In 1986, a newly married young woman in the United States died tragically at home, and the cunning murderer misled the police with false clues for 23 years, until an attentive police officer found important clues when consulting the case file, and the murderer who had been at large for 23 years was finally arrested.
The murdered young woman named Shirley, a cheerful and enthusiastic beauty, in November 1985, Shirley and her boyfriend John who had been in love for many years entered the palace of marriage.
After marriage, the two lived very happily, but this happy life lasted only 3 months before it was broken by sudden bad luck.
It was Monday, February 24, 1986, and John was driving home after a day's work, only to find the glass in his garage shattered and his wife Shirley's BMW parked in the garage missing.
Realizing that something was wrong, John hurriedly rushed into the house, but it was too late, and his beloved wife Shirley was lying covered in blood at the stairwell to the second floor, already losing her breath of life.
Subsequently, John endured his grief and called the police, and the police did not dare to neglect when they learned that there was a murder, and immediately sent a large number of police forces to the scene to investigate.
After examining Shirley's body, the forensic doctor confirmed that Shirley died of gunfire, with a total of 3 gunshot wounds on her body, and judging by the shape of the wound, the murder weapon was a 38-caliber firearm.
In addition, Shirley should have fought fiercely with the murderer during her lifetime, because the forensic doctor found a deep tooth mark on Shirley's left forearm and extracted saliva on it.
However, because DNA technology at the time was not mature and could not extract DNA from saliva, the forensic doctor just put the extracted saliva sample in the refrigerator and left it alone.
On the other side, after the police carefully investigated the scene, they found that the drawers and cabinets of Sydney's house had traces of being turned over, and there was a pair of expensive speakers in the center of the living room, but the connection cable of the audio was placed at the door.
Based on these clues, the police speculated that this should be a burglary and murder, and the murderer may have wanted to take advantage of the fact that Shirley and his wife were going to work on Monday and sneaked into Shirley's house to steal things, but did not think that Shirley did not go to work that day, but slept at home.
So, when the murderer sneaked into Shirley's house to steal, he was caught by Shirley, and then the murderer shot Shirley in a panic, and then broke into the garage and fled in Shirley's BMW.
According to this speculation, the police called the recent theft cases in the local area, and sure enough, there was a major discovery, not long before the crime, there was a burglary near Shirley's house.
In this theft case, the burglar also shot the owner of the house and used a 38-caliber firearm, so the police determined that this case and Shirley's case should be the same person, and investigated the two cases together.
But because in both cases, the murderer did not leave any clues, and surveillance was not widespread in that era, so if the police wanted to track the murderer, they could only use stupid methods to investigate step by step, so the progress of the investigation was extremely slow.
It was not until a week after the crime that the police finally found Shirley's lost BMW in an abandoned factory, but unfortunately, the police did not find any useful clues in the car.
Subsequently, the police investigated for several months, but the case never progressed, so the police slowly abandoned the investigation, and Shirley's case has been unsolved ever since.
It was not until 2009, 23 years after Shirley's murder, that the police began to investigate the old cases as local security improved greatly and there were fewer and fewer criminal cases, and Shirley's case was reopened.
After reviewing the Shirley case file, the police made a surprising discovery that all the relevant evidence in Shirley's case was taken away by a police officer named Phil on October 11, 1993, and has not been returned.
The police, who realized that something was wrong, immediately contacted the Phil police officer to ask for evidence, but Phil said that he had never taken the evidence in the Shirley case, and that someone should have taken the evidence in his name.
After hearing this, the police's heart suddenly sank, if even the evidence is lost, then how can they solve Shirley's case? Just when the police were worried about this, a police officer suddenly made a major discovery after carefully reviewing the Shirley case file.
According to the dossier, the forensic doctor had extracted the murderer's saliva from Shirley's body, but in the evidence column, there was no record of saliva samples.
In other words, the saliva sample was probably not lost like other evidence, but was still kept in the forenser's refrigerator, so the police immediately contacted the forensic department and asked them to help find the saliva sample.
After some searching, the forensic doctor finally found a saliva sample that had been stored for 23 years in the corner of the refrigerator and successfully extracted DNA from it.
Subsequently, the police entered the DNA into the DNA database for comparison, but unfortunately did not find a matching data, although the police were somewhat disappointed, but not discouraged.
Because, according to the DNA test report, the owner of this DNA is a woman, the police only need to reorganize the case, find the suspected woman in Shirley's case, and compare the DNA one by one.
According to this method, the police quickly determined the identity of the murderer and arrested her, and the murderer could only surrender and confess in the face of DNA evidence.
The murderer's name is Stephanie, John's ex-girlfriend, just because he was jealous that Shirley and John were married, he killed Shirley, and then forged the crime scene into a burglary, thereby misleading the police for more than 20 years.
At the same time, Stephanie has another identity, she is a senior detective in the art theft department of the Los Angeles Police Department, and belongs to the police insider, which is why she was able to take the physical evidence of Shirley's case from the inside of the department.
In March 2012, the case went to trial, and the court finally sentenced Stephanie to 27 years in prison, at this time, although 26 years have passed since Shirley's murder, the murderer has received the punishment he deserves.
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