The Bite That Solved A Murder | The New Detectives | Real Responders

[Music] a heart surgeon appears to have died by his own hand but forensic science gives investigators a second opinion [Music] to solve a woman's brutal murder investigators must rely on forensic techniques that haven't been invented yet but time is on their side a senseless murder becomes even more perplexing when investigators find two strange marks on the victim they could mean nothing or everything even when the scene of a murder reads like a page of pulp fiction detectives must somehow piece together the plot so too must the writers who tell the stories of true crime [Music] the mystery began on a cold monday morning in february 1996 in sims township ohio the usually punctual heart surgeon dr daryl cetorius missed his morning rounds at the hospital for the second day in a row attempts to page him brought no response his colleagues asked the hamilton county sheriff's department to check on the doctor at home his wife della dante sutorius said she didn't know where her husband was she hadn't seen him in days but that wasn't unusual though they lived under the same roof the couple led separate lives she often went weeks without seeing him the police asked if they could look around the home first they checked to see if the doctor's car was in the garage when they found it the engine was cold he hadn't driven it recently their search was cut short by a screen [Music] [Applause] in a basement room daryl sutorius had been found his head lay in a pool of blood a steel 38 caliber revolver gleamed on the carpet after devoting his life to healing others it appeared the doctor had killed himself his wife of little more than a year was now a widow [Music] the officers on the scene couldn't foresee that this was the beginning of a case that would be read by hundreds of thousands of true crime fans as news of the death was splashed across the pages of the cincinnati newspapers it caught the attention of best-selling crime writer aphrodite jones it was the front page of all the papers and i heard people were talking about it and you know i went and grabbed the papers right on the bookstand and i just said whoa this is it i just immediately knew this was my story i had to have this story i was like falling in love this story would become jones's fourth true crime book the sutorious case had all the right ingredients deception betrayal and death at the scene there was every indication the victim's death was a suicide the gun was collected and gunmetal tests on the victim's hands proved that he had fired the weapon [Music] to try to understand why the victim would take his own life police questioned his wife della [Music] she told him they were practically estranged in her few encounters with her husband in the weeks before his death he seemed angry and depressed he had good reason daryl and della had fought often mostly about money to keep the peace they agreed to live on different floors of the large house they shared della believed that her husband had killed himself rather than face a painful divorce while della had her say forensics experts were finding a different story at the scene though the doctor may have been lonely police were not convinced he was by himself when he died investigators weren't ready to write it off to suicide just yet police found a second bullet lodged in the rug when the pistol was examined it was found that two shots not one had been fired strange as it seems according to coroner carl parrott that's not unheard of in suicide cases some suicides do include multiple shots some suicides include a test shot or so-called test shot it's theorized that people discharge the weapon just to see how loud it is but another clue was not so easily dismissed among the blood spatters was a smear on the couch cushion from the position of the mark it was unlikely that he could have made it as he fell sootorius could not have killed himself and then smeared his own blood it looked as if someone had altered the scene parrot also noticed something odd about the position of the body the victim's right hand was extended out from the couch directly over the gun it looked like the gun had fallen from his lifeless fingers but the blood spatter contradicted that on the palmer surface there was sprayed or spattered blood spray blood implies that this surface of the hand was up and exposed to blood which is uh exhaled during terminal respiration now however the hand is out like this the victim's position had apparently changed after the fatal shot there was no other way to explain the blood on his hand the head wound was unlike any suicide doctor parrot had ever seen the gunshot wound of entrance was above the superior attachment of the of the right ear and the trajectory was front going at about 45 approximately 45 degrees this was also a non-contact wound the entrance wound was high at the back of the head and the gun had to have been fired from some distance away people typically don't pull the weapon well behind this is an uncomfortable position to adopt particularly when you're lying down it was unlikely that a surgeon so well-versed in anatomy would have risked missing his mark it now looked like the doctor had been murdered the irregularities at the scene were incriminating but not damning to prove