In the Halloween murder that shocked the United States in the last century, the 100 suspects tested DNA and were not the murderers.
Until 10 years later, a police detective with "dyslexia" finally captured the real murderer with a seemingly ordinary "description" after rereading the case file dozens of times.
Too late to explain, hurry up and get in the car.
·
Hello everyone, I am Ma Gang Zhen, a fan of suspense movies.
Not long ago, I watched a documentary, it was a real case, and it really shocked me.
In the town, a 12-year-old girl scout was kidnapped and brutally murdered on her way home, leaving behind a dress with semen spots and a pair of white sneakers at the scene of the crime.
Such a "blatant" clue is a serious provocation by the murderer to the police and society.
Hundreds of residents of the town joined forces to pursue the murderer, and the police brought back a total of 100 suspects without finding the murderer.
What kind of hatred and resentment, to kill a 12-year-old girl, and how did the murderer hide under the eyes of the whole society?
Next, listen to my detailed interpretation of this Halloween murder in the United States.
It happened in 1992 in a small town in Pennsylvania, USA.
It was Halloween, and the girl Shauna had changed into a beautiful dress early and gone to a party with her friends.
At 8:30 p.m., the event ended.
Shauna went home with her friends and walked to the fork of the street three streets away from home.
My friend asked, "Or I'll send you back." ”
"No, it's so close, I'll just walk back myself."
For Shauna, the way home was so familiar that it was only three streets away, and she said goodbye to her friends and went alone.
But these hundreds of meters of road have become her road of no return.
At 9:30 p.m., Shauna's mother still didn't wait for Shauna to come home, and she sensed something was wrong.
Let's start with Shauna's family members, who have a mother, a teenage brother, and a stepfather.
The mother called Shauna's friend, who said, "No way, we separated more than an hour ago." ”
The way home was only a few hundred meters, and Shauna couldn't have walked for more than an hour and not returned.
Something must have happened to her mother, and my mother hurriedly called the police.
The stepfather and son went out looking for it, shouting Shauna's name, which echoed over the peaceful town.
The townspeople are kind, every family comes out to help, and hundreds of people approach the carpet to find Shawna.
The police judged that Shauna was most likely kidnapped.
At this time, a passerby provided a clue, saying that he had seen Shauna at 8:30 p.m.
Shauna spoke to a tall, thin man, who was later pushed into a red sedan by the tall, thin man.
He didn't see the license plate, only a red car.
Since mobile phones were not yet widespread in 1992, the man ran a few streets to find a public telephone to call the police, so he missed the best time.
According to this clue, the police set up barricades at the entrances and exits of the town to check the suspicious vehicles one by one.
Hundreds of the town's inhabitants spontaneously conducted a carpet search around the town and nearby hills.
It can be said that such a scale has sealed the murderer's route.
But after looking for a night, there was still no news.
The tragedy occurred three days later, on the edge of a hill on the edge of the town.
It is a natural hunting area and is rarely visited.
There are a few dilapidated camping sheds in the mountains, and from time to time some addicts and drunkards are happy here.
In such a sinful place, under a bridge, on a stone pillar, an addict found Shauna's body.
When the police arrived at the scene, they found a dress with fine spots and a pair of white sneakers worn by Shauna on the bridge.
Under the bridge, Shauna, naked, was found.
There was also a crumpled candy paper beside the corpse.
The bridge was ten meters high, and Shauna had been undressed and thrown off the bridge.
The forensic examination report was: Shauna fell to the bridge to death, leaving a large blood stain on the stone mortar under the bridge, after falling off the bridge Shauna did not die immediately, she experienced five minutes of pain, five minutes later because of excessive blood loss to die.
The shallow river water constantly washed away trying to take away the blood.
Further testing, even more shocking, Shauna was invaded by X before she died.
The clothing with the fine spots is the best proof.
What's even more frightening is that the bridge was visited by residents after Shauna's disappearance, and no one was there at the time.
That is to say, this murderer spent three days, enough to bully Shauna for three days, and then brought her here to throw the body.
He also arrogantly left clothes and shoes on the bridge, full of provocations against the police and the bottom line of society.
Seeing this, let's take stock of the clues held by the police.
Shauna's body found many traces of abrasions and bindings, indicating that Shauna was once imprisoned somewhere.
The bridge is known only to local residents, and the police locked down the city on the first day of Shauna's disappearance.
So the murderer is most likely a small-town resident.
The killer was a tall, thin man driving a red sedan.
The murderer has an antisocial personality, he is fierce and intelligent, and the killer's semen remains at the scene.
The clues available to the police are relatively sufficient, and most critically, in 1992, DNA technology has been used.
The perpetrator is most likely someone who knows Shawna.
The first suspect suspected by the police was the addict who found Shauna's body, who also happened to be driving a red car.
