dating a friend of their daughter s. we thought that j.c. lee may have been jealous of janice recently marrying bruce dodson. maybe he wanted to get back at janice. we couldn t link j.c. lee to the dodson murder scene, and we couldn t link janice dodson to the ex-husband s camp three-quarters of a mile away. also suspicious, janice had purchased three life insurance policies on bruce shortly before his death. she stood to gain almost $500,000, so a lot of motive. and after the funeral, janice s behavior was bizarre, to say the least. one of his last requests was to be cremated and to have his ashes scattered in leadville, colorado. janice had taken bruce s ashes and as they approached
and he said, boy, that s very unusual to have betonite clay in the middle of the uncompahgre national forest in a stock pond. and this jogged their memory. they remembered that janice dodson s clothes had been covered in mud on the day of her husband s murder. janice s muddied clothing had been kept in evidence for the past three years. jacqueline battle scraped some of the mud from the clothing and ground it to a fine powder. battle sifted and weighed the samples. and then examined them under a polarizing microscope. the mud from janise s clothing contained bentonite. bentonite is a clay-like material comprised of minerals of aluminum silicates, magnesium and iron oxides. ranchers would add bentonite as a sealant so that the water would be retained in the watering hole versus seeping through into the ground. the bentonite on janice s
we had forensic firearms evidence, forensic metallurgist. this case was built on forensics. the jury deliberated for three and a half days, and then found janice dodson guilty of first-degree murder. she was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. when the verdict came in in the courtroom, my legs turned to rubber and all i can do today is, and i never got a chance, i wanted to thank the jury for all the work they did. to investigators and the forensic experts who worked on the case, janice dodson was one step away from committing the perfect crime. janice probably never thought that where she walked and picked up soil on her boots and her clothing might have played a key part in convicting her. bruce was never far from our thoughts during this whole
size identified as a .243 caliber round. only landmark we really had to go on was the base design. janice dodson had been hunting on this trip, too. but this bullet did not come from her rifle or bruce s. so it couldn t have been bruce s rifle that killed him. couldn t have been janice s rifle that killed bruce dodson. dr. canfield was convinced the shooting was no accident. i was able to conclude, beyond a reasonable doubt and with reasonable medical certainty, that bruce died from multiple gunshot wounds, and it was clearly a homicide. running my own shop has been brutal. but then i got a domain and built my website all at godaddy. now i look so professional, i just got my first customer who isn t related to me. get a domain, website and email
a match. which meant both bullets were from the same batch. the odds of a bullet from the same batch being in the victim and being in the hillside of not being fired at the same sequence of shots, the odds against that were just astounding. prosecutors believe janice dodson planned her husband s murder almost from the day they got married. and she chose a campsite just a short distance away from where she knew her ex-husband had camped every year for the past 20 years. at some point prosecutors say janice quietly made her way over to her ex-husband s campsite, wading through the mud in the pond so she wouldn t be seen. while her ex-husband is away, she stole his remington .308