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the on/off switch, hoping to find dead skin cells. dna can get onto an object by just handling it. and by swabbing the item we can often obtain a dna profile. amazingly, there were enough skin cells to develop a dna profile. the skin cells in the crevices of the on/off switch were not ivan jones or darcy mcclain s. they were the skin cells of the murder victim, david crawford, proving it was his flashlight. investigators believe that jones planned to burglarize the empty house across the street from david crawford. to break in, jones stole the ax from darcy mcclain s home, but when he got to the house, a neighborhood dog started barking and woke david crawford. he got up and grabbed his flashlight to investigate. crawford saw jones, and that s when jones attacked.
they were the skin cells of the murder victim, david crawford, proving it was his flashlight. investigators believe that jones planned to burglarize the empty house across the street from david crawford. to break in, jones stole the ax from darcy mcclain s home, but when he got to the house, a neighborhood dog started barking and woke david crawford. he got up and grabbed his flashlight to investigate. crawford saw jones, and that s when jones attacked. crawford laid bleeding from his wounds yet was still alive. jones dropped the ax, went into crawford s home and stole his wallet. then he picked up the ax and crawford s flashlight and fled. david crawford s heart stopped beating at 5:34 a.m. jones disposed of the ax and crawford s wallet but for some reason kept the flashlight. to establish an alibi, jones made sure his sister and her boyfriend heard him taking a shower around 6:00 a.m.
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knew, he never left the house. next, police interviewed jones cousin, darcy mcclain, who found crawford s body along with jones. mcclain said he was asleep in his home around the time of the murder, but since he lived alone, there was no way to corroborate it. then darcy gave police two very useful pieces of information. first, he claimed that someone had stolen an ax from his home. second, he said that his cousin, ivan jones, behaved suspiciously on the morning of david crawford s murder. from darcy mcclain, we were led to believe that it was unusual for ivan jones to go to his house at 7:30 in the morning and ask for a lift to his