The clues, that lovers triangle, cash, and a bearded lady. He said she looked like a woman in a fake beard. If a guy. Its a mystery with so many head snapping turns. It took to trial. We waited 18 years for justice. Only two have carpet pulled off. To uncover the truth. We have a verdict. But was it the truth . Hes a person whos done evil things, but that does not make a murderer. I looked at him and said, hey, lets go down to the Comic Book Store and help buy. We pulled up at the party, Police Stopped us. I knew immediately all the Crime Scene Tape was there, and they said, you cant go through. We are investigating a homicide. We are investigating the Comic Book Store. The comic bookstore was a mom and pop shop in a strip mall outside detroit, out by the register, and to see big guys spidey, hulk and xmen. In the Storage Space in back was the ugly reality. One of the shop owners the woman was on the floor, ominously still. No superhero had come to her aid, just some customers. Regulars. Most of the time we were there on friday nights. It was a friday the 13th a, july 1990, when tom and lenora ward stopped by the Comic Book Shop before going out to dinner. She knew our names. Immediately, when we would walk in, she would light up with a smile. Many times, she would actually come around a counter to greet us. But not on this summer evening. It was just after 6 00, tom and lenora had picked out a comic, but there was no one behind the counter to take the money, not barb or her husband, michael, the coowner. It wasnt uncommon that someone wouldnt be at the cash register, but that was a longer than normal time. So, we thought we would stick around, just to make sure, you know, because we liked her. Some teenage customers were also in the shop browsing, and they too were itchy to pay and go. They were the first ones to peek into the back room and see barb sprawl. Right out, theres somebody back here. And that time, tom and i rushed to the back storage area, and found barb on the floor. We fought thought she perhaps had fallen backwards and hit her head. I noticed that she was blue around her mouth. Her pupils were dilated and big. And i could not find a pulse. Lenora happened to be a nurse and took charge. She noticed only a small amount of blood and concluded that barb had suffered a heart attack or a seizure. She told her husband to call 911, while she began administering cpr. I had never done cpr on someone that i knew and loved. It was, please god, let this be ok. Shes a mother. As the ambulance rushed barb to the hospital, lenora ward felt shed done her professional best, but she wasnt at all sure her prayers would be answered. I knew that she was medically in dire straits. The woman rushed into the Emergency Room that evening was 32yearold barbara george. She was a little heavy, physically fit, an enthusiastic softball and volleyball player. Doctors and nurses began working feverishly to get a pulse, thumping the womans chest in rapid bursts. One he armors said if we can give 100 compressions per minute to that patient, the better the chance of reviving the heart. But after 15 minutes it was all over, a doctor pronounced barb george the mother of two dead. It felt to the nurse to clean up the body for the family to view thats. When she saw. When we were straightening up her hairwe noticed some blood on the top of her head. I noticed there was a small hole. My first thought as a nurse was there had to be a bullet hole there. Imagine that, barbara george, the nice lady behind the counter, shot to death. She was shot, shot to the head. It wouldnt seem that it would happen to such a person. Back in the shop, friends and family continue to arrive for what was supposed to be a Surprise Birthday Party that night for Michael George. Barbs husband. What a pleasant night it shouldve been, with toasts, the singing of happy birthday, and all the superheroes from his beloved marvel and Action Comics looking on. All those guests now stumped to find the party turned into a crime scene. And barb, the hostess, that. Coming up would could be too close to solving the mystery . Right after the murder, witnesses reported seeing A Speeding Car. We both, and then, said it to each other, where, boy, this car is going too fast. And a man waiting outside the Comic Book Shop. He had a dark outfit for that time of the year, greek fisherman cap, is how i would describe it. When dateline continues. Ifof moderatetosevere asthma thats not for sudden breathing problems. Dupixent can cause allergic reactions that can be severe. Get help right away if you have rash, chest pain, worsening shortness of breath, tingling or numbness in your limbs. Tell your doctor about new or worsening joint aches and pain, or a parasitic infection. 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She was always there to help you. Barb had been raised in a Traditional Polish Catholic family and when she found her man Michael George marriage became the Organizing Principle of her life. Was she a happy bride . Very happy. Yeah. She couldnt wait. And when children came along, tworleorged complete. Her kids were her pride and joy. I think that was everything to her. But as brother joe and his thengirlfriend mary now mary shamo drove over to the comic shop on that friday the 13th, both of them knew that after the party for a cozy couple of days of the launch. That is friday, night is gonna be a romantic weekend. We cannot man to be, because by the time john mary got to the common bookstore just before 9 00, there is confusion. Cup cars. We pulled, up and joe pulled up to please stop, and they said you cant go through, we investigating a homicide, somebody was killed. I immediately thought mike, because i thought no one hated my sister. Absolutely nobody. But it wasnt mike. It was his sister, the sister whod and it was up to Detective Sergeant to make sense of this. He had been the detective onduty when the hospital called that had a woman come in with a single gunshot to the head. So now we had a fullblown homicide. You know its going to be a long night . Yes. As the Detectives Team scoured the Strip Mall Dumpsters for maybe a tossed weapon, clothing, or something, he turned over the few facts he had so far. A woman with children was gunneddown executionstyle in the back of a little Comic Book Store. Police interviewed merchants and customers at the mall. Had anyone seen anything out of the ordinary . It turned out tom and lenora ward did. The couple whod given barb first aid had picked up on something when they arrived that evening A