This is a murder case that shocked the united States, a young woman was brutally murdered in her home, the young quadruplets witnessed all this, the police also quickly caught the killer, although the case seems to be solved, but there are too many doubts, after the FBI's full investigation, although successfully locked the murderer, but the truth behind it is still foggy, this is what happened in the United States Sheila. The Bruce case.
The story takes place in Sarasota, Florida, the capital of Sarasota County, where Sheila and her children live, a happy family, husband Jimmy is a salesman, wife Sheila is at home to take care of four young children, but disaster suddenly struck.
Sheila's family
We pushed back the clock to November 6, 1997, at 4 p.m., when Steven, a 13-year-old middle school student, returned home. She pushed open the door and saw several of her siblings crying, their bodies stained with blood, and she searched for her mother, and she came to the kitchen, and the sight in front of her stunned her: she saw her mother, Sheila, lying in a pool of blood, and the ground was covered with blood.
Horrified, Steven quickly dialed the 911 police number, and then a large number of police officers rushed to the scene to investigate.
Sheila. Bruges
The deceased, Sheila, 35, was shot in the head and stabbed twice in the throat, and the forensic medical examiner determined that she had bled to death. Her quadruplet daughter became the only witness to the murder, but was too young to tell the course of the murder. In the children's confused expressions, the agents only barely heard them say that a man suddenly broke in and fired a shot at his mother. After the scene investigation, Sheila had a gunshot wound that penetrated the head of the deceased, a knife wound to the neck, and a 45 caliber pistol shell casing was found at the scene, as well as a kitchen knife. Later, after laboratory analysis, there were traces of fiber burning on the shell casing, and the police believed that the murderer had wrapped a towel in the pistol for silence when he fired the gun. The police also found traces of the fight at the scene, and the blood stains ran from the kitchen to the storage room, which showed the fierceness of the fight at that time. Agents also found a fingerprint on the kitchen refrigerator that did not belong to Sheila's family, which police speculated was most likely left by the killer.
The police then launched an investigation.
Sheila is a local celebrity because Sheila gave birth to quadruplets on December 5, 1995, three boys and a girl, and became a star in the eyes of the public through media reports. Sheila's bizarre murder immediately became the front page headline of major media in the United States, which also created a lot of pressure on the police.
Sheila's quadruplets
The first suspect in the police is Sheila's husband Jimmy, Jimmy has served in the Navy, has a violent personality, so that Sheila is a little afraid of him, and Jimmy bought insurance for his wife not long ago, there is a suspicion of killing his wife and cheating insurance, but after investigation, on the day of the crime, Jimmy was out of town and had a credible alibi, so Jimmy's suspicion was ruled out.
Soon the police found a witness, saying that someone had asked him about the address of Sheila's house that day, and said with certainty the license plate number of the person.' Police found that the license plate number of the car belonged to Texas, and the owner was a young man named Del.
On November 11, police found the car in Austin, Texas, and found a camouflage suit and a .45-caliber pistol in the car, which was technically identified as the murder weapon that killed Sheila, and the blood on the camouflage suit matched the blood of the victim, Sheila. Then, the police found the fingerprints belonging to Del on the car, which were consistent with those found on the clothes dryer of Sheila's family at the scene of the crime.
Bender
The police believe that the case was solved, and that sheila was killed by Del, a Texan.
However, the question is, according to Sheila's family and friends, sheila and Del's lives do not intersect, why did Del kill someone he didn't know at all.
During the investigation, the police found that Sheila's love life was not going well.
Born in 1962, Sheila worked as a secretary to a prominent lawyer, Charlie. There, she met her first husband, Ellen. Alan is 7 years older than Sheila, graduated from Stanford University, a prestigious American university, and is a multimillionaire who runs a medical device company. Sheila's boss, Charlie, is Alan's divorce lawyer, and Ellen was married twice when she met Sheila, but both ended in divorce.
