all personal property we own, i want her to have everything. i m starting a new life with a new person. but investigators noticed a slight problem. the name of brad s wife reene was misspelled. the letter to the sheriff, it congratulated him to his appointment and the sheriff is in an elected position, so there were huge mistakes. there were just huge red flags. investigators tested the letters with ninhydrin, a chemical solution that reacts to the amino acids in fingerprints. after it was applied, the documents were dried thoroughly. scientists found numerous fingerprints on the two documents, but none matched brad brisbin. they weren t larry moore s fingerprints, either. next the letters were analyzed by a forensic document examiner. both letters were typed with the
we can help you to determine whether this tissue is from the missing person by comparing the dna from the tissue to the family members and the children and the mother of the person who is missing. children get half of their dna from the mother and half from the father. by taking a dna sample from brad s wife, his four children and his mother, scientists could isolate brad s dna profile through a process of elimination. for this, scientists used an rflp test. at the time the most sophisticated dna test available. whose ever tissue sample that was was completely consistent with being the father of both sets of children and consistent with being the son of the mother of the missing person. next, scientists tested the
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his killer. we, the jury, find the defendant guilty of the offense moore was sentenced to 60 years in prison. it was the first murder case in montana to be tried without a body. and it was also the first time in the state that dna was used in a criminal case. just two years after his conviction, larry moore made headlines again. he was charged with conspiring to build a bomb in prison. to avoid federal charges, moore agreed to lead authorities to brad brisbin s body. moore directed officials to a campground where he hid the .357-magnum pistol he used in the murder. it was found at the base of a tree in one of the campgrounds.
moore said brad left the diner, got into a red car with washington plates and drove off. moore said the driver was a woman and that he didn t recognize her. brad s car was still in the diner s parking lot and there were no signs of foul play. he loved his family, there was no problem. and there was never any indication that there was anything in his mind remotely related to leaving his family. i knew that they didn t know our family, the dynamics of the family, and just to hear people saying, you know, maybe he did just run off and they didn t know him. brisbin and the moore families had been friends for years. larry s wife, shelly, worked with brad. shelly coached the girls high school basketball team and brad coached the boys . investigators heard rumors that brad and shelly were having an affair.