Forensic scientists began to reconstruct the murder of Bob Rogers using a specifically designed technique. 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 did not, in fact, if it was someone other than the victim's print on his pants, then it was obviously someone who touched that. area where he likely would not have remained on the surface of the belt while the victim was wearing it conventionally. The scientists also found compelling evidence on one of the fragments of the broken sliding glass door: it was a muddy imprint of a tennis shoe simply from walking.

On the glass, the design elements of the shoe are reproduced on that glass in incredible detail, including not only the design, but also the characteristic size, the individual characteristics, the unique characteristics of a shoe that allow us to identify the shoe. The evidence was compelling, but it seemed to lead nowhere Lieutenant Geigel had no suspects and every day that passed was another day the killer was free Emmett Township police were investigating the death of Bob Rogers, an elderly victim. of repeated robberies. They had evidence of fingerprints and a muddy shoe print. Lieutenant Hadley prepared the following plan of attack.

He knew that the strong evidence in the case would ultimately help him convict the right suspect. Emmett police organized a task force to brainstorm clues to the brutal murder and made a shocking discovery. Apparently, they apparently found out that Sharon Zachary had power of attorney over Bob Rogers' finances, since she was the one who found his body and had unlimited access to his house, they needed to eliminate her as a suspect, they obtained a search warrant and began to investigate her affairs, they began talking to family members and, as a result, we began to look at her a little more closely as a possible suspect.

Her first stop was to 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. They brought their records to the lieutenants. Geigel and Headley learned that Sharon Zachary was using Roger's credit cards. The same thing here is that some detectives began to suspect that their 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, so that led us a little bit to why there might be more to this and there might be some money that could be in Game.

I handle all of her legal and financial matters, in fact, he was here to get more information. about Rogers' finances they decided to question his lawyer. Rogers' lawyer explained that Zachary was granted power of attorney four months before the murder, but just two weeks before being found dead, the elderly man had abruptly changed his mind. Not long after he discovered that ten thousand dollars was missing from one of his accounts, he was furious, which further developed when we learned that Mr. Rogers had made a will leaving property belonging to Sharon Zachary after his death with a clearly stated reason. , Lieutenants Geigel and Senate Investigator Hedley to Rogers Bank together, the bank manager said.

Sharon Zachary came to Bob Rogers about a year before her death asking to be included in her account. Rogers sat uncomfortably while the paperwork was completed and the next day she was left alone requesting to be removed from the account, he wanted us removed as Attorney Salon wanted to handle her own affairs because he no longer trusted Sharon Sackery. Mr. Rogers had not been able to get to his will, but unfortunately he was murdered before I could do so. Detectives eventually spoke with a security guard at a local discount store, Zachary went to buy some shoes and attempted to use Bob Rogers' credit card, when the card was declined.

Security was summoned to the counter, they called Rogers at his house and he told them that under no circumstances had he given Zachary permission to use him. her credit card, she insisted that there was a mix-up, the significance of this card was that it made Mr. Rogers suspicious because at that time he would have felt that Sharon Sacramento was cheating on him, it was a big break in the case, detectives. Geigle and Headley 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 evidence if they could find a way to directly prove his guilt the detectives knew they had found his killer look what Lieutenant Geigel and the Lieutenant Headley were on the trail of the murderer of Bob Rogers, 81, the man was beaten to death in his own home Well, preliminary evidence pointed to the guilt of his carer Sharon Zachary, it is as if she had signed her name .

Zachary had been taking advantage of her power over Roger's finances. It seemed clear that the old man didn't appreciate Zachary spending her money. We're trying to find something that links Zachary to any kind of financial irregularity, meaning anything we can find to help piece it all together, plus we still hadn't found a murder weapon and then another discovery. Lieutenant Headley learned that Zachary had attempted to obtain the plans.to Roger's land, they studied Bob Rogers' land and wondered why Sharon Zachary, who rented one of Roger's houses, would request a copy of Rogers' property plan. What they noticed immediately was the amount of water on Rogers' properties.

