barrel, the lens and grooves which make the bullet spin make marks on the outside of the bullet. they will design the barrel to have a certain direction of twist, a certain number of landing grooves, a certain measurement for the landing grooves so those are intentionally put in by the manufacturer. surprisingly when the bullets from cliff s gun were compared to the bullets from cliff s autopsy, they did not match. investigators checked all of the local pawnshops and discovered that the cowen brothers had pawned some of the alma murke s jewelry. with a search warrant police found several other items belonging to the murke s in their possession. he had a wallet. he had two social security checks which he was trying to sell. he had all types of jewelry. but investigators did not find a .25 caliber pistol like the one used in the murder.
weapon. the pistol used to kill cliff murke had been sold by a drug dealer of the cowens but for some reason the cowen s fingerprints did not match those at the crime scene. the person who attempted the comparison, was unable to make a match and he failed to have another examiner verify his conclusions. this was a breach of protocol. the standard operating procedure in all crime labs requires a fingerprint examiner to have someone verify his or her conclusions. so the fingerprints were resubmitted for analysis and this time the results were verified by a supervisor. the fingerprints found in the murke s home matched robert
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spaces, and an aggressive crime investigation unit. officials post pictures of their most wanted pictures on the town s web site but they needed every trick they could think of to solve the case of clifford and alma murke. they loved to sit outside and it was shady during the summer time. one summer morning their son stopped by. he immediately knew something was wrong. he found a door open at the back of the house and entered and immediately detected a foul odor. i backed out of the house and told my wife that something was wrong. go across the street and call the police department. the entire residents was ransacked everything turned
every .25 caliber pistol they could find hoping that one of them would match the murder weapon. i maintained those bullets in my secured work area. i never returned them to the sheriff s property room knowing that i would one day get that firearm. but eventually, there were other crimes to solve, other evidence to process, and the murder of cliff and alma murke moved quietly into the unsolved file. ten years later, jim was promoted to homicide detective but he never forgot the murder of cliff and alma murke. the case had always bothered me mainly because the circumstances, the way they were murdered. just knowing that there was that element out there still walking the streets that hopefully