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Were at his mercy. the women couldn't swim so there was no way they could have made to it shore safely. they had no option but to comply. they were bound and gagged and presumably sexually assaulted. later he tied each one of them to a concrete block and threw them overboard. chandler left an electronic trail when he called his wife on the ship to shore radio to tell her his boat had engine trouble and that he would be late for dinner. chandler's other mistake was leaving his handwriting and palm

Handwriting. it looked like the handwriting of a contractor she knew. >> when i met mr. chandler he came across as not telling the truth and he wouldn't look you in the eye. and he just seemed shifty. >> joann rushed home and found the handwritten receipt for some work chandler had done for her. >> as i was looking at it, my knees actually buckled from the sheer shock of the proof now to me that this was the man they've been looking for all this time. >> the handwritten receipt was compared to the mand written note found in joan rogers car. >> i immediately saw the capital t repeatedly through...

>> chandler was 43 years old and ran a construction business. he was married and had eight children by seven different women. he also had a criminal record dating back to his teens that included two sexual assaults. but what was most telling was where chandler lived. >> chandler's residence was on a canal that was probably within a half a mile, a mile of where the boat ramp where the victims' vehicle was found. >> investigators tracked down ship to shore phone records which are record for all boats making calls while on the water. >> these records actually put chandler out on the water on the ...

Also a palm print. and you don't get much better than that. >> chandler was charged with three counts of kidnapping and first degree murder. investigators believe chandler met joan rogers at a gas station where joan may have asked him for directions to their hotel. chandler wrote them on her map, leaving behind a handwriting sample and his palm print. that's when chandler may have offered to give them a sunset cruise on his boat and offered the girls accepted. chandler gave joan directions to the boat launch and when she wrote them she also jotted down a vital clue. blue with wht.

Dinner. chandler's other mistake was leaving his handwriting and palm print behind. chandler was tried, convicted and sentenced to death. >> you have not only forfeited your right to live among us under the laws of the state of florida, you have forfeited your right to live at all. mr. chandler, may god have mercy on your soul. >> the bold decision to put the handwriting evidence on billboards for the entire city to see made the difference in this case. >> i thought it was an excellent idea. brilliant. because detectives can only work on leads that they receive and when they exhausted every po...