They knew that one of the ponds would be perfect. place to hide a murder weapon were three ponds that were adjacent to Mr. Rogers' house and we thought that possibly they were used to hiding the murder weapon. It is also interesting that there is a worn path leading from this area from the third pond behind Mr. Rogers' house to the house where Sharon Sackery lived. When we sent to verify that the active instinct of the pond paid off, the divers took out a section of pipe three feet from the water at the crime lab forensic scientists examined the pipe although a In the long term, there could still be evidence of blood in the pipe, forensic scientist Marjorie Harris, so on the gun itself or dense, 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 despite the fact that the pipe had been submerged in the pond still had traces of human blood in it. .

I'm very glad to have found it. I don't think this has ever happened before, that a murder weapon like this can be recovered by submerging it in water and still have viability. DNA that could be identified Forensic investigators replicated the blood spatter from the crime scene using a pipe similar to the one found in the pond. They beat a melon to simulate a skull by comparing the crime scene photos with the crime reconstruction. Forensic investigators concluded that the pipe removed 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 did it happen? What was the order in which it happened? The detectives felt they finally had all the information. ammunition they needed to go after Sharon Zachary with a search warrant in hand entered her home confiscating the financial records in Sharon's house Secret, proving that she had an interest in Mr. Rogers' finances and apparently wanted to know more about what amount of money she had available Sharon Zachary cooperated by allowing police to remove Bob Rogers' records from her home. The officers asked her for a pair of tennis shoes to compare with a shoe print found at the crime scene without any argument she presented. a pair of white tennis shoes that they quickly bagged to test at the crime lab.

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. Prince matches Sharon Zachary's perfect individual characteristics are exactly the same therefore the impression of the crime scene and the impression made by the suspect's acquaintance Shu are the same the shoe print was enough to arrest Sharon Zachary definitively. placed at the crime scene claimed to be the caretaker of Bob Rogers who is now being arrested for his murder. He believes the forensic evidence we located clearly established that she was at the crime scene.

We established that Sharon Zachary was not truthful and we believe that Sharon Sackery murdered Mr. Rogers in the crime lab, forensic scientists were comparing a fingerprint found on Bob Rogers' belt to Zachary's Prince. 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 does not match what she had initially told the officers about her. Zachary said it was only natural that they would have evidence linking her to the crime scene. She said she spent so much time caring for the old man that it was not surprising that her fingerprint was on his belt. but forensics told a different story about the print: it is very fragile in nature and in all likelihood would have been destroyed by simply putting the belt through the loops and attaching it to the pants if it had been on a person's clothing for a period of time.

It is not likely that the Sprint victim or the suspicious print was present on the underside of that belt. It was too late for Sharon Zachary. The evidence against her was overwhelming. Everything pointed to her fault. The forensic evidence we gathered at the scene of this incident. They were key to solving this crime, everything from his thumbprint to her shoe. The prints that were taken from the murder weapon that we initially made and that we finally found submerged in one of the ponds that tied everything together, made all the pieces fit together and allowed us to solve this outside.

Sharon Zachary could no longer hide from what the detectives were able to piece together. Angry at not being able to spend Roger's money freely, Sharon Zachary let her greed get the best of her on the morning of April 26. She approached his while he kept some of her cash, she hit the old man repeatedly with a pipe. I think she finally saw the opportunity to remove him from the scene, collect all of his assets and leave scot-free. She turned her way through Roger's pockets. them inside out and removing the closure. I guess she knew exactly what she was going to do when she went there.

She knew, based on her theft history in previous assaults on Mr. Rogers, that she was going to make it look like. Exactly like that, trying to make the premeditated murder look like a random robbery, then he went out and broke the officer's sliding glass door and after doing so, he tried to make the place look like your typical textbook breaking an Airy, but he forgot a pair of keys facts and I think that was their final undoing The strong detective work of Lieutenant Headley and Geigold was stopped in court Sharon Zachary was found guilty of first degree murder and armed robbery she was sentenced to life in prison without parole overseas some victims of circumstance murdered for being in the wrong place at the absolutely wrong time others are exactly where they belong, but remain unsafe from the killers who seek them out of pure greed a St.

