Hidden Killers | DOUBLE EPISODE | The New Detectives

In Montana, a murdered woman is found stuffed in the trunk of her car with little physical evidence to go on. Investigators fight to catch her killer. An apparently healthy 33-year-old woman dies in her sleep. Tennessee police must determine whether her death was the result of natural causes. Murder cases in Ohio A woman abandons her husband and her two children, but a routine investigation reveals that her disappearance may not have been intentional. A well-executed homicide can baffle even the most skilled investigator, but forensic examiners look beyond the obvious to find evidence of a murderer's guilt and expose the elements of the murder sitting in the heart of Big Sky country, the city of Great Falls Montana is surrounded by the majestic Rocky Mountains to the west and the Little Belt Mountains to the east On an October morning, a man walking along the secluded banks of the Missouri River stumbled upon several identification cards belonging to a worried young woman, he alerted Police officers with the Cascade County Sheriff's Department responded to the call at The River's Edge and found additional identification cards belonging to the woman Su Galloway Police were familiar with.

The name of Susan Galloway, 27, had been reported missing the previous day, not knowing what to do with the findings, Patrol Boat officers were called to drag the river 20 feet from the shore and noted that they had caught the a woman's bag inside. of the missing woman's identification and credit cards, what he found was also $100 in cash, but there was no sign of Susan Galloway. Cascade County Police contacted the missing woman's parents and brought them in for an interview. The family was alarmed when they discovered that her daughter and her vehicle were gone as if it were all just that Susan had recently gotten engaged and seemed very happy.

He would tell me anything. Her fiancé Craig Smith was stationed at the nearby Air Force Base. You did pretty well. The couple often helped out in the business Galloways owned. Susan was a devout Mormon and, although Craig was not, she had agreed to convert so the two could marry, the family planned to give the couple ownership of the store. as a wedding gift. I know what they could do. I don't understand why Susan just left without saying a word, veteran detective Ken Anderson wasn't optimistic, well, finding the ID indicated that, um, Susan Galloway did, in fact, not leave town or leave in her vehicle without Saying goodbye and that kind of thing.

You're welcome because she certainly wouldn't have left her ID and her money behind her. Police arranged an interview for the missing woman's fiancé. Hello, are you Craig Smith? Yes sir. Craig Smith had no idea where Susan could have gone. He last saw her the night before she disappeared. Leaving a dinner, Susan dropped him off at her apartment around midnight. She hadn't heard from her since the detective became curious about a bandage on Smith's hand. What happened to his hand? She explained that she had accidentally cut herself with a knife a few hours earlier. After Susan dropped him off, he woke up thirsty, tried to open a frozen can of orange juice, but was having trouble, grabbed a knife, but slipped while trying to open the can, his car wasn't running, and he walked to the air.

Air Force base where he was stationed to have a doctor treat the wound. Police later confirmed that he had visited the doctor that night. The search for Susan Galloway was going nowhere. Three days later, a Power Company employee working at Rainbow Dam saw something on a hill on the other side of the river. He decided to go check it out. When he arrived at the scene, he found a car that had plunged down the hillside. The vehicle appeared to be stuck in some bushes. Police and crime scene technicians were contacted and responded to the scene to check the vehicle.

Tags on the vehicle revealed that the car was registered to missing 27-year-old Susan Galloway. He watched Sergeant Anderson go down the hill through the window and observed a key in the ignition; There didn't appear to be anyone inside, but in the back of the vehicle, he noticed streaks of blood, there was also what appeared to be a footprint on the trunk, Anderson then took a closer look at the interior of the car, the back cushion of the back seat had separated from the trunk area and at that moment I could see a body inside the trunk of the car the woman matched the description of Susan Galloway and it appeared that she had been murdered the police towed the vehicle and began looking for clues inside the car the technicians found large blood stains on the front passenger seat several fragments of broken green glass stained with blood were also recovered the exterior of the vehicle was thoroughly photographed the victim's body was transported to the medical examiner's office for an autopsy the lack of evidence found near the car led police to believe she had been murdered elsewhere and then taken to On the hillside, a dog was brought in to track the victim's scent about a mile from the car, alerted to a partially dug hole.

Sergeant Anderson, come on, I think we have a crime scene. More blood was found from the victim. Apparently, the suspect brought the The woman who arrived at this place finished the killing and then tried to bury the victim, but for some reason she gave up. The medical examiner confirmed that the victim was actually Susan Galloway. Pieces of green glass from a 16-proof soda bottle were found embedded in her skull and neck. Kateed's artery had been severed and Susan had bled to death as a result. Now

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had to find out who had murdered Susan Galloway and why, but with few clues and no obvious suspects, they knew it wouldn't be easy.

Police in Great Falls, Montana, had few leads. In the murder of Susan Galloway, 27, the young woman was brutally beaten with a soda bottle placed in the trunk of her car and then thrown down a steep embankment. No usable fingerprints were found on the glass or in the victim's vehicle, waiting to identify a suspect, investigators released details of the crime through the media shortly after receiving a tip that he knocked on my door. . A man stationed at the local Air Force Base believed he had information like I did about what time he arrived at his house. room there, he said that the night Susan disappeared he showed up, he had seen her fiancé Craig Smith in the morning.

Smith had arrived at the barracks in the early hours of the morning and noticed that his friend was carrying a bundle of dirty clothes with some guys, what's wrong with his hand, he also noticed a cut on Smith's hand, listen man, was dating a girl, Smith told him that he had cut it with a knife, he was on his way to see the doctor for treatment and asked his friend to take him home after that. In fact Smith had also told the airman that he had been drinking with friends and got stranded, he had, in fact he asked his friend to keep the story a secret because his fiancée Susan Galloway would not have been happy about it. .

