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up next a well-known business owner is brutally attacked at work there was a lot of blood on the floor on
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the walls on the door is it the work of a disgruntled employee no one trusted him he leaves due to
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stress or a robbery gone wrong i had given her a thousand dollars night she was killed that thousand dollars
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were never found a witness comes forward with a possible motive she made me promise that if anything
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happened to her i'd go immediately to the police the evidence answers some questions and raises many more
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it didn't look planned he just basically probably stabbed [Music] [Music] for years george hansen and mary ann
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clinbury ran zulu's remodeling as business partners in love's park illinois and they were
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quite a pair their home-spun television commercials helped make their business a success
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at al zulo's the don't move in proof votes one call does it all marianne ram the
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finance the business side george ran the construction crew the maintenance buying the products that
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sort of thing by 2004 marianne told her partner she wanted to retire very nice person very kind she'd do
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anything for anybody she wanted to you know start enjoying life a little bit to get the fruits of
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her labor a few days before the christmas holiday after everyone else had left mary ann stayed late to go over the
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books as she was about to lock up the office to leave she was viciously attacked
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the next morning her partner george hansen and another employee found marianne's body when they arrived
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for work i saw all the blood around mary anne i've never seen a dead body before
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and nothing that horrible paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene every morning you always gotta i always
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went into her office to tell her to have a good day and of course that's what you got back
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and that's the last time i spoke to her she had substantial head injuries and the pathologist
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determined that she had suffered at least three blows to the back of her head crime scene technicians found some
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unusual clues there was fresh blood on top of coagulated blood which meant there were two separate
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altercations i could tell that she was hitting the hallway first at least twice when she went down she was down for a
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minimum of 15 minutes before he knelt on her back and beat her at least two more times made you question
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why that person then would go back to her and and beat her more marianne's purse was missing an
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indication the motive might have been robbery but nothing else had been taken from the
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office we would expect anything of real value that individuals could carry would be missing nothing was missing
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from the business marianne was a 69 year old widow the mother of five grown children i'm visually impaired
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she was my eyes she was my love and she was my life we had things to do we weren't two old
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people sitting watching the clock go around in a search for suspects investigators
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learned that the company recently fired an employee kevin doyle and his dislike for marianne
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was well known no one trusted him including zulo employees he was a former employee of el zulus
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he leaves due to stress somewhat maybe of a nervous breakdown doyle had a motive and he still had
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keys to the building making him the prime suspect hi i'm marianne and this is george and
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we're from alveolar remodeling specialists al zulu's remodeling was an institution
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in love's park illinois al zulu remodeling has been a part of making your house
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a home marianne was in some of the the print advertising very early on in the business
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kind of doing this vanna white thing with the kitchen cabinets and marianne clibre was well known in
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the community for her generosity she would advance employees salary out of her own pocket not the company
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money investigators were convinced marianne was killed by a client or a co-worker it had to be somebody who
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was somewhat familiar with the layout of the business the investigation centered on a disgruntled ex-employee
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kevin doyle he was not a reputable person i believe that he was a lot of talk but couldn't
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perform i believe he said things that weren't weren't accurate and i believe that he was not to be
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trusted when questioned doyle said he was at home sick at the time of the murder but there was
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no one to back up his story kevin doyle had no criminal record but the day after
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the murder he did something very strange kevin shows up and offers his assistance to the family
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and how he himself can keep that business afloat we're thinking okay we uh we have a
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suspect here you know you hear so often the over cooperative witness so to speak well that was kevin
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police also learned that marianne and her business partner george hansen never got along
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it is always a challenge between the two because her personalities are so much different they're always in conflict
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she was always very elegant talked very well cured herself very well he did not appear to be
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what i would call a strong ethical honest person they were business partners and they had
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worked together for many many years she didn't realize that he was angry over the fact that al zulu had made her
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an equal partner to the business when he died george denied there were problems and said his relationship with marianne
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was a good one when you have a business relationship just like a marriage you've got to get
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along if you don't get along break it off and we got along great when questioned
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by police george said he had an alibi for the time of the murder he had gone to have drinks with his wife
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then he took his daughter to some driving school and had gone to a tanning salon
