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*TV Show: Forensic Files

S13E39: Separation Anxiety  

*Location: Texas

*Date:

*What happened: Wealthy man David Nixon was murdered and set on fire. Live in girlfriend Tracey Frame shot him, killing him with a single gunshot, she then wrapped his body in blankets, transporting Nixon’s body in a moving trolley, then drove him to an empty parking lot, there she set her lover’s body on fire. Then left him there.

*What evidence was collected:

1. Electric blanket
2. Video from supermarket
3. Nixon’s matching his & her cars
4. Moving truck
5. Discount card

*What did the evidence show (testing results):

The evidence shows that Tracey Frames rented a moving truck, shot her wealthy boyfriend with his gun and then wrapped his body in the electric blankets from the bed . She then moved his car to a store parking lot leaving it there, then drove her car to the same parking lot. She then drove to an empty parking lot setting his body on fire then driving back to the same parking lot leaving the moving truck there and driving her car back to their shared home. Changing the mattress.  

*What was the conclusion of the case?: Tracey Frame was convicted of killing David Nixon and sentenced. Everyone wondered how a person Tracey size could do such a big job, but with the help of a moving truck and moving trolley she committed the murder. She wanted to keep the house that her and David shared in her name, so she thought if she killed him that it kept her living large.

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S13E8: Constructive Criticism  

*Location: Texas

*Date: 2007

*What happened: Manager of a billion dollar construction company Darrell North was stabbed more than 30 times by his mentee Curtis Pope. Darrell fired Curtis on a rainy afternoon, growing upset with Darrell Curtis stabbed him a few times, caught off guard Darrell struck Curtis with a big hole punch; causing Curtis nose to bleed. Stabbing Darrell a few more times his body fell to the ground, standing over Darrell’s lifeless body a small droplet of Curtis blood dropped onto Darrell’s pants leg. Darrell’s son found his father’s body left in the dark construction office calling in police.

*What evidence was collected:

1. Knife
2. Blood
3. Pants
4. Hole puncher

*What did the evidence show (testing results):

Due to an large amount of blood, examiners had to take a look at the crime scene several times, they found within the blood a shoe print of  ‘Justin’s’ cowboy boot, along with the tiny round droplets of blood from Curtis. Also with the holepunch examiners were also able to make out that Curtis fought for his life striking his attacker at least once.

*What was the conclusion of the case?: Darrell’s mentee Curtis Pope killed Darrell because North was firing him. Pope’s pool business was losing money and Darrell North was his last hope. Growing upset he stuck North with a knife several times, fighting back Darrell hit Pope with the closest thing to him causing Pope to bleed. After stabbing North over 30 times Pope then fled the scene, and the first day of his trial Curtis Pope also tried to flee to Canada. Pope was pulled over in New York for driving the wrong way, arrested and sent back to Texas where he was sentenced to life.

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S13E2: House Hunting

*Location: Mckinney, Texas

*Date: 2006

*What happened: Sarah Anne a real estate agent in Mckinney, Texas was stabbed to death more than 20 times. She also was robbed of her expensive watch and ring.

*What evidence was collected:

1. Body
2. Blood Spatter
3. DNA

*What did the evidence show (testing results): Examiners found out that Sarah was bitten on her neck. They also found out that there were some sort of struggle between Sarah and the killer. With Sarah’s watch and ring missing the police we’re able to tell that there were a robbery.  

*What was the conclusion of the case?: A witness was able to help police identify Sarah’s killer by forensic hypnosis. It doesn’t place the thought there, it just helps the person remember certain details. For weeks investigators did not have a lead on any suspects, until Nelson and his wife, two eyewitnesses were able to help identify Sarah’s killer.

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S7E12: Scout’s Honor

*Location: Perry County, Pennsylvania.

*Date: May 27th, 1984

*What happened: A bypassing fishermen found a large box, when opened he discovered a torso of a woman. At first investigators could not identify the woman. The only evidence the police contained was a pair of jeans and a belt that had John Doe’s zodiac sign. A year of no leads a woman called filing a report that her ex-sister-in-law had been missing for some time that matched the physical description of the torso. It belonged to Edna Posey, a single mother that had a very troubled life. She had an 11 year old son that she asked his boy’s scout leader to take in. Donald Ruby and wife started a boy’s scout group for troubled young men. Edna tried to get her life together and moved to Virginia to do so. She agreed to spend one weekend in May with her son where she died. Donald Ruby was accused of killing Edna because all the signs were there. He spent 6 years in prison before he was proved innocent. Investigators confirmed through bug testing that Edna had been dead for about 2 days, and with further testing it was also confirmed that there were 3 different types of semen in Edna indicating that she slept with 3 different men and any of them could have killed her.  

