than that. chandler was charged with three counts of kidnapping and first degree murder. investigators believe chandler met joan rogers at a gas station where joan may have asked him for directions to their hotel. chandler wrote them on her map, leaving behind a handwriting sample and his palm print. that s when chandler may have offered to give them a sunset cruise on his boat and offered the girls accepted. chandler gave joan directions to the boat launch and when she wrote them she also jotted down a vital clue. blue with wht. later that night chandler took them out on the water where they
brochure that would guarantee a conviction? the brochure was processed with a chemical, a chemical that reacts with amino acids found in fingerprint residue. prints, when they come in contact with the chemical turn purple and can then be photographed. on the brochure were numerous fingerprints. and one palm print. one of the victims was identified as being the source of some of those impressions. but there were also unidentified prints on that brochure. the best unidentified print was a high quality right palm print. when chandler s right palm print was compared to the palm print on the brochure found in the victim s car, there was no doubt. that not only linked our handwriting to the brochure but also a palm print. and you don t get much better
i immediately saw the capital t repeatedly throughout his writing. my heart started racing. i found all the ys and all the variations on the brochure. within minutes i knew i found the writer. chandler was 43 years old and ran a construction business. he was married and had eight children by seven different women. he also had a criminal record dating back to his teens that included two sexual assaults. but what was most telling was where chandler lived. chandler s residence was on a canal that was probably within a half a mile, a mile of where the boat ramp where the victims vehicle was found. investigators tracked down ship to shore phone records which are record for all boats making calls while on the water. these records actually put chandler out on the water on the
day of the rape but also the day of the homicide. chandler denied any involvement in the murders. but once he was in custody police brought in one person who could possibly identify him. the canadian tourist who had been raped by a man in a blue and white boat. that s him. she picked his photograph and reacted visibly as soon as that photograph was shown and she indicated that she would really like to see him live in a lineup to be absolutely certain. look carefully. this resulted in another positive identification. but just as investigators went to inspect chandler s boat they discovered he had sold it, most likely to get rid of potential evidence. prosecutors knew if they were going to get a murder
handwriting. that was an unusual tactic and i believe they did it because they no place else to go. that s when joann stevie saw the billboard and recognized the handwriting. it looked like the handwriting of a contractor she knew. when i met mr. chandler he came across as not telling the truth and he wouldn t look you in the eye. and he just seemed shifty. joann rushed home and found the handwritten receipt for some work chandler had done for her. as i was looking at it, my knees actually buckled from the sheer shock of the proof now to me that this was the man they ve been looking for all this time. the handwritten receipt was compared to the handwritten note found in joan rogers car.