Chapter 17 Chapter Fourteen Who Killed the Pretty American Girl?

Who Killed America's Pretty Girl? That question has been on the minds of residents of the small town of Wood River, Illinois, for four years.Inspector Alva Bush of the state police department and Don Weber, the state attorney in charge of criminal cases in Madison County, were even more troubled. On a Tuesday night, June 20, 1978, Kara Brown and her fiancé, Mark Fair, hosted an appreciation party where they drank to the sound of music and friends who helped them move into their new home.The new home is located at 979 Acton Avenue, Wood River Township.It was a tree-lined street, and their new house was a white wooden-walled bungalow next to the street, with thin and tall columns on both sides of the front door, which was a typical house suitable for just married people.For two weeks, they have been packing up and getting ready to move in.It's been an exciting start for Kara, 23, and Mark, 27.They've been in love for five years, and Mark has finally made it clear that he's got over his marriage concerns and is ready to make a real commitment.With Kara about to graduate with a degree from a local university and Mark working as a trainee electrician, their future looks bright.

Although it took several years to get married, Mark Fair knew very well that it was his blessing to have a fiancée like Kara.Carla Lou Brown is a typical American beauty.She is less than 5 feet tall, with curly blond hair, a charming figure and a beauty queen smile.At Roxana Secondary School, she was the object of the boys' pursuit and the girls' envy, and she was remembered as the exuberant, spirited cheerleader.Her close friends know that, beneath her charming, fiery exterior, she has a sensitive, sexually introspective side.They knew she was devoted to Mark, who had a strong physique and was more than a foot taller than her.Kara and Mark are a match made in heaven.

After the Tuesday night party, they returned to their East Alton apartment to pack up the remaining boxes.They planned to move into the new house the next night and spend a good night there. On Wednesday morning, after Mark left for Camp Thermal, Carla went to Acton Avenue to tidy up and wait for Mark to leave work around 4:30.They were very excited about spending the night there. After Mark got off work, he first went to the house of his friend Tom Feigenbaum.He lived on the same block as Mark's parents and had promised to help Mark move a king-sized A-frame dog house from his parents' backyard to his new home.

They reached Acton Avenue about half past five.As Tom backed the truck down the driveway in front of the house, Mark got out and called Carla.He couldn't find her and thought she was out shopping, but he noticed the back door wasn't locked.This made him a little unhappy.She must pay attention to such things in the future. Mark showed Tom around the house.After seeing the main rooms, Mark led him to the kitchen, then down the stairs to the basement.When he reached the last step, he saw a scene that made him frown.Several small tables were overturned.Even though he and Carla had tidied up the place the night before, everything looked messy.Something still spilled on the couch and the floor.

"Is something wrong here?" Mark asked himself.He turned to go up to Carla, and suddenly saw the laundry room through the open door. Carla knelt there in a hunched position, wearing a pullover but naked from the waist down, her hands tied behind her back with wires, her head submerged in a 10-gallon drum filled with water.It was one of several buckets that he and Carla used to move their clothes.The cardigan was originally in one of the buckets, and she only wore it in the winter. "Oh my God! Kara!" Mark exclaimed and Tom rushed over.Mark pulled her head out of the barrel and laid her face up on the floor.Her face was swollen and purple, with a deep gash on her forehead and another on her chin.Her eyes were open, but she was clearly dead.

Mark was so sad that he slumped on the ground.He told Tom to find something to cover her.After Tom found a red blanket and covered it, they called the police. When Officer David George of the Wood River Police Department arrived a few minutes later, Mark and Tom were waiting for him by the front door.They took him to the basement and showed him the scene.Throughout the process, Mark was so distraught that he could barely contain himself, repeating, "Oh my God, Kara!" In Wood River, a quiet town about fifteen minutes from St. Louis, no one expected such a horror to happen.Soon, all the senior local police officers came to the scene to check, including the 39-year-old chief Ralph Skinner.

