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Hours of october 19, 1992. hadden clark knew penny houghteling was away when he entered the home through the back door sometime after midnight. he picked up a knife from the kitchen and went to laura s bedroom. he suffocated her with a pillow. and then he stabbed her. clark used the scissors to remove her earrings which left the blood impression on the pillowcase. and in that blood, the partial thumbprint uncovered by the black stain. there was no blood trail in the house since clark wrapped the body in bed linens and plastic. while transporting the body to ....
Pair of scissors consisten with the blood found on the discarded pillowcase. when you hold a pair of scissors to these marks, they, in fact. fall in line with the outline impression of the marks on the pillow. clark didn t reveal his motive for killing laura. police theorize clark was angry over the disagreement he had with laura s mother over the missing tools from the shed. looking into hadden s background, we found that any time especially a female would cross him in any way, he would retaliate. it s hard to say exactly why. and i don t know if we ll ever know why. clark s confession and evidence gathered by the police told prosecutors all they needed to know about what happened to laura houghteling in the early hours of october 19, 1992. ....