murder investigators would have to first prove that someone else pulled the trigger the prime suspect was the victim's widow de la soutorious but they lacked solid evidence to find out more about the couple's relationship detectives talk to friends and relatives the doctor's attorney revealed that daryl sutorius had confided that he was afraid of his wife and wanted to end their marriage well in fact his divorce papers were waiting to be executed on the same day his body was found and the fact is that contradicted what della had told police either sutorius had changed his mind about seeking divorce or ordello was lying but i need to get out of this [Music] the case against della was building hamilton county ohio's chief assistant prosecutor tom longano was brought in to our case the forensic evidence was most important coupled with the facts that she had made statements to people that she would do him bodily harm and daryl in fact had confided in friends and relatives that he was in fear for his life that della had threatened to kill him it seemed that della had made good on her threats but first she cast her spell on sutorius investigators learned that the lonely doctor had met his bride-to-be through a dating service and had rushed to the altar only three months later seduced by her lies the honeymoon hadn't lasted long della sutorius's stylish cover story soon opened onto page after page of dime novel violence and deception and she was posing as somebody named dante and he didn't care and she was posing as somebody who went to ucla and graduated from college and he never checked on it and she was posing as somebody who had all this fantastic knowledge of the arts etc he never knew anything about that he knew she looked good in a bathing suit she claimed that she loved him and that's all he cared about she had no college education as she purported and until she set her sights on the doctor she was in constant need of money been married four times before not twice as she said during their brief courtship she had been della hoffer della buyer della bassett and della britain each of her relationships had ended in angry divorces her marriage to sartorius seemed to be following the same course della and the doctor's fights over money became increasingly bitter their rancor reached new heights when the surgeon's daughter announced her wedding plans della refused to allow sartorius to pay for his daughter's wedding she has a right to have a wedding that she wants della had a fanatical need to fuel her spendthrift ways without a prenuptial agreement she would gain little from a divorce they were not married very long and under ohio law she was not really entitled to much by way of financial settlement on the other hand if he had died of a suicide or natural causes she stood to inherit about a million dollars it was to dela's benefit to prevent the divorce did that mean murder perhaps but investigators needed hard evidence to make the case the peek into her past revealed her capacity for violence [Music] she had set one boyfriend on fire while he slept she threatened another with a gun this cycle of violence escalated throughout her life so it went from being just throwing things around with husband number one throwing dishes and that kind of thing to then all of a sudden um you know destroying property of the car and this and that with husband number two to then destroying homes to then then pulling knives and with the last husband she took a gun and pulled the trigger at his head it was empty the bullets were not in the gun but she didn't know that she didn't know that she was ready to kill david britton he testified to that in court she was going to blow his head off in the case of daryl sutorius it appeared that della may have succeeded in her murderous plans yes i'm looking for a gun for self-defense investigators traced the serial number on the gun that killed the doctor it was registered to della sutarius purchased shortly before the murder further checks revealed that this was not the first pistol she'd owned an officer on the case recalled that several months before the shooting a man had approached him to turn in a 22-caliber handgun [Music] he said it belonged to his wife that she had threatened him with it the officer told him to hand over the weapon at the police station and to file charges of domestic violence [Music] the gun was turned in but he didn't file charges so he thought he got the gun out of the house and he was safe little did he know she went out and bought herself another gun the owner of the gun shop where della bought her second pistol remembered that she was a tough customer he told police that even though a shooting lesson was included in the price of the weapon della didn't need it she was a natural dead eye and with the loaded pistol in her hand she told him she wouldn't let her husband get away with divorce but hearsay about threats still wasn't enough to bring charges investigators had to place her in the room with the smoking gun [Music] the death of dr daryl soutourius looked like murder investigators had learned that his wife della had both motive and opportunity to kill him but could they raise tangible evidence to prove it coroner carl parrott thought he could he noted that a thin sheen of blood covered practically all of the