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some of the names have been changed September 26, 1993 St Louis Missouri Donna Boley, seventh grade math teacher and mother of two teenage children, was in the middle of her lesson, she had not been feeling well the entire day. summer, but he thought it was like that. just the flu I hoped would pass once the school year started but it didn't, it got worse, she collapsed in front of her class, alarmed students called the principal, paramedics arrived to find Donna struggling to breathe, they had no idea of what was happening to him. her or why she collapsed The doctors tried to stabilize her but her body was shutting down she was losing consciousness Donna was fighting for her life in the emergency room the doctors fought to save her but it wasn't enough even their best efforts Donna was still fighting Now She was paralyzed and had no feeling in her arms or legs.

They immediately put her on a ventilator to help her breathe. The intensive care specialist, Dr. Gregory Becker, we had no idea what was wrong with her. She had non-specific symptoms. She woke up in numbness in her lower extremities confusion she had a seizure her oxygen levels were dropping and she seemed to be having difficulty breathing we were really baffled by what was happening Jim Bowley Donna's husband rushed to check on his wife the doctors who had her The attendants assured him that they were doing everything possible, but the prognosis was not good. Donna was in critical condition.

Jim told the doctors. Donna had been feeling sick, but she had never been this bad. Donna was in cardiac arrest. Doctors desperately tried to get her heart beating again. She had a variety of symptoms that we couldn't pigeonhole into a single diagnosis. Doctors stabilized Donna and took her to the ICU, but they still had no idea what was causing Donna's symptoms. We came to a situation like this where a patient was getting sicker and sicker right in front of us and we ran a variety of tests on him, but the results showed nothing. I'm going to have to go to the sun.

Jim stayed next to his wife. He brought her flower cards and her favorite smoothies. He did everything he could to care for her while the mysterious illness ravaged Donna's body. The search for a diagnosis continued. One of the tests we did was a heavy metal test in the urine and when it arrived. when her urinary arsenic excretion was astronomically high Donna's body was being poisoned the amount of arsenic in her system was 420 times the normal amount apparently why the levels were so high and how it got into her system worried others were exposed to arsenic The Doctors immediately informed Donna's family and also called the police.

Jim Boley told doctors that he had no idea how this could have happened and that he wanted a full police investigation. Officers arrived at the hospital and interviewed the doctors, nurses and everyone who was caring for Donna, but no one had seen them. something like that before St. Louis County Police Detective Tony Grimmel became the lead investigator on the case. I found out that at the hospital Donna Boley's arsenic level was right at the lethal dose and that she was undecided and possibly she could die from the arsenic. Poisoning is rare. Detective Grimmel needed to do some research on the toxin.

I determined everything I could about arsenic and discovered that it is found in pesticides and herbicides. It is also found in the environment and in well water. Detective Grimmel hoped to talk to Donna, but that would be impossible, but at that moment she was not only in critical condition but she was paralyzed from the neck down and could not speak, could not communicate with Donna, the detectives would have to find their answers from Otherwise, they asked hospital staff to contact them if they came up with any new information. Nurses were stationed in Donna's room 24 hours a day to monitor her condition in color.

Well, Detective Grimald's next step was to determine if she was dealing with accidental exposure or something criminal. This is the first type of arsenic case I have ever been involved in, the questions we didn't have answers to is how did an internal system get what type of arsenic it was where it came from to find the answer the detective turned to an expert At the St Louis County Medical Examiner's Office met with Chief Toxicologist Dr. Christopher. Arsenic symptoms are so common and typical like the flu or possibly food poisoning that most doctors tend to focus on that area to see if there is some kind of biological reason why you have these symptoms and don't really consider poisoning. from arsenic or heavy metals, but arsenic poisoning is much worse than any flu: it attacks the body's red blood cells and devours them until the body shuts down completely.

Everyone has arsenic in their system, but usually at low levels. levels that offered no symptoms or problems, but the levels in Donna's system suggested something else due to the high levels that appeared to be administered to her, either self-administered or administered by another person, although environmental factors such as a water supply tampered with was not ruled out Investigators had to look at all possibilities, including attempted suicide or murder Detectives visited the stalker's home in hopes of developing leads Investigators interviewed Donna's husband and teenage children, Jim Bowley said that Donna had no history of depression and never talked about taking hers. of her life and never tried to commit suicide to hurt her, but the family mentioned that Donna had problems with several students who were angry with her because of her grades.

