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shirley and ed andronowicz were regulars
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in a neighborhood bar a few blocks from
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their home in winnipeg canada
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on one of their nights out ed decided to
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leave early shirley wanted to stay there
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was a brief argument
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and ed went home alone
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it was shirley andronowicz's last night
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alive
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bye
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ed and shirley andronowicz had been
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married for 20 years ed was a
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construction worker surely was a
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housewife
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they lived in the fort rouge section of
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winnipeg canada with their three teenage
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daughters
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they went out that night together and
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just as usual they went out for a good
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time
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and
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i guess
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a few hours later
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my dad came home he was tired he didn't
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want to be there anymore
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she just wanted to stay and his friends
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are there so she stayed with his friends
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shirley left the bar around midnight and
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walked home
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i heard her come home that night
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she was by herself
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i don't know if she was drunk but you
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could tell that she had been drinking
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ed and shirley argued again when she
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came home
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ed said shirley went for a walk to calm
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down but never returned
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the next morning
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an employee at a nearby high school
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discovered a woman's body in the
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schoolyard
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it was a very gruesome scene
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there was some very senior homicide
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detectives that were there that were
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a little taken aback of uh of what was
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discovered there
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they came to the door
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and i went and got my father
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i went upstairs
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then i got called downstairs
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and
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the
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the police looked at my father and said
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do you want to tell her
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he just kind of hung his head and kind
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of nodded
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and
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they told me
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they told me that you know we found your
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mother
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she's been
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killed
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shirley adranowicz had been sexually
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assaulted beaten and mutilated with bite
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wounds over much of her body
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it appeared that she had been strangled
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then hit with a large piece of concrete
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there was the destruction of the facial
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features
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and there was an obvious sexual assault
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had taken place so this this was a
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a definite uh
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gruesome
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scene i've been a prosecutor for 23
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years
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and i have never seen any case
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with as much brutality to a human body
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in a written statement ed andronowicz
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admitted that he argued with his wife
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that night but said he had no idea what
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happened to her after she left their
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home
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homicide investigators bob marshall and
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ron oliver decided to question ed
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endranowicz again
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to learn more about what happened on the
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night shirley andronowicz was murdered
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at one point
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he was
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sort of asked in a in a sort of a
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helpful sort of a question to him if he
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had any idea
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who may have killed his wife
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12 30 in the morning the answer
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andronowicz gave
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was a bombshell
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he said
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he was the murderer
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he actually had some knowledge
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of some of the aspects of the crime for
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example he knew where the body was
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he knew that it was in behind the grant
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park high school
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i was angry with the with the police i
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mean
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they thought it was my dad and i was
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angry with people who thought it could
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even be my father
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because i knew it wasn't and
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not only should they just
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you know
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knowing my father know that he could not
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have done that
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but trust my word even though i was only
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14.
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to make absolutely sure police
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questioned andronowicz again on the
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following day and again
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he confessed
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ed andronowicz was charged with
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second-degree murder
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ed andronowicz was held in a winnipeg
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jail after confessing to the murder of
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his wife
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although parts of his confession were
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inconsistent with the murder scene
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andronowicz said he had been drinking on
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the night of the murder and his memory
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wasn't entirely clear
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police began their forensic
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investigation by turning to dick monroe
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a forensic geologist with the winnipeg
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police department
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the murder weapon was a 55 pound
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concrete block found near the body
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his trunk was full of concrete particles
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that was exciting at the outset because
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he saw all this concrete but the trick
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was can you match the concrete to the
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block can you put that block in his
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trunk
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the process was tedious since there were
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hundreds of particles recovered from
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andronowicz's trunk all very small
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because the murder weapon was rough
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because it was a broken piece of
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concrete you're looking for like a
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jigsaw puzzle a piece that would fit
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onto it could you get a physical match
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but monroe was unable to find a match
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next police sent photographs of the
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victim's bite wounds to dr david sweet a
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forensic odontologist at the bureau of
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legal dentistry in vancouver
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ed andronowicz wore dentures which were
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also sent for analysis the question that
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came up obviously was
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can artificial teeth in the form of a
