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he was also accused of molesting a young girl in 1984. with a warrant, police searched bramblett s home, which was nothing more than a room in a nearby motel. inside, they found numerous crime novels and textbooks. he had one book in his possession about forensic science and the techniques used by forensic science to do different things. police also found a detective magazine featuring an article about a murder committed with a pistol with no barrel. coincidentally, the gun found next to blaine hodges body had no barrel. bramblett owned a pickup truck, but it was white, not red, like the one seen leaving the hodges driveway. but in the back of bramblett s truck were several .22-caliber cartridge shells.
even though bramblett s jeans had been submerged in water, simpson discovered the stains were diesel fuel, the same accelerant used to start the hodges fire. the blacked-out entry on bramblett s time card presented another challenge. forensic documents examiner gordon menses used a video spectral comparator with various light sources in order to attempt to see underneath the black ink. slowly, the information came into view. i was able to come up with an original entry that was 5:08 m, which would have been 5:00 in the morning on monday, according to what i understand about the time clock. 5:08 in the morning was only 20 minutes after neighbors reported the fire at the hodges home. coincidentally, bramblett s work place was only a 20-minute drive
represents the strangulation. once again, this was information only the killer would know, since it hadn t been released to the public. the handwriting at the bottom of the page was consistent with bramblett s known handwriting samples. firearms expert van roberts compared the bullets from the murder victims to the gun found next to blaine hodges body. even though the gun had no barrel, it still had its firing pin. under a comparison microscope, you can see the unique marks made on the shells from the gun s firing pin. the firing pin marks from the gun at the crime scene matched the spent casings found in bramblett s truck and the casings found in the hodges home. the fbi conducted an elemental analysis on the bullet fragments
body. since teresa s stepbrother had problems with the law, police wondered whether the crime was some sort of payback. the reason that they got the idea from that is because one of the father s children from a separate marriage, who teresa was not raised with, he happened to be in prison, and he was an ex-dea informant. so that s where the drug relation came into play. and police had another lead. an elderly woman reported seeing a red pickup truck leaving the hodges driveway shortly before the fire. police interviewed all of the hodges relatives, as well as the man who spent more time at the hodges home than anyone else, blaine s best friend and former high school track coach, earl bramblett. everyone that the police came in contact with said, if you want to know what s going on in that house or what has gone on in that house, go find earl