Sheila
The young and beautiful Sheila immediately attracted Alan's attention, and Sheila was fascinated by his enthusiasm, roses, and crazy pursuits, and in 1983, they married and gave birth to two daughters. But their marriage soon went wrong, Sheila found that her husband was ostensibly a decent gentleman, but it was just a playboy, in fact, a playboy, in 1988, Alan and Sheila sued for divorce, Allen was fined $75,000 by the court for using violence against Sheila during the marriage, And Sheila received $200,000 in the property and 20% of Allen's electrical medical company, and the two daughters were raised by Sheila.
In 1993, Sheila met Jimmy, who worked at Northwest Airlines, a former Marine and honest man, and Sheila soon married Jimmy and gave birth to quadruplets in December 1995.
Since Sheila and Ellen divorced, the two have been fighting for custody of their daughters, but in the end Sheila has won the case, but after Sheila was killed, Alan, who has always been vicious to Sheila, issued a statement in the newspaper, saying that he was sad about Sheila's murder and offering a reward of ten thousand dollars to arrest the murderer.
In late November 1997, Del was arrested in Mexico, but he refused to tell the truth.
At this time, the agents found another important clue, Del made two phone calls to Texas before committing the crime, and finally confirmed that the owner of this call was Del's cousin Samur, the police immediately found him and searched his home, here, the police found another important clue, the knife found at the scene of the crime that cut Sheila's throat came from Samuel's kitchen.
At Samuel's testimony, the police also found a man, Danny, and in the police station, the testimony of the two men restored the truth of the entire case.
It turns out that Sheila's death was a murder, and the mastermind was Sheila's ex-husband, Alan. Alan is a rather scheming person, in order to deal with the Position, he has long been premeditated, obviously, this kind of thing he is a multimillionaire to do it himself is inappropriate, so he began to choose the main animal color candidate, he found Danny, in Alan's life creed, money is omnipotent, can be solved with money is not a problem, his approach to Danny is to use money to buy, the main operation method is to give Danny money through various channels, as long as Danny says that he has any difficulties, Alan will take the initiative to sponsor.
Sheila's ex-husband, Alan
After a long time, the two became friends, and when the time was ripe, Alan told him about getting revenge on his ex-wife, at first talking about beating him, then saying that he was crippled, and after repeated attempts, he said the real purpose, killed his ex-wife Sheila, and provided Danny with a picture of Sheila and gave Danny fifty thousand dollars, and promised Danny to give him another $400,000 to fund him to open a bar after the fact.
Although he was a friend, Danny didn't want to do it himself, and he found his friend Samuel.
Samuel didn't want to deal with women at first, but he still took it for the sake of money. He approached his cousin Del and gave him $4,000, and Del moved.
So Del went to Sheila's house and killed her.
The case soon went to trial, with the direct murderer Del sentenced to life in prison, Samuel sentenced to 17 years, and the mastermind of the murder, Alan, also sentenced to two life sentences.
Sheila's husband, Jimmy
At this point in the story, people will have such a question, why did Ellen have to kill his ex-wife, although the two people had a dispute over the custody of the child, and fought a lawsuit for ten years, but none of this is enough to make a person kill, what is the secret here. We might as well speculate that something must have threatened Alan, and for a businessman, the most important thing is fame.
During the investigation, the police officer learned that the chaos of Alan's private life was staggering, and that he was glamorous in the face of the media on weekdays, but behind the call for prostitutes, women's clothing, etc., but these were just appearances, and there were many things that could not be described at all, and if they were publicized, they would definitely discredit Allen.
The FBI speculates that After ten years of custody struggle with Allen, Sheila, after the aggressive ex-husband continued to sue, sheila, who was eager to get rid of the entanglement of her ex-husband, had to come up with evidence that her ex-husband Alan was overwhelmed with threats, which explained why her ex-husband Allen gave up custody of the child under very favorable conditions. But as for what the secret was, because Alan Ning wouldn't tell it anyway, and after his ex-wife's death, he changed his mind to say that Sheila was a qualified mother, and he didn't understand why Del killed him.