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He was also accused of molesting a young girl in 1984. with a warrant, police searched bramblett's home, which was nothing more than a room in a nearby motel. inside, they found numerous crime novels and textbooks. >> he had one book in his possession about forensic science and the techniques used by forensic science to do different things. >> police also found a detective magazine featuring an article about a murder committed with a pistol with no barrel. coincidentally, the gun found next to blaine hodges' body had no barrel. bramblett owned a pickup truck, but it was white, not red, like th...

Even though bramblett's jeans had been submerged in water, simpson discovered the stains were diesel fuel, the same accelerant used to start the hodges' fire. the blacked-out entry on bramblett's time card presented another challenge. forensic documents examiner gordon menses used a video spectral comparator with various light sources in order to attempt to see underneath the black ink. slowly, the information came into view. >> i was able to come up with an original entry that was 5:08 m, which would have been 5:00 in the morning on monday, according to what i understand about the time clock....

Represents the strangulation. once again, this was information only the killer would know, since it hadn't been released to the public. the handwriting at the bottom of the page was consistent with bramblett's known handwriting samples. firearms expert van roberts compared the bullets from the murder victims to the gun found next to blaine hodges' body. even though the gun had no barrel, it still had its firing pin. under a comparison microscope, you can see the unique marks made on the shells from the gun's firing pin. the firing pin marks from the gun at the crime scene matched the spent cas...

Body. since teresa's stepbrother had problems with the law, police wondered whether the crime was some sort of payback. >> the reason that they got the idea from that is because one of the father's children from a separate marriage, who teresa was not raised with, he happened to be in prison, and he was an ex-dea informant. so that's where the drug relation came into play. >> and police had another lead. an elderly woman reported seeing a red pickup truck leaving the hodges' driveway shortly before the fire. police interviewed all of the hodges' relatives, as well as the man who spent more tim...

From the hodges' home. and there was no doubt about whose writing was on the time card. >> yes, i concluded that the handwriting was also earl bramblett's. one of the first things you notice with bramblett's handwriting is a very outsized lower case k. it almost looks like a capital r. >> forensic handwriting analysis also solved another mystery. in the dumpster behind bramblett's workplace, police found a page torn from a desk blotter with some unusual drawings. >> drawings of stick figures with arrows pointed to the head and little flames drawn around the body of somebody it looked like layi...