Jim also said that Donna had problems with a teacher who used to work with her and that Donna was an easy target, he felt that since she had a glass of water on her desk at all times, so anyone at school couldhaving administered the poison by dropping it into his glass or cup on his desk, while at home investigators took a sample of the family's tap water that was sent. To the laboratory for analysis they collected jars, flasks and utensils. Detectives also collected household products and cleaners. They were looking for anything that contained arsenic, such as pesticides or any kitchen items that may have been contaminated.

This was done to remove from the house anything that could make children sick if it contained arsenic and also to include or exclude any of these items being used in the poisoning of Donna in the bathroom the police found hypodermic needles Jim told investigators that one of the children used hypodermic needles to take medication they were taken with the other items to be tested, it's okay, I appreciate it, thank you, Detective Grimmel went to the school to follow up on the family's suspicions, the principal said that Although Donna was often sick, she was in good spirits and not depressed, the apartment searches also told him.

The detective's problems with the ex-coworker and the angry students were not serious and none of them had been at school in months. There was nothing negative about any of these kids. Grimmel now believed that if Donna was poisoned, it didn't happen at school. At the St. Louis County Police Department Identification Bureau, household items were tested for arsenic. The syringes found in the stalker's house were quickly discarded as the husband said they were used for prescription medication for one of the children and all other tests came back with results. negative none of the household items contained the deadly poison the water was also cleaned detective grimmel was at a dead end and there were no clues in sight he did not believe that in a family of four one person could have accidentally ingested a lethal amount of arsenic at home and the others have no signs of arsenic in their system, so what she was seeing was self-inflicted, a suicide attempt, or used as a weapon in an attempt to kill her and the only person who could spill it.

The light on the investigation was the only person who did not speak. St. Louis school teacher Donna Boley collapsed in her classroom and was now lying in intensive care. High levels of arsenic were found in her system. It is believed that Donna was trying to kill herself or someone. She plus she was trying to kill her after following clues at both her school and her house, they found nothing. Detectives began asking questions if someone wanted her dead, who it might be and what her motive was. She is quite busy, stressed at work, they decided to search.

In the Boli family's financial records it wasn't long before Detective Tony Grimmel found a life insurance policy for Donna and it was recently increased from two hundred thousand to six hundred thousand dollars and there was something else, the accounts showed that the family I had twenty thousand. dollars in credit card debt the case was heating up and then Detective Grimmel got a call who was a nurse and she was calling from the hospital he said that despite intensive treatment to rid Donna's body of the poison she was getting worse and she He said he noticed a pattern after each of Jim Bowley's visits.

His wife suffered a relapse despite Donna's serious condition. Detective Tony Grimel had to find a way to communicate with her. She was paralyzed from the neck down and couldn't. she could talk basically all she could do was shake her head yes and no and she had eye contact she couldn't write due to her paralysis she looked pretty bad the detective needed to talk to Donna alone although Donna couldn't talk she could communicate and made arrangements to communicate with her At the hospital, the hospital had been using an alphabet board to communicate with Donna. She could shake her head yes and no to answer questions that required a yes and no, but if there was something more specific she had to spell it out.

Using the alphabet board, the first thing I talked to Donna about was to see if she had administered this to herself if she had attempted suicide and she said no. I asked him a series of yes and no questions as much as I could. I asked her if she believed she had received the poison at home. She indicated no. She did get it from friends. She indicated no. Detective Grimmel didn't want to throw Donna away even though he still didn't get the answers she needed. She would have to come. When I started to leave, she started shaking her head, she didn't start crying, I was worried because she was, I don't want to say frantic, but she was upset, clearly upset, she was scared, maybe she was in pain and she was having some problems.

I called a nurse. To check with her, she said that she didn't want me to leave, that she wasn't in pain, that there was something else I needed to know and the first thing she explained to me was that she was afraid that Jim, her husband, was involved and Jim is that her husband Jim feels like he's in on this, nodding slowly and painfully at each question and letter of the alphabet. Donna recalled a curious incident two months before it happened on a busy morning as the family was rushing to breakfast and Donna was getting ready for her class.

