The Lewiston Evening Journal said at the time the meeting between James Lowell and his former mother-in-law “was evidently not a pleasant one for the prisoner. He was a good deal agitated when the silk dress was carried in with them, was shown to him for the first time.”
Arriving at the jail, the city marshal told James M. Lowell he’d get the best accommodations possible and brought him to the northwestern corner cell, where the local newspaper editor noticed that the bones collected on Switzerland Road thought to be the remains of Lowell’s wife were still bound up in a mat in the corner, some of them protruding into the air.
it wasn t him. investigators also interviewed kirkland, karen s ex husband and caresses father. he too had an airtight alibi. he d been in atlanta at the time of the murders. did you go a lot of places? together next on detectives list was karen s former boyfriend, michael lacey. he refused to take a lighted tech to test so police interviewed him three separate times. did you all have keys to each other s? house definitely. not you could just walk over and walk in? we would. call he is someone that we had to rule out completely and we did. that so if you re thinking in your line of work, the usual suspects, the usual suspects were not going to figure in this one. not the media. family defective is nelson ensured or realize they had on their hands, while homicide cops, he obtrusively. the first 48 hours of a case, usually you get a break. and there s something that says chase this, right? yes. normally you would get something within the first 48. hours so this is
with the plague of recent home invasion robberies? if so, why was nothing stolen from the house? her vehicle was still in the driveway, nothing appeared disturbed. investigators did not find any useful forensic evidence. just sixpence shell casings from the bullets that had carried karen and clarissa. fired from a glut 17 handgun. we did find out that just two doors down, across the street, someone had seen a blue vehicle parked right on the right side of the road. in that, right now, at this point that is all i have. so detective nelson set out to find more about his victims. karen loft in turned out to be a devoted mother and nurse with no apparent enemies. she was divorced from caresses father kirkland, who now lived in atlanta the daughter, charisma was in private school had good grades and was still a very attached to her father. chris it was a special girl for me, because at a young age she had open heart surgery, and she bounced right back from.
shot. i m bleeding to death. where are you? it was a desperate plea for help from a dying girl. on the phone 16-year-old student, clarissa law often. sweetie slowdown. what s the. address police rushed to the scene, but it was too late. they found caressing and her mom karen in their bedroom, each killed execution style and shot straight to the head. crimes quickly become statistics. but this just stands, out doesn t it? it stands. out it makes the hair on the back of your head stand up also. veteran prince george is county have inside detective bernie nelson was in charge of the case. the first arriving officers told him they found the main door locks shot from the inside. the killer they thought, head likely enter the house through an unlocked side window. this bedroom on the second floor that s facing us, that is where caruso was found. detective nelson wondered, did the murders of anything to do