Speeding Car in front of the Comic Book Shop. And we both thought to ourselves, and then said it to each other, boy, that cars going too fast. Later theyd wonder if that was the getaway car. Had on kind of a dark outfit for that time of the year. Greek fishermans cap is how i would describe it. Another man visiting the strip mall would say he saw different suspicious character, someone wearing apparently a fake beard, possibly bearded lady. Shop a small, deeper than it was wide. Aisles have bins filled with comic books out front by the register, and a door to the back storage room. Barbara george had been but found just inside the backroom, along the far back door wasnt toward the lead to the alley in the rear. Crime scene techs began videotaping the crime scene. This is the cash register. There were 750 on the cash register, untouched. In a glass case just behind the, till a wall of can likable vintage comics, the good stuff, they hadnt been ransacked. In the storage area, at some bins have been toppled over, but the emts might have done that as a rushed in to assist barb georgia sheila on the floor. More than 400 would be found in her pockets, the jewelry she had worn wasnt taken. Later, the medical examiner determined that the shopowner had been shot by above, the bullet entering almost the very top of the skull, indicating she had been crouching. Another bullet have been fired first, it missed and went through a Swimsuit Calendar on the wall, and into the empty shop on the other side of the sheet rock. If it was robber of the Comic Book Store, it was an unusual one. Just after 8 00, detective was told that the husband of the victim had just arrived. He identified himself, and we said whats going, and weve said theyve been incident, here which i tell you but your wife had been injured. Injured . I told him that. Not dead . We never told him what, we never told him what happened to her. He doesnt know what has happened to his wife . To our knowledge, he had no idea what was going on. And he never really asked, you know, at the hospital, Michael George was informed that his wife had died of a Gunshot Wound to the head. A few minutes later, mary and his brotherinlaw joe came rushing in. The girlfriend was undone by the awful news. Im blown away. Im shocked. I wasnt even related to her and i was devastated and i was crying and i was upset. Mike never once cried. He was why was she so suspicious of the Comic Book Man . Coming up. There wasnt one tear in his eyes, there wasnt a swell in his eye, as there is nothing going on, is all an act. An untroubled, husband with a very troubled marriage. There theyre giggling together. You wouldnt think get any kind, world the way theyre counting on. We started receiving phone calls, might want to look at his relationship with his own plane renee. He looked cozy, check it out. Yes. When dateline continues. Your best defense against erosion and cavities is strong enamel nothing beats it. 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Six hours after her murder, Michael George had returned from the hospital to show the chief detective, sgt. Steckman, around the small store, which was now a crime scene. You noticed too important white boxes were gone. And as soon as he walked in the back room, he looked and said there were two Cardboard Boxes full of very expensive comic books missing. So hes saying, i had some expensive stuff back here. Two boxes of comic books. And its gone . And theyre gone. Michael george made a list of stolen comics and estimated their value at 12,600. Hed later file an Insurance Claim for vintage editions of spiderman, green lantern, and iron man, to name just a few. So hes talking about robbery is his likely scenario . His whole scenario was it had to be robbery. At the Comic Book Shop, Michael George would tell the detective that he had no idea what had happened to his wife. Hed last seen her, hed said, a little after 4 p. M. When shed relieved him behind the counter. He said hed taken the couples two kids over to his moms and had remained there, taking a nap on her couch before returning to the store just after 8 p. M. Det. Steckman asked Michael George the questions a cop would when the wife has just been murdered. Lets get all this up straight. Were there any girlfriends . No. Were you having any affairs . No. Any problems with your marriage . No, everything was fine. At the funeral days later, a girlfriend of barbs weather couldnt make out what he was feeling, because his eyes were concealed behind dark, dark sunglasses. Like something that a blind person would wear, something you see Stevie Wonder wear. And mary sense that michael was acting strange, even goofy, only increased after a visit to the Trailer Park Home where Michael George and barbara had lived. She and joe barbs brother had gone over to give michael some support during tough days. And he comes in and her vacuums sitting there and he grabs the vacuum and he embraces the vacuum and he showed more emotion with this vacuum than he did the whole time. Whats he saying to the vacuum . And hes just saying, oh, this was barbs vacuum. And, oh my god, shes never going to use this vacuum again. And then he would go to a blender and hes like, shes never going to be in this kitchen again. Are you thinking, whats up with this guy . And i am looking at him like he was a screwball. Here you are, grieving over a vacuum and all these appliances, and there wasnt one tear in his eye. There was no swelling going on in his eyes. He had nothing going on, it was all in the act. The police meanwhile were chasing down bank records, and insurance policies, looking for leads on the speeding car, the man in the greek fisherman cap, and whether this could indeed have been a botched robbery, after all. And they were getting a crash course on the value of vintage comics. Unhappily for them, the case detectives hadnt found the gun and hoped for forensics like a bloody print just werent there. But the investigators were getting calls on the qt about Michael George maybe having a girlfriend. When did you learn about a Shop Assistant named renee . A friend of both him and barb . That was two days later. We started receiving phone calls from people advising us that we might want to look at his relationship with his employee named renee. A little cozy, check it out. Yes. It was barb george whod met and befriended renee kotula at their childrens school, and brought her to work at the Comic Book Store. Renee had five children and needed the money. Her Floundering Marriage had ended in divorc