Carla suffered severe blunt force trauma to the head, most likely from being attacked with a television table.She had two socks tied around her neck, and the autopsy concluded that she had been strangled and died when her head was dipped in the bucket. Although the clues at the murder scene are crucial to solving the case, the police's job is not smooth from the beginning.Inspector Alva Bush of the Illinois State Police, a seasoned crime scene expert, couldn't get his camera's flash to work.Officer Bill Redfern, who received the call from Tom Feigenbaum at the police station, happened to have a camera with him to take pictures of the crime scene, but unfortunately, his camera only contained black and white film.Another thorny issue was the number of people who had visited the house to help the young couple move, potentially legally fingerprinting the scene.And picking someone else's fingerprints out of them is difficult, if not impossible.

Something seemed like a possible clue, but no plausible explanation could be found.The most notable of these is a glass coffee pot tucked into the basement rafters.Just before finding it, police noticed a coffee pot was missing from the coffee stove in the kitchen.No one, including Mark, has been able to come up with any logical explanation for why it's there.Even if it was connected to the murder, its role is not clear.Alva Bush managed to extract several faint fingerprints from the surface of the glass, which turned out to be incomplete and useless. In the days following the incident, police scoured the area and spoke to any residents who might have seen something suspicious.Next-door neighbor Paul Maine said he spent most of the afternoon on the front porch of his home with his friend John Planty.Planty recalled that he stayed at Maine's house for a while after he went to look for work at a local oil refinery that morning, but left shortly thereafter to find work elsewhere.The night before the murder, Maine, Planty and another friend had seen Kara and Mark busy moving with the help of a gang.All three of them said they had expected to be invited to the housewarming party, since Maine was the next-door neighbor and the friend had known Carla a little bit in middle school.But they were not invited.It was just the friend saying hello to Kara across the driveway.

The neighbor across the street was an elderly woman named Edna Fancier, who remembered seeing a red car with a white roof parked in front of 979 on the day of the murder.Bob Lewis, one of the party's attendees, said he saw a "vulgar-looking" guy with long hair next door pointing at Carla and calling her name, and Carla stood on the driveway talking to him after hearing the news .That man might have been a friend of Paul Maine's. Lewis heard Carla say back, "Your memory is so good, it's been so long." He said he later told Mark about it, and reminded him that if that's the kind of person living next door, it's important to understand It's better to be careful before they get started.Mark didn't seem to care, and just said that Kara knew the long-haired guy in middle school, and he was just here to see Paul Maine.

Another woman drove down the street while taking her grandson to the dentist.Both she and the child had seen a man and a woman talking in the driveway, but her description was only general, even when questioned after hypnosis. The police have spoken to many of Carla's girlfriends, trying to find out if anyone held a grudge against her, such as a boyfriend who had been dumped.But they all said that Kara was very popular, and they didn't know what enemies she had. Kara's former roommate offers a clue.Kara's father died when she was a child, and her mother, Joe Ellen, remarried to Joe Sheppard Sr., is now divorced.According to the roommate, Kara had never had a good relationship with Shepard, who had hit her and always treated her friends badly.He should be considered a suspect of a crime.On the night of the incident, he came to the police and asked a lot of questions.As I said, it's not uncommon for killers to try to approach the police or intervene in the investigation.But there is no evidence to link Shepard to the case.

