she backed away. and mr. carlisle moved his hand, and i panicked. i fired, and it seemed like the fourth shot, and he didn t move. i ran fast. and then, somehow the welding glove got left behind, the glove that revealed suckow s dna, and broke the case. without the glove, we would probably be unsolved to this day. and what could have happened then? james henrikson according to prosecutors was a very dangerous man, was actively planning more murders. eventually, they said, had suckow not lost his welding glove, henrikson might have become that worst of all criminals. a serial killer is someone who causes the death or murder of three people, and he certainly got an a for effort because he tried. there are about eleven people
remember the white van the neighbors said. was van was unique off. it was after factor extended van that they make for certain professions, and eventually once we were able to identify the make and model, we had washington provide all the advance, and there were 75 of them. that possibly fit that description. yes, sir. of course every one of those vans had to be tracked down and that welding glove, the one outside a back gate, maybe the killer dropped it when he escaped or maybe it happened to be there. they swabbed it for dna anyway. they scoured social media, the internet, looking for connections, looking for anything. but then one night after christmas, a couple of weeks after the murder. i was at my desk and i got a hit on what s called a ripoff report, which i ve never heard of.
secrets, just another casualty, as the little army of detectives searched the neighborhood for clues, like for example the strange find that turned up in the killer s escape path. that weirdly out of place welding glove. they swabbed it for dna on the off chance, really, just a shot in the dark, that something in or on that glove might match dna on a felon stored in a data bank. and it did. timothy suckow. what did you think when you found this out? i thought this could be our guy. was he local? he was local. he was working at irs environmental, an asbestos removal company. they don t drive around in white advance, by any chance, do they? i checked that list, and lo and behold, they owned a vehicle that matched our
just beyond where the welding glove was found was a small wooded area, and across the street, an elementary school which meant maybe the school s security system could get them a picture of the guy. another detective was able to get that video, almost immediately. and sure enough, when they looked at the video, there he was. we actually saw that suspect and saw the path that he ran. could you tell who it was or very much about him? it was very grainy video. all you could really see was that it was a subject, appeared to be muscular build wearing all black. all black. it was hard to make out, but there he was in the video. the elusive man in black running toward a main road. when detective burbridge arrived and got a look at this i ve done a lot of homicides and at that point i thought that this was a professional hit man, probably unrelated to our victim at all or the person involved in this, and i went and found my lieutenant. i knew this was going to be a very complic
neighbor s back yard. and in the very back corner of their yard is a gate that was left open. and just before the gate there was a puddle of water. and there was a good footprint in that puddle of water. and it was apparent it was fairly recent. could be your guy. could be our guy. just beyond that, just outside the gate was what appeared to be a welding glove lying in the leaves. a welding glove? a welding glove. so right away we thought is this something that may have been dropped? but it was odd enough and in a place we knew the suspect had run after the incident that we ended up collecting it as evidence. not really knowing whether that had anything to do with your murder. correct. we didn t know. you know, in something like this, where it s a complete whodunit, you take everything and hope something ends up helping your case. they kept looking. so did the dog.