gregg myers. one of the things we suspected was that he probably sought out a firearm through a classified ad, which also means that there s no atf paperwork to connect gregg to the firearm. on a hunch, investigators subpoenaed gregg s cell phone records and looked for any unusual numbers. detectives basically went through those records looking for individual numbers that stand out. two numbers belonged to individuals who advertised shotguns for sale in a local newspaper. one seller recalled making a sale that week. eugene adams advised the detectives at that point that yeah, someone had called his number, came and purchased a shotgun from him. adams told investigators that a man who identified himself as gregg myers bought a 12-gauge winchester shotgun. adams identified myers picture from a photo lineup. adams also had the serial number
and that happened just two days before the crimes were committed. gregg myers was arrested and charged with two counts of murder. prosecutors believe gregg bought undersized shoes, overalls to protect his clothing and what he believed to be an untraceable shotgun. he fashioned a homemade silencer, then headed to his father s house around 4:00 in the morning. he staged the scene to make it look like a break-in and left his shoe impressions, evidence he wanted police to find. according to the autopsy, he shot his father first. his stepmother woke up, raised her arm to protect herself, and he shot her, too. gregg then went upstairs to check on johnny, who must have
he saw. i walked into my grandparents room and i found them melting. a jury found gregg myers guilty of two counts of aggravated murder. he was sentenced to two life sentences with no possibility of parole. for all his careful planning, he never realized two things. first, that the police could raise the scratched serial number and tie the shotgun to him. and second, that he left his fingerprint inside the latex glove that tied him to everything in the garbage bag. when we found that shotgun, it was just amazing. it was a sense of relief that we had some physical evidence we could get our hands on that i was hoping was going to connect him. mr. myers attempted to commit the perfect crime. he planned, he schemed, he purchased.
12-gauge shotgun, and it was apparent that jack was killed before linda. because her injuries were not just to her head but also to her hands. so she may have started to wake up and raise her hands because it showed an injury to the hand as well as to her face. this raised the possibility that jack myers was the primary target. the motive didn t appear to be robbery. no money or valuables were missing. there was a deposit bag in plain view in the kitchen. that was the money from the pizza business that they ran. there was a significant amount of cash in that deposit bag. it hadn t been disturbed, hadn t been taken. the medical examiner estimated that the time of death was between 4:00 and 6:00 a.m. police canvassed the area. and one of the neighbors saw a minivan in the myers driveway as she left for work around 4:30 in the morning. she wasn t familiar with either jack or linda having a
the shotgun had been ground off, investigators sent the gun to forensic scientist timothy duerr. he knew that scratch marks usually weren t as deep as the original engraving. the serial number may only be a few thousandths of an inch, but the compressed metal goes a lot deeper into the metal. to restore the serial number, duerr applied an acid solution which only works at one level and goes no deeper. it will actually eat away and you can actually burn past the point of compression. it reacts differently between the compressed and uncompressed metal. the compressed being the serial number. the acid solution removed the top surface, leaving the bottom, or compressed metal, virtually untouched. upon utilizing an the restoration techniques on this shotgun, i was able to restore five of the eight digits in the serial number. those restored were l3145.