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He shot karla through the windshield. the bullet passed through her left hand as she tried to protect herself. then deparvine cut karla's seat belt to remove her body from the jeep. and in doing so, accidentally cut his hand. his blood dripped on to 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 of what the van dusen...

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 order richard out of the jeep and shot him.

And i said "are you sure?" several times, i asked him, "are you 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 he is certainly killed outside of the c...

Incredibly powerful. and there is the ability to obtain dna from the smallest piece of evidence in a very reproducible, very reliable manner. >> on the spoon, scientists found saliva. they extracted dna and compared to it the blood found on the steering wheel of the van dusens' jeep. the results left no doubt. >> the dna profile that was developed from the steering wheel was matched to the dna profile that was obtained for william deparvine, his known standard. >> william deparvine? >> william deparvine was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. yet he continued to maintain his innocen...

It. and when they left, he never saw them again. most of deparvine's story could be corroborated, but there were several discrepancies. >> what is he doing with a bill of sale for $6,500 when van dusen is telling a coworker the day before he has found a buyer for $13,500? that just tells us there is nothing something not right here. >> deparvine said the van dusens left his apartment around 5:30. but karla van dusen called her mother at 6:37 p.m. with information that contradicted that. >> the night that they were killed, i got a phone call from karla, and she was very excited. she said, yeah,...