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complete upper and lower denture
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actually
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bite hard enough to remove human tissue
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dr sweet performed a metric analysis
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measuring the width and arch of
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adranowicz's dentures to see if they
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were similar to the bite wounds on
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shirley andronowicz's body
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but dr sweet could find few similarities
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i think at that point we're all leery of
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of whether we had the right person or
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not
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i know i had a question in my own mind
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as to whether we had the right person
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during shirley andronowicz's autopsy the
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medical examiner had swabbed the areas
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around the bite wounds for possible
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forensic evidence
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the swabs were rolled in a moistened
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filter paper and the paper turned white
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a positive presumptive test for the
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presence of saliva
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the next step was to determine the blood
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type of the saliva
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we had a new technique at our disposal
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called elisa
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which
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allowed us to
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type
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saliva in the [ __ ]
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blood typing factors the elisa test
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revealed that the perpetrator had type b
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blood
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this did not match edidronowicz's blood
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type
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therefore mr andronovich being of blood
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type a could not have left the b-type
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saliva found on the swabs from the
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breast
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meaning he did not he could not have
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been
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in my mind the murderer
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after two months in prison for a murder
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he confessed to but apparently didn't
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commit
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andronowicz was released
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feel better today
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you happy to be outside
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why had he confessed androna which back
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at that time
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had a terrible problem with alcohol
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and when the detectives interviewed him
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and they asked him such questions as did
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you have a fight with your wife last
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night
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he responded and said well i might have
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and then when they went on and pressed
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him and said well did you hit her he
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said i might have
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memory lapses while drinking are called
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blackouts and happen because alcohol
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interferes with the neurotransmissions
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that form memory in the brain
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and when they come out of the blackout
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it's the realization the recollection
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all of a sudden that
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something bad may well have happened and
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it's very common for alcoholics to feel
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remorse
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express guilt
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even
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imagine
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that they have done
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terrible things
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during the blackout period
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now the police investigation had to
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start
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all over again
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the murder weapon was a 55-pound piece
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of concrete
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the forensic geologist richard monroe
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had appeared to be about five years old
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and looked as if it had once been part
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of a bumper block used in parking lots
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monroe decided to visit the murder scene
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to survey the area
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he went around midnight to evaluate the
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scene the way it appeared at the time of
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the murder
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standing where the body was discovered
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monroe wondered what exactly took place
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if the victim had been strangled and was
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unconscious what happened next
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where did the concrete block come from
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then monroe saw it an illuminated area
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about 500 feet away
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in the shadows
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monroe found a piece of concrete
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about 12 feet away was another piece
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both were similar to the murder weapon
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the killer had been drawn to the area by
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lighting his only visual cue
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to prove his theory monroe needed to
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find out whether the murder weapon and
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the pieces in the schoolyard had once
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been part of the same block
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monroe performed a petrographic
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examination
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petrography is the term for
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identification of minerals
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concrete is made of sand cement water
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and pieces of stone which is poured into
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moles to form the bumper blocks
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as it dries
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the mixed design settles into a
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distinctive pattern which is visually
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different in each concrete block
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when monroe compared the murder weapon
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to the other concrete pieces found in
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the schoolyard the mixed design and
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position of the stones were identical
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the fit was
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almost like a glove when you get
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broken aggregates in your your sand and
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gravel inside your concrete it'll break
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and it's usually in a regular surface
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and you'll have some call class small
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stones that will break out of the
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concrete mold
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and what you're trying to do is fit that
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in and it's not just one fit it's a
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collection of fits
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monroe suspected that the murder weapon
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might contain a fingerprint
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but lifting a print from a porous
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surface like concrete is extremely
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difficult
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it's almost like a fingerprint is
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sitting on top of the better nails so
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your laden material which is very very
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thin is sitting on top of something that
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is very very tenuous
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as a last resort monroe decided to try a
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technique usually used to find prints on
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non-porous surfaces called super glue
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fuming
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super glue is made of cyanoacrylate
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ester
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a drop of super glue is placed into a
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chamber along with the item containing
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the print and the chamber is heated for
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up to six hours
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by heating the super glue fumes condense
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and adhere to biological material such