The airman's story contradicted Craig Smith's claim that on the night of The Disappearance he had gone to bed shortly after Susan dropped him off at Sergeant Ken Anderson's house was suspicious, it was almost as if Craig was lying about something and suddenly, He became the main suspect. After police sought to corroborate Smith's story, they located the doctor who had bandaged C's hand. He confirmed that Craig Smith had come for treatment for a cut in the early morning hours of October 23, but the doctor He recalled thinking that the wound was consistent with being caused by a serrated edge rather than the blade of a knife, as Smith suggested, although the incriminating information fell short of proving Craig Smith was a murderer and he is now seeking to link the suspect. with the crime scene.

Police canvassed the nearby area. I have a couple questions for you if you don't mind, an employee at a convenience door recalled seeing Smith and Susan Galloway the night she disappeared and according to the employee they seemed to be arguing when they entered the store, they bought some bottles of soda and then we left now the employee showed the officer the type of soda purchased by the couple they were 16 or bottles made of green glass identical to the glass that had killed Susan Galloway the information was enough for the police to obtain a warrant When searching Craig Smith's residence, the suspect continued to deny any involvement in Susan's death.

Sheriff Anderson's office admitted that he and Susan had been at the store that night and also admitted that he had been in the area where his car was in the past. was later found, but Smith denied ever being at the location where the partially dug hole was found, another location police believe was the murder site. Detectives collected the clothing he was wearing on the night of Susan's disappearance. , it's yours too, yes, that's it, but the articles. They had been recently cleaned. Is there a shirt there? Ken's police, too, realized that his only hope would be to link Smith to the sneaker print recovered from the trunk of Susan's car.

They collected a single pair of Muddy shoes. AVE. An examination revealed that the shoes seized from Craig Smith were the same size and the souls had the same pattern as those collected from the vehicle, but that alone would not be enough to prove murder. He had driven his car several times. His fingerprint was in an irregular place on the trunk. could have been there, the police would have to physically place him at the murder scene and all they had to do was put some dirt on the bottom of Smith's shoes and we believed that if he had been standing in the area of ​​the murder scene It would have picked up dirt, it was very sandy and totally different from the mud and dirt in the area where the car was pushed.

Investigators collected soil samples from several locations where the suspect claimed to have been the night of Susan's disappearance. They also collected samples from the location where they believed the murder occurred, all of the soil was sent to the University of Montana for analysis. There geologist and mineralogist Jack Wenberg worked on the case. I was to examine the soils at the crime scene and there was an open burial site there. There were several other small areas that wanted to be checked to compare the soil that was present on the suspect. Sh Wenberg noted that soil samples taken from the sole of Smith's shoe contain small pieces of glass probably from broken bottles.

Microscopic analysis was also performed. revealed that the sample contained pieces of ash that were consistent with having been produced with copper. Samples collected in Craig Smith's yard and from the path he had walked to the base had no such ash; In fact, only the samples taken from the crime scene had both tiny glass fragments and copper ash, and the reason seemed simple. A few hundred yards from the crime scene, on the banks of the Missouri River, was the site of a copper smelting plant. Wenberg determined that it was the only area in the county where copper ash was found. appears appears on the ground Craig Smith had been at the scene of the murder something he had previously denied is his name when confronted with the evidence against him Craig Smith admitted to killing his fiancé said he wanted the Galloway family business but didn't have it interest in being married to Susan put the instrument was charged with first degree murder based on information police believe that on the night of the murder the couple had a heated argument then Craig Smith brutally attacked his fiancée and then dragged her somewhere set aside to finish the job and bury his victim, but when that didn't work, he placed her in the trunk of his car and attempted to send the vehicle over the cliff.

Craig Smith was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 100 years in prison on a patch of The ground was enough for Montana police to expose a killer's dirty secret, but in Tennessee

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must look beyond the pale obvious to find answers to explain a mysterious debt in the early morning hours of December 23, 1997. Nashville police and emergency workers responded to a frantic 911 call. Terry Robinson said his wife had been seriously ill for several days and Now he wasn't breathing. She was pronounced dead at the scene with no obvious cause of death. Detectives were sent to the home as a matter of routine and homicide detective EJ Bernard was assigned.

In the case, Lenora Robinson, 33, lay dead in the couple's bed. Investigators noticed a black substance on the woman's shirt and pillowcase that appeared to come from the victim's mouth and nose. It will be blood, let's take the pillow, notice, there is partial smoke, perhaps they thought it had originated from a cigarette found next to Lenora's bed.let's collect this they also found and collected a bottle of Gatorade and a glass filled with the orange liquid take the only thing you could do, cont. Terry Robinson told the detective that Lenora had been suffering from severe flu-like symptoms for the past four or five days;

In fact, the day before, Terry had taken his wife to a doctor to be treated for a high fever and a little congestion. The doctor who examined Lenora had her sick with a severe case of the flu, he helped her get better. He gave her an injection to relieve her symptoms and sent her home. My strawberry a little. Terry said. that Lenora seemed to improve for a while but that night her symptoms got worse I hope this knocked him out he tried to breastfeed her giving her Gatorade and medication but when he checked her the next morning she was not breathing that you sir, although there were no signs suggesting Foul Play to the police He was worried that someone as young as Lenora would die from the flu.

Detective Bernard ordered an autopsy to be performed. Initial assumptions were that he had something to do with the flu or the vaccine or possibly a heart attack, a brain tumor, something. Completely unknown to family members or anyone, medical personnel on the scene his body was transported to the Tennessee State Coroner's Office located in Nashville, there the Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Bruce Levy, performed the autopsy. of the thick black substance that had come out of Lenora Robinson's nose. It immediately caught his attention, well, in this case, the first thing was that he had noticed a black residue on the pillow next to where her mouth had been, which It means that something had come out of his body, we weren't sure what it was exactly.

An internal examination uncovered evidence of a heart condition and congested lungs, supporting the idea that Lenora had died of natural causes, then Detective Bernard arrived to view the autopsy and noticed something unusual, it smells like almonds or candy, it was the smell bitter almond coming from the body was an odor associated with people who have died as a result of cyanide poisoning, let's do this more detailed examination of MH, however, the telltale signs associated with cyanide ingestion were not detected, there was no liver damage or signs of burning in the mouth o Toxicology tests of the esophagus on the Gatorade found near Lenora's bed came back negative for poison if the 33-year-old woman had been exposed to cyanide.

