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Do that, but it certainly was an interesting element that we pursued for some time. >> after several months with no forensic evidence and very few leads, the investigation into john helbles murder was starting to turn cold. so investigators turned to helbles dog for more information. >> as it turned out, that dog was going to play a very important part in solving johns death. bulldog: ah, the dog days of summer!

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 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. [ dog barking ] >> to stop the barking, rich put keisha in helbles van, then drove her several miles away before letting her out in a strange neighborhood. little did he realize that ...

So, therefore, we knew that january 22nd, 23rd, john was dead. >> with this information, authorities questioned johns friends and family. >> we had three primary suspects in this case, mike harting, andrew rich, and sharon schneider. >> the first suspect, mike harting, was a friend of john helbles. a witness recalled seeing hartings truck parked near helbles home around the time of the murder. >> mike harting was good friends with john. we knew that john and mike had some narcotics business toge...

An autopsy on 28-year-old john helble revealed he had been killed long before his body was found, but the medical examiner was unable to determine exactly when he was killed. >> without an idea as to when the time of death is, it obviously becomes very -- much more difficult to determine who are suspects and who are people that you can rule out. >> helbles dog, keisha, was found on january 22nd. helbles telephone answering machine had messages not yet listened to. the earliest unheard message wa...

>> 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 in a different location. she would give those guns to andy rich. some of those guns went to john helble. we had a violation of the federal statue. the federal firearms and narcotics statute was the wedge that we used to split andy ric...

I dont know why he spared her. i have no idea. how can you spare an animal and shoot a human? >> when rich sold helbles prized pistol in texas, he left the note inside with handwriting that matched helbles known handwriting samples. >> the witness testimony and the forensic testimony piled together just added up like bricks in this case, and it was because of the two, and putting those two together, that we were able to be able to solve this case in the first place. >> douglas eugene rich. >> on...

Licht, a forensic document 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 written with the same pressure. it was hand printed. and his known writings relied heavily on printing and not cursive. >> he looked for unique features in individual letters in johns known writings, features he then tried to locate in the questioned document. based on his comparisons, licht was able ...

>> we learned from a good friend who saw andrew rich and john helble together on january 18th of 1999 that, in fact, andrew rich had been at the trailer house of john helble. >> but andy said john was alive and well when he and sharon left to return home. police searched the couples apartment and found marijuana, methamphetamine, and several .22-caliber bullets, the same caliber used to kill helble. these bullets, along with the slugs from helbles body, were sent to the fbi lab for a neutron act...

Being guarded out of fear, her fear, of andrew rich. >> 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 in a different location. she would give those guns to andy rich. some of those guns went to john helble. we had a violation of the federal statue. the federal firearms and narcotics...

Licht, a forensic document 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 written with the same pressure. it was hand printed. and his known writings relied heavily on printing and not cursive. >> he looked for unique features in individual letters in johns known writings, features he then tried to locate in the questioned document. based on his comparisons, licht was able ...