he shot karla through the windshield. the bullet passed through her left hand as she tried to protect herself. then deparvine cut karla s seat belt to remove her body from the jeep. and in doing so, accidentally cut his hand. his blood dripped on to the steering wheel as he drove the jeep back to the pickup truck. before he abandoned the jeep, he planted henry sullivan s driver s license, which he may have stolen since sullivan lived in the same apartment building as he did. to cover his tracks, deparvine forged the bill of sale for the truck in the amount of $6,500, half of what the van dusens were asking for it. where he disposed of the murder weapon remains a mystery. he was on a work release when he killed karla and rick.
belt and removed her body from the jeep. investigators believe the killer then drove the jeep a half mile away and abandoned it. on the ground near the jeep, police found a florida driver s license. it belonged to someone named henry sullivan. we learned that mr. sullivan had a comparatively extensive criminal arrest record from narcotics to crimes against persons, battery and aggravated battery, probation violations. he had a reasonably extensive record. when police went to henry sullivan s apartment, they found a vintage red 1971 chevrolet cheyenne pickup truck parked outside his apartment. incredibly, the truck belonged to the murder victims, richard and karla van dusen. it had been completely restored. it was a classic truck. it was a definite eye catcher, and, in fact, what i would
describe as a one-of-a-kind pickup truck. when questioned, henry sullivan denied any involvement in the murders. with his driver s license found at the crime scene, it looked like an open and shut case. but it was just the beginning.
another theory for how it got there. henry sullivan had a brother who was stopped for a traffic violation on the night of the murders. he told police that night that his name was henry. we have another person using henry sullivan s name and date of birth. could he be the killer and the one that has dropped the driver s license at the scene where the vehicle was found? justin sullivan had a warrant in existence for his arrest, wholly unrelated to any of the matters pertaining to this case. in an attempt to evade that, he gave his brother s name. our curiosity was piqued to the point that we thought perhaps justin sullivan was using henry s identification, and it could have conceivably been that justin dropped the i.d. card at the scene of the crime. but like his brother, justin denied any involvement in the murders. he said he had an alibi, that he was with friends at a nightclub,
call placed the buyer, presumably deparvine in the truck with van dusen, an hour after deparvine said they left his apartment. it just kind of went through my mind as to what is the hurry, you know, that you have to go out at night to get this paperwork done? deparvine denied he was in the man in the pickup truck with richard van dusen. homicide. king speaking. a background check revealed this wasn t deparvine s first brush with the law. we found that mr. deparvine had an extensive felony arrest record, and that he had just been released from prison and was on probation. deparvine had just served nine years on a weapons possession charge. and henry sullivan was still a suspect. we still had the henry sullivan angle, and also we don t lose sight of the fact