Jim Bowley always cooked, it was his idea to take some of the burden off her wife. . She gave Donna a glass of milk to calm her stomach and reminded her to drink it. It was then that Donna saw a pink residue at the bottom of Donna's Story, which put her husband under suspicion. This, along with the recent increase in Donna's life insurance, made Jim Bowley the prime suspect in the poisoning of his wife, but investigators were a long way from proving that he was trying to kill his wife. . Detective Grimmel asked Donna for a hair sample, which was sent to the lab to establish a timeline of poisoning, and there was one more thing: Jim's visits.

I called the hospital to tell them that Mr. Boley was no longer allowed to see his wife. I contacted security and froze visits. because I thought there was a possibility that he was also administering some of this in the hospital after my interview I went out to the waiting room the first thing he asked me was what did she tell you I told him that she told me several different things and that He and I were going to have to talk again and we were going to have to talk at the police department tonight. More evidence emerged when Donna's relatives discovered a sports bag hidden in the Boley home and took it to the police.

Detectives were baffled by what they found inside other women's lingerie ads for local escort services. Love knows that the contents of these notes also included photos of naked women and a bag of sexual paraphernalia. We obtained cell phone records and discovered that she was using two dating services and that she was using. her cell phone for this at the St Louis County Medical Examiner's Office toxicology lab. Donna's hair was analyzed. Her hair grows about an inch per month, and because arsenic attaches to the follicles and stays there, scientists can get an accurate timeline of her hair poisoning. provided answers to the questions: when and for how long Donna ingested arsenic.

Chief toxicologist Dr. Christopher Long performed an atomic absorption test. The arsenic analysis cannot be seen because it is done at the molecular level and you cannot see the small molecules or electrons the computer can determine the difference in light absorption it prints out a concentration and everything is done on the computer the results came from your hair we clearly showed that on the other end there was no arsenic that was somewhere five or six months before that The point at which the arsenic levels in his hair increased and increased dramatically each month up to and including the time of his admission to the hospital, this would show that she had been exposed over a period of time and the dose was being increased during that time, the toxicologist reported.

Their findings for researchers were really an opportunity to put science to work to show how toxicology is part of the picture and sometimes we can be a very important part of the picture in determining whether someone is a bad person or not, asked the police to Jim Bully. come answer questions right here Jim Bowley seemed to be the perfect husband he worked as a high school counselor, coached baseball and was a scout leader told him that she was pointing the finger at him that he was now the prime suspect and I advised him his rights and was more than willing to cooperate and tried to explain the pink milk and her feeling that he was suspicious.

He had poison in his system. The thug claimed that his wife's illness had caused him to hallucinate. The detectives asked him about Donna's 600,000 insurance policy about her financial difficulties and about her extramarital affairs talking for hours Jim Bowley seemed to have an answer for everything but he explained them and was good at explaining things Boli's training was in Psychology , he seemed to be in control So the detectives took a new approach throughout all of this: every time he talks, he's in control and his life is bigger, but when we talk, he shrinks back in this chair, have you noticed Yes, he seems very confident and comfortable when he talks and very uncomfortable when you?

We're talking okay, I think what we should do is go back there and just hammer him and go up to the podium and don't let him talk at all, just give him everything you've got this time, they would be verbally aggressive and don't let him redirect the blame. I've been listening to you. all night now it's time for you to listen to me well I think no no no wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute I've heard you lay out the case against The investigators didn't let Boli respond for an hour and a half.

No, at the end of that hour and a half or so, when he first spoke, he asked me how long do you think? I'm going to understand what in itself was a tacit admission but not a confession after more than eight hours of interrogation, investigators still could not be intimidated into confessing to poisoning his wife without anything solid to stop him. Detective Grimel went to the St. Louis district attorney, Bob McCola, had to make the decision, we actually had very little evidence, it was one of those where you knew the guy did it, but if we were going to Whether or not to prove it at that time was up for debate. air, but the detectives did not give up and continued to press pen for a confession, but Jim Boley still did not break and without stronger evidence, the police feared that the man they suspected of poisoning his wife would walk free, someone was trying to kill Donna.

Boley 420 times the lethal dose of arsenic was discovered in his system and police believe they know who was responsible Jim, Donna's husband, the letter i Detectives were building a strong case against Jim Bowley, they discovered that he was sponsoring sexual services and They bought six hundred thousand dollars. life insurance policy for his wife wants to have a seat there the detectives brought in Jim to question him in hopes of breaking him down, but he had been hindering them for hours I'm going to talk about Donna. I would like you to tell us what happened to her detective.