*What evidence was collected:

1. Pair of pants
2. Box
3. Belt with zodiac sign on it

*What did the evidence show (testing results): Investigators  found a pair of pants and belt along with the torso of the victim. It took them a while to identify the woman, but with the help of insect testing investigators were able to get some sort of time frame Edna died between.

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S1E6: South-side Strangler  

*Location: Arlington Virginia

*Date: 1987

*What happened: Susan Tucker was murdered in her home by an intruder and then tied up and raped. This case was similar to others in the area making police think that they were linked together. The specific style of the way the rope was tied gave lead on what the police would be looking for. A man was put in jail, claiming that he had murder a woman just 2 years prior to Susan Tucker murder. Timothy Wilson Spencer broke into the Tucker’s home by entering through the basement window, making sure to clean his footprints. He then (assuming) roamed around the home until Susan arrived alone while her husband was out on business. Spencer then attacked the woman knocking her belongings on the ground by the front door. The two ended up, upstairs in the master bedroom. There laid Susan laying naked, on her stomach with her hands tied behind her back.

*What evidence was collected:

1. Bed sheets
2. Pieces of glass
3. Rope

*What did the evidence show (testing results): Investigators took samples of the semen that was left on Susan’s sheets and examined the semen that was similar to the Tucker’s case with 3 other women and found a match. Also the rope tying was similar to the other cases.

*What was the conclusion of the case?: Timothy Wilson Spencer was the first person to be convicted of a major crime through DNA testing.  

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s1e3: The House That Roared

*Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County

*Date: July 1st, 1992

What happened: Caren Campano and third husband Christopher Campano had a big blow up in result to Caren leaving their residents according to Christopher. Once Caren didn’t show up to work, he then called the police reporting his wife as missing. The police arrived to the Campano’s residents finding out that they had reported robbed the day before. Chris told the police that he and his wife had left the house after a big fight. But only half of that was the truth. Police used a chemical called Luminol that reveals traces of blood at a crime scene. Luminol shown that the house was covered in blood that at first glance you couldn’t tell that was Caren. Blood was smeared on the walls and splattered on the ceiling meaning that she was hit with a blunt object. The next order of business was where was the body of Caren Campano? After finding the body of Caren months later, her 3rd husband Christopher Campano was sentenced to 1,000 years for manslaughter.  

*What evidence was collected: later after finding Caren’s body, her teeth, bones and a check made out her for $83.34 from her family back in New York.

*What did the evidence show (testing results):

The evidence shows that Caren was hit in the head with a blunt object, and lost a lot of blood for a woman her size meaning that no one could survive the injury. Also from the decaying of the body suggest that she had been dead for a long time.  

*What was the conclusion of the case?: Christopher Campano murdered his wife Caren, hitting her in the head with a blunt objects then leaving her there until the neighbors went to sleep, in that time he went to a nearby bar grabbing a few drinks, then coming back to the residents, wrapping his wife’s body in a blanket carrying her through the house, stopping in the kitchen where he reached the back door dragging her body out onto the side where he must have loaded her body into the car driving her a far out distance. Chris admitted to killing his wife stating that he was sorry for what he did to her, but that he could not bring her back.

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s1e2: The Magic Bullet  

Location: Dallas County, Texas at Dallas Pistol & Revolver shooting range

Date: September 29th, 1991

What happened: Butch and Trey Cooley woke up early on September 29th to head down to Dallas pistol & revolver shooting range to judge a shooting competition, when 15 year old Trey Cooley was shot in the head from a mysterious bullet that no one seem to know where it was fired from.  

*What evidence was collected: The mysterious personalized bullet

*What did the evidence show (testing results): The evidence showed that the death of Trey was an accident. The shot was fired by range-goer Dan Smith behind the shooting range, thick plasters of wood  were meant to block any stray bullets, but due to safety out of date hazards the bullet went past 2 blocks of wood, through the back of the range, through a storage unit, skirted the roof of the building redirecting the bullet right into Trey’s head while sitting by the door of Dallas Pistol & Revolver.

*What was the conclusion of the case?:Due to out of date safety codes Trey’s death was an accident.