The question now was how and who performed the autopsy on 33-year-old Lenora Robinson. Nashville, Tennessee, to believe that his death was the result of cyanide exposure to prove this, additional testing would have to be performed, the medical examiner collected samples of blood tissue and urine, the items were sent to forensic toxicologists to check for the presence of poison, the samples were mixed. With chemicals that react with cyanide, if poison is present, it will turn a bluish-purple color within a few minutes. Tissue samples came back negative, but Lenora's blood and urine tested positive for the cyanide poison to be absorbed into the blood but not into the tissue, it would have to have been inhaled and, according to forensic expert agent Lewis Kikendall, the Cyanide is most lethal in a fog-like state.

Usually the person will have seizures, they will have an upset stomach, but usually very quickly, 30 seconds to maybe 2 minutes. uh they're in a coma and then very quickly the medical examiner Bruce Levy contacted the police with the findings. Yes, I have the toxicology results for Lenora Robinson. She tests positive for cyanide, but until the police can rule out that the poisoning was accidental. or suicide, the manner of death would remain undetermined. Detective EJ Bernard was quickly able to rule out both scenarios. There were no suicide notes. I learned that she would have died within minutes of ingesting the Sinai, therefore, she would have left something near her. there was nothing nearby Mr.

Robinson assured me that he didn't clean anything Storm police believed Lenar Robinson had been murdered to find out why they questioned the victim's mother and stepfather. They both agreed that the marriage had been Rocky for some time according to Leno's mother. The couple was suffering from serious financial problems and expected you to pay these bills with no money in the account. Reas, the small business they owned and operated together was not doing well, a credit card you're supposed to know about and the bills continued to pile up. I had to pay for it somehow. It had caused a lot of anger and resentment between Terry and Lenar.

Lenora said they had recently started talking about the possibility of divorce. I'll talk to you two next time. They had one more piece of information to add. Terry said that he had once worked as an exterminator and as part of his job he had worked with deadly poisons that only one partner had because before he got married, before he got a court order to search his house. Terry Robinson, the police needed to know if it was possible for him to create cyanide Vaporize pesticides industrial pesticides, especially Agent Kikendall confirmed that the process is relatively simple, he could go pick it up, he gave the police a list of items to consider armed With a warrant, police returned to Terry Robinson's home.

At home, the suspect maintained his innocence, but when Detective Bernard began reviewing the couple's financial documents, he discovered a letter Lenora had written to her husband threatening him with a bitter and expensive divorce with a list of Chemicals that could be used to transform cyanide into vapor Detective Bernard searched the suspect's garage where he found several common household items that could have been used. He also collected numerous containers of unidentified liquid at the TBI crime lab. Agent Kiken Doll began analyzing the substances collected from the house, but the results were not what investigators expected essentially what EJ found and sent me none of them had cyanide or enough cyanide at any level that, uh, if anyone wants ingesting it or getting it to harm him, the investigation went back to square one to do In his case, the police would have to rely on circumstantial evidence and their best option would be to prove that the suspect had access to the cyanide.

Detectives contacted Terry Robinson's former employer at the extermination company where he had worked years before. I need help from him. The man confirmed that While Robinson worked there, the company used cyanide, in fact, Terry Robinson helped convert the crystallized poison into a liquid state that would then be administered with a spray bottle to combat insects and rodents. Oh, that thing smells. The former employer had not seen Terry in some time. He was not aware of any poisons that he may have carried with him when he left the company, that's all there is to it. Of course, still, Detective EJ Bernard refused to give up.

It's ok, I'll do it. Thank you so much. I kept looking for the magic. Bean will tell me where I could get a receipt where he bought cide. I was unable to locate that although the police had established motive and opportunity, they had no hard evidence linking Terry Robinson to the poison he used to murder his wife and Lenora's murder. threatened to remain unsolved because forensic toxicologists in Nashville Tennessee had exposed the poisoning death of Lenora Robinson, 33, as a homicide, but had so far been unable to link her husband Terry Robinson to the cyanide gas used to kill her, but then they got the rest they needed Lenor Robinson's great uncle came to talk with questions from the police if you don't mind I think his name is Roy Blandon remembered that some time ago Terry had asked him for help to kill wasps that had nested near his house Did he pay you for this good to see you?

What we have here. The uncle agreed and came to the house to give Terry various insecticides and poisons in one form or another. Anything else among the items were cyanide tablets, although the evidence was circumstantial at best. They were able to obtain an arrest warrant for Terry Robinson. On June 30, police returned to his home and arrested him. Terry Robinson was charged with the first-degree murder of Lenora's wife based on evidence police believe Terry Robinson took from him. He took advantage of Lenora's illness to free himself from heavy debt from an unhappy marriage and divorce. imminent. On December 22 he entered her bedroom and administered the deadly poison.

On October 15, 1999, Terry Robinson, 49, was found guilty of first-degree murder. and sentenced to 51 years in prison to catch a killer and plead his case, Nashville police had to rely on both sound science and dogged determination, but some predators have intimate knowledge of police tactics and outsmarting them can be a difficult challenge with a population of less than 8,000 residents bpre Ohio is considered a friendly, close-knit community and when someone goes missing it's everyone's business September 19, 1996 Jack McCrady came to talk to bpre police investigators knew him well after work. I got home his car was McCrady. he was a respected officer in Ohio State Police clothing was gone and now wanted to report that his wife Jennifer was missing.

He said he last saw his wife that morning while they were getting ready to go to work. Me with this first place. Jack said that he hadn't noticed anything unusual about his behavior that morning, although his marriage had problems, he thought things had gotten better, there you go, thanks, okay, I really understood. He later learned that Jennifer never showed up for work that day. Jack suspected his wife had been having an affair and now feared she had gone off with another man leaving him with the couple's two children, Detective Dave Garvey agreed when he got home the first thing he saw was the wedding ban. of Jennifer on the kitchen counter, searched the house and discovered that certain items of her were missing, luggage and photographs were missing, although the police had no reason to suspect foul play, they agreed to investigate the case and began questioning McCrady's neighbors.

