OK, you want to hear about my most disturbing case? Actually, it’s a chain of murder cases, across several states. They’re weird because we have more than enough evidence to identify the killer in each murder, but still haven’t solve any of them.
We got into the investigation after a murder of a young woman in Ohio. She was bludgeoned to death with an piece of pipe. The killer left the murder weapon right there by the woman’s body, like he didn’t care. The local police had DNA, fingerprints, shoe prints, more than enough evidence. They sent it to the lab, here’s where it gets weird. The prints and DNA were from a man who was killed a month before. That’s when we got into it.
We checked the lab results; had them redone. There was no mistakes. Then another murder was committed in Chicago. A man, an owner of a convenience store was shot late at night, and the killer leaves the gun on the counter with both hand prints on the countertop. She was giving the police her identity. But, it turned out to be the woman who died in Ohio, a month before!
We then began to trace unsolved murders across the country, murders that occurred a month apart and found that in this one chain of murders, the killer was always the murder victim who died the month before.
There was no connection between the victims, and other than the timing, one month apart, the murders were completely random. How does a corpse buried or held in a morgue get out and travel hundreds of miles to commit a murder? We followed these murders for for years, murder victim killing another victim in an impossible chain of brutal murders. We have all the evidence we could ever want just left for us, wrapped up in a bow, none of it is any good. We have no leads. And this bloody chain is unbroken to this day.
And it's been about a month since the last murder...
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