Tony Grimmel went to the prosecutor's office to try to get an arrest warrant, he didn't do the right thing and you and I know what you're in for now, at the same time boli finally confessed that he had been poisoning Donna. He didn't want to kill her. He just wanted to make her a little sick. You have to believe me. I just wanted to make her a little sick. She was very stressed. It's been a long summer, but he didn't admit that he was trying to kill. her, yes, Lt. Barn from the police department waiting for REM to be there requesting a warrant, can I speak to him please?

St. Louis Detective Tony Romo was seeking the arrest warrant. Tony Foley is here confessing to Bearer right now that he wore that because of the party scene, his wife and I haven't had much quality time together, he wanted to make her sick so she would stay home from work and He could spend his sick time and stay home with her, take care of her and spend quality time with her. His bully, Jim, was arrested. He told investigators where he had hidden the box of rat poison in the house. He led police to the garden store where he purchased the poison.

He even pointed out which brand he bought. This is the product you purchased. Yes. For months, boli had carefully prepared arsenic potions to give to his unsuspecting wife. He told police he dissolved the poison in water before adding it to Donna's food or drink. It's time to go to bed. The investigators ask the police chemists to verify Boli's story in the laboratory they found. the poison gave the water a pink tint when the mixture was added to the milk it did not color the milk but it did leave a small pink residue for years Jim Boley had been living a double life with expensive adulterous affairs, police say when they caught up with him The bully planned carefullyget rid of Donna and collect enough money to continue his other life, but it didn't work.

Medical and forensic science was able to prevent him from killing Donna. St. Louis prosecutor Bob McCola had a strong case, the charge that we filed assault. in the first degree it is the most serious charge there is lack of debts it carries a penalty of 10 to 30 years or life imprisonment in addition to that we presented him with an accusation of armed criminal action because he used poison to commit his crime and that gave the possibility of another life sentence Jim Bowley was convicted of trying to kill his wife by poisoning her. He was sentenced to life in prison.

St. Louis medical personnel and detectives intervened and saved a woman's life, but tragically in Ohio the intervention came too late. Colon. Ohio is located in the center of the American heartland. In early 1994, the city's police found themselves at the center of a brutal and mysterious case. At 2:51 a.m., police received a frantic 9-1-1 call. The caller identified himself as Richard A and said he was his wife. had just committed suicide the operator asked him to stay calm and wait for emergency personnel who were on the way Sergeant 180 181 on 47th 47th. Officers from the Columbus Police Department arrived at the address there was no one to receive them they called but there was no answer Officers tentatively entered the residence It appeared as if the house was empty In the master bedroom Robert was at the foot of the bed Appearing dazed, confused and unable to move in the bed A woman lying on her back with a gunshot wound to her side left of his head, he is my wife, a 38 caliber blue steel revolver rested on his blood stained chest, okay, the responding police officers questioned Robert, "are you okay, sir?", he told him that He entered his room and found his wife, who he did not have.

Do you have any idea what happened here? How much did you drink tonight? Officers noted that he appeared to have been drinking. How much? Medics were called to the scene without touching the body. They examined the woman. Janet A was dead within minutes. Homicide detectives arrived at the home. They are required to investigate any gun-related death. Detectives were briefed by officers at the scene. Detective Eric Pilia was the lead investigator on the case. A small dark colored revolver was on his chest and there was a large amount of blood that had come out of the wound and ran down his body along his appendages and shot in several areas.

The detective interviewed Janet's husband Robert still appeared to be in shocked and unresponsive my first impression of the husband was that he was extremely distraught to the point of being in shock or extremely lethargic or drugged, emotionless, just a little dazed when he composed himself, he told investigators that same night, he and his wife watched some TV after dinner, fell asleep, she was leaving on a business trip to Cincinnati early the next morning. He told investigators that Janet was nervous about her trip, she was deathly afraid of public speaking, she wanted to sleep well, so she kissed him goodnight and climbed into bed and said he stayed up a little later and saw a kickboxing movie on television. asleep on this couch here he explained that he had fallen asleep on the couch he had woken up decided to go to bed he went upstairs he turned on the light in the bedroom and found his wife lying there with a gunshot wound to the head he said he then went and told her He checked the pulse He was shocked when he discovered that his wife had committed suicide He had been asleep and didn't even hear the gunshot At first glance The investigation seemed routine A tragic suicide A distraught husband left to pick up the pieces of his life, but few investigations are routine and Detective Pillia knew this would be no different in Columbus, Ohio.