One believed he had seen Jennifer leave the house that morning. 10:00 a.m. m. He watched Jennifer's Blazer pull out of the driveway and Screech erratically down the street. The neighbor admitted that he never actually saw Jennifer's face, but he knew the Blazer was her car and had never seen anyone else drive it. Alright, thanks, a few days later the police received a call reporting that a vehicle matching Jennifer's Blazer had been located in a parking lot. Jack McCrady was dispatched to the scene and confirmed that it was, in fact, his wife's car. Investigators searched the vehicle.

Inside they found no obvious signs of a struggle or any indication of foul play. Still, the vehicle was seized for further analysis. Technicians at the main scene searched the vehicle using luminol, a chemical that can detect invisible traces of blood and other biological evidence, but after hours of processing the examination revealed nothing to suggest a crime had been committed as an adult. . Jennifer McCrady had a right to be missing and having found no evidence that she had met with Foul Play, the police had no choice but to abandon the search for the The young mother of two detectives in bpre Ohio had found nothing to suggest that the missing wife of state police officer Jack McCrady would have met with Foul Play.

Yes, all signs suggested that the 30-year-old mother of two had simply packed up and left town in the vehicle they were now there, but then the missing woman's friends contacted police, worried that something bad was happening to her. would have succeeded Jennifer McCrady. Jennifer said she was dedicated to her children. They were her life. No one who knew her could believe that she would simply abandon her children. and no one believed she was having an affair like Jack McCrady suggested, but Jennifer had been talking about divorcing her possessive and jealous husband, she thought something, then a witness came forward with information who said that at the time of Jennifer's disappearance she saw a police vehicle entering.

In a remote area a few miles from town, the officer fit Jack McCrady's description perfectly. Could you say yes? The woman had provided unreliable information in the past and at first Detective Dave Garvey did not believe this would happen. different, but when no additional clues emerged, the detectives decided to drive to the secluded spot where the woman had seen the patrol car there, they found something that looked out of place, what we can do is that it was a mound of dirt that they removed with a He shoveled a few inches of dirt and hit a vinyl cloth that was followed by the unmistakable smell of death.

I can understand that crime scene technicians were quickly dispatched to the scene while the excavation continued.The team unearthed a duvet and a sleeping bag and wrapped inside they were decomposed. Her head is still covered with a white plastic trash bag when they removed the bag one of the officers identified the woman as Jennifer McCrady what we want to do now is that she was wearing pajamas which contradicted her husband's claim that the last time who saw her was dressed and going to work as a matter of routine soil samples were collected from the makeshift grave technicians collected the bedding and sleeping bag for further analysis the victim was transported to the medical examiner's office For the autopsy the medical examiner determined that Jennifer McCrady had died as a result of a gunshot wound to the head, the Fatal .357 Magnum bullet was collected and sent to the crime laboratory.

Belpre investigators now had a homicide on their hands. Inconsistent information, in addition to witness testimony, pointed to State Police Trooper Jack McCrady as the prime suspect. I have bad news for you, Jack, the detectives agreed to speak with him at the barracks where he was stationed. Understand that when they broke the news about Jennifer's death, he was visibly shaken. To question him, MCR asked for a lawyer and ended the interview shortly after Jack McCrady was placed on leave. Investors hoped the forensic evidence could tell them more. All items collected from the crime scene were sent to the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Apprehension laboratory for analysis.

While processing the criminal evidence, Michelle Yezo discovered dozens of synthetic fibers. She also located strands of fiberglass attached to the inside of the sleeping bag. Finding the fiberglass insulation inside that sleeping bag was very unusual in my opinion because it would be very itchy. and because of that, um, that's not something you'd want to have in that kind of context, the police got a warrant to search the McCrady home. I'll let you check it out. Take a look in the bedroom, they found matching bedding. Several fibers were also collected from the comforter in which the victim had been buried to compare it with those recovered from the crime scene in the kitchen, police located a .357 Magnum revolver, the same type of weapon used to kill Jennifer McCrady, while The search continued, researchers recently found and collected. installed fiberglass insulation in the couple's garage, the material looked identical to the insulation found in the sleeping bag, then they noticed another potential clue.

A couple of photographs. There were numerous shovels and some were covered in dirt, although McCr explained that he had recently worked on his. The yard police now confiscated the tools. Forensic examiners began analyzing all the evidence. Michelle Yzo discovered that carpet fibers collected from the McCrady home shared the same microscopic characteristics as those recovered from the bedding in which the victim had been buried. All evidence suggested that the victim was murdered there. own house, but none of that told them who had carried out the murder and their best chance of linking Jack McCrady to the murder turned out to be a dead end.

The barrel of the gun had been perforated making ballistic comparisons almost impossible. The police had underestimated Jack McCrady. I don't see anything there that says the suspect had been smart enough to tamper with the only evidence that could directly link him to the murder or so he believed police contacted Richard Bisbing, a forensic microscopist at the private firm of Macron Associates asked him to compare soil samples that were collected from the grave site with Jack CD's shovel and from the suspect's yard we analyzed soil samples making a careful side by side comparison, all the details we can find in the soil itself, the soil differs. by color and by the presence of plant material it is differentiated by its mineral content it is differentiated by its texture of the particle sizes in the soil grains themselves all these characteristics are compared bis began his analysis by comparing the soil taken from the mccr shovel with the samples taken from his garden, but the texture, size, color and mineral composition of the two samples did not match, but when he compared the soil from the grave with the soil taken from the shovel, he found one consistency after another, we were able to conclude that the soil on the shovel was similar to the grave and could have originated from the grave and we were able to show that the location of the grave was different in its soil classification, even from the place where the defendant lived and the soil was different from that of the most places in the county shortly after, Ohio State Police Officer Jack McCrady was arrested and charged with the murder of his wife Jennifer 233 Wish2, although police are not sure what drove him to murder, evidence suggests that on the night of September 18, Jack McCrady.

