of both women, then superimposed slides of the skull over the photographs. the skull did not match the woman from georgia, but it did match the photo of bun chee nyhuis perfectly. face is at an angle. she is clowning around, making a face. we find the jaw line is within the chin. the top is within the top of the head. the cheek is within. the eyes are in the orbits. the nasal opening corresponds to the nose, and the teeth match up very nicely to the jaw line here. in spite of the fact that it is a very difficult angle to approximate and expression to approximate, we felt this was a very good match. now armed with a positive scientific identification, police turned their attention to richard nyhuis. they suspected that he knew more about his wife s disappearance than he was telling them. her friends indicated they had a very volatile
relationship, that they argued quite a bit. and police also learned of a disturbing coincidence, that richard nyhuis was a boy scout leader and often camped at the boy scout ranch where police discovered bunchee s grave. i turned to my partner and we looked at each other. we just couldn t believe it. that s when we knew we had to formulate a game plan and we would have probably just one shot at him. it all started fitting together at that point. all the pieces start coming into place. when police confronted richard nyhuis with the forensic evidence, he confessed, although he gave conflicting accounts of what actually happened. he said bun chee fell during a scuffle and hit her head accidentally, but admitted suffocating his wife. was bleeding real bad. there was blood all over the place and she was yelling. so i put my hands over her mouth and her nose and suffocated her.