victim s passenger-side window. and then he conducted a simple test. he ran a string from the bullet hole in the back window through the hole in the headrest to the hole in the passenger side window. what we found was that after stringing the trajectory, that the angle was approximately 47 degrees off the back of the vehicle. if the shot had been fired from 200 yards away, as george kerr now claimed, the trajectory angle would be approximately 95 degrees. but the 47-degree angle placed the shooter s car very close, to within seven to 15 yards away. this then put the vehicles in such a close position that it rendered a very easy shot for mr. gustafson when he shot at the victim vehicle. at the murder trial, george
days of delivering her second child into the world when she delivers the bomb package to the post office. rock phelps was in prison with doug gustafson and r.d. cheely when the bombing occurred, and he knew they wanted revenge. he was wanting to kill george, little george is what we called him. we had actually a number of inmates who told us that they had seen a list of names that raymond cheely had with him at the jail, and that cheely had told them that in fact this was a hit list. it was a list of people that he wanted to kill. and they were able to describe the list, that the first person on that list was george kerr. other names on the hit list included the judge and prosecutor at their trial. when peggy and craig gustafson were brought in for questioning and they heard the taped conversations from prison, they immediately confessed. this bombing was totally
kerr testified against his two friends, but continued to insist their car was 200 yards away from the victim s car when the shot was fired. it s just not a first-degree murder. and you base that on what? because he was shooting out at the car, not to kill. but the forensic evidence proved they were less than 15 yards away, which meant the shot was intentional. based on this evidence, the driver, r.d. cheely, was convicted of second-degree murder. doug gustafson, the shooter, was convicted of first-degree murder. both were sentenced to life in prison. since george kerr had immunity from prosecution, he left alaska soon after the trial ended. but the story didn t end there.
sister some help fixing her car, but had too much connected with it to be just that. so as you listen to it over and over again, you know, it became clear that they were talking about doug was giving peggy instructions on how to create a circuit for an improvised explosive device. those audiotapes were the smoking gun. other conversations revealed peggy didn t have the technical ability to build the device, so she brought in another member of the family, their elder brother craig, who is a mechanic. apparently both peggy and craig gustafson believed their brother was innocent in the highway shooting death and that george kerr was responsible. to give some idea of the depth of her emotions and her feelings of revenge, peggy gustafson is nine months pregnant. she is, in fact, within three
okay. george testified. michelle thought the bomb had to have come from the two men her stepson put in jail, doug gustafson and r.d. cheely. the bomb was not meant to frighten someone, to intimidate someone. this was meant to kill. and it succeeded, killing the wrong person. but could the forensic evidence prove it? at david kerr s autopsy, investigators found a tiny metal post in his chest, the kind used in a switch. ultimately, our crime lab was able to determine the type of switch that that post would be a part of, a manufacturer, and to whom did the manufacturer provide the circuit or the switch? radioshack.