gun's surfaces occasionally you'll see blood on a weapon after a suicide but the distribution is where you'd expect it to be on the muzzle front sight maybe the front of the trigger guard the places you would not expect to see it are on the grips which are shielded by the shooter's hand parrot found a partial bloody palm print left on the grip of the weapon he determined that the print had been transferred to the grip by a blood-stained hand when the blood was almost dry given the lethal nature of his moon dr sutorius could not have shot himself dropped the gun and then picked it up again finally here was proof positive that a second person had been at the scene the print was too smeared to compare it with dellas but de la satorius had no alibi for the weekend her husband lay dead in the basement when all the evidence was assembled the events of the doctor's last day alive became clear the style to which de la sutorius had grown accustomed was slipping through her fingers pressure was mounting divorce was imminent on saturday february 17th she reached the end of her rope and the end of the eight-day waiting period to pick up her new gun after shooting her sleeping husband she arranged his body to make it appear that he had killed himself then she placed the gun in the lifeless hand and pulled the trigger once more making the bullet hole in the floor now gunshot residue would be found on the doctor's hand by any forensic expert who looked for it on february 27 1996 the widow was arrested for the murder of her husband in her book della's web aphrodite jones described the final moments of the trial four months later the sordid saga of della donte fay hall hofer buyer bassett britton sutorius ended on june 7th 1996. a tear rolled down her face as she listened to closing arguments then della collapsed in her chair as the jury announced the verdict guilty of aggravated murder in the death of her husband the widow sutorius was sentenced to life in prison she will be 70 years old before she's eligible for parole though many homicides are solved with the tools at hand sometimes the clues and ultimately the victim must wait for new technology to reveal their secrets best-selling true crime writers don weber and charles bosworth jr found themselves thrust into the midst of just such a case in june 1978 in the quiet town of wood river illinois carla brown had just gotten engaged to her high school sweetheart david hart and they were moving in together hart went to work as usual leaving brown to start arranging their home [Music] but later that morning when a friend stopped by to see the new house brown didn't come to the door [Music] after work hart gave his friend a tour he couldn't understand why his fiancee had gone out and left the door unlocked carla you've got to be in the basement as they walked through the house the reason became horribly clear [Music] carla brown hadn't gotten far in her unpacking before she was attacked police found her on her knees doubled over with her head in a bucket of water her hands were lashed behind her back she was naked from the waist down police questioned david hart he was inconsolable his co-workers confirmed that brown had been murdered while he was at work [Music] he was not a suspect [Music] detectives processed the scene for clues [Music] slashed electrical wire had been used to bind the victim's hands she had two linear bruises on her face and neck [Music] she had been sexually assaulted [Music] socks tied around her throat suggested she'd been strangled [Music] a pool of water tinted pink from the victim's blood was found beneath one end of the couch more blood led from the couch to the body but the most perplexing clue lay not on the floor but overhead the carafe from a coffee maker was jammed into the rafters [Music] illinois state police crime scene inspector alva bush didn't trust what he saw at the scene he had worked many homicides involving sexual assault and felt that the position of the victim meant the scene had been staged the victim was bound around one wrist and then the cord went underneath her and came up and the other wrist was tied and i felt that this wasn't right because it would allow the victim access to her attacker inspector bush made sure a painstaking series of photographs was taken of the entire scene then the body was wrapped in a sheet so that no trace evidence would be lost during transport to the coroner's lab when the victim's injuries were examined it was determined that she'd been struck a single devastating blow it had broken her jaw in two places and left two blunt trauma bruises on her face the marks suggested the back of a claw hammer [Music] though carla brown had fiercely resisted her attacker she'd been overpowered and possibly knocked unconscious ultimately her cause of death was drowning charles bosworth jr a reporter who covered this case for the saint louis post dispatch experienced first hand the community's fear and outrage this was a murder that happened in the home of a lovely young woman minding her own business moving into a home starting a new life with her fiance it happened in the in broad daylight and it immediately raised the issue for us of the the lack of safety in a person's own home and that terrifies the public co-author don weber who in 1978 was the assistant state's