nothing going on, it was all an act. the police meanwhile were chasing down bank robbers, insurance policies looking for leads on the speeding car. the man in the greek fisherman s cap, the so-called bearded lady and whether this could have been a botched robbery after all. they were also getting a crash course on the value of vintage comics. unhappily for them the case detectives hadn t found the gun, and hope for forensics like a bloody print just weren t there. the investigators were getting calls on the qt about michael george maybe having across front. when did you learn about his shop assistant name rene? that was two days later. we start receiving phone calls from people advising this that we might want to look at his relationship with his employ name rene. a little cozy, check it out? yes. it was barb george who met and befriended renee, renee at their children s school, and brought her to work at the
google fashion shoe leather cops, to make the calls not on doors, so he recruited jimmy hall and leni rico, the three of them went into the old boxes, re-reading yellowing police reports. but there s a reason the crimes go into the cold case files, a lack of evidence. the three wondered, if they had one of those here. they seem to normal, and finally when we can see the conclusion that it s doable, we need to notify the family, that s why we finally contacted them. the cold case detectives were painfully aware of giving barb george s family falls of active 17 years. but in early 2007, the detectives laid out what they found, warts and all to barbara s brother joe and other family members. and we were honest with them, we don t know how successful we re gonna be here. still, after that meeting with the detectives, barb s family and friends allowed
comic book store. renee had five children and needed the money, her floundering marriage had ended in divorce just three weeks before barbs murder. not long after they married barbara, mary shamo remembers dropping it unexpectedly a comic book shop along with her boyfriend joe and they got a shock. they sought michael and renee, the shop assistant, canoodling. they didn t see us pull up, they were close and they were giggling in their arms crossed over to each other and when you lose somebody in your life you kind of look around at the world and say what is going on? what does the world keep moving when i just lost somebody so important? and here this man is just he s happy as a clamp. you wouldn t think he had any care in the world where he was carrying out with her. michael and renee would set up a new home together with the help of 130,000 lights insurance payout on barb that he had received as beneficiary. is he becoming what cops call a person of interest? yes, at that poi
cops had to be wrong. he knew he d been ripped off. i knew stuff was gone. okay, what was taken, maybe the cops are missing something. very old books. okay. what kind of books were they? they were golden age books. the whole case was gone, the whole box was gone. he couldn t remember exactly how many comics were taken or the amount. and he never offered up that robbery motive, until we brought it up. although he was sketchy mostly tales, he had no trouble coming up with a totally new answer, when the cops asked him to speculate on why barbara, of all people, had been murdered? listen, as his theory switches from robbery to prevent. i think barb was at the wrong place at the wrong time. i think somebody wanted to get back at me. i don t know who it was, but i should have been there so they could get back at me. and so she could raise these two girls instead of me. so this was a vendetta and what, barbara took the bullet that was meant for him? exactly, and that was s