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The new Domino's on Mockingbird recently had its grand opening in Abilene with a fundraiser that benefitted St. Jude Children's Research Center.

The new Domino's on Mockingbird recently had its grand opening in Abilene with a fundraiser that benefitted St. Jude Children's Research Center.

This week in history in Douglas County.

Officials post pictures of their most-wanted criminals on the towns website, but they needed every trick they could think of to solve the case of clifford and alma merck, a retired couple who lived on the citys south side. >> they loved to sit out on the front porch and they had big trees out in the front and it was shady in the summertime. >> one saturday morning, the mercks son, robert, stopped by his parents home for a visit. he immediately noticed something was wrong. >> he found a door open...

And had obtained a lot of good information. >> cliff mercks .25-caliber handgun stolen during the robbery was recovered a few months later, but ballistic tests revealed it was not the murder weapon. in searching through the files, christopherson discovered that there were several other men present on the night the cowan brothers sold cliff mercks gun to the drug dealer. when christopherson reinterviewed them now ten years later, one of the men present recalled an interesting detail. he recalled ...

I just knew in my heart that the police would do their job and find the people that did this to mother and cliff. >> investigators confiscated every .25-caliber pistol they could find, hoping that one of them would match the murder weapon. >> i maintained those bullets in my secured work area. i never returned them to the sheriffs property room, knowing that i would one day get that firearm. >> but eventually, there were other crimes to solve, other evidence to process, and the murder of cliff a...

Most-wanted criminals on the towns website, but they needed every trick they could think of to solve the case of clifford and alma merck, a retired couple who lived on the citys south side. >> they loved to sit out on the front porch and they had big trees out in the front and it was shady in the summertime. >> one saturday morning, the mercks son, robert, stopped by his parents home for a visit. he immediately noticed something was wrong. >> he found a door open at the back of the house and ent...

Its the same people, but we dont have the proof. >> i never lost hope. i just knew in my heart that the police would do their job and find the people that did this to mother and cliff. >> investigators confiscated every .25-caliber pistol they could find, hoping that one of them would match the murder weapon. >> i maintained those bullets in my secured work area. i never returned them to the sheriffs property room, knowing that i would one day get that firearm. >> but eventually, there were othe...

Ten years after clifford and alma mercks murder, investigators in bakersfield, california, were no closer to making an arrest. >> we dont know who it was or if they were somewhere in the neighborhood still. it was really scary, very scary to think that theyre still out there, theyre not caught. and i tell you the truth, i really didnt think they were ever going to get caught. >> shortly after jim christopherson was promoted to homicide detective, he reopened the case looking for any possible evi...

Interviewed hundreds of people and had obtained a lot of good information. >> cliff mercks .25-caliber handgun stolen during the robbery was recovered a few months later, but ballistic tests revealed it was not the murder weapon. in searching through the files, christopherson discovered that there were several other men present on the night the cowan brothers sold cliff mercks gun to the drug dealer. when christopherson reinterviewed them now ten years later, one of the men present recalled an i...