ligature, like panty hose or a jump rope or rope, versus manual strangulation. what that leads me to believe is a spur of the moment crime. what does that mean? who would know a mother of three who would not only sexually assault her, but then murder her and dispose of the body? disposing of the body suggests it is not random. somebody comes up to you, god forbid, and kills you. if they don t know you, they re not going to drag your body, they re going to kill you and leave you. it takes extra effort. who wants to be caught with a dead body? of course. so it is someone that wants to hide the body, typically when a body is hidden or obscured in some way, that means it is not random, it is someone the victim knows. and in cases of potential sexual assault, isn t that so often someone you know as well? yes. that s true. now, typically as in every homicide you start with boyfriends, lovers, exes, the
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. 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.
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 lying in some bushes 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.
walked back toward the omni. he never made it home that night. i m like, he didn t come home? oh, my god! that was the first thing popped in my head. missing. murdered. oh, my god. the atlanta missing persons bureau continue their hunt for 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 lying in some bushes 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. it became 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 became 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 body. she say, i really feel like this