That. She loved skiing, sailing, and friends. She was extremely outgoing. A wonderful life that came to a tragic end on a warm summer night. Her life had ended, but our story was just beginning. Her killer had not been caught. But, the trail grew cold, the file forgotten until decades later, someone dusted it off. The whole goal of this case was trying to see the thing that was hiding in plain sight. There were clues, mysterious weapon made of wire, a wedding invitation, a midnight sale to nowhere. Were they enough to catch a killer . I was 100 confident he was our guy. Now, the showdown. A determined prosecutor against the famed Defense Lawyer who helped set o. J. Simpson free. After 35 years, was it finally time for justice . He was alone in his makeshift workshop. Had to be for what he intended. Carefully, he cut lengths of a broom handle, two of them, just a few inches each. Send them down, drilled a hole in each one, found a piece of wire to string between them. Too thin. He doubl
wallace now went to his own workshop and started tinkering. made a garrote, then another, and another, to under the mindset of the killer and the materials he used. he examined the wire very closely. then he looked again at the pictures doug s mother painted, and the wire doug used to hang them. and both wires were the same type, something called grade number 1 8-strand braided wire. that s the wire used in the garrote, and that s the wire doug s mom was using to hang his paintings. exciting discovery. well, maybe. but like the dowels, it could also be pure coincidence. how to tell? as i thought about it, i said, wow, i wonder how rare that wire really is. i went down to the local hardware store.