00:00:03
[Music] shirley and ed andronowicz were regulars in a neighborhood bar a few blocks from
00:00:13
their home in winnipeg canada on one of their nights out ed decided to leave early shirley wanted to stay there
00:00:22
was a brief argument and ed went home alone it was shirley andronowicz's last night
00:00:33
alive [Music] bye ed and shirley andronowicz had been married for 20 years ed was a
00:01:05
construction worker surely was a housewife [Music] they lived in the fort rouge section of
00:01:11
winnipeg canada with their three teenage daughters [Music] they went out that night together and
00:01:22
just as usual they went out for a good time and i guess a few hours later my dad came home he was tired he didn't
00:01:32
want to be there anymore she just wanted to stay and his friends are there so she stayed with his friends
00:01:39
shirley left the bar around midnight and walked home [Music] i heard her come home that night
00:01:46
she was by herself i don't know if she was drunk but you could tell that she had been drinking
00:01:53
ed and shirley argued again when she came home ed said shirley went for a walk to calm
00:02:01
down but never returned the next morning an employee at a nearby high school discovered a woman's body in the
00:02:15
schoolyard it was a very gruesome scene there was some very senior homicide detectives that were there that were
00:02:24
a little taken aback of uh of what was discovered there they came to the door and i went and got my father
00:02:33
i went upstairs then i got called downstairs and [Music] the the police looked at my father and said
00:02:45
do you want to tell her he just kind of hung his head and kind of nodded and they told me
00:02:54
they told me that you know we found your mother she's been killed shirley adranowicz had been sexually
00:03:05
assaulted beaten and mutilated with bite wounds over much of her body it appeared that she had been strangled
00:03:14
then hit with a large piece of concrete there was the destruction of the facial features
00:03:21
and there was an obvious sexual assault had taken place so this this was a a definite uh
00:03:30
gruesome scene i've been a prosecutor for 23 years and i have never seen any case
00:03:37
with as much brutality to a human body in a written statement ed andronowicz admitted that he argued with his wife
00:03:46
that night but said he had no idea what happened to her after she left their home
00:03:55
homicide investigators bob marshall and ron oliver decided to question ed endranowicz again
00:04:02
to learn more about what happened on the night shirley andronowicz was murdered at one point
00:04:10
he was sort of asked in a in a sort of a helpful sort of a question to him if he
00:04:15
had any idea who may have killed his wife 12 30 in the morning the answer andronowicz gave
00:04:24
was a bombshell he said he was the murderer he actually had some knowledge of some of the aspects of the crime for
00:04:34
example he knew where the body was he knew that it was in behind the grant park high school
00:04:40
i was angry with the with the police i mean they thought it was my dad and i was
00:04:46
angry with people who thought it could even be my father because i knew it wasn't and
00:04:54
not only should they just you know knowing my father know that he could not have done that
00:05:01
but trust my word even though i was only 14. to make absolutely sure police questioned andronowicz again on the
00:05:10
following day and again he confessed ed andronowicz was charged with second-degree murder
00:05:24
ed andronowicz was held in a winnipeg jail after confessing to the murder of his wife
00:05:29
although parts of his confession were inconsistent with the murder scene andronowicz said he had been drinking on
00:05:37
the night of the murder and his memory wasn't entirely clear police began their forensic
00:05:44
investigation by turning to dick monroe a forensic geologist with the winnipeg police department
00:05:50
the murder weapon was a 55 pound concrete block found near the body his trunk was full of concrete particles
00:05:59
that was exciting at the outset because he saw all this concrete but the trick was can you match the concrete to the
00:06:06
block can you put that block in his trunk the process was tedious since there were
00:06:12
hundreds of particles recovered from andronowicz's trunk all very small because the murder weapon was rough
00:06:19
because it was a broken piece of concrete you're looking for like a jigsaw puzzle a piece that would fit
00:06:24
onto it could you get a physical match but monroe was unable to find a match next police sent photographs of the
00:06:33
victim's bite wounds to dr david sweet a forensic odontologist at the bureau of
00:06:39
legal dentistry in vancouver ed andronowicz wore dentures which were also sent for analysis the question that
00:06:47
came up obviously was can artificial teeth in the form of a complete upper and lower denture
00:06:54
actually bite hard enough to remove human tissue dr sweet performed a metric analysis
