helble s home around the time of his murder. based on the position of the body, prosecutors believe rich killed helble after he fell asleep in the living room watching tv. the motive was apparently money. rich wanted to sell helble s gun collection for either cash or drugs. the shooting may have agitated helble s dog. [ dog barking ] to stop the barking, rich put keisha in helble s van, then drove her several miles away before letting her out in a strange neighborhood. little did he realize that keisha s hair would be found in the stolen box of ammunition and that canine dna testing would prove it came from helble s beloved dog. andy hated that dog. andy could not stand keisha.
an autopsy on 28-year-old john helble revealed he had been killed long before his body was found, but the medical examiner was unable to determine exactly when he was killed. without an idea as to when the time of death is, it obviously becomes very much more difficult to determine who are suspects and who are people that you can rule out. helble s dog, keisha, was found on january 22nd. helble s telephone answering machine had messages not yet listened to. the earliest unheard message was left that same day, january 22nd. john would not use the answering machine to screen his telephone calls. if someone called, john wanted to talk to them.
helble was not what investigators had hoped for. the results showed us that the bullets that we had recovered from john were not the same bullets that was removed from andy rich s house in greybull, wyoming. investigators found smudge marks on the inside windows of rich s jeep, similar to those caused by animals when pressing their noses against the glass. was it possible that rich used his car to transport helble s dog across town after the murder? police took keisha s noseprint in the same way they collect human fingerprints. each dog s noseprint is as unique as a fingerprint. unfortunately, we weren t able to get the type of smudges or prints actually from the vehicle that would enable us to
prized possessions was missing, his 3-year-old husky, keisha. oh, he loved his dog. his dog was his life. she was his baby. she had a lot of hamburgers, a lot of pizza, hotdogs, things like that. i think she ate mostly people food. she was very spoiled. police soon learned that a dog matching keisha s description was found a month earlier, wandering aimlessly several miles away. she was just standing in the middle of the street, dazed, looking around like, where am i, what am i doing here? john s parents identified keisha. the evidence suggested she had been driven there and dropped off. keisha was found during january when the roads are typically dirty and muddy. but keisha s condition was pretty clean. the crime scene showed that the dog s leash, which normally was kept inside the trailer next to the door, was actually in the victim s van. it suggested the victim s van
it will not be as unique a profile as i might get from blood or saliva or hair with a root, but it will still allow me to say, yes, this sample matches the reference dog or it doesn t match the reference dog. halverson performed a pcr test, which stands for polymerase chain reaction. it s basically like taking one page out of a book and ignoring the rest of the book and xeroxing that page a million times. and now you have that page in so much quantity that you can see it. then the sample was sequenced to get a visual representation of the dna type. when she compared the dna from the hair in the ammunition box to a sample of keisha s hair, she found a haplotype in both sets that was extremely rare, occurring only in 1 in 300 dogs.