first off i had no idea that the initial investigators had done so much work on it. they had talked to literally hundreds of people and interviewed hundreds of people and had obtained a lot of good information. clip murke s .25 caliber handgun stolen during the robbery was recovered a few months later but ballistic tests revealed it was not the murder weapon. in searching through the files, he discovered there were several men present the night he sold cliff murke s gun to the drug dealer. when jim reinterviewed them ten years later, one of the men present recalled an interesting detail. he recalled hearing the cowen brothers tell the drug dealer that the gun they were selling had been used in a crime.
when it hardened, he slowly removed the cast from the barrel. it literally does not adhere to the substance that it s casting. it just recorded its surface detail. it s like an egg on a testify lon flying pan. what can see that one achieves a very true representation of the interior of the barrel plus the fine detail. he cut away the portion of the barrel imprint destroyed by the screwdriver and then squared the remainder of the cast to the bullets that killed cliff murke. in an incredible turn of events, they were an exact match. this proved that clifford murke s own gun was used in his murder and that the cowen brothers had been in possession of the gun before it had been altered. even with this discovery, it still wasn t enough to prove
he took some kind of etcher and etched his initials in it for identification. jones denied any involvement in the murder. he had no occupation and said he supported himself by stealing. robbing houses, stealing from people outside, that type of thing. he had a long record of robberies and use of narcotics. robert cowin also had a partner in crime, his brother gerald. the brothers were involved in criminal activitactivity. a lot of small time stuff. a lot of narcotics usage. some assaults. forensic scientists tested cliff s gun to see if it was the one used in his murder. the gun was test fired into a tub of water. as the bullets go through the