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Investigators had hoped for. >> the results showed us that the bullets recovered from john were not the same bullets removed from andy rischs news graybull, wyoming. >> investigators found smudge marks on the inside window of rischs jeep, similar to those caused by animals when pressing their nose against the glass. was it possible that risch used his car to transport helbles across town after the murder. police took kieshas nose print in the same way they collect human fingerprints. each dogs n...

A year after john helbles murder, police suspected helbles best friend andy rich was somehow involved in his death, but they had no proof. all investigators knew was that rich had some unusual career aspirations. >> we knew that his life long goal was to be a hitman for the mafia. we had interviewed past girlfriends. we had interviewed other associates of andy rich. and he always portrayed himself as a tough guy. >> we were concerned that sharon snyder, the girlfriend of andrew rich, had informa...

Examiner. he compared the note to known samples of helbles handwriting. >> the question material was written with somewhat heavy pressure in the known writings that was also written with that same sort of pressure. they were also all handprinted, and his known writings also relied heavily on printing and not cursive. >> he lookeded for unique features and individual letters in johns known writings. features he then tried to locate in the question document. based on his comparisons, licht was abl...

>> he abused me a lot. there was a lot of abuse. not just physical. there was a lot of verbal abuse. >> police looked into sharons background to see if she had ever been involved in illegal activity. and they found something. >> sharon schneider was purchasing guns at a different location. she was giving guns to andy rich. some of those guns went to john helble. we had a violation of the federal firearms statute that we youd to split andy rich and sharon schneider. >> sharon told a different sto...

Helbles home around the time of his murder. based on the position of the body, prosecutors believe rich killed helble after he fell asleep in the living room watching t vcht. tv. the motive was apparently money. rich wanted to sell helbles gun collection for either cash or drugs. the shooting may have agitated helbles dog. to stop the barking, rich put kiesha in helbles van then drove her several miles away before letting her out in a strange neighborhood. little did he realize that kieshas hair...