attorney was called into the case the criminal whoever he was undermined any sense of safety the hardware store sold out of locks women were afraid to go anywhere by themselves the impression i got when i went to the house was it was just a terrible brutal cold-blooded crime and there were absolutely no clues police interviewed carla brown's neighbors one witness said that on the day of the murder she'd seen two men drinking beer and smoking marijuana in the yard of the house next door to the crime scene the two men were brought in for polygraph tests john prenty passed the test displaying no abnormal responses to the questions [Music] but when dwayne conway's turn came the results were declared inconclusive due to erratic emotional disturbances only a disturbed mind could commit a crime like this one conway became the lead suspect but the crime scene gave as many mixed signals as his polygraph during the first 30 years no identifiable fingerprints were found at the crime scene the case reached an impasse after a year even though carla brown's killer was still at large the murder investigation was called off then a chance encounter over 1 000 miles away broke it open a murder case may be officially closed but it's never forgotten that was true of the carla brown case in 1979 almost a year after the crime investigator alva bush traveled from illinois to new mexico to testify in an unrelated stolen vehicle case when that trial was delayed he passed the time attending a seminar on a brand new forensic technology photographic image enhancement he had no idea this seminar would be the turning point for the brown investigation the lecturer that day was medical investigator homer campbell on most photographs there's more information than you really perceive and what enhancement does in different steps it really simplifies the photograph it makes the edges clear for instance it lets you see different segments of the film differently with renewed hope bush sent photographs of the carla brown murder scene to campbell for analysis he hoped this new technology would help solve an old case [Music] the photographs were enhanced using a computer that paired away only the blurred fragments of each image one tiny section at a time [Music] in the brown case the results were dramatic campbell called bush with his initial findings [Music] the twin bruising on the victim's face had been caused when the killer struck her with the metal legs of a tv tray which were barely visible in one photograph the victim's former fiancee david hart still had the tv tray in his home when police re-examined it they discovered microscopic traces of blood and a short strand of blonde hair but no fingerprints though the weapon had been found the killer was still free [Music] but campbell's enhancement of the photographs provided even more shocking evidence of the killer's brutality then he kind of dropped the bomb on me when he says what about the bite marks on her neck and i just couldn't believe it i said what bite mark and he says she's definitely got a bite mark on her neck the enhanced image made it clear the victim had sustained a savage bite during her assault since the bite was inflicted close to her time of death the bruises had no chance to heal but they'd still been too faint to draw notice until now the first thing is to examine the injury itself and from the injury what is the investigator able to see can he see what's called gross characteristics can he see little individual characteristics maybe something individual about this that would really make it different from anything else campbell determined that carla brown's killer had a small mouth with crooked teeth after one year with no breaks whatsoever this gave police their first solid lead we knew that we had something now that we could link to the killer something very personal something he's not going to change i i can recall that i was excited about it because i i felt that this guy would have to pull all of his teeth out at least most the ones in front to get away from this type of evidence by the early 80s forensic experts were depending more and more on the unique characteristics of bite marks the prime suspect dwayne conway was forced by the court to have an impression made of his upper teeth this mold was then sent to dr campbell [Music] by going to the teeth you look again at the gross characteristics of the teeth you look at the individual characteristics of the teeth something you look for something a little different that would make this individual the photos simply didn't provide enough information without a clearer view of the bike wound the case would grind to a halt stymied at every turn there was only one path open to investigators they started the paperwork to have carla brown's remains disinterred but the investigation moved forward on another front detectives on the case learned that the new science of psychological profiling was helping police close murder cases across the country detective bush and his colleagues wondered if a profiler could help them get inside the mind of carla brown's murderer they gathered all the crime scene photos and drove more than 800 miles to the fbi's behavioral science unit in quantico virginia there pioneer profiler john douglas studied the images and made a startling prediction