The police drew blood from him, and in those days DNA tests were only done by drawing blood.
Soon, the blood comparison failed.
Then the police carried out a very "hurtful" operation.
Bring Shauna's stepfather, Shauna's brother, back to the police station to draw blood.
According to the experience of previous criminal cases, the highest proportion of murders often comes from their own relatives.
The blood comparison failed again.
So the police expanded their targets and brought back all the men they knew and might know with Shawna to draw blood.
The most suspicious of these is a man A who works at a pizzeria.
Tall, thin, and driving a red car, he has pedophilic tendencies, and when selling pizza, he often uses his hands and feet when he sees the other party if he is a girl.
At the same time, the house where A lives is not far from the place where the body was dumped, and there is a small secret door in the house, which is just in line with the conditions for hiding.
Just when the police thought that this A was the murderer, the comparison failed again.
A's DNA didn't match the fine spots on Shauna's clothes at all.
The police continued to arrest people, found 100 suspects, all of them drew blood, and tested DNA.
And doubts and complaints were everywhere, "Why are you suspicious of me?!" ”
Those people were people who knew Shawna, and they suffered the grief of Shauna's death, while being pointed out as suspects.
"Will you investigate the case?"
"Stupid pig!"
"Garbage!"
Protests erupted in the town, and the police, under enormous pressure, arrested people again and again, failed again and again.
The murderer was still hiding in the shadows, sneering at all this.
Time passed like this, and in a flash came three years later.
One night, an underage woman came home and met two men.
The two men tried to take her to the car, but the woman resisted desperately and shouted, and finally escaped the disaster.
The police caught the two men, who were strong and fat, and were the O'Brien brothers.
The case is too similar to the one in which Shauna was killed three years ago.
It also happened at night, and the place where the woman was attacked was the same neighborhood as Shauna's car.
The O'Brien brothers have a long history, are pedophiles and specialize in preying on underage girls.
I have been in jail several times before for the same incident.
The police asked them, "Did you do the murder of Shauna?" ”
The duo denied it, and they had a completely "impossible" time to commit the crime.
Shauna was killed on Halloween three years ago, on November 1.
Both were in jail three years ago in November for other cases.
Moreover, these two people had no car, and they looked very fat, which did not match the tall and thin murderer.
Maybe it happened in the same neighborhood, just by coincidence.
Moreover, the two men are now facing charges of attempted assault on minors and are bound to be in prison for a long time.
Shauna's case has once again reached a dead end.
I really can't find out, although the newspaper still has a reward, but the phone will not be called for weeks.
It's 1995 and Microsoft is out with Windows 95.
Computers became popular and forums rose.
Shauna's mother bought a computer, learned to surf the Internet, and logged into forums.
She can only track it down on her own, and she pays attention to pornographic, pedophile websites every day.
She wondered how many people in the world had this habit.
But after logging in, she found that in the town where she lived, there were dozens of keyboard warriors talking about "girls" with great interest.
She fell into despair, how many demons there are in this world. The world is terrible.
In 1997, on the fifth anniversary of Shauna's murder.
Tragedy has happened again in the town.
A 5-year-old girl was hacked and killed. Same modus operandi, same tragedy.
This time the townspeople were utterly outraged.
They held aloft demonstration plaques and protested in front of the police station.
This time the police were all on the move, and they were watching the demonstrators, because the murderer was probably among them.
The characteristics of the murderer are antisocial personality, such people usually do not hide after committing the crime, and even openly appear under the eyes of the police to watch their "masterpieces".
Police found a young man among the demonstrators.
The man was tall, thin, and his body movements were strange.
When the police approached him, his feet were facing outward and his arms were tilted, an instinctive evasive response after doing something wrong.
The police hooked the young man, "Dude, be honest. ”
The man was provoked in a few strokes and fell to his knees.
He confessed that he had killed the 5-year-old girl because he had a special fetish in that area.
This case was immediately solved.
Unfortunately, the young man was not Shauna's killer.
He is only 17 years old this year, and 5 years ago, he was only 12 years old. He did not fit the characteristics of the murderer at all.
And because he was a minor, under the penal code, he only needed to attach a sentence of about twelve years to the murder of a 5-year-old girl.
One thing ends, one thing gets no results.
Shauna's death has also completely become an open case.
Here it is necessary to say a cold knowledge, in the 90s when criminal investigation technology and surveillance were not yet developed.
According to statistics, in those years, there were 120,000 unsolved cases in the United States, of which only one percent were cracked.
There are too many demons, and behind the murderous criminal methods, what a thoughtful and terrifying human heart.
In 2002, ten years after Shauna was killed.
An old police officer with dyslexia took over the case.
And it is precisely because of his appearance that this case has undergone a huge reversal.
