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testing for saliva at that time on the mouth of a beer bottle wasn t as commonly done as it is today. the bottles were then subjected to super glue fuming. these fumes will adhere to finger oils and often produce quality prints. glass is a very smooth surface, and the residue that builds up on the ridges and the fingers and in the palms of the hands will easily transfer from the surface of the hand onto the glass surface, and that glass surface will hold it. after 15 minutes in the fuming chamber, one partial palmprint emerged on one of the bottles found near virginia s body. this partial print didn t match virginia russell, justin bullard or roy beck.
scientists couldn t perform genetic dna testing. all analysts could say was that visually, it looked more similar to beck s hair than bullard s. but inside roy beck s apartment, the one with no electricity that the call girl visited, police found a potential clue. we found three bottles of michelob beer. so, now you have two michelob light beers at the body scene, one unopened and a carton in virginia russell s car and three at beck s unpowered apartment. scientists swabbed the beer bottles from the murder scene, looking for a possible connection. unfortunately, they didn t find enough saliva or skin cells to generate a dna profile.
night of her death. the call was traced to this apartment, rented by 27-year-old justin bullard, who owned an aquarium cleaning business. justin bullard denied any involvement in the murder and said he never met virginia. he had no criminal history. mr. bullard s alibi was he was home alone. and the problem with that was him being home alone and no one else to corroborate him being there at the time. with the search warrant, investigators found a wealth of evidence inside his apartment. we find in his apartment a .380-caliber pistol. the pistol, registered to justin bullard, was apparently the same caliber as the gun used in virginia s murder. and investigators found something else. there are several pages
temporarily with justin bullard. and when he needed more money for drugs, called the escort service again, this time from bullard s phone, and set up the meeting with virginia russell. sure. he took bullard s boots and gun and the beer from his own apartment. when virginia arrived, beck got into her car, and they went to a deserted location. each drank a beer and threw the empty bottles out the window. prosecutors think beck was acquainted with virginia from a previous meeting and decided to kill her so she wouldn t identify him. blood spattered on the remaining beer bottle and on the boots beck had stolen from bullard. beck dragged virginia s body onto the road, then shot her two more times.