helble s home around the time of his murder. based on the position of the body, prosecutors believe rich killed helble after he fell asleep in the living room watching tv. the motive was apparently money. rich wanted to sell helble s gun collection for either cash or drugs. the shooting may have agitated helble s dog. [ dog barking ] to stop the barking, rich put keisha in helble s van, then drove her several miles away before letting her out in a strange neighborhood. little did he realize that keisha s hair would be found in the stolen box of ammunition and that canine dna testing would prove it came from helble s beloved dog. andy hated that dog. andy could not stand keisha.
he abused me a lot. there was a lot of abuse. not just physical. there was a lot of verbal abuse. police looked into sharon s background to see if she had ever been involved in illegal activity, and they found something. sharon schneider was purchasing guns in a different location. she would give those guns to andy rich. some of those guns went to john helble. we had a violation of the federal statue. the federal firearms and narcotics statute was the wedge that we used to split andy rich and sharon schneider. sharon schneider told a different story about that visit with john helble. sharon said she dropped andy off at helble s home about three days before the murder, then left to visit her daughter about an hour s drive away. a few days later, andy arrived,
helble was not what investigators had hoped for. the results showed us that the bullets that we had recovered from john were not the same bullets that was removed from andy rich s house in greybull, wyoming. investigators found smudge marks on the inside windows of rich s jeep, similar to those caused by animals when pressing their noses against the glass. was it possible that rich used his car to transport helble s dog across town after the murder? police took keisha s noseprint in the same way they collect human fingerprints. each dog s noseprint is as unique as a fingerprint. unfortunately, we weren t able to get the type of smudges or prints actually from the vehicle that would enable us to
licht, a forensic document examiner. he compared the note to known samples of helble s handwriting. the question material was written with somewhat heavy pressure. in the known writings, that was written with the same pressure. it was hand printed. and his known writings relied heavily on printing and not cursive. he looked for unique features in individual letters in john s known writings, features he then tried to locate in the questioned document. based on his comparisons, licht was able to draw a definitive conclusion. i was able to identify the writer of the question material as john helble. proof that it was helble s gun, and no other, that andy took with him to texas. based on the handwriting
we learned from a good friend who saw andrew rich and john helble together on january 18th of 1999 that, in fact, andrew rich had been at the trailer house of john helble. but andy said john was alive and well when he and sharon left to return home. police searched the couple s apartment and found marijuana, methamphetamine, and several .22-caliber bullets, the same caliber used to kill helble. these bullets, along with the slugs from helble s body, were sent to the fbi lab for a neutron activation test. that s where the lead is shaved off of the bullet, it s melted down, and atoms are counted. counted, then compared. but the atomic composition of the bullets recovered from john