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and i believe maybe at that point he finally went home then the day after the murder there was
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an unexpected development a local resident called police to report seeing a black garbage bag on top of the ice on
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the rock river which was five miles from the murder scene what really brought up to their
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attention is not too long before that there was a baby discovered in a garbage bag the fire department
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used a ladder truck to lift the bag from the ice it was a substantial project several men
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had to go down over the river in the ice which is dangerous and retrieve the bag inside the black
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garbage bag was another plastic bag filled with a variety of items a sweater a hammer leather gloves
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and a purse containing mary ann clibbery's identification i think when they found that bag that
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kind of that connected everything apparently the killer threw the bag from the bridge
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but missed the open water and it landed on the ice instead if he looked over the bridge he took two
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three steps and hit open water how stupid can you be the sweater in the bag was covered in
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blood there was blood spatter inside the right sleeve which goes along with the author at the
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scene that was right-handed person that hit her from behind tests showed the blood was mary ann's
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employees recognized the sweater right away it belonged to the original owner of the
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company al zullo mr zulo had this sweater for many many years and it was always in our office other
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people put it on two once a while when they got cold scientists look for areas on the sweater
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that might contain skin cells i swabbed the collar of the sweater to determine the
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wear of that of the sweat sweater would these skin cells identify the killer police had two suspects in the murder of
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mary ann clibbery her business partner george hansen and a disgruntled employee kevin doyle forensic testing of the
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bloody sweater found in the discarded plastic bag with marianne's personal belongings
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found skin cells on the collar the skin cells provided a dna profile when i analyzed the swabbing of the
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collar to determine the wearer it matched george hansen's profile and it didn't match anybody else's
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profile but that didn't prove he was the killer the sweater belonged to the original
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business owner al zulo and remained in the company closet other employees in addition to george
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hansen occasionally wore it i started using sweater in the wintertime and it would wear
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and of course all the people put it on two once in a while when they got cold then police discovered another bizarre
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piece of information a forensic analysis of marianne's coffee cup found a large amount of a prescription sleep
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medication but marianne hadn't been prescribed this medication shortly after drinking some coffee she
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became very ill this also happened after eating salads she would fall asleep at her desk in the
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afternoons when police asked who had access to marianne's food only one name surfaced
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she would come in feeling fine in the mornings george hansen made it a point to hand
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deliver her her coffee marianne's boyfriend told police about a possible motive
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it was something marianne told him about shortly before her death she made me promise to
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her that if anything happened to her i'd go immediately to the police with my knowledge marianne had sent
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out christmas cards to some of the clients a couple of these clients returned those cards back to the
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business with notes informing them you know of the problems that they were they were
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suffering these clients told marianne they weren't getting paid but internal company records showed they had
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been paid marianne did some amateur forensic accounting and learned that her business partner
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george hansen was stealing from the company he was collecting money from the customers and then he was
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depositing money in his own account mary ann discovered that george has stolen up to a hundred thousand dollars
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he was not only taking actual monies coming in but also he had a little side business
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going where he would charge supplies through the el zulu company and use them for his personal projects marianne was
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shocked to learn the company was in danger of bankruptcy i knew of it but there's no way i could
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have told anyone if i'd have told anyone marianne and my friendship would have been over
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immediately i had to swear to her in secrecy according to her boyfriend marianne was
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going to confront hanson on the afternoon of her murder whenever they had a confrontation they
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never did it in front of the employees it was always behind closed doors we do know that they had some type of a
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meeting that day when questioned by police george hansen didn't deny he was stealing money but
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said marianne was in on it too i was deposited and we were splitting the money however marianne's financial record
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showed her transactions were consistent with the amount of her salary and nothing more gene sundeen was
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outraged by hanson's accusation i knew he was lying i knew he was lying lying through his teeth he couldn't he
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couldn't look at me and police soon found george had another possible motive if he did kill her he
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got away with that then he would collect the 150 000 in insurance policy that each had on the other he's probably
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using this as a vehicle to generate the money to buy the business then police got another tip on the day
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after mary ann's murder a witness saw a man on the bridge over the rock river
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the evidence from marianne's murder was found later that day on the ice beneath this bridge
