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town. she had been killed by a single gunshot wound to the head. i just i remember being in shock. i felt i felt guilty and helpless. she was executed. the killer used a glaser type bullet that exploded on impact, making it impossible to determine the weapon s caliber. next, the fbi analyzed the ransom notes. all were typed with a computer word processer program, and all were printed with the same font. on one note the word exactly was misspelled. investigators got their first real break in the case from a police officer who was walking in the shopping center near harry weiner s bank. he noticed a sign in a bookstore window listing the sunday newspapers the store carried.
harry was the one he was mad at for having turned him down on the loan application. he wanted revenge on harry as much as he wanted the money. despite warning harry not to call police, kopenheffer learned that harry did just that because of a journalist who had heard about the kidnapping from the police scanner. and i went immediately to the plaza and parked my car. there was not a lot of activity. so he walked into david kopenheffer s store and asked what was going on. he looked at me and said no, he said, there hasn t been a single thing going on. it s been a very quiet night. there isn t anything going on. at the time i was talking with him, i didn t know that he had killed her. so i did not make a connection that here was a cold-blooded
and eventually convicted of first-degree murder, and was sentenced to life in prison. david kopenheffer is the master manipulator. it s an intellectual game, an intellectual challenge to see how far he can push the system and what he can get away with. i think if he were out he d kill again. he d put a contract on me and harry weiner while the trial was going on because we were key witnesses against him. i don t think that he would stop at anything. despite the overwhelming amount of forensic evidence against him, kopenheffer continues to maintain his innocence. that s the arrogance of the man, that despite overwhelming evidence as to his guilt and many defendants do this, they still, still refuse to accept responsibility for the crimes that they ve committed. and that s the sin, one of the sins of all of this. this case, in my own opinion,
call, because there s no interaction between harry and sally. he s trying to talk to her and she s not responding. she just continues to talk. she had to read that if her husband didn t come up with the money, why, they d cut off her hands. she told him in detail that she was being held and these people were dangerous and they were going to kill her if he didn t provide the money. sally told him there was a bag under his car with instructions that he was to follow exactly or she would be killed. the ransom note told harry to fill the gym bag with all of the money from his bank s vault and drive to a deserted bridge ten miles outside of town await further instructions. harry immediately contacted the local police and fbi. they told him to drive to the back of the police station and pick up a law enforcement