He shot Jennifer once in the head to cover up her actions. He buried her in a remote place. He returned home and altered the barrel of his gun despite his best efforts. Jack McCrady was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. Killers will do everything they can to distance themselves from the crime, but no crime is perfect, and sometimes investigators must rely on just a few molecules to piece together the elements of the murder. A St. Louis teacher collapses in front of her class. Her organs are shutting down. and her students panic.

Frantic doctors scramble to discover the source of her mysterious condition, but science makes a shocking revelation. What was once thought to be a disease is now believed to be a crime in Columbus Ohio. A woman is found shot in the head. Death is ruled. A suicide but something is wrong and detectives refuse to let the matter rest to find answers Investigators must unravel a pattern that unravels the mystery that leads to the murder The meticulous work of forensic experts can often find even the smallest traces left by a killer and put an end to their murderous attraction in this

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some of the names have been changed September 26, 1993, okay, remembering St Louis Missouri Donna Bley, a seventh grade math teacher and mother of two teenage sons, was in the middle of his lesson and had not been feeling well. all summer but I thought it was just the flu okay and uh Kenneth let's move on to the number and she was hoping it would pass once the school year started which one are you going to do first but it didn't it got worse wait one?

She collapsed in front of her class, are you okay? What should I do? The alarmed students called the principal. Paramedics arrived to find Donna struggling to breathe. They had no idea what was wrong with 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, she was now paralyzed with no feeling in her. his arms and legs. She immediately went on a ventilator to help her breathe.

Intensive care specialist Dr. Gregory Becker, we had no idea what was wrong with her. She had non-specific symptoms. She developed numbness in her lower extremities and confusion. She was having a seizure her oxygen levels were dropping and she seemed to be having difficulty breathing we were uh uh really baffled by what was happening Jim Bley's husband Donna rushed to see his wife the doctors who treated him assured him that they were doing everything possible but the prognosis was not Well, Donna was in critical condition. Jim told the doctors that 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. Okay, let's do it again. Turn up the volume. It is good here. let's go and clear 1 two, she had a variety of symptoms that we couldn't classify and with a single diagnosis, the doctors stabilized Donna and took her to the ICU, but they still had no idea what was causing Donna's symptoms when we got to a situation like Here, a patient becomes increasingly sicker right in front of us while we perform a variety of tests, but the test results showed nothing. I'm going to have to go next door.

Jim stayed next to his wife. Promise me you will. drink it all, it's okay, 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 ran was a heavy metal urinary. screen when she came back um 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 she has RA why the levels were so high and how did it get into her system She did anything.

Tye was concerned that others had been exposed to arsenic. Doctors immediately informed Donna's family and also called the police. Jim Boy told doctors that he had no idea how this could have happened and that he wanted a full police investigation. Some officers poisoned her. She arrived at the hospital and interviewed doctors, nurses and everyone who took care of Donna, but no one had seen anything like this before. St. Louis County Police Detective Tony Grimmel was the lead investigator on the case. I found out that at the hospital Donna's arsenic level was right at the lethal dose uh and that she was hesitant and possibly she could die since 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 are also found in the environment and well water. Detective Grimmel had hoped to speak with Donna, but that would be impossible at this time. Not only was she in critical condition, but she was paralyzed from the neck down and could not speak. Unable to contact Donna, the detectives would have to find answers from her. Otherwise, they might call me. They actually asked the hospital staff to contact them if they found any new information. color, okay, Detective Grimmel's next step was to determine if he was dealing with accidental exposure or something criminal.

This is the first type of arsenic case I have been involved in. The question we didn't have answers to is how? she got an internal system what type of arsenic was uh where did it come 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 long the symptoms of arsenic are As common and typical as the flu or possibly food poisoning, 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 arsenic or metal poisoning. heavy, but arsenic poisoning is much worse than any flu it attacks the body's red blood cells and devours them until the body completely shuts down it is to help everyone have arsenic in their system, but at normally low levels that offer no symptom or problem except the levels in Donna's system. suggested something else because of the high levels it appeared to have been administered, whether self-administered or administered by another person, although environmental factors such as tampering with the water supply were not ruled out, the researchers had to look at all possibilities, including attempting of suicide or murder.

Detectives visited the purchased home in hopes of developing leads. Investigators interviewed Donna's husband and her teenage children. Jim Byy said Donna had no history of depression. She never talked about taking her own life and never attempted suicide, but the family mentioned that Donna had problems with several students. They were mad at her about the grades, Jim also said that Donna had problems with a teacher who used to work with her and Donna was an easy target for her, he had a hard time, kind of like he felt that way, since she kept a cup of water on your desk at all times. that anyone at school could have administered the poison by dropping it into his glass or mug on his desk, while at home researchers took a sample of the family's tap water and sent it to the lab for analysis, according to what the boy said.

They collected jars, jars 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 anything from the house that could make the children sick if present. There was arsenic in it and also to include or exclude any of these elements as used in the poisoning ofDonna in the bathroom. Police found hypodermic needles in her bathroom. Jim told investigators that the hypodermic needles were used by one of the children to take medication. I'm going to go ahead and grab them, they took them along with the other items to be tested, okay, I appreciate it, thank you.

Detective Grimmel went to the school to follow up on the family's past suspicions. The director said that although Donna was often sick, he was in good spirits. and was not depressed Sports Records also told the detective that the problems with the former coworker and the angry students were not serious and none of them had been at school in months there is nothing negative about any of these children now. believes that if Donna was poisoned it did not happen at school at the St Louis County Police Department's identification office the household items were tested for arsenic the syringes found in the Bly home were quickly discarded as the husband said which were used for prescription medication for one of the children and all other tests came back negative none of the household items contained the deadly poison the water was also clean detective grimmel was at a dead end and there were no clues in sight No He believed that in a family of four one person may have accidentally ingested a lethal amount of arsenic at home and the others have no signs of arsenic in their system, so what he was seeing was self-inflicted, a suicide attempt or it was used as a weapon in an attempt to kill her. and the only person who could shed light on the investigation was the only person who wasn't talking.

