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>> chance of having that match just by random was pretty low. combined with, im sure, the circumstances of the case. if i were sitting on the jury, i would find that to be a compelling piece of evidence in the case. >> this was forensic proof that rich was in possession of an item stolen from john helble. then investigators got another break. the man who was given the gold cup pistol said he still had the gun box. inside was a note listing all of the custom alterations made to the pistol, as wel...

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...

I thought that that was the point in time where he would accept responsibility and do the right thing. the parents and family of john helble were sitting behind him. it was his chance to try to make amends. he failed miserably in doing that. >> rich pleaded guilty to first degree robbery and voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 35 years in prison. in exchange for her cooperation, sharon schneider was charged for drug possession and was sentenced to six months in a halfway house and 2 1/2 ...

I have no idea. how hed spare an animal and shoot a human. >> when rich sold helbles prize pistol in texas, he left the note inside with hand writing 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 solve this case in the first place. >> on the day before his murder trial was to start, andy rich made a surpris...

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...

Rich was arrested and charged with john helbles murder. in court, rich had an interesting response to the forensic evidence against him. ou run into traffic? no, just had to stop by the house to grab a few things. you stopped by the house? uh-huh. yea. alright, whenever you get your stuff, run upstairs, get cleaned up for dinner. you leave the house in good shape? yea. yea, of course. ♪ [ sportscaster talking on tv ] last-second field go-- yea, sure ya did. [ male announcer ] introducing at&t ...

They put some of his guns into their car, took johns van to his home and then drove their car back to wyoming. >> i had no idea that john was dead. i had wonder wide he had these guns. >> after a brief stay in wyoming, sharon said that andy left alone with the guns. >> he took off in the middle of the night, around 4:00 in the morning and headed to texas. she was gone three weeks. it was andys old stupidity for telling me where he was going. >> we started learning things from sharon that we zpkt...

>> oh, he loved his dog. she was his baby. >> she had a lot of hamburgers, a lot of pizza, hot dogs, things like that. i think she ate mostly people food. she was very spoiled. >> police soon learned that a dog matching kieshas description was found a month earlier wandering aimlessly several miles away. >> she was standing in the middle of the street, dazed like where am i? what am i doing here? >> johns parents identified kiesha. the evidence suggested she had been driven there and dropped off...

Drug paraphernalia. >> john didnt deserve this to happen to him. he doesnt have the best life in the world but i can almost guarantee you he could give you the shirt off his back. >> but johns prize collection of guns were missing, including a gold cup semi automatic pistol. >> this colt gold cup was described to me as one of johns friends is youd have to pry that gun away from his cold dead fingers. >> he was able to take guns apart, work on them, repair them. customize them. put fancy gold on ...