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the bentonite on janice s clothing was identical to the sample from the pond behind her ex-husband s camp. battles examined mud samples from other ponds in the national park, but none matched the mud from janice s clothing. we were ecstatic because we re now able to show she was lying and we were now able to show her in an area where the murder weapon was stolen. to investigators, this was proof that janice had stolen her ex-husband s gun, possibly in an attempt to frame him. we were able to put janice dodson at her ex-husband s camp. we couldn t put the ex-husband at her camp. perhaps janice killed two birds with one stone. j.c. lee and john bruce dodson. we have no way of knowing what she had planned for j.c. lee. personally i feel that j.c. lee was going to be the fall guy, a patsy for janice. investigators still had one
he s got a hunter orange cap on, he s carrying a rifle, the only thing that could have happened in this world would have been a one in a million chance of somebody, a canyon over, shooting at an animal and a stray bullet hitting him. bruce s body was sent to the medical examiner, dr. tom canfield, for an autopsy. bruce worked for me. he was a medical technologist in the delta hospital and i knew him very well, both professional and a personal level. the autopsy results were startling. bruce hadn t been shot once, but three times. well, i was able to determine, one, they were distant range gunshot wounds, they were fired from a significant distance. one shot was a superficial wound that went through his hunting vest and grazed his back.
husband s murder. janice s muddied clothing had been kept in evidence for the past three years. jacqueline battle scraped some of the mud from the clothing and ground it to a fine powder. battle sifted and weighed the samples. and then examined them under a polarizing microscope. the mud from janise s clothing contained bentonite. bentonite is a clay-like material comprised of minerals of aluminum silicates, magnesium and iron oxides. ranchers would add bentonite as a sealant so that the water would be retained in the watering hole versus seeping through into the ground.
object. it very likely would have stripped off the copper jacket and only the core would have proceeded from that area. he has an epiphany. i think he said, that s it. he got up and went down to a sporting goods store and bought some of those bullets, went home, took one out and cut it open in his garage and that s got to be it. most lead bullets are made from recycled car batteries which have numerous trace elements. a forensic metallurgist at the fbi analyzed the lead inner core of the bullet from bruce dodson s body using plasma atomic emissions spectroscopy. it was compared to the .308 caliber round found at the scene. so she tested for a certain number of i think it was six or eight trace elements.