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Weapon that investigators had been looking for. >> one was inoperable. the other 9 millimeter handgun was test-fired into a tank of water. that bullet was microscopically compared to the 9 millimeter slug found in the van dusens' jeep. analyst erica henderson carefully examined the distinctive marks called lands and grooves made when each bullet goes through the barrel of the gun. >> when you look down the barrel of a firearm, you will see the ridges and valleys. these ridges and valleys, once a bullet is fired, will be imparted on the bullet. so the bullet will also have these ridges and vall...
And i said "did they have an accident?" and i said "are you sure?" several times, i asked him if he were sure. and then he told me that they had been found and that they had been murdered. and i just -- i don't even remember after that. >> investigators had two crime scenes, the jeep and the area where the bodies were found. based on the evidence and the location of the bodies, investigators think that the killer was someone the van dusens knew. >> we felt that there probably was a third party involved in the vehicle with them. richard van dusen is forced out of the car at gunpoint and we feel...
Delivered the car, but deparvine didn't have the money. so he asked the van dusens to follow him to his friend's home to get the money. phone records indicate karla called her mother at 6:37 to say she was driving behind the man who bought their truck. although no one knows why, they apparently left the pickup truck at the one location, and all three got into the jeep on their way to get the money. as deparvine led the van dusens to the deserted road, they may have realized that there was no friend, that there was no money, and that this was a setup. deparvine used a 9 millimeter weapon to ord...
The jeep and shot him. he shot karla through the windshield. the bullet passed through her left hand as she tried to protect herself. then deparvine cut karla's seatbelt to remove her body from the jeep. and in doing so, accidentally cut his hand. his blood dripped onto the steering wheel as he drove the jeep back to the pickup truck. before he abandoned the jeep, he planted henry sullivan's driver's license, which he may have stolen since sullivan lived in the same apartment building as he did. to cover his tracks, deparvine forged the bill of sale for the truck in the amount of $6,500, half ...