Crime Story.. (2)

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>> Narrator: AS A LAST RESORT, POLICE LOOKED ONE MORE TIME AT

THE CRIME SCENE.

IT WAS CLEAR THERE HAD TO BE ANOTHER CAR AT THE SCENE.

>> Narrator: SO WHO WOULD HAVE HAD THE MOTIVE AND THE

OPPORTUNITY TO COMMIT THIS CRIME?

KARYN'S EX-HUSBAND, MICHAEL, HAD AN ALIBI FOR THE NIGHT OF THE

MURDER, BUT HIS PARENTS DID NOT.

THEY WERE THE ONES WATCHING KARYN'S SON, CHRISTOPHER, ON THE

DAY OF THE MURDER.

>> Narrator: 51-YEAR-OLD JEANNETTE SLOVER DETESTED HER

EX-DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, KARYN.

AND EVERYONE KNEW HOW MUCH SHE LOVED HER 3-YEAR-OLD GRANDSON,

CHRISTOPHER.

>> Narrator: IN FACT, SHE TOLD FRIENDS THAT, AFTER CHRISTOPHER

WAS BORN, SHE BEGAN BREAST-FEEDING HIM.

INVESTIGATORS CHECKED TELEPHONE RECORDS AND DISCOVERED THAT

MICHAEL JR. CALLED HIS PARENTS 12 TIMES ON THE WEEKEND OF THE

MURDER.

ALSO SUSPICIOUS -- THE SLOVERS OWNED A USED-CAR LOT JUST ONE

MILE FROM THEIR HOUSE.

THE LOT, PATROLLED BY TWO JUNKYARD DOGS, WAS ALWAYS DIRTY

AND IN DISREPAIR.

JUST AFTER KARYN DISAPPEARED, NEIGHBORS SAID THE LOT GOT A

 MAKEOVER.

>> Narrator: WAS IT POSSIBLE THEY WERE TRYING TO REMOVE

SOMETHING CONNECTED TO KARYN'S MURDER?

TO FIND OUT, INVESTIGATORS CONTACTED RICHARD MUNROE, A

WELL-KNOWN FORENSIC GEOLOGIST.

CONCRETE AND CINDERS WERE FOUND WITH KARYN'S BODY.

COULD HE TELL IF THEY CAME FROM THE SLOVERS' CAR LOT?

 BOTH SAMPLES WERE PLACED IN A SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE AND

HIT WITH HIGH-ENERGY RADIATION.

>> Narrator: THIS ENABLES THE IMAGES OF THE SAMPLES TO BE

MAGNIFIED UP TO 5,000 TIMES THEIR ACTUAL SIZE.

VISUALLY, THE SAMPLES LOOKED SIMILAR.

MUNROE THEN GROUND THE SAMPLES INTO A POWDER AND BOMBARDED IT

WITH X-RAYS TO IDENTIFY THE CHEMICAL MAKEUP OF THE SAMPLES.

MUNROE CONCLUDED THAT THE MATERIAL FOUND IN THE BAG WITH

KARYN'S BODY AND THE MATERIAL FROM THE CAR LOT WERE SIMILAR

ENOUGH TO RAISE SUSPICIONS.

BUT INVESTIGATORS NEEDED MORE THAN THAT.

AND TO GET IT, THEY TURNED TO AN UNLIKELY SOURCE -- THE

UNITED STATES ARMY.

>> Narrator: MORE THAN TWO YEARS AFTER KARYN SLOVER'S MURDER,

INVESTIGATORS NOW SUSPECTED THAT HER EX-IN-LAWS WERE INVOLVED.

THE MOTIVE -- KARYN'S FORMER MOTHER-IN-LAW, JEANNETTE, WANTED

SOLE CUSTODY OF HER 3-YEAR-OLD GRANDSON.

>> Narrator: INVESTIGATORS FOUND NO FORENSIC EVIDENCE INSIDE THE

SLOVERS' HOUSE, BUT CONCRETE FROM THEIR USED-CAR LOT WAS

CONSISTENT WITH CONCRETE FOUND IN THE GARBAGE BAGS WITH KARYN'S

BODY.

INVESTIGATORS WANTED MORE PROOF AND WENT TO UNUSUAL LENGTHS TO

GET IT.

THEY CALLED IN THE ARMY TO HELP THEM REMOVE ALL THE TOPSOIL FROM

THE SLOVERS' 5,000-SQUARE-FOOT CAR LOT.

DURING A LATE-WINTER SNOWSTORM, 60 5-GALLON BUCKETS WERE FILLED

WITH MATERIAL.