Robert woke up with a nightmare after falling asleep on a couch while he was watching television, he got up and went upstairs, there he found his wife Janet shot. on the head at Point Blank Range there was a blood stain on his chest and a revolver was next to his hand and he told detectives that Janet was nervous about a business trip she was going to take the next day and that she was afraid that that could have caused her life, she said she had a gun in the house to protect herself, she normally kept it under the couch where she had been sleeping but it wasn't there, she said Janet must have taken it before or while she was sleeping watching a detective game.

Eric Pilia asked Robert what he remembered. I asked him: do you know if you touched the body at the beginning? He said no, then he said okay. I checked his pulse and explained that he had been a doctor in Vietnam. I asked him specifically, how was he? that and he said that he had touched her neck during the pulse check. Crime scene investigators photographed the scene documenting the position of Janet's body, her arms, and the passage of blood across her upper chest, rearranging her care to better see the blood. pattern, the gun was collected along with other evidence when searching the room, detectives also noticed a flashlight in the dresser.

Janet's body was taken to the coroner's office for an examination. Officers checked for signs of forced entry and found none at the Franklin County Coroner's Office. The examiner took a sample from the victim's hands and examined the rest of her body. He took blood samples for a toxicology test. Janet had an x-ray of her head to determine the angle at which she was shot and the trajectory of the bullet. All physical evidence proved that she was self-inflicted. The injury and autopsy report classified Janet A's death as a foreign suicide, but to experienced homicide investigators something still didn't seem right.

Robert A's story didn't add up. I made a mental note when he told me that he had turned on the light. That, um, that's not a normal thing, that seemed abnormal to me, that someone would turn over their wife sleeping in bed and they would turn on the light and wake them up while they were going to bed, that just seemed funny to me at that. At this point, investigators decided they needed to know more about Janet's mental state. Okay, that would be nice. They talked to her parents to see if Janet was suffering from depression or was upset about something.

Janet's parents said that, in fact, she was fine. she had been looking forward to her business trip the parents' comments did not seem to support the coroner's findings according to homicide detective Carl Rankin she had a good job it seemed that Janet a was not a very good candidate for suicide and she did it In fact, he had things to look forward to even the next day, he was always very jealous, the detective asked him about Janet's relationship with her husband. Robert insisted on going to Cincinnati too and the fact that Janet didn't want him to go.

They talked about taking care of the dog and that Janet didn't really feel comfortable even leaving the dog with Robert. Janet told her parents Robert had been seeing another woman for several months, just three weeks before his death Janet said she was planning making her divorce him, this strengthened investigators' suspicions that Janet had not taken her own life, but they needed proof, so they returned to the crime scene and started from scratch. They reexamined photographs of her and noted that Janet's head injury was on the left side of her when she was interviewed. Friends and family discovered that Janet was right-handed, the gun was also placed very awkwardly in her hand, according to Detective Rankin, the butt of the gun was facing away from her hand, the barrel was actually pointing upwards, this It would be a difficult task. shot for a skilled person at the crime lab, the toxicology results on Janet's blood came back, it looked like she had taken a massive dose of sleeping pills, maybe she had tried to kill herself with pills and when that didn't work, she took the gun , but there was a problem, the toxicologist's opinion was that Janet was in pain after taking so many drugs, she would not have been able to form a thought pattern if she had been in bed taking the drugs, she went downstairs, took out a gun from under the couch where Robert was.

She was sleeping, she went upstairs, went back to bed and shot herself despite problems in the marriage and a minor domestic incident. The detectives had little else to talk about here, okay, but that changed. The police caught a break when a call came in from a woman who said she was the last person who spoke to Janet the night she died. She is a close friend of Janet's but had not shown up because she was afraid of Robert's violent temper. She again told him. the police that the night Janet died she had come to borrow a dress it's nice Janet was excited and looking forward to her trip to Cincinnati, happy to have time away from her husband the night Janet died she called and spoke to her friend at 11:30 p.m. m., she whispered she and said that Robert was angry and arguing: yes, I was the one he wanted. go on the trip to Cincinnati with her, but Janet had refused, her friend told investigators that Janet then abruptly said that Robert was going to come into the room and that she had to leave.