douglas was just amazing you know he started just talking after you've seen the photographs and he says that the crime scene was definitely staged and that if we're going to exhume carla's body that we need to do a lot of high profile news media on it and he says that this guy the killer will call you he'll contact you and he'll want to inject himself into the investigation [Music] the timing of this new information couldn't have been better in may of 1982 four years after her death permission to exhume carla brown's remains was finally granted as the fbi profiler recommended the police and the media cooperated making a public event of the grim proceeding to further shake up the murderer investigators publicized the previously unknown fact that the victim had a bite mark on her body and that an arrest in the case was imminent according to assistant states attorney don weber this was all out psychological warfare we were trying to make the killer nervous he'd coped with the crime he learned that he got away with it he was really proud of himself and john douglas said you have to make him nervous while new photos were being taken of the bite marks on the victim weber's office received a telephone call from the prime suspect's friend during an office meeting we were having about this case my secretary broke in and said john pranny's on the phone though pranty had passed a polygraph and wasn't a suspect he was behaving like the killer the profiler said the killer would try to insinuate himself into the investigation that's what john prenty was doing the publicity surrounding brown's exhumation and the bite wound also brought out new witnesses who called investigators with crucial information they said that at a party just one week after carla brown's death pranty had been describing the murder scene to his friends in lurid detail including a description of the bite mark the only way he could have known about the mark three years before the police learned of it was if he'd inflicted the wound himself [Music] granty was ordered to give a dental impression the mold along with the impressions of three other people were forwarded to a forensic odontologist for analysis we brought him four sets of dental impressions and we said which one is our killer and he put three aside immediately and then he took up prani's dental impressions and he measured him and he got a caliper out and he looked at the picture and then he just sat down and he said that's your man extreme patience and new forensic techniques had finally justified an arrest warrant on june 8 1982 four years after the murder of carla brown john prenty was arrested one thing about a homicide investigation they're forever there's nothing sacred in them there's you continue to search for that individual there's no statute of limitations that you have to deal with so if somebody out there has done a murder your fair game forever until it's solved when the evidence was assembled police sketched a picture of the victim's first morning in her new home and her last day alive pretty made a sexual advance that was strongly rebuffed the struggle escalated until pranty bit brown on the neck and struck her face with the tv tray knocking her unconscious he tried to revive her by splashing water on her face from the coffee carafe when his efforts failed he redressed her and tied socks around her neck to hide the bite mark bound her hands and tipped her forward into the bucket of water where she drowned after prenty fled the scene he washed the tell-tale blood from his hands at the home of next door neighbor dwayne conway thanks to the emerging sciences of image enhancement forensic odentology and psychological profiling carla brown's killer was finally brought to justice those interminable seconds the period of time don weber hated more than anything else passed as the verdict was handed from the foreman to the bailiff to the young judge reading his first trial verdict judge romani said solemnly the verdict the court has been handed reads as follows we the jury find the defendant john prante guilty of the offense of murder on september 27 1982 cranty was sentenced to 75 years in prison while the process of solving a crime can bring welcome resolution it can also stir up some ugly ghosts from the past clifford line decker has been a true crime writer for 22 years he has published 32 books to date being a crime writer's greatest job in the world every book or every magazine piece i do i get to look into the lives of new people look into the deaths of new people too for that matter but you really see uh life at its uh at its rost you strip everybody's secrets away and uh if you're if you're a snoop a former uh journalist so that's uh that's that can be pretty exciting in the last century leo tolstoy wrote that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way linedecker found that it's still true and still makes good reading i kind of pride myself on keeping up on what's happening with with true crime and especially my favorites now which i call family murders in 1993 line decker learned of a brutal murder case in the resort town of steamboat springs colorado it began in october at the hardware store owned by jerry and douglas boggs on this morning jerry was very late for work and douglas was worried douglas tried to reach