After the officer's backup got there, they kicked through the door and searched the residence. When they reached that bottom floor bedroom, there was a naked lady on the bed and a male wearing all his clothing laying on the floor. Both had been shot and according to the coroner, they'd been dead approximately two days, but he couldn't be sure. That was because the home furnace was off and the temperature inside had fallen to roughly thirty-five degrees. He stated it may have been up to 10 days earlier.
The coroner collected the remains for autopsy and the detective in charge, Mark James, began investigating the case. It seemed to him like a heist gone awry until he attempted to identify the victims. They should have been Mr. Thomas Clara and his wife Becca. The individual was undoubtedly Mr. Clara. His face matched the driver's license in his wallet.
The lady was a different scenario. Mrs. Clara's handbag was on the kitchen table, but the driver's license photo wasn't the image of the deceased lady. The face was quite similar, however the deceased lady had blonde hair instead of dark brown like the license picture and her features didn't match. The weight didn't match up either. The driver's license claimed Mrs. Clara weighed one-ten. The coroner weighed the deceased lady at one forty.
Another thing the coroner observed was that although the mystery blonde wasn't wearing a wedding band, there was the obvious impression of a wedding ring on her left ring finger. According to his assessment, based on the degree of skin alteration, he assessed the lady had probably been married at least two years and had taken the ring off within a few weeks before her death. She may have been married longer if she took the ring off every night, but there was a little callous where the band brushed her palm that showed she didn't.
That left Mark with four questions. Who was the deceased lady, where was Mrs. Clara, why did Mrs. Clara leave her purse on the kitchen table, and why did the mystery blonde not have her purse with her? His presumption was the murderer had stolen the unknown blonde's pocketbook, but he couldn't think out a rationale for doing so without knowing the unknown blonde's name.
He'd tried submitting DNA samples from the unnamed lady to CODIS and hadn't obtained a match. The FBI wasn't able to match the unnamed woman's fingerprints the coroner had taken to any they had on file.
Mark wasn't shocked that he couldn't acquire a match for the DNA or the fingerprints of the unidentified lady. Most crimes are perpetrated by males, therefore there aren't that many samples of female DNA and fingerprints on file. What did surprise Mark was that when he questioned most of the individuals who lived near the home, they were able to identify Mr. Clara, but they'd never seen the unnamed lady before.
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