00:07:01
measuring the width and arch of adranowicz's dentures to see if they were similar to the bite wounds on
00:07:08
shirley andronowicz's body but dr sweet could find few similarities i think at that point we're all leery of
00:07:17
of whether we had the right person or not i know i had a question in my own mind
00:07:22
as to whether we had the right person during shirley andronowicz's autopsy the
00:07:27
medical examiner had swabbed the areas around the bite wounds for possible forensic evidence
00:07:34
the swabs were rolled in a moistened filter paper and the paper turned white a positive presumptive test for the
00:07:42
presence of saliva the next step was to determine the blood type of the saliva we had a new technique at our disposal
00:07:53
called elisa which allowed us to type saliva in the [ __ ] blood typing factors the elisa test
00:08:05
revealed that the perpetrator had type b blood this did not match edidronowicz's blood
00:08:12
type therefore mr andronovich being of blood type a could not have left the b-type
00:08:21
saliva found on the swabs from the breast meaning he did not he could not have been
00:08:30
in my mind the murderer after two months in prison for a murder he confessed to but apparently didn't
00:08:37
commit andronowicz was released feel better today you happy to be outside why had he confessed androna which back
00:08:54
at that time had a terrible problem with alcohol and when the detectives interviewed him
00:09:00
and they asked him such questions as did you have a fight with your wife last night
00:09:05
he responded and said well i might have and then when they went on and pressed him and said well did you hit her he
00:09:11
said i might have memory lapses while drinking are called blackouts and happen because alcohol
00:09:18
interferes with the neurotransmissions that form memory in the brain and when they come out of the blackout
00:09:26
it's the realization the recollection all of a sudden that something bad may well have happened and
00:09:34
it's very common for alcoholics to feel remorse express guilt even imagine that they have done
00:09:44
terrible things during the blackout period now the police investigation had to start
00:09:52
all over again [Music] the murder weapon was a 55-pound piece of concrete the forensic geologist richard monroe
00:10:02
had appeared to be about five years old and looked as if it had once been part of a bumper block used in parking lots
00:10:11
monroe decided to visit the murder scene to survey the area he went around midnight to evaluate the
00:10:19
scene the way it appeared at the time of the murder standing where the body was discovered
00:10:26
monroe wondered what exactly took place if the victim had been strangled and was
00:10:32
unconscious what happened next where did the concrete block come from [Music] then monroe saw it an illuminated area
00:10:48
about 500 feet away in the shadows monroe found a piece of concrete about 12 feet away was another piece
00:11:05
both were similar to the murder weapon the killer had been drawn to the area by lighting his only visual cue
00:11:22
[Music] [Music] to prove his theory monroe needed to find out whether the murder weapon and
00:11:42
the pieces in the schoolyard had once been part of the same block [Music] monroe performed a petrographic
00:11:53
examination petrography is the term for identification of minerals [Music] concrete is made of sand cement water
00:12:07
and pieces of stone which is poured into moles to form the bumper blocks as it dries
00:12:14
the mixed design settles into a distinctive pattern which is visually different in each concrete block
00:12:21
when monroe compared the murder weapon to the other concrete pieces found in the schoolyard the mixed design and
00:12:28
position of the stones were identical the fit was almost like a glove when you get
00:12:36
broken aggregates in your your sand and gravel inside your concrete it'll break
00:12:40
and it's usually in a regular surface and you'll have some call class small
00:12:45
stones that will break out of the concrete mold and what you're trying to do is fit that
00:12:50
in and it's not just one fit it's a collection of fits monroe suspected that the murder weapon
00:12:57
might contain a fingerprint but lifting a print from a porous surface like concrete is extremely
00:13:04
difficult it's almost like a fingerprint is sitting on top of the better nails so
00:13:09
your laden material which is very very thin is sitting on top of something that is very very tenuous
00:13:15
as a last resort monroe decided to try a technique usually used to find prints on
00:13:20
non-porous surfaces called super glue fuming super glue is made of cyanoacrylate
00:13:27
ester a drop of super glue is placed into a chamber along with the item containing
00:13:34
the print and the chamber is heated for up to six hours by heating the super glue fumes condense
00:13:41
and adhere to biological material such as the oils of a fingerprint under a laser light the biological
00:13:51