St. Louis schoolteacher Donna Boy collapsed in her classroom and lay in intensive care. High levels of arsenic were found in her system. Detectives believe Donna was trying to commit suicide or someone else was trying to kill her after following leads at both her school and her home, 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 and stressed. At work they decided to investigate the Bly 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 $200,000 to $600,000 and there was something else that the accounts showed the family carried. $20,000 in credit card debt when her husband's case was heating up and then Detective Grimmel got a call, it was Donna's nurse and she was calling from the hospital, he said that despite intensive treatment to free Donna's body of the poison, she was getting worse and he said he noticed a pattern that always after each of Jim B's visits his wife suffered a relapse despite Donna's serious condition Detective Tony Grimmel had to find a way to contact her. she Hi, she was paralyzed from the neck down and couldn't speak.

Basically, all she could do was shake her head, yes and no, and she made eye contact. UM, she couldn't write because of her paralysis, uh, and what I need, she looked pretty bad if you could be there in the waiting room with the detective. He needed to talk to Donna alone, although Donna couldn't talk, he could communicate and made arrangements to contact her at the hospital. The hospital had been using an alphabet board to communicate with Donna. She could shake her head yes and no. uh, so she could answer questions that required yes and no, but if there was something more specific she had to spell it 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 tried to commit 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 her house. She indicated no. She did get it from friends. She indicated. No, Detective Grimmel didn't want to tire Donna out, even though he still didn't get the answers she needed, she would have to come back when I started to leave. She began to shake her head.

No. I started crying, uh, I was worried because she was, I don't want to say frantic, but she was upset, clearly upset, uh, she was scared, maybe she was in pain and she had some problems. I called a nurse to consult with her, she said yes. She didn't want me to leave, that she wasn't in pain, that there was something else she needed to know and the first thing she explained to me was that she was afraid that Jim, her husband, was involved. M Jim is that your husband, Jim, okay? I feel like he's involved in this nodding slowly and painfully to each question and letter of the alphabet Donna remembered a curious incident 2 months before I'm okay, have a nice day, it happened on a busy morning as the family was rushing to breakfast and Donna was getting ready for her class Jim Bley always cooked, it was his idea to take some of the burden off his wife.

He 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 Byy 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 to be sent to the lab to establish a poisoning timeline and there was one more thing: Jim's visits.

I called the hospital to tell them that Mr. Boy 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 at the hospital. After my interview, I went out to the waiting room and the first thing he asked me was what did he tell you? I told her that she told me several different things. things and that he and I were going to have to talk again and that we were going to have to talk at the police department, you and I, until more evidence came to light when Donna's relatives discovered a gym bag

hidden

in Donna's house.

Bly and took her to the police. I know the detectives were baffled by what they found inside a bunch of other women's things in this bag and I know that's not hers and then there are these escort service ads, local escort service ads, love notes , maybe pulling out some of these notes where you find them. The contents also included photos of naked women and sexual paraphernalia and the bag was outside. We obtained cell phone records and found out 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 tested, the hair grows approx. one inch per month and because arsenic sticks to the follicles and stays there, scientists can get an accurate timeline of your hair poisoning and provided answers to questions about when, how much and for how long. Donna was ingesting arsenic. The chief toxicologist, Dr. Christopher, had 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 that the computer can determine the difference in light. absorption print a concentration and everything is done on the computer the results came from his hair we clearly showed that on the other end there was no arsenic that was somewhere five or 6 months earlier from that moment the arsenic levels in his hair increased and increased dramatically each month up to and including the time of her admission to the hospital, this would show that she had been exposed over a period of time and that the dose was being increased during that time.

The toxicologist reported her findings to the investigators. It was really an opportunity to put the 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. Police ask Jim Bly to come answer questions right here. Jim, this room here, Jim byy seemed to be the perfect husband, he worked as a high school counselor, coached baseball, and was a scout leader. I told him that she was pointing the finger at him, that he was now the prime suspect, and I let him know. her rights he was more than willing to cooperate and tried to explain the pink milk uh and her feeling that he was a suspect she has poison in her system the thug claimed that his wife's illness had caused him confused hallucinations we have a wonderful The detectives Insurance officers asked him about Donna's $600,000 insurance policy, her financial difficulties, and her extramarital affairs.

Someone to talk to for hours. Jim Byy seemed to have an answer for everything he tried, but he explained it to them and he was good at explaining things. His background was in Psychology, he seemed to be in control, so the detectives took a new approach. Have you noticed throughout all of this that every time he speaks he is in control and larger than life, but when we talk he shrinks back in his chair? Have you noticed that yes, he seems? Really confident and comfortable when he speaks and very uncomfortable when you speak well. I think what we should do is go back there and just hit and get on the podium and not let him talk at all.

Just give it. him all you have this time would be verbally aggressive and not 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 got Len laying out the case against him. Investigators didn't let Bly respond for an hour and a half. At the end of that whole hour and a half, when he spoke for the first time, he asked me how much time he had. "You think I'm going to get it," which in itself was a tacit admission, but not a confession.

After more than 8 hours of interrogation, investigators still couldn't get Bly to confess to poisoning his wife with nothing solid to stop him. Detective Grimel went to the district. St. Louis attorney, Prosecutor Bob Maka, had to make the decision. In reality, we had very little evidence. It was one of those where you knew the guy did it, but whether or not we were going to be able to prove it at that point was kind of up in the air, but the detectives didn't give up and continued to pressure byy for a confession. , but Jim byy was still not broken 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 420 times, a lethal dose of arsenic was discovered in her system.

I don't know what I like to do and the police thought they knew who was responsible. Donna's husband, Jim, is that the letter? Detectives were building a strong case against Jim B. They discovered that he was sponsoring sexual services and purchased a $100,000 life insurance policy on his wife. They want to sit there. The detectives brought Jim in for questioning in hopes of breaking him down, but he had been hindering them for hours. Yes, I'm going to talk about Donna. and we 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.

