none of that forensic evidence added up. the analysis of the bullet in bruce s body didn t match any of the evidence we had picked up at the scene so far. neither bruce nor his wife janice owned a rifle capable of firing either caliber round. a look into the victim s background revealed that bruce dodson and janice had been married for only three months. bruce said that janice wanted to go on this hunting trip. he didn t really want to go but to make her happy he agreed to go. family members were appalled at the way janice behaved after bruce s death. she threw everything at my brother owned away. had his dog put to sleep, sold his horse, took his name off the mailbox, like the next day. even more alarming was the fact that janice s ex-husband, j.c. lee, was camping less than a mile away from bruce and janice at the time of the murder.
if the suspect would have been a better shot and mr. dodson would have been killed with a single shot, it s possible that this would never have been investigated as a homicide. we wouldn t have been looking for bullet fragments. we wouldn t have been looking for mud analysis. prosecutors believe the motive was greed. i believe she married him with the intent to beef up his finances and kill him. that s about as cold blooded as you can get. she would have got revenge. she would have got rid of bruce dodson, obtained approximately $500,000 in worth, and also pinned the rap on j.c. lee to get even with him for leaving with her daughter s girlfriend. i think it was an excellent plan that didn t work. five years after the death of her husband, janice dodson went on trial for his murder.
he was camped three quarters of a mile from the dodson camp where john bruce dodson was murdered. it was quite suspicious to us and we thought at that point, hey, we need look in to this guy. when interviewed, lee said he owned a .308 caliber rifle that was stolen from his camp the night before bruce was killed. so that was really suspicious to us, you know, the fact that all of a sudden, you know, this man says, i had a .308 rifle stolen from my camp, i was up there, but i didn t know it was stolen until i got back to my apartment in utah. lee reported that some of his nosler brand .308 ammunition was also stolen, the same brand as the shell casing found at the crime scene. so a lot of things started pointing towards this guy, j.c. lee. j.c. lee and janice had divorced because lee started dating a friend of their daughter s.
confirmed he was hunting with them at the time of the murder. for the next three summers, bill booth, his partner dave martinez and others camped in the uncompahgre national park and looked for the .308 rifle. on one of their trips, booth and martinez took along a member of necro search international, an organization of volunteers who use new technologies to find missing people. and in this case, missing weapons. they were searching for the rifle in a pond near j.c. lee s campsite. it was at that time that we were at the pond near the ex-husband s camp when an individual from necro search international identified the lining of this pond, stock pond to be bentonite clay. and he said, boy, that s very unusual to have betonite clay in
none of that forensic evidence added up. the analysis of the bullet in bruce s body didn t match any of the evidence we had picked up at the scene so far. neither bruce nor his wife janice owned a rifle capable of firing either caliber round. a look into the victim s background revealed that bruce dodson and janice had been married for only three months. bruce said that janice wanted to go on this hunting trip. he didn t really want to go but to make her happy he agreed to go. family members were appalled at the way janice behaved after bruce s death. she threw everything at my brother owned away. had his dog put to sleep, sold his horse, took his name off the mailbox, like the next day. even more alarming was the fact that janice s ex-husband, j.c. lee, was camping less than a mile away from bruce and janice at the time of the