material fluoresces producing a clear image of the print monroe followed these steps with the
00:13:58
concrete placing both the super glue and the concrete in a vacuum chamber [Music]
00:14:14
but the color of the concrete is the same as the cyanoacrylate in order to see a print monroe needed to
00:14:23
find a chemical that would attach itself to the cyanoacrylate [Music] after a number of tries monroe finally
00:14:33
found one that worked it was a biological stain known as sudan black [Music] monroe found what he was looking for
00:14:45
the killer's fingerprint but it was badly smudged unfortunately with the circumstances of
00:14:53
the event with the end of it being used as a pile driver and repeat the blows on the victim
00:15:01
there was a certain amount of slippage taking place with a 55 pound block on the on the hands
00:15:06
but the discovery of the related concrete pieces in the school yard was important it revealed that it was a
00:15:13
crime of opportunity and that the perpetrator may have been on foot but a full year passed
00:15:23
and the trail was turning cold one year after the crime local television stations and newspapers
00:15:31
carried stories about the unsolved murder hoping to jog someone's memory or conscience
00:15:38
the media campaign led to the break police were hoping for [Music] one year after the brutal murder of
00:15:50
shirley andronowicz an informant came forward saying that his roommate had returned home on the
00:16:00
night of the murder with stains on his jeans and boots that looked like blood i'm going to take a shot
00:16:10
[Music] they lived in an apartment building across the street from the murder scene
00:16:20
mark jarmon was a 29 year old unemployed construction worker the informant also revealed the german
00:16:27
had burned his clothes a day after the murder samples of german's blood and saliva
00:16:34
were sent to the forensic lab tests revealed that mark german had type b blood the same blood type as the saliva found
00:16:46
on the victim photographs and impressions of jarman's teeth were also sent for analysis
00:16:53
german had a distinctive wear pattern that had ground the biting edge of the upper and lower teeth into a flattened
00:17:00
surface there were also some unusual spaces between the teeth and several chipped
00:17:05
areas had not been restored as a result of some of the testing that i did and the comparison with the
00:17:11
suspect's teeth i was able to determine that his teeth were in fact consistent
00:17:16
with causing these marks or another way to explain that is his teeth could not be excluded in this case as causing
00:17:23
those marks finally police had a shopping list they found in the schoolyard on the night of
00:17:30
the murder it was a big school yard and police weren't sure whether the shopping list
00:17:35
had any connection to the murder on the shopping list was a fingerprint that print belonged to mark jarmon
00:17:46
placing him in the schoolyard around the time of the murder after initially denying he was involved
00:17:55
mark german eventually confessed jarman said he was at the same bar as shirley and ed andronowicz on the night
00:18:04
of the murder but he didn't speak to them [Music] he said he ran into shirley andranowicz
00:18:19
later near the high school while she was out walking [Music] can i see you at the bar before jarman
00:18:26
said they talked and had consensual sex [Music] jarman said he killed shirley andronowicz when she threatened to tell
00:18:39
her husband jarman said he emptied the contents of her purse to make the scene appear to be
00:18:49
a robbery but investigators didn't believe jarman's entire story staff sergeant dan rohn is a blood
00:19:02
spatter expert who studied the crime scene photos and noticed an inconsistency in german story
00:19:17
the distance blood travels from a head wound struck by an object the size and weight of a cement block is 10 to 12
00:19:24
feet [Applause] creating medium velocity impact spatter on the papers found within 10 to 12 feet
00:19:34
of shirley andronovich's body ron discovered medium velocity impact spatter the pictures of the evidence actually
00:19:42
showed that the contents of her purse had been strewn around at some location in a position where
00:19:48
they were exposed to the bloodletting which meant that shirley andronowicz's
00:19:53
purse was ransacked before she was murdered not afterwards mark jarman was convicted of first
00:20:01
degree murder and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years
00:20:08
he took my mother i was 14 years old it's it's almost half my life you know i've been without her now
00:20:23
and you can't i don't know how i'm ever supposed to forgive somebody for doing such
00:20:30
a terrible thing to me [Music] there isn't a punishment severe enough that we can give this guy
00:20:44
for taking something like that from us not a day goes by when she doesn't come into my mind
00:20:51
[Music] i just think about what it would have been like if she was still here i miss her
00:21:02
[Music] so [Music] you