back then, the technology did not exist to detect whether it would have been animal, human. the only technology we had was to get a type of blood. in fact, you couldn t even get the blood type because the sample was so small. in the trunk of larry s car, investigators found some oak leaves but little else. they didn t have a lot of evidence, and what little evidence they did have, forensic science hadn t come a long way toward making it useful. just a few days later, there was another death in mansfield. one of judy s co-workers, james isaac, was killed in a traffic accident, and larry bruce made a startling revelation. he told police that isaac was having an affair with his wife and accused isaac of killing judy and then he may have killed
and the feedback i would get was that he was the kind of guy that was bragging about it. he committed the perfect crime. he got away with it. about a year after judy s murder, larry bruce got married again, and the couple continued to live in the house in mansfield. for the next 20 years, the case went unsolved until a cold case unit delved deeper into the death of judy bruce. mom has always been one of those people who needs to keep busy. if she s not working in her garden, she s probably on one of her long walks with bailey. she was recently diagnosed with a heart condition. i know she s okay, but it concerned me she s alone so often. so i encouraged her to get a medical alert button. philips lifeline offers the best options to keep her doing the things she loves in the home she loves. if she ever falls, or needs help,
creek just a few feet from a newly paved road. she was in her pajamas and wrapped in a blanket. her feet were immaculately clean. that was a significant thing that led us to believe she wasn t murdered at that spot. during police questioning, larry bruce said that judy had planned to spend the day home in bed because she was sick. he also said he had no idea where she might have gone. the children provided larry with an alibi, confirming that he had left the house with them that morning. and larry s time sheets confirmed he had gone straight to work. he pretty much kept his entire schedule that day. nothing was out of order. there would have been no other time that he could have committed the homicide. police noticed that larry s shoes had dirt on the soles, and they wondered whether the dirt
himself. bruce implied isaac was somehow responsible for judy s death and killed himself due to his guilt over it. but no one could corroborate larry s claims, and the primary focus continued to be on larry bruce. we ultimately made the decision not to press for the indictment at that time because everything we had at that time was circumstantial. time passed, and judy bruce s murder slowly drifted to the bottom of the unsolved case file. i never forgot the case. i would drive by their residence, and we would even drive by roadway trucking. i remember an alarm went off once talking to a dispatcher at the roadway trucking. i said, what did larry ever say about this case? because he worked there for several years after the homicide.
hoping they would be his alibi. then he went directly to work to keep his usual schedule. but after work, he stopped by the deserted camp and dumped his wife s body. the synthetic rayon fibers from larry s trunk liner were transferred to the blanket covering judy s body. and larry s shoes picked up the calcite particles from the newly paved limestone, where they were discovered 20 years later by alert forensic scientists. the prosecutors were able to put up a good faith effort and tell them this is everything we know using modern forensics about the evidence that we do have remaining to us. and we pulled out all the stops and here s what we know. prosecutor maier saved his most compelling witness for last. from the age of 5 until i was