Janet hung up quickly, it was the last time anyone heard of her words. The detectives were now ready to confront Robert and told him they needed the truth. Why would they schedule you for a polygraph test and ask him to take it? Why would he be right on the dresser? I want to talk to my lawyer Robert. Don't know. I have no problem with you talking to your attorney to prove that Janet's death was not a suicide, but the cold-blooded murder detectives needed hard evidence and that evidence was right in front of them in the crime scene photographs.

At that time, it was determined that if we were going to have substantial evidence of the blood spatter, evidence contained in the photographs, that we were going to have to consider leaving the apartment and hiring a person to take a look at these photographs, the story of the detectives up to this point. The beliefs were just another theory, but the coroner's report was conclusive. If they hoped to reopen this case, they needed much more than a theory. They needed science to back up their suspicions. Janet A's death had been ruled a suicide, but detectives were concerned about the evidence that she was. she was right-handed but the gun was found near her left hand her husband Robert a was the only other person in the house friends and family said the couple's marriage was Rocky weeks before her death she said she intended to divorce him The detectives were sure it was a murder and Roberta was the main suspect, but to prove their case they had to turn to a forensic specialist.

Columbus police contacted a renowned blood spatter expert and took the crime scene photographs to Corning, New York, where Professor Herbert McDonald is director of the forensic science laboratory. they simply objectively wanted me to look at the images and see if I could form an opinion based primarily on the bloodstain patterns that were present in the images for Dr. McDonald. Something about the pictures didn't make sense. You can't have a gun. After you've shot yourself in the head, it falls on your chest and then somehow you reach underneath and stain it with blood, only the sequence is wrong, the obvious thing is that it was a homicide and not a suicide.

I am lying in this position. It was the information the detectives had been waiting for and the proof they needed The detectives presented their new findings to the medical examiner Janet A's cause of death was changed from suicide to undetermined Detective Carl Rankin presented the evidence This is very unusual for a detective Go back in and um, ask them to change something on the death certificate, especially something as important as anything from a suicide to at least an undetermined case. The way was cleared for Robert to be charged with Janet's murder. Robert's detectives discussed their evidence with Franklin County Prosecutor Jeff Allen once.

We had Professor McDonald's report. He was convinced that we had a case we could try before a jury, so that was probably the biggest factor in my determination that we had a case we could try. I think we could clearly demonstrate that based on McDonald's weed. the toxicologists the friends and family who had had recent contact with Janet and yet this lady this lady the defendant the only other person in the house was the person who had shot Jan she did not do it herself a warrant was issued Arrest Robert Hayes was arrested for the murder of his wife.

He was taken into custody without incident. I think they had been arguing. I think Robert wanted 100 to go to Cincinnati and he demanded it. Yes, the couple argued. Janet climbed into bed. Yes. She took sleeping pills to sleep well at night. I think Robert laid on the couch drunk, going into an increasing stupor and getting angrier as time went on and I think Robert reached under the couch and pulled out the gun he knew. he was therein the first interview, he says, I turned on the light, well I don't know about that, I think maybe he even had a flashlight with him to make sure he didn't make a mistake in what he was about to do. do and I think he took that gun and I think he went upstairs after killing Janet and put the flashlight on the dresser.

Robert repositioned Janet's body, got her blood on her hand, so he wiped it on her upper chest and planted her gun on him. make it look like a suicide, but under the gun his blood had already dried without the blood pattern analysis done by Herb MacDonald without the toxicology um without having a set of crime scene photographs as good as ours, there would have been no reopening of this case. there would have been no trial and there was no conviction the jury in Robert A's trial heard the forensic evidence found him guilty of Janet's murder he was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison The murderers do everything possible to create scenarios that change They blame leaving few traces of their guilt, but no matter how small or well-hidden forensic investigators live to expose these telltale traces and avenge the victims of murderous attraction.