his older brother by phone no one answered when he went to jerry's house to check on him douglas found him brutally murdered on the kitchen floor [Applause] an officer from the steamboat springs police department responded to douglas boggs's call he confirmed that jerry boggs was passed all hell supervisor though there was a deep gash across the victim's forehead death had come from two gunshots to the back detective rick krotz was called to the scene and noticed something unusual in looking at jerry boggs's body there was there was a mark uh that on his ear and his cheek right here that we could never figure out what the mark was um it was kind of reddish and circular and there was a spot up on the lobe of his ear but i mean we we'd uh we guessed at the onset that this is a muzzle of a gun being shoved into his head and that was the bruising and the mark left uh by a gun muzzle a blood-stained shovel was discovered at the crime scene it provided another possible explanation for the marks if the victim had been struck with the tool the rivets could have made the wounds police also found a slug and blood drops on the floor along with pools of blood as agent tom griffin examined the blood spatters the full savagery of the murder became clearer this convergence of stains this three-dimensional convergence was basically underneath the ceiling beam the ceiling beam had a curved gouge in it which was suspected to be a result of the shovel the blade of the shovel coming in contact with the ceiling beam investigators collected several shell casings perhaps they could hold a clue to lead them to the killer forensic experts continued to build the case after the fatal slugs were removed from the victim they were submitted to the firearms lab at the colorado bureau of investigation there agent alan hammond went to work i was able to determine that the bullets were 22 long rifle caliber they had been fired from a barrel of a firearm that had rifling of eight lines and grooves with a right twist detectives had a bullet but no gun they had a shovel but no clue as to who wielded it by now the killer could be miles away or very close to home police in colorado had few leads and fewer suspects in the shooting death of jerry boggs they turned their attention to the man closest to the victim his brother so at that point in time everybody you know everybody that that uh is associated with with that is a suspect when i left him i went to look for him one more time blood and hair samples were taken from doug boggs and compared to forensic evidence from the scene no match was found doug was not the killer her bed and breakfast in town she bought all her hardware at the boggs's store and soon the lifelong bachelor allowed no one but himself to wait on her after their wedding in april of 1991 jerry boggs assumed part ownership of jill coyte's bed and breakfast but soon jerry and jill began having marital trouble [Music] boggs was shocked to learn that his wife was still married to another man boggs insisted they separate until she ended her other marriage jill left but as writer clifford leindecker discovered in researching his book jill returned to steamboat springs making an amazing claim jill either rented or borrowed a baby and showed up in steamboat springs went around town showing everybody and said this is uh this is jerry's baby and this rotten guy threw me out of the house and he won't take care of me and he won't support his little girl the child couldn't be his or even hers a partial hysterectomy years before had left jill quite unable to have more children what was quite up to to find out boggs hired a private detective the results of her report were startling the private investigators actually turned up quite a history for jill and of course they really relayed that to jerry coyte had been married not once but 11 times before jerry boggs to nine different men like her marriage to boggs several of her other marriages had overlapped boggs had his marriage annulled and soon coit sued him for his share of the bed and breakfast the case was bitterly contested investigators wondered if this was a motive for murder if coit's long string of marriages wasn't enough police found another skeleton rattling in her closet in texas one of jill coyte's former husbands had also met an untimely death decades before when we began to investigate jill coyte i mean she had uh we'd uncovered i mean numerous marriages and several of those marriage were bigamous we we uh found out that she was a prime suspect in a murder of a previous husband william clayton houston it was like 21 years earlier 20 years earlier and you know following up on on that murder i mean the murders were phenomenally similar william coyte like jerry boggs had been shot in the back at close range the 22 caliber bullets piercing his lungs for lack of evidence jill coyte was never charged in william coyte's death it seemed history was about to repeat itself [Music] investigators in the jerry boggs murder face the same circumstances then one of jerry boggs's neighbors revealed a startling piece of information she told police that on the day of the murder she had seen two men walking by her house what caught her eye was that they were wearing heavy coats on a mild fall afternoon then she realized that one of the men was actually a