all they have is somebody who s admitted stealing a car from a young woman that he left in town. there is no body. there s no evidence of foul play. it was also suspicious that this wasn t the only missing persons case melanson was involved in. there is another case where a woman in port arthur, texas, who was his landlady, disappeared and ironically the only thing that was found was her car and he was the last person seen with her. michelle s disappearance sent her mother into a serious depression. she became more and more despondent. she couldn t live without her daughter. she lived through her daughter. one morning, george would be to discover his wife was dead. i never felt anybody cold before. you just can t believe someone that you lived with for 34 years would do it.
where the others were working to answer the call of nature. and on her way back up had discovered what appeared to her to be a skull. she yelled out, i found it! we didn t believe her at first. even though we know she isn t much of a practical joker, we didn t believe her at first. the skull contained an unmistakable feature michelle s father told police about almost 20 years earlier. michelle had a gold tooth and the sunlight was just right and it reflected, and that s how they discovered her. she had never been buried. and, as a matter of fact, we could determine that her body probably had just been tossed off the side of the road and had rolled up against a tree, and from there gravity and
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the tapes with information that i simply saw with my own eyes looking at the dead body on the morning that i did the autopsy. as far as i am concerned, her death is intentional homicide. for almost 20 years a young woman was believed to be missing in the dense colorado mountains. but 12 small pine needles and a clump of hair suggested that investigators narrow their search to an area 9,000 feet above sea level. this is how forensic plant ecology helped solve a very cold case. after graduating from college, 25-year-old michelle wallace decided to pursue her love of photography. she was known primarily for her photos of people.
inside. there were certainly the inferences that were drawn from the fact that he was buying clothing in downtown gunnison, driving michelle wallace s vehicle at that time, which told us he knew she was dead and he knew she was not around to make a report of a stolen vehicle. he was brazen about that particular fact. by this time, roy melanson was serving time in a kentucky prison for burglary, but was extradited to colorado to face trial for murder. melanson pleaded not guilty and even refused to attend the trial. instead, he listened to the proceedings from his prison cell. we are not required to prove motive. the issue got raised, however, during the course of the trial in closing argument. because the defense said, where s the motive? after the defense raised that issue, i asked the jury to look at the zipper that was recovered from the levis, because it was