consequences and not just getting away with taking a life. the autopsy revealed rafeal suffered a fractured skull and other blunt force trauma to the head suggested that he was facing on coming traffic when he was hit. the medical examine found large bar-shaped bruises on rafeal s thighs looking like they came from the front grill of a truck or suv. part of the grill hit the right thigh and he was wrapped around the side of the truck and the other part of the grill hit the left thigh. toxicology tests for drugs and alcohol were all negative. why was rafeal walking along highway 281 late at night?
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replaced it with the headlight from his other truck. he fled the state the next day, driving a thousand miles to tennessee, hoping the case would blow over and be forgotten. but by this time too many law enforcement agencies were looking for him. all of the planets were aligned, because it was every single little piece of evidence together that made this such a strong case. and everything fell in to place. the paint chips at the scene fit perfectly to huffman s truck and the truck s grill also matched rafeal s injuries. you can compare the height of the grill on the truck to rafeal and matched up almost perfectly.
knocked out of the shoes. for some reason it is a common occurrence with motor vehicle and pedestrian accidents. police identified the victim as rafeal garcia, a football player and outstanding student in southcentral texas. i was shocked. i thought it was just a dream that i would wake up from. you talked to the person the day before. he said i will be there at football practice and this and that. all of a sudden he is gone. rafeal was one of six children raised by a single mother. his family was poor. rafeal worked weekends to help to support his family. mike harrison was rafeal s football coach. he broke the news of rafeal s death to the rest of the team. one of the hardest jobs is to look at a group of young men that you have grown close to and
enforcement. he was interested in the passenger side mirror with a heating element found near rafeal s body. i recognized it as a chrysler emblem. investigators learn it came from a large ram pickup truck manufactured between 1999-2002. to most people outside the auto industries those numbers would not mean much. but they are like your social security number or d.n.a. these trucks were extremely popular. seemed like a needle in a haystack. now it is a dodge pickup truck. there are so many.