Another guy who has to be scrutinized is Mark Fair.He was the one who found the body with Tom Feigenbaum.He had free access to the house and was the closest person to the victim.As I noted in my description of the George Russell case, a spouse or lover should always be considered a suspect.But at the time of the murders, Mark was working for an electrical contractor, and he was seen and spoken to by quite a few people.And everyone, including the police, Carla's friends, and Carla's family, believed that his deep grief was from the heart. As the investigation unfolded, police conducted polygraph tests on many of the people they interviewed who may have had contact with Carla shortly before she was killed.Mark, Tom and Joe Shepard all passed the polygraph without a doubt.No one actually failed.The worst test result was Paul Maine.This person's IQ is not high, and he was in the next door that afternoon.Although he claims that John Planty stayed with him on the porch of his house and can attest that he has not left, Planty himself - who passed a polygraph test - claims that he left in the morning to look for work Maine's house, so it is impossible to say where Maine stayed during that time.While Maine's polygraph results were questionable and did not rule him out as a criminal suspect, as was the case with other police suspects, there was no evidence to directly link him to the case. The trauma of the Kara Brown murder has left the residents of Wood River with a wound that has never healed.Local and state police interviewed everyone they could find and searched for all possible leads.Frustratingly, however, there is still little hope of solving the case.Month after month passed.In the blink of an eye, it is a year.And then another year.This was especially an ordeal for Kara's older sister, Donna Judson.She and her husband Terry worry about and inquire about the progress of the case almost every day.Kara's mother and another sister, Connie Dykstra, could not handle the pressure and had less official connections to investigate the case. Don Webb was also suffering because he was the state attorney for Madison County, where Wood River falls.He was working as an assistant prosecutor at the time of the murder.Weber is both a tough prosecutor and a very sensitive person.He couldn't wait for the public to see that the atrocities committed against Kara would never be tolerated in his jurisdiction.He wanted to bring her murderer to justice, almost to the point of obsession.Immediately after being elected state attorney in November 1980, he ordered the case reopened. No matter how long the case dragged on and no progress was made, there was one other person who refused to give up, that is, Alva Bush, the state's crime scene investigator.In a policeman's career, there are always a few cases that he can't let go of.In the end, it was precisely because of Bush's unremitting efforts that the case achieved a critical breakthrough. In June 1980, exactly two years after Carla was murdered, Bush traveled to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to testify in a murder trial in which he had investigated a stolen car in Illinois.Before the trial, he attended a seminar led by Dr. Homer Campbell at the county sheriff's office.Dr. Campbell is an expert in computer-enhanced photographic effects from the University of Arizona. "Hey, Doctor," Bush told him at the end of the seminar, "I've got a case I'd like your help with." Dr. Campbell agreed to look at the crime scene and autopsy photos to see if he could determine what it was that attacked Carla. utensil or weapon.Bush made copies of all relevant photographs and sent them to Campbell. These black-and-white photos made Campbell's work more difficult, but with the help of sophisticated instruments, he was able to conduct a careful analysis.Through computer-enhanced sharpness, he could basically make out the details of the photo and discovered several things.The deep wounds were caused by a nail hammer, and the gash on the chin and forehead was caused by someone hitting the wheel of a TV table.What he next told Bush brought a new turn in the investigation of the case. "Did you notice the bite marks? Did you find the suspect who left the bite mark on her neck?" "What bite marks?" said Bush, surprised into the telephone. Campbell told him that although the images obtained by means of technical means were not ideal, they undoubtedly showed that there were bite marks on Kara's neck, and the bite marks were quite clear. If the suspect was found, a comparative study could be carried out.In particular, one of the bite marks did not overlap with any other wound or scar on the skin. Unlike any other evidence they had so far, the bite marks were conclusive evidence, almost as valid as fingerprints.While investigating the Florida State University sorority murders, Campbell compared Ted Bundy's teeth to bite marks on a victim's buttocks, providing the basis for convicting the notorious serial killer. Great help.Campbell was a prosecution witness during Bundy's trial. (On the morning of January 24, 1989, Bundy was sent to the electric chair to be executed in Florida. Previously, Bill Hagemeier of our department had conducted a detailed interview with him. No one will ever know for sure. How many young lives were ruined at his hands.) Once Illinois police obtained images of Dr. Campbell's bite marks, they immediately refocused their attention on the original suspects, particularly next-door neighbor Paul Maine.But after police obtained Maine's dental cast, Campbell found it did not match the bite marks on the crime scene and autopsy photos.The police then went looking for Maine's friend, John Planty, to see if he would still think Maine was suspected of a crime after knowing this new situation, but they could not find him. The police made other attempts to solve the case, including bringing in a well-known wizard from Illinois.Without knowing the details of the case, he said: "I heard dripping water." According to the police, this was obviously referring to the scene when Carla's body was found.But