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>> chance of having that match just by random was pretty low. combined with, i'm 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 well as the costs. >> he asked me if i thought was john's handwriting, and i thought it was. >> to be sure, investigators needed an expert. for that, they turned to gary litt, a forensic document
investigators had hoped for. >> the results showed us that the bullets recovered from john were not the same bullets removed from andy risch's news graybull, wyoming. >> investigators found smudge marks on the inside window of risch's jeep, similar to those caused by animals when pressing their nose against the glass. was it possible that risch used his car to transport helble's across town after the murder. police took kiesha's nose print in the same way they collect human fingerprints. each dog's nose print is as unique as a fingerprint. >> unfortunately, we weren't able to get the type of smudges or prints actually from the vehicle that would enable us to do that. but it certainly was an interesting element that we
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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 years probation. >> sharon was not a witness to the crime. sharon had pieces of the puzzle that she gave us. that we could put together to solve the crime. >> i think it's very interesting how kiesha helped ultimately to be able to solve the crime of
i have no idea. how he'd spare an animal and shoot a human. >> when rich sold helble's prize pistol in texas, he left the note inside with hand writing that matched helble's 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 surprise announcement. >> he said, i killed john helble for his guns. but he never turned around and addressed the family. never apologized for what he had done. or showed any remorse for what he had done. >> i was somewhat stunned by that.
28-year-old john hebble. >> john was somewhat of a recluse, john kind of stayed to himself. >> it wasn't unusual that we didn't see him for a month. he'd be out doing things with friends. >> at one point in john's life he was a narcotics user and very possibly also a narcotics dealer. >> in february of 1999, john's mother was really worried, she hadn't heard from her son in over two months. >> i'd been trying to reach my son and he wasn't answering and we were afraid something was wrong. >> so she called the local sheriff who found john's van parked in his driveway, but no one answered the door. >> they smelled an odor coming from inside the trailer. they described that odor as being the odor of death. >> the officers forced their way through the trailer door and
a year after john helble's murder, police suspected helble's 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 information that she was fearful about telling us. the impression was she was being guarded out of fear. her fear, of andrew rich.
greybull, wyoming. >> we learned from a good friend who saw andrew risch and john together on january 18th, 1999, that in fact, andrew risch had been at the trailer house of john. >> but andy said that john was alive and well when he and sharon left to return home. police searched the couple's apartment and found marijuana, methamphetamine and several .22-caliber bullets, the same caliber used to kill helble. these bullets along with the slugs from helble's body were sent to the fbi for a neutron activation test. >> that's where the lead is shaved up to the ball, it's melted down and atoms are counted. >> counted and then compared. but the atomic composition of the bullets recovered from john helble was not what
examiner. he compared the note to known samples of helble's 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 john's known writings. features he then tried to locate in the question document. based on his comparisons, licht was able to draw a definitive conclusion. >> i was able to identify the writer of the question material as john helble. >> proof that it was helble's gun and no other that andy took with him to texas. based on the handwriting analysis and the dog dna, andy