blood spatter analysis, investigators believe richard van dusen was pulled from his jeep and shot outside the vehicle. his wife karla was sitting in the passenger seat and was shot through the windshield. but on the steering wheel, investigators found blood which did not come from karla or richard. the samples that were tested from the steering wheel were consistent with being human blood. those samples were tested to develop a dna profile. perhaps the killer nicked his hand while cutting the seatbelt to remove karla s body, and the blood dripped onto the steering wheel while he drove the jeep to the dump site. investigators asked their initial suspect henry sullivan for a dna sample. testing showed it was not his blood in the car. sullivan wasn t involved in the crime.
and i said did they have an accident? and i said are you sure? several times, i asked him if he were sure. and then he told me that they had been found and that they had been murdered. and i just i don t even remember after that. investigators had two crime scenes, the jeep and the area where the bodies were found. based on the evidence and the location of the bodies, investigators think that the killer was someone the van dusens knew. we felt that there probably was a third party involved in the vehicle with them. richard van dusen is forced out of the car at gunpoint and we feel he is certainly killed outside of the car. karla van dusen is shot while seated in the car. it looked like karla saw what was happening, turned her head, lifted her left hand, and the bullet went through the
although karla never mentioned the buyer s name, the call placed the buyer, presumably deparvine, in the pickup truck with richard van dusen an hour after deparvine said they left his apartment. it just kind of went through my mind as to what is the hurry, you know, that you have to go out at night to get this paperwork done? deparvine denied he was the man in the pickup truck with richard van dusen. homicide, king speaking. a background check revealed this wasn t deparvine s first brush with the law. we found that mr. deparvine had an extensive felony arrest record, and that he had just been released from prison and was on probation. deparvine had just served nine years on a weapons possession charge. and henry sullivan was still a suspect. we still had the henry sullivan angle, and also we
windshield, her hand, and into her head. later, the killer cut her seat belt and removed her body from the jeep. investigators believe the killer then drove the jeep a half mile away and abandoned it. on the ground near the jeep, police found a florida driver s license. it belonged to someone named henry sullivan. we learned that mr. sullivan had a comparatively extensive criminal arrest record from narcotics to crimes against persons, battery and aggravated battery, probation violations. he had a reasonably extensive record. when police went to henry sullivan s apartment, they found a vintage red 1971 chevrolet cheyenne pickup truck parked outside his apartment. incredibly, the truck belonged to the murder victims, richard and karla van dusen.