guy is going to throw the shotgun in the river, he s going to throw the other forensic evidence in the river. inside police found a pair of latex gloves, two spent shotgun shells, a green hunting jumpsuit and quilts material similar to the stuffing for the homemade silencer. we also found other items of clothing in addition to a stocking mask that appeared to have been used. they also found tennis shoes which were compared to the shoe impressions found at the crime scene. examination of the cast taken at the scene in comparison with those with the shoes revealed they were consistent in tread design. but the tennis shoes were two sizes smaller than the shoe size of their prime suspect, gregg myers. so, again, there was nothing in the bag that linked gregg myers directly to the murders. they were certainly concerned that a murderer could go free unless they did a lot of work to put the case together after that point. since the serial number on
that the shotgun and clothes dumped in the stillwater river belonged to their prime suspect, gregg myers. one of the things we suspected was that he probably sought out a firearm through a classified ad, which also means there s no atf paperwork to connect gregg to the firearm. on a hunch, investigators subpoenaed gregg s cell phone records and looked for any unusual numbers. detectives basically went through those records looking for individual numbers that stand out. two numbers belonged to individuals who advertised shotguns for sale in a local newspaper. one seller recalled making a sale that week. eugene adams advised detectives at that point, yeah, someone had called his number, came and purchased the shotgun from him. adams told investigators that a man who identified himself as gregg myers bought a 12-gauge winchester shotgun. adams identified myers picture from a photo lineup.
adams also had the serial number of the gun he sold to myers. it matched the serial number of the shotgun found in the stillwater river. but prosecutors needed to find a way to definitively tie gregg myers to the evidence found in the garbage bag. and to do that, scientists looked once more at the pair of latex gloves. most fingerprints are perspiration, and perspiration is 99% water. i didn t hold much hope we were going to get any fingerprints, because this bag had already been in water for several days, submerged in water. so the chance for fingerprints was very minimal. but just to be sure, they used ultraviolet light both inside and out. the light will basically reflect off the surface, and basically, i think the light is actually absorbed by the fingerprint itself. amazingly, inside houston found what scientists might call an anomaly but laymen call a
minivan. so it struck her as very odd that a minivan would be backing out of the residence at that time of the morning. the neighbor could not provide a detailed description of the van or the driver. outside the myers home, the phone lines had been cut and a basement window had been removed. investigators also found shoe impressions in the dirt. casts were made for later analysis. it was a partial print of the shoe. did not find a complete, full impression of the entire shoe. just a partial print. 4-year-old johnny was the only other person living in the house. his great-grandparents had custody because his mother was a teenager and too young to care for him. when questioned, johnny told police he didn t hear any loud noises like gunshots during the night, only that he found his great-grandparents in a pool of blood when he woke up.
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