FOR SIX PAINSTAKING MONTHS, TEAMS OF INVESTIGATORS SIFTED

THROUGH THE DEBRIS.

FINALLY, THEY FOUND A POTENTIAL CLUE -- A BUTTON THAT READ

"AUTHENTIC PARIS SPORTS CLUB."

 THE JEANS KARYN WAS FOUND IN HAD THE EXACT SAME BUTTONS.

>> Narrator: FURTHER SIFTING REVEALED SOME RIVETS WHICH WERE

ALSO CONSISTENT WITH KARYN'S JEANS.

THEN INVESTIGATORS FOUND A DIFFERENT TYPE OF BUTTON.

IT WAS CLOTH-COVERED PLASTIC, THE TYPE USED ON SHIRTS AND

BLOUSES.

>> Narrator: SCIENTISTS TOOK A FIBER FROM THE BUTTON ON KARYN'S

BLOUSE AND PLACED IT UNDER A COMPARISON MICROSCOPE.

>> Narrator: THE NEXT THING WAS TO IDENTIFY THE WEAVE PATTERNS

ON BOTH BUTTONS.

>> Narrator: BOTH BUTTONS WERE THE SAME SIZE, MADE OF THE SAME

MATERIAL, COVERED WITH THE SAME FABRIC, WITH AN IDENTICAL WEAVE

PATTERN.

FINALLY, THE SLOVERS HAD TWO DOGS, AND SCIENTISTS WONDERED IF

THE HAIR ON THE DUCT TAPE CAME FROM ONE OF THEM.

>> Narrator: ONLY ONE OF THE SIX DOG HAIRS FROM THE DUCT TAPE

PROVIDED ENOUGH DNA FOR AN ANALYSIS.

>> Narrator: JEANNETTE AND MICHAEL SLOVER SR. AND THEIR

SON, MICHAEL JR., WERE ALL CHARGED WITH FIRST-DEGREE MURDER.

MICHAEL JR. WAS CHARGED BECAUSE HE AIDED HIS PARENTS IN THE

PLANNING AND COMMISSION OF THE CRIME.

THE MOTIVE -- THE SLOVERS WERE AFRAID KARYN WOULD MOVE OUT OF

STATE, DEPRIVING THEM OF TIME WITH CHRISTOPHER.

BASED ON THE FORENSIC EVIDENCE, PROSECUTORS BELIEVE KARYN WENT

TO THE SLOVERS' CAR LOT TO PICK UP HER SON.

DURING THE DISMEMBERMENT, BUTTONS FROM HER BLOUSE AND

JEANS FELL ON THE GROUND.

AND THEY USED CEMENT AND CINDERS FROM THEIR LOT TO GIVE WEIGHT TO

THE PLASTIC BAGS CONTAINING KARYN'S BODY.

SOME OF THE DOG HAIR STUCK TO THE TAPE THEY USED TO CLOSE THE

GARBAGE BAGS, AND ITS DNA MATCHED THE SLOVERS' DOG.

THEY DUMPED KARYN'S BODY INTO LAKE SHELBYVILLE AND ABANDONED

HER CAR ALONG A DESERTED HIGHWAY.

BUT THE FORENSIC EVIDENCE LINKED THE SLOVERS TO THE MURDER IN

EVERY IMAGINABLE WAY.

>> Narrator: ALTHOUGH MICHAEL JR. WAS WORKING AT THE

TIME OF THE MURDER, HE CALLED HIS PARENTS 12 TIMES THAT

WEEKEND AND HELPED CLEAN UP THE

CRIME SCENE AFTERWARDS.

PROSECUTORS WERE CONVINCED HE WAS ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN

PLANNING THE MURDER AND COVER-UP.

THE THREE SLOVERS WERE ALL CONVICTED OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER

AND SENTENCED TO 60 YEARS IN PRISON.

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Very nice 聽到這句話我差點跳起來:...breast-feeding..., 是我理解錯了?有歧義?還真的奶奶哺乳孫子 -移花接木- 給 移花接木 發送悄悄話 移花接木 的博客首頁 (405 bytes) () 02/09/2021 postreply 20:33:46

是啊, 變態.... -回頭笑笑- 給 回頭笑笑 發送悄悄話 (38 bytes) () 02/09/2021 postreply 21:12:20

好習慣,能讀這麽久呢。 -beautifulwind- 給 beautifulwind 發送悄悄話 beautifulwind 的博客首頁 (0 bytes) () 02/09/2021 postreply 22:15:21

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