A Bloody Puzzle With Missing Pieces

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now They dated through high school and junior college and married in Windsor, Missouri, on June 14, 1980. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Sandra also worked part time at Dillard's and took classes through Roger State. By 1990 they had three sons, roughly two, three and six years old.

The marriage had run into trouble over sex. this part of the story is covered for now She talked to a few friends at Dillard's and asked for advice. details of the account remain covered until revealed Sandra took the letter well and agreed to try. They planned a three-night anniversary trip to Missouri for June 15 to 17 and booked a hotel. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

this part of the story is covered for now It ran from August 1989 to January 1990, involved about six encounters at her house, his house and a motel in Tulsa, and ended by mutual agreement. They stayed friendly and continued to discuss their marriages.

details of the account remain covered until revealed He left at about five, reached home at 5:20 and found Sandra dressed for her evening shift at Dillard's. She had made him a pork fritter and salad, then left for work. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He bathed his youngest son, took the children to see Sandra at Dillard's, then went back because he had forgotten the church keys. He was supposed to collect the Sunday offering receipts that evening.

At Dillard's, Sandra received a telephone call from a man who asked where her husband was. He said he had called the house and got no answer and that he had gone to school with Steve. Sandra did not recognise the name and later told a co-worker that she could not understand him. this part of the story is covered for now She found the voice raspy but perfectly understandable. The caller asked for Sandy Allen, the name Sandra used at Dillard's. Theresa had also recently found an obscene photograph of a naked man tucked through the window of her car.

details of the account remain covered until revealed He was at the Sonic on Frank Phillips Road at 9:13 p.m., bought a medium cherry limeade, a child's grape slush and a medium Pepsi, and met someone he knew. He returned to Dillard's about 9:25, but Sandra had punched out at 9:15 and driven home. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Another neighbour got home about ten and saw both cars in the drive but the house dark.

this part of the story is covered for now When the headlights hit the figure it ran. He locked the boy in the car and went in through the utility room into the kitchen. He found Sandra in a pool of blood on the floor, shook her and held her, getting blood over himself, then saw the broken television, the broken mirror and the books on the floor. He called 911, said he needed an ambulance and police, and told the operator his boy was in the car. The operator thought he was unusually calm and gave the address clearly. The prosecution later said as much as half an hour passed before the call.

Paramedics found a faint pulse and massive head wounds and took Sandra to hospital. She died at 10:30 p.m., aged 30. details of the account remain covered until revealed When the doctor told him she had died he sobbed without tears, and his pastor sobbed with him. Officer Joe Slack thought he seemed calm.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now At the house, officers found too much blood for a simple burglary. The television screen was smashed but the set had not moved. The mirror was broken with nothing on the floor to show what had hit it. The books were pulled off the shelf and piled at its base rather than knocked aside. A side door stood open only about eighteen inches and the storm door was locked. Sandra's purse, with money and credit cards, was untouched. details of the account remain covered until revealed A tyre tool behind the patio chairs had cobwebs and woodlice under it and had clearly been there for some time.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He wiped it, took it and some paper towels to the attic and hid them under tubing and carpeting before calling 911. Officers found the hammer and towels there. They could find no mark on the counter where he said he had struck it. The autopsy found multiple fractures of the skull, including the base, extensive bruising and lacerations of the brain, and bone fragments driven into the brain. The cause was blunt-force trauma to the head.

this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed On Friday, June 15, 1990, at the request of the district attorney's office, he turned himself in.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it The evidence showed that two lenses had been removed from her clothing at the hospital and misplaced, and that one whole lens and part of another were removed at autopsy; her optometrist confirmed her recent prescription. this part of the story is covered for now The prosecution pointed to Theresa Miller's identification of the caller, the affair as motive and the single set of shoe prints. The judge refused a change of venue and allowed the state to keep testing the hammer. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

this part of the story is covered for now The 1993 court rejected complaints about the judge's questioning of witnesses, the venue, the hammer testing and the admission of the affair evidence. His writ of habeas corpus was denied in 1997. In 2003 a judge allowed further DNA testing of the fingernail samples. details of the account remain covered until revealed No testing has freed him. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Sandra's parents, Joe and his wife, took temporary custody of the three boys and sought guardianship.