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as the oils of a fingerprint
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under a laser light the biological
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material fluoresces producing a clear
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image of the print
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monroe followed these steps with the
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concrete placing both the super glue and
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the concrete in a vacuum chamber
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but the color of the concrete is the
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same as the cyanoacrylate
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in order to see a print monroe needed to
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find a chemical that would attach itself
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to the cyanoacrylate
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after a number of tries monroe finally
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found one that worked it was a
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biological stain known as sudan black
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monroe found what he was looking for
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the killer's fingerprint
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but it was badly smudged
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unfortunately with the circumstances of
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the event
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with the end of it being used as a pile
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driver and
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repeat the blows on the victim
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there was a certain amount of slippage
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taking place with a 55 pound block on
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the on the hands
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but the discovery of the related
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concrete pieces in the school yard was
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important it revealed that it was a
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crime of opportunity
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and that the perpetrator may have been
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on foot
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but a full year passed
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and the trail was turning cold
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one year after the crime
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local television stations and newspapers
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carried stories about the unsolved
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murder hoping to jog someone's memory or
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conscience
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the media campaign led to the break
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police were hoping for
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one year after the brutal murder of
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shirley andronowicz
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an informant came forward saying that
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his roommate had returned home on the
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night of the murder with stains on his
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jeans and boots that looked like blood
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i'm going to take a shot
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they lived in an apartment building
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across the street from the murder scene
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mark jarmon was a 29 year old unemployed
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construction worker
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the informant also revealed the german
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had burned his clothes a day after the
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murder
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samples of german's blood and saliva
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were sent to the forensic lab
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tests revealed that mark german had type
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b blood
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the same blood type as the saliva found
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on the victim
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photographs and impressions of jarman's
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teeth were also sent for analysis
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german had a distinctive wear pattern
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that had ground the biting edge of the
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upper and lower teeth into a flattened
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surface
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there were also some unusual spaces
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between the teeth and several chipped
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areas had not been restored
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as a result of some of the testing that
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i did and the comparison with the
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suspect's teeth i was able to determine
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that his teeth were in fact consistent
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with causing these marks or another way
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to explain that is his teeth could not
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be excluded in this case as causing
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those marks
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finally police had a shopping list they
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found in the schoolyard on the night of
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the murder
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it was a big school yard and police
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weren't sure whether the shopping list
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had any connection to the murder
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on the shopping list was a fingerprint
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that print belonged to mark jarmon
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placing him in the schoolyard around the
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time of the murder
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after initially denying he was involved
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mark german eventually confessed
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jarman said he was at the same bar as
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shirley and ed andronowicz on the night
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of the murder but he didn't speak to
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them
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he said he ran into shirley andranowicz
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later near the high school while she was
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out walking
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can i see you at the bar before jarman
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said they talked and had consensual sex
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jarman said he killed shirley
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andronowicz when she threatened to tell
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her husband
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jarman said he emptied the contents of
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her purse to make the scene appear to be
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a robbery
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but investigators didn't believe
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jarman's entire story
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staff sergeant dan rohn is a blood
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spatter expert who studied the crime
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scene photos and noticed an
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inconsistency in german story
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the distance blood travels from a head
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wound struck by an object the size and
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weight of a cement block is 10 to 12
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feet
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creating medium velocity impact spatter
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on the papers found within 10 to 12 feet
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of shirley andronovich's body ron
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discovered medium velocity impact
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spatter
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the pictures of the evidence actually
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showed that the contents of her purse
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had been strewn around
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at some location in a position where
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they were exposed to the bloodletting
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which meant that shirley andronowicz's
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purse was ransacked before she was
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murdered not afterwards
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mark jarman was convicted of first
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degree murder and sentenced to life in
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prison with no chance of parole for 25
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years
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he took my mother
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i was 14 years old
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it's
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it's almost half my life
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you know i've been without her now
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and
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you can't
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i don't know how i'm ever supposed to
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forgive somebody for doing such
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a terrible thing to me
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there isn't a punishment severe enough
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that we can give this guy
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for taking something like that from us
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not a day goes by
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when she doesn't come into my mind
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i just think about
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what it would have been like if she was
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still here
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i miss her
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[Music]
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so
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you