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the person who called the police saw this truck that kept driving by the bag kind of
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like looking at it or trying to get it and thought that that was just suspicious so called the police
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this truck was distinctive it had vanity license plates that spelled out zulo the name of
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marianne and george's business and george was the only person in the company whose vehicle
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had these plates what was so fascinating is when his car was searched they found a large
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fishing lure rope and some other objects which would lead a person to believe that he
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was going to actually try to fish that bag from the bridge investigators needed to look closer at
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the items inside that bag to see if anything would prove hansen was the killer i did not kill marianne
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from the beginning police thought marianne clippery was killed by someone she worked with
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that certainly helps our focus knowing that this is an inside job and that narrows the playing field down
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george hansen had a motive marianne could prove he was stealing from the company she
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informed hansen she was in fact going to go to the authorities over his business practices
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scientists analyzed the plastic bag which contained the weapon used in marianne clibbery's murder they
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put it in a sealed chamber filled with cyanoacrylate fumes from super glue these fumes stick to the oils
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in human fingerprints i process the items with fingerprint powder this is just a fine
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black powder that i just dusted over the surface the powder will adhere to the super glue
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developed fingerprints and make them visible they found three distinct fingerprints
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and one palm print those prints matched george hansen investigators also found gloves inside
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the bag covered with marianne's blood dna tests of skin cells left in the gloves
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also matched george hansen all of them had marianne's blood on them and the gloves and the sweater
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had george hansen's dna on on them as well the dna was proof george was wearing the
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sweater and the gloves as the fatal blows were struck and investigators found the
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source of the prescription sleep medication found in marianne's coffee cup we tracked down mr hansen's sister who
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signed a statement stating that she was sending him these pills in return he would give her like 25
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dollars a month george hansen was arrested and charged with murder prosecutors believe the motive was
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financial they want to buy the business and have the money and so he's going to collect
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some insurance money on her as a business partnership and inherit the business or buy the
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business out and their life goes on prosecutors believe marianne waited until all the employees left before
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confronting hanson with the evidence of embezzlement while i see entries in your handwriting
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the clients clearly haven't learned well i've been paid of course they've been
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paid she estimated he stole more than a hundred thousand dollars from the company
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he could either pay the money back or marianne was going to report him to police
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hanson however chose another option murder as marianne was about to walk out through the back door
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hanson struck her in the head with a hammer while hanson staged the scene to look
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like a robbery he discovered that marianne wasn't dead so he struck her again
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creating more blood spatter on top of the coagulated blood proof of two separate beatings
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he put his sweater gloves and the hammer along with marianne's purse into the bag on his way home
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he dropped the bag into the river but it was winter time and he missed the open water by about
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five feet and it landed on the ice i'd like to have seen his face when that bag
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hit the ice and he heard a large plunk instead of a splash the theory was to drop the bag into the
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water and have it float away [Music] later a witness saw hanson's car driving
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back and forth over the rock river bridge most likely contemplating how to retrieve the bag he tried to
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throw into the river once in custody hanson changed his story he denied killing mary ann but admitted
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to a cover-up he said he found marianne's body when he first got to work thought he'd
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be blamed for her murder so he removed the items that belonged to him from the scene
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that's where i goofed up i saw my hammer and gloves there which were mine i saw all the blood around marianne
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i panicked i didn't call 9-1-1 and i picked everything up put them in a bag and left
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but the jury didn't believe it george hansen was convicted of first degree murder
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and sentenced to 60 years in prison i've been here for the rest of my life it took longer
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for the jury to pick a form and than it did to come back with a guilty verdict hi i'm marianne and this is george of
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alzula remodeling specialists and while the boss is away we will pay we will give you a five percent discount
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on any new what was once a prosperous enterprise ended in deception and murder but forensic evidence
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and mother nature helped solve the mystery what are the odds of going to a river
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with the intent to sink a bag and have it hit solid ice knowing that you've already cased the river out
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knowing that it's it's wide open body of water except for a few feet on each side and he
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he accidentally drops it in the wrong place if george wasn't so dumb we wouldn't have found it it'd have been
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a lot tougher case to deal with george was banking on the fact that he had no witnesses
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you know not just the blood's better but the fingerprints and then you know the the dna off the
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sweater all of those things that kind of pointed back toward george hansen you