anger and great passion. why dyke and karen rhoads? they re both very clean cut. they both had jobs. there was talk in town that dyke was a bit of a partier, but he wasn t involved in any bad stuff. with no clear motive, police struggled throughout the summer to come up with any leads or suspects. there was really no break in this case at all for about two and a half months, but in september, the town drunk, darrell herrington was at the police station. he blurts out, just don t ask me about the murder. and of course, they ask him about the murders. darrell herrington told police on the night of the murders, he had been out drinking with two locals named randy steidl and herb whitlock. on the way home, herrington passed out in the back of steidl s cars and was later awokened by the sound of screams coming from the rhoads house.
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karen rhoads. there was one initial report from karen rhoads say she had seen her boss, bob morgan loading machine guns and large amounts of cash in his corvette and heading to chicago. bob morgan was one of the most powerful men in paris, and karen didn t want to cross him. according to her mother, she was considering quitting her job, but just a few weeks later she was murdered. i started looking at that case and saying, wow, this was definitely a motive. they did talk to bob morgan, and he gave them a statement that he felt that probably some bikers got drunk and went back to rape karen rhoads and things got out of hand and she was killed. bob morgan denied any involvement in the murders and passed a polygraph test. but callahan wondered if investigators had turned their gaze away from the influential businessman for fear of
life, and believing we would always do the right thing, no matter what, then you re told a murder is too politically sensitive, especially a murder where there s two innocent men in prison and there s misconduct by our own. you re ignoring this? callahan refused to comply with carper s orders and continued working on the case. those two guys were innocent. i had to keep going. he soon discovered a number of leads in the case that were never followed. there were any number of suspects. it was like murder on the orient express or something. when i reviewed the case, there were several other suspects that for whatever reasons the original investigators didn t follow those leads. one of the suspects in the case, phil stark, he was a banker by day.