the murder weapon appeared to be the rocks found near her body. the blood on the rocks and other material was consistent with her being struck up to ten times in the head with the rocks. the medical examiner found evidence that laura had consensual sex sometime before the murder, most likely unrelated to the crime. we knew she had been involved in an intimate relationship with someone within the 24 to 48 hours prior to her death. there were no injuries that would be consistent with forcible rape. on the men s jeans found with her body, scientists found semen from a different individual, presumably the killer. earlier that day, she worked at her cashier job at the kroger grocery store. she left around 1:00 p.m. she was supposed to be at an
which is why he left them there. but those jeans contained other biological evidence with his dna. on that day, gilley wouldn t have known anything about that, of course, since dna testing was still years away. a witness saw gilley driving laura s car away from the crime scene. why the original investigators gave this information less weight than gilley s alibi is yet another mystery. in september of 2006, kyle gilley went on trial for murder. his defense claimed the presence of another man s dna was proof that someone else was at the crime scene and that individual killed laura. the jury never fell into the trap of thinking the unknown dna was a plausible other suspect. the jury found kyle gilley guilty of murder, and he was
his dna also did not match. and dan goodwin himself provided a dna sample. he had gone out with laura just a few days before the murder. goodwin maintained it was a casual date and said the two weren t intimate. since i took her out to the movies just four days before and knew her, they decided it would be advisable to test my dna. and it was tested, and i was not present at the crime scene. but at least the investigators had the killer s dna, and were closer to finding him. a lot closer than they knew. it s important to know the difference. like when i found out i had a blood clot in my leg. my doctor said that it could travel to my lungs and become an even bigger problem. and that i had to take action. so he talked to me about xarelto®. [ male announcer ] xarelto® is the first oral prescription blood thinner
for the murder, that if he couldn t have her, nobody else could. the night before her murder, laura told friends she had a date with a friend, and the two went to a local nightclub. investigators believe gilley knew laura was dating others and may have followed her to the nightclub. that unknown dna was the motive, that kyle was jealous and possessive and found out that she possibly was seeing somebody else. prosecutors believe that gilley and laura had planned to go swimming on the afternoon of her murder. kyle coaxed her out to the deserted lover s lane where they talked, then argued. according to the forensic evidence, gilley struck her in the head repeatedly with a rock and blood spattered on his jeans. prosecutors think gilley saw laura s blood on his jeans,
16 years after laura salmon s murder, her high school boyfriend, kyle gilley, was arrested and charged with her murder. laura s mother say she told the original investigators that gilley killed her daughter. she said his jealousy was out of control. i told them why i thought it was him or why i knew it was him, and i was very frustrated that they didn t take that seriously. for the record, no one is willing to speculate why the original investigators didn t look deeper into gilley s alibi. it was clear to the cold case unit that gilley should have