In fact, at that time, he was responsible for 72 unsolved cases, and he had to study the cases one by one every night.
Because he suffers from dyslexia, he must read very carefully and carefully. Even in the face of so many mysteries, he still takes Shauna's murder very seriously.
Read word by word.
He wondered why there was a crumpled piece of sugar paper next to Shauna's body.
He continued to read the case file.
Others look at each word in a row, and he studies every word for half a day.
After reading the file material dozens of times, he found that one of the sentences was very unsmooth.
The phrase goes like this, "A shoe print was found on Shauna's face."
The word "shoe print" appeared only once in the case file and was not mentioned in subsequent autopsy reports.
It was the word "shoe print" that confused the old cop.
In other words, Shauna was stepped on before she died, which means that the murderer is not only cold-blooded, but also violent.
But he obviously threw away the body, why did he still have to step on it?
Isn't the murderer just a person?
When this inference is formed, all the mysteries of the case seem to be solved.
If the murderer was not just one person, that is to say, there may have been two or three or four people, and a group of people had committed assaults on Shauna.
Accomplices don't necessarily leave DNA behind, so those who were previously DNA innocent could also be the killers.
So the old policeman conducted another investigation of all the suspects. He also went out of his way to find the Fire Department.
Remember man A in that pizzeria?
The man's DNA doesn't match, but he has a red car and a house loft where he can hide people.
The point is that shortly after the crime, there was a record on the Fire Department's side. This A's red sedan accidentally caught fire and turned into a steel frame.
Burnt car, pedophile, tall skinny, pizzeria man A is once again locked as a key suspect.
After several rounds of interrogation, this A confessed.
The conversation is like this —
"Did you see Shauna before the crime?" The police asked.
"Seen. I saw her coming up and I asked her if she had any Halloween candy to sell me? ”
"Why are you looking for candy from her?"
"I like to eat sugar."
"I know this, say the point!" The policeman roared.
"Then I hugged her and loaded her into the car, and the O'Brien brothers were in the car, and the three of us took Shauna away." ”
A admitted that he was forced to participate in the kidnapping because of threats from the O'Brien brothers.
The O'Brien Brothers? The old cop was stunned.
He remembered mentioning in the case file that in 1995 he had captured a pair of chubby, stout O'Brien brothers who had been burdened with bad things.
The two men were not checked for their DNA because they were in prison in November 1992 and had alibi.
Weren't they in jail at the time?
The old policeman immediately called the prison to investigate, "On November 1, 1992, were the O'Brien brothers in prison?" ”
Soon there was a reply from the prison, and the O'Brien brothers were arrested around November 15 for something else.
Since the archives at the time only reflected the month of November, the "time difference" of the crime was missed.
In other words, the O'Brien brothers were not in prison when Shawna was killed, but the O'Brien brothers and the pizzeria man A jointly committed a crime against Shawna.
The old cops found the O'Brien brothers, who were still in prison.
He met with his eldest brother first and gave O'Brien a candy.
After eating the sugar, O'Brien folded the sugar paper into squares.
At that moment, the old policeman knew that he was the mastermind.
After comparing the DNA, O'Brien's DNA matched the fine spots on Shauna's clothes.
The whole thing also surfaced.
The O'Brien brothers took Shauna back to A's residence and then committed the assault.
Because of the big deal, the O'Brien brothers decided to kill Shauna to kill her.
They locked Shawna in the trunk of the car, where poor Shawna struggled all night, leaving bruises on her feet and body.
The O'Brien brothers stripped Shawna of her clothes and shoes and threw her off the 10-meter-high bridge.
They put their clothes and shoes neatly on the bridge, as if to say to the police, "You have the ability to arrest me." ”
That night, when Shauna fell to the stone mortar by the river, she was seriously injured and struggled for five minutes before she died.
The O'Brien brothers on the bridge watched Shawna die, and they ate the sugar they had taken from Shawna's hand, folded the candy paper into squares, and threw them down the bridge.
On Halloween, a night full of mischief and lies.
"Trick or treat without sugar."
The vicious trio did the most cold-blooded and murderous thing to a girl who was only 12 years old.
This cold-blooded murder was thus solved.
Pizzeria Man A was sentenced to 40 years in prison and the O'Brien brothers were sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.
It wasn't until ten years later that Shauna's family finally learned the truth, and it turned out that the devil had always been around.
Seeing this, I think your heart is also full of anger like mine, and I hope that those perverted and bad people will die hundreds of times or thousands of times.
But this didn't just happen in the '90s, it happened in the United States.
Even now, around us, such demons are always there.
What can we do?
Leave an extra pair of eyes, see the world, and when you see a girl in danger, bravely stand up and call the police at the first time.
The first second of bravery can make sin disappear in the second before it happens.
Justice will be late, but it will never be absent.