You have to do the right thing and you and I know what that is. Look at yourself, look at this. place you are now at the same time B 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. He just wanted to make her a little sick. She was very stressed, it's been a long summer and I thought, but he didn't admit that he was trying to kill her, yeah, so Lieutenant Barner from the police department presented Reel asking for a warrant.

Can I speak to him, please, St. Louis Detective Tony Grimmel? He was looking for the arrest warrant. Tony B is here confessing to Bara right now. He used that, because of his partner's name, he and his wife hadn't had much quality time together. He wanted to make her sick so she would stay home and not go to work. He could spend her sick time and stay home with her, take care of her and have a good time with her. Jim Boy was arrested, he told investigators where he had

hidden

the box of rat poison in the house he took the police to. the garden store where he bought the poison.

I'm glad you have come. He even pointed out which brand he bought. This is the product you purchased. Yes, for months. Bley had carefully prepared arsenic potions to give to his unsuspecting wife. He told police he dissolved the poison. water before adding it to Donna's food or drink at bedtime Investigators asked police chemists to verify B's story In the laboratory they found that the poison gave the water a pinkish tint when the mixture was added to the milk it didn't color the milk, but it did leave a little pink residue, look at it for years, the boy Jim had been living a

double

life with expensive adulterous affairs, I don't know, I don't know, the police say that when the boy carefully planned to get rid of Donna andHe raises enough money to continue his other life, your medicine, but it didn't work.

Medical and forensic science was able to prevent him from killing Donna. Okay, you want me to help you. St. Louis Prosecutor Bob Maka, in a strong case, be careful what charges we bring. assault in the first degree is the most serious charge, there is less than death, it carries a penalty of 10 to 30 years or life in prison. In addition, we filed a charge of armed criminal action because he used poison to commit his crime and that gave the possibility of another life sentence Jim Bly was found guilty of trying to kill his wife by poisoning her he was sentenced to life in prison St Louis medical staff and detectives intervened and saved a woman's life, but tragically in Ohio the intervention also came late Columbus Ohio was Located in the center of America's heartland in early 1994, the city's police found themselves at the center of a brutal and mysterious case at 2:51 a.m. m.

The police received a frantic 911 call, are you with her? now the caller identified himself as Richard A. said that his wife had just committed suicide the operator asked him to stay calm and wait for emergencies Personnel who were on the way Sergeant 18 180 181 in a 47 look it's going to be a 43 possible 47 officers from the Columbus Police Department arrived at the address no one was there to greet them, they called but there was no response police police hello police officers tentatively entered the residence they found empty hallways it is clear the kitchen is clear it seemed as if the house was empty in the master bedroom robert a was at the foot of the bed show me your hand he looked dazed, confused and unable to move in the bed a woman lying on her back with a gunshot wound to the left side of her head she is my wife a steel revolver blue .38 caliber rested on his blood-stained chest hey The responding police officers asked Robert: Are you okay?

Mister. He told them that he went into his room and found his wife. He had no idea what happened. How much did you drink tonight? Officers noted that he appeared to have been drinking. How much did he drink? I don't know. Medics were called to the scene without touching the body and examined the woman at 3:03 a.m. m. Janet was dead. Doctors pronounced her dead at 3:03 a.m. m. Within minutes the homicide detectives arrived at the house and must investigate anything related to weapons. The officers on the scene informed the death11 detectives. Detective Eric Pila 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 run. He moved down his body along his appendages and pulled on several areas. The detective interviewed Janet's husband, Robert, Detective K, still appeared to be in shock and was 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, impassive, just a little dazed when he pulled himself together, he told investigators that same night, he and his wife looked at something television after dinner and fell asleep.

She was leaving on a business trip to Cincinnati early the next morning. What to do while I'm Robert told investigators Janet was nervous about her trip I'll miss you but I'll be fine She was deathly afraid of speaking in public I have to go to bed I have to get some rest It's okay, she wanted to go away for a good night's sleep. sleepy so she kissed him goodnight and went up to bed and said he stayed up a little later and watched a kickboxing movie on TV so he fell asleep on this couch. Here she explained that he had fallen asleep on the couch.

He had woken up, decided to go to bed, went upstairs, turned on the light in the bedroom and found his wife lying there with a gunshot wound to her head. He said he then went and checked her pulse and was shocked when he discovered that his wife had he 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 Pila knew this one would be no different in Columbus, Ohio Robert woke up with a nightmare after falling asleep on a couch while watching TV, got up and went upstairs.

There he found his wife Janet shot in the head at Point Blank Range and had a blood stain on her. The chest and a revolver were next to her hand. What have they done? he told the detectives. Janet was nervous about a business trip she was taking the next day. He feared that might have caused her to take her own life. Didn't what he said she happen? a gun in the house for self protection I woke up normally I kept it under the couch where she had been sleeping but she wasn't there do you remember what she was? he said Janet must have taken it before or while she was sleeping watching a The game detective Eric Pila asked Robert what he remembered here.

I asked him, you know, you touched the body at first. He said no, then he said okay. I checked his pulse and explained that he had been a doctor and that I had asked him in Vietnam. He specifically, um, how he did that and said he had touched her neck to check. To obtain a pulse, crime scene investigators photographed the scene and documented the position of Janet's body, her arms, and the passage of blood. over his upper chest, his hair was rearranged to better see the blood pattern, the gun was collected along with other evidence when searching the room.

Detectives also noted that a flashlight on Jennet's dresser was taken to the coroner's office for examination. Officers checked for signs of forced entry and found none at the Franklin County Coroner's Office. The medical examiner took a sample from the victim's hands and examined the rest of her body. They took blood samples for a toxicology test, X-rayed Janet's head to determine the angle at which she was shot and the trajectory of the bullet, all physical evidence supported a self-inflicted injury, and the autopsy report classified the Janet A's death was ruled a suicide, but to seasoned homicide investigators, something still didn't seem right.

