dna testing on blood found near those fibers confirmed it was rachel s blood and that she was bleeding before she hit the ground. so, the police had to work backwards. they had to find out, you know, how did that blood and how did that fiber get on the pennsylvania turnpike bridge rail. there were no marks on rachel s neck, so investigators didn t believe a ligature or even the killer s hands were used to strangle her. if it s a large surface like a forearm pressing against a neck or a large just flat of the hand pressing against the neck, you re going to get bruising. significant internal bleeding told medical examiners rachel was still alive when she was thrown from the bridge. the victim had blood spatters on the side of her face, and it wasn t consistent with a fall from the bridge. two broken fingernails made it clear she tried to defend herself.
night. i m like, he didn t come home? oh, my god! that was the first thing popped in my head. missing. oh, my god! the atlanta missing persons bureau continue their hunt for this missing child. one day seemed like it was a week. the world. it was almost 2:00 p.m. when maintenance man ishmael strickland found the lifeless body of a boy. on the seventh day a maintenance man spotted a body tossed down into the woods behind a parking lot at a suburban office complex. the bank was fairly steep. medical examiner joseph burton had to hold on to a rope to get down to the scene. he had a ligature mark on his neck like if somebody had a ligature and they were behind you or off to the side behind you and they closed their hands or fists together and pulled the
ligature, basically. in other words, killed from behind. most likely, yes. all right. let me place another sample on this side. state crime lab scientist larry peterson attended the autopsy. i can recall at one autopsy pulling a fiber off of one of the victims. it was a green carpet fiber and mounted the sample on the slide went over and looked under the microscope and it s the same one. you knew right then? knew right then. apparent it s another victim of atlanta s child killer or killers. local television carried these pictures live from the crime scene. as it was studied it was apparent it was one of the three children listed as missing. we re told the child s body sheila baltazar got a call from her mother. she say, they found another
this missing child. one day seemed like it was a week. that was the longest search in the world. it was almost 2:00 p.m. when maintenance man ishmael strickland found the lifeless figure of a young black boy. on the seventh day a maintenance man spotted a body tossed down into the woods behind a parking lot at a suburban office complex. the bank was fairly steep. medical examiner joseph burton had to hold on to a rope to get down to the scene. he had a ligature mark on his neck like if somebody had a ligature and they were behind you or off to the side behind you and they closed their hands or fists together and pulled the ligature, basically. in other words, killed from behind. most likely, yes. all right. let me place another sample on this side. state crime lab scientist larry peterson attended the autopsy. i can recall at one autopsy pulling a fiber off of one of the victims.
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