bottom line is i want them to catch whoever did this. according to family and friends, it was a divorce she did not want. she was not happy about it, she was hurt by it. so we knew there were some tough feelings. randy tate claimed he had an alibi, that he was playing golf with friends at the time of the murder. he was initially very cooperative, but later became hesitant when it came to dna. and seemed to be very angry. but tate did provide his dna, and it did not match the blood dna at the crime scene. next, investigators checked an internet dating site that sarah joined called millionairematch.com. sarah didn t date many men since her divorce, but when your photograph is on an internet dating site profile, there is always the risk of danger. think about it this way. if i exchange one e-mail with a
later learned she was spending the night with santos. alan johnson was furious, and he asked his brother-in-law, jim vavold, to go with him to santos home. i said it s not worth getting into trouble going in there, beating up the kid or anything like that. you re not going to accomplish anything. alan told santos to stay away from his daughter and took sarah home. diane and i were in the kitchen and i asked her, did they love each other? and she said, well, they says that they do. and i said, well, if they think they love each other, you won t be able to keep them away from each other. the johnsons also told santos that if he didn t stay away from their daughter, they would file statutory rape charges against him. any kind of an arrest whatsoever would have sent bruno back to mexico. that just gave him that much more motive to take care of diane and alan. investigators immediately took bruno santos in for questioning.
alan johnson was also dead on the floor next to the bed. the shower was still going, and i could see directly into the shower, and there was a bullet hole that was straight on, chest high, straight into the tile. the murder weapon, a .264-caliber rifle, was still on the floor. it was probably one of the most violent crime scenes that i had ever seen. sarah, the couple s 16-year-old daughter, said she was asleep in her bedroom down the hall when she heard the first shot. she immediately got up, went through her parents bedroom door, called her mother s name, heard a second gunshot and then fled the residence out the front door to a neighbor s house. unfortunately, sarah didn t see the assailant. at the foot of the victims bed, investigators found two knives. that certainly was a mystery to us. we have these two homicides, and why are these knives placed in the manner that they are and
within hours of the murders, investigators found speegle in boise, idaho, 150 miles away. he said he had been visiting family members all weekend, an alibi that checked out. speegle claimed his hunting rifle was in his closet when he left for boise. i directly asked mel speegle who he thought we should be looking at, and he s the one who told me about bruno santos. santos was dating the johnsons 16-year-old daughter, sarah. he was an illegal immigrant, a dropout, associated with a number of small drug-related crimes, just a guy that as a father you wouldn t necessarily aspire your daughter to want to marry because he didn t seem to have much direction in life. then investigators learned about a confrontation between alan johnson and bruno santos a few days before the murders. sarah told her parents she was sleeping overnight at a girlfriend s house, but they
t-shirt and the bathrobe with the same chemical makeup. what i believe happened now, there is an evidence transfer from the blue t-shirt deposited on to the pink bathrobe. this proved that sarah had worn the robe over the top of her t-shirt. finally, investigators analyzed the gloves found in the garbage. when you handle an item and you leave behind the oils and residues from your skin, that contains skin cells, and we are oftentimes able to get dna from those samples. scientists swabbed the inside of the gloves and found dna from only one person. sarah was the source of the dna found on the latex glove. all the clothing found in the garbage can was then checked for gunshot residue, a gas created by gunfire that can adhere to the shooter.