Robert A's story didn't add up. He made a mental note when he told me that he had turned on the light. That's not a normal thing. That seemed abnormal to me. that someone would turn over their wife sleeping in bed and they would go turn on the light and wake them up while they were going to bed, that seemed funny to me at the time, the beautiful piure researchers decided that they needed to know more about the mental state Janet's, it's okay, it would be fine, they talked to her parents to see if Janet was suffering from depression or was upset about something.

Janet's parents said she was fine; in fact, they had been looking forward to her business trip. The parents' comments did not appear to support the coroner's findings. According to homicide detective Carl Ranken, it seemed that Janet was not a very good candidate for suicide and that she, in fact, had things to look forward to even the next day. He was always very jealous. The detective asked about Janet's relationship with her husband. Robert insisted on going to Cincinnati as well and the fact that Janet didn't want to talk 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 dating another woman for several months she had it all just 3 weeks before his death Janet said she planned to divorce him he had a dog she loved had this strengthened investigators' suspicions of Janet A may not have taken her own life, but they needed proof, so they returned to the crime scene and started from scratch.

They re-examined the photographs and noticed that Janet's head injury was on the left side when they interviewed the friends and family they discovered. that Janet was right-handed, statistically fine, the gun was also placed very awkwardly in her hand according to Detective Ranken, the butt of the gun was facing away from her hand, the barrel was actually pointing up, this would be a Tough shot for a skilled person at the crime lab the toxicology results came back on Janet's blood, 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 One problem, in the toxicologist's opinion, was that Janet, after taking so many drugs, would not have been able to form a thought pattern if she had been in bed taking the drugs, went downstairs and pulled a gun out from under the sofa where Robert was. sleeping he went upstairs went back to bed and shot himself despite problems in the marriage and a minor domestic incident the detectives had little else to talk to you here but that changed the police had a break when a call came in from a woman who said she was The last person who spoke to Janet on the night the woman died was a close friend of Janet's, but she had not shown up because she was afraid of Robert's violent temper again.

She told the police that the night Janet died she had come to borrow a nice dress that Janet was excited about and looking forward to her trip to Cincinnati. I'm glad I have time away from her husband because I borrowed, OMG, some guy from UPS the night Janet died, she called and spoke to her friend at 11:30 p.m. She was whispering and said that Robert was angry and arguing for me to back off, yes he wanted to go on the trip to Cincinnati with her, but Janet had refused. What was the situation there? The friend told investigators that Janet then abruptly said Robert was coming in. her room and she had to leave, she was very quick and she hung up the phone with me.

Janet hung up quickly with a very violent temper. It was the last time anyone heard from her. The pieces weren't exactly fitting together. The detectives were now ready to confront Robert. You know, we. We've been wondering if they told him they needed the truth and set up a polygraph test and asked him to take it. Why would he be right on the dresser? I don't know. I want to speak 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 Blood murder detectives needed hard evidence and that evidence was right in front of them in the crime scene photographs in At that time, it was determined that if we were going to have substantial evidence of blood spatter, evidence contained in the photographs, that we were going to have to consider leaving the apartment and hiring someone to take a look at these photographs.

History I don't remember. The detectives' 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. As you know, it came out completely, she was right-handed, but the gun was found near her left hand, yes, I made the call, but you know, her husband, Robert, was the only other person in the house, friends and family They said that The couple's marriage was rocky weeks before his death, she said she intended to divorce him.

The detectives were sure that it was a murder and that Robert 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. I took the crime scene photographs to Corning, New York, where Professor Herbert Mcdonal is director of the forensic science laboratory. They just objectively wanted me to look at the photographs and see if I could form an opinion based primarily on the bloodstain patterns that were present in the pictures to Dr. McDonald, something about the pictures didn't make sense, you can't have a gun after that you shot yourself in the head, falling on your chest and then somehow reaching underneath and getting blood all over it, that's just the sequence. it's wrong the obvious is that it was a homicide and not a suicide not being in this position was the information the detectives had been waiting for and the proof they needed the detectives presented their new findings to the medical examiner the cause of Janet A's death was changed from suicide to undetermined Detective Carl Rankin presented the evidence.

It's very unusual for a detective to come back and um ask that something be changed on the death certificate, especially something as important as from a suicide to at least undetermined, the path was cleared. To charge Robert A for Janet's murder, Janett detectives discussed their evidence with Franklin County Prosecutor Jeff Allen. Once we had Professor McDonald's report, he was convinced we had a case we could bring to trial. a jury, so that was probably the main factor in my determination that we had a case where we could prosecute the elbow, I thinkwe could clearly show, based on Herb McDonald, the toxicologist, the members' friends and family that they had had recent contact with Janet and yet the defendant was the only other person in the house. was the person who shot Jan today she didn't do it herself an arrest warrant was issued for Robert A for the murder of his wife he was taken into custody without incident I think they had been arguing I think Robert was 100% wanted to go to Cincinatti and he was demanding it I'm working no you're not I'm just going to go to bed the couple argued see Janet went to bed all night yes she took sleeping pills to get a good night's sleep.

I think Robert was lying on the couch drunk, getting more and more stunned and angrier as time went on and I think Robert reached under the couch and pulled out the gun that he knew was there in the first interview, he says I turned around. the light was on, 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 and what he was about to do, and I think he took that gun and I think he turned up the stairs after killing Janet and put the flashlight on the dresser.

Robert repositioned Janet's body. She had blood on her hand, so he wiped it on the top of her chest. He planted the gun to make it look like a suicide, but under the gun. his blood had already dried without the blood pattern analysis done by herb mcdonal without the toxicology um without having as good a crime scene uh set of photographs as we had there would have been no reopening of this case there would have been no trial and there would have been no there has been 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 go to great lengths to create scenarios that shift blame leaving behind few traces of their blame, but No matter how small or well-hidden forensic investigators live to expose these telltale traces and avenge the victims of murderous attraction.