and some black powder on it. it was shaped in the form of a cone-shaped thing. the murder weapon was a 12-gauge shotgun, and it was apparent that jack was killed before linda. because her injuries were not just to her head but also to her hands. so she may have started to wake up and raise her hands because it showed an injury to the hand as well as to her face. this raised the possibility that jack myers was the primary target. the motive didn t appear to be robbery. no money or valuables were missing. there was a deposit bag in plain view in the kitchen. it was the money from the pizza business that they ran. there was a significant amount of cash in that deposit bag. it hadn t been disturbed, hadn t been taken. the medical examiner estimated that the time of death was between 4:00 and 6:00 a.m. police canvassed the area. and one of the neighbors saw a minivan in the myers driveway as she left for work around 4:30
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 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
when he got there, he described the scene in the only way he could, by simply explaining what he saw. i walked into my grandparents room and i found them a jury found gregg myers guilty of two counts of aggravated murder. he was sentenced to two life sentences with no possibility of parole. for all his careful planning, he never realized two things. first, that the police could raise the scratched serial number and tie the shotgun to him. and second, that he left his fingerprint inside the latex glove that tied him to everything in the garbage bag. when we found that shotgun, it was just amazing. it was a sense of relief that we had some physical evidence we could get our hands on that i was hoping was going to connect him. mr. myers attempted to commit
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investigators had no proof 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