woman wearing a false mustache jerry boggs's attorney confirmed that he and his wife had once seen a woman disguised as a man driving past the courthouse the woman was definitely jill coyle we learned during the subsequent investigation that jill coyte did this she dressed up as a man wore beard and mustache and she'd use this disguise to follow jerry boggs around town you know spying on him police suspected that the two mysterious men were really jill and her boyfriend michael backus but jill coyte told police that at the time of jerry boggs's murder she and bacchus were away camping police had no solid leads to support an arrest as the investigation stalled court sped to the airport clutching tickets to mexico police could only watch as she boarded a flight to freedom two men were dead killed 20 years apart both were shot in the back with 22 caliber pistols and both had been married to jill coyte she was the prime suspect in the death of jerry boggs but she was still in mexico beyond the reach of authorities even if she returned to the states coincidence was not strong enough evidence for police to bring charges then according to crime writer clifford lindecker a surprise witness turned the case around i think the turning point in the investigation really occurred when jill's oldest son seth stephen seth turned against him not only had jill coyte and michael backus openly planned the murder of jerry boggs in front of her son she'd even called him when the butchery was finished telling him it's done and it's messy seth had reason to believe her he'd found evidence of the deed in a bathroom sink at the bed and breakfast where she may have washed up with seth coyte's testimony police now had a case but they couldn't act until jill coyt came back to colorado finally in november 1993 investigators got a call from her son once again he said that jill coyte was making a quick visit to the us to tie up some loose ends on the sale of a property though she sneaked into town in the dead of night police were waiting for her as it turned out jill coyte and michael backus would be staying in steamboat springs much longer than they had planned when detectives searched the suspect's car they found spent 22 caliber cartridges in the ashtray and then they discovered a weapon they weren't even searching for a stun gun a stun gun uses two electrodes to deliver a non-lethal shock of 100 000 volts it can incapacitate a human being for several minutes suddenly the strange marks on the victim's face and neck began to make sense but forensic data on stun gun injuries was scarce because they were so rarely fatal detective crux contacted the arapahoe county coroner dr michael doberson for help just by measuring the distance from the electrodes on the stun gun we're able to compare that with the injury that we saw in the picture and found that these injuries were pretty closely related to where the electrodes would have been though autopsy photographs gave some clues about the marks on the body only tissue samples from the victim's remains would prove that a stun gun caused the marks if investigators could find tissue damage consistent with the use of a stun gun they could connect jill coyte to the murder scene but by now jerry boggs's remains had been buried for 10 months [Music] they were exhumed to look for evidence doberson found some not only was there an injury on the cheek but there were also similar types of injuries or scratches on the earlobe and also on the outside of the ear samples of the injuries were closely analyzed [Music] because skin tissue is electrically charged high voltage can disturb its structure [Music] near the surface of the damaged area the skin had greatly thinned out the charged nuclei of all the cells had begun to align and migrate beneath the surface like iron filings on a magnet or a school of fish in a current but this current wasn't water it was electricity lots of it to doberson the results were conclusive the skin showed all the signs of an electrical injury the stun gun in jill coyt's car linked her to the injuries on her ex-husband's body after months of investigation police now knew what had happened on the day jerry boggs died jill coyte and michael backus had ambushed jerry boggs soon after he'd come home the victim was assaulted with a stun gun first then beaten with the shovel three gunshots later the crime was complete once her husband was back in culver she worked clifford leindecker's book poisoned vows details the end of the sordid tale the jury deliberated only five hours before returning verdicts against both defendants of guilty to all counts she picked the wrong town she picked the wrong man and she picked the wrong family douglas boggs said of his former sister-in-law after the verdicts were revealed for their crimes jill coyte and michael backus were sentenced to life in prison forensic evidence both from the scene and from the grave had unraveled the mystery when the plot is murdered investigators must piece together the real story from a tangle of seemingly unrelated clues [Music] as long as killers think they are above the law there will always be tales of true crime but forensic science will always write the final chapter [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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