used those 20 minutes to drive home, kill dorothy, then return to the bar to establish his alibi? a police re-creation showed it was possible. average time, 17 minutes. so, even though we were locked into that 20 minutes by our witness, we felt pretty comfortable it was still possible for him to have gone off, committed that crime, staged the scene and got back to the nco club within that time frame. but if this were true, what about the suicide notes? was it possible they had been forged? investigators sent these notes to forensic document examiner sandra homewood to see if the handwriting matched dorothy s known handwriting samples. the writer had a very distinctive capital d. she had a backwards lowercase f, where in the lower staff of
instead, he got into his truck and raced home. dorothy was most likely asleep when chris got into position to shoot her in the right temple at just the right angle. however, when he planted the gun in her hand, he forgot to position her index finger on the trigger. chris staged the scene with the true crime book and the container of antidepressants. the most crucial part of his plan was planting the suicide notes dorothy had written months earlier. meanwhile, at the nco club, chris friend noticed he wasn t using the telephone in the lobby as he would later claim. and when chris returned, his friends noticed he wasn t wearing the jacket he had on earlier. he had left it by mistake in his bedroom, captured on film for all to see.
his wife. instead, he got into his truck and raced home. dorothy was most likely asleep when chris got into position to shoot her in the right temple at just the right angle. however, when he planted the gun in her hand, he forgot to position her index finger on the trigger. chris staged the scene with the true crime book and the container of antidepressants. the most crucial part of his plan was planting the suicide notes dorothy had written months earlier. meanwhile, at the nco club, chris s friend noticed he wasn t using the telephone in the lobby as he would later claim. and when chris returned, his friends noticed he wasn t wearing the jacket he had on earlier. he had left it by mistake in his bedroom, captured on film for all to see.
was it possible that chris davis never called his wife, but used those 20 minutes to drive home, kill dorothy, then return to the bar to establish his alibi? a police recreation showed it was possible. average time, 17 minutes. so, even though we were locked into that 20 minutes by our witness, we felt pretty comfortable it was still possible for him to have gone off, committed that crime, staged the scene and got back to the nco club within that time frame. but if this were true, what about the suicide notes? was it possible they had been forged? investigators sent these notes to forensic document examiner sandra homewood to see if the handwriting matched dorothy s known handwriting samples.
after a while, he said he was going out to the lobby to call his wife. instead, he got into his truck and raced home. dorothy was most likely asleep when chris got into position to shoot her in the right temple at just the right angle. however, when he planted the gun in her hand, he forgot to position her index finger on the trigger. chris staged the scene with the true crime book and the container of anti-depressants. the most crucial part of his plan was planting the suicide notes dorothy had written months earlier. meanwhile, at the nco club. chris friend noticed he wasn t using the telephone in the lobby as he would later claim. and when chris returned, his friends noticed he wasn t wearing the jacket he had on earlier. he had left it by mistake in his bedroom, captured on film for all to see. chris davis ignored dorothy s cries for help. the ones articulated so clearly in her notes and diary.