other than to say that the murderer lived not far from the railroad tracks (as most people in Madison County do), the wizard couldn't help much. Even with the clue of the bite mark, little progress has been made in the case. In July 1981, Don Webb and four of his staff attended a criminal investigation forensic science seminar in New York as part of preparations to reorganize the agency for his tenure as state attorney.Knowing that Webb was going to a seminar, Dr. Campbell suggested that he take the photographs of the Brown case and ask Dr. Lowell Levine to look at them.Levine, a forensic dental scientist at NYU, will be speaking at the symposium.Levine studied the photographs and, while agreeing with Campbell that some of the scars were definitely bite marks, said he could not make a confident comparative study.He suggested that the police open the coffin for an autopsy, arguing that "the coffin is a cold storage room for evidence".I don't know Levine personally, but I've heard his name for a long time.He had done analysis for the Francine Elfson case in New York. (He must have done an excellent job, because when Bill Hagemeier and Rosanna Russo went to the Clinton Correctional Facility to interview Carmine Calabro, they saw that he had all his teeth pulled out to avoid an appeal Still convicted at the time. Dr. Levine later became head of the New York State Medical Examiner.) In March 1982, Weber and two state police agents attended the St. Louis Metropolitan Area Homicide Squad's annual training meeting.I was also there and gave an overview of the theory of personality profiling and crime scene analysis to the crowd.Although I don't remember talking to them myself, Webb says in his research on the case (co-authored with Charles Bosworth, Jr.) that he and his colleagues, after listening to my lecture, came up to me and asked if I could apply what I just said to their case.I made it clear to them that they could call my office when I got to Quantico and I would love to help them in any way I could. Weber learned on his return that Rick White of the Wood River Police Department had also been at the annual meeting and had come to the conclusion on his own that asking me to help might be a viable way to solve the Brown case.White got in touch with me, and we arranged for him to come to Quantico with crime-scene photos, and I would analyze it on the spot and provide my opinion.Webb was getting ready for several trials and couldn't get away, but he sent Assistant State Attorney Keith Jensen along with White, Alva Bush, and Randy Rushing. One of several officers who traveled with him to the annual meeting in St. Louis.The four of them drove more than eight hundred miles to Quantico in an unmarked patrol car.Don Greer, then Chief of the Wood River Police Department, also flew to Washington from his Florida getaway to meet us. We met in the conference room.The four investigators were organizing their thoughts along the way, discussing the insights and opinions they wanted to tell me.They can't possibly know, and I like to draw my own conclusions without anyone's influence.We still get along very well.We've been involved in many cases for political reasons or to wipe someone's ass, but this time it's different, they're here because they just won't give up.They genuinely wanted to be here, and they genuinely expected me to advise them on their investigations. I hit it off especially with Alva Bush.Like me, he will not flatter people, and he has offended many people because of his honesty and frankness.In fact, Webb threatened to use his political influence to get Bush to come to Quantico. I asked for pictures of the crime scene and looked at them intently for a few minutes.I asked a few clarifying questions, then said, "Are you ready? You may want to tape my observations." The first point I tell them is: My experience tells me that if a body ends up indoors where there is water, like a bathtub, shower or container, etc., the purpose is not like what we saw in the Yatong case That is to eliminate clues or evidence, but to "decorate" a crime scene beyond recognition.Then I said there was no doubt that they had interviewed the killer.He lives in the neighborhood or nearby.Such cases are almost always the work of neighbors or family members.No one would come all the way to do such a case.If the murderer had blood on him--which he almost certainly did--he could find a place nearby to wash it off and dispose of his gory coat.We're looking for a killer who appears to be at ease while committing a crime, knowing that no one will bother him.Either he knew Carla very well, or he had observed Carla and Mark's habits for a long time.Since you have spoken to him, he has been very cooperative with your investigation.He felt that this way he could get the situation under control. His visit to Kara's house that afternoon did not premeditate her murder.Murder was an afterthought.If premeditated, he would carry the murder weapon or implement (his "rape kit") with him.Instead, we see hand strangulation and blunt force blows, suggesting that the murderer killed her in a fit of rage after she refused.Manipulation, domination and control are the mottos of the rapist.He may have come to her house, claiming to help her move.Carla was known for her kind qualities, and since she knew the guy somewhat, she presumably let him in.In fact, he just wanted to sleep with her, to have some kind of relationship with her.When she resisted, or when he realized he was going nowhere, he, like the South Carolina murderer of Mary Francis Stoner, was sure that the only way to protect himself was to kill him.Even at this juncture, he may still be a little panicked and unable to make a move for a while.There were water spots on the floor and sofa.This was probably after he had strangled her, trying to wake her up by splashing water on her face.Seeing that it wasn't working, he had to deal with her wet face, dragging her across the floor and pressing her head into the bucket, making it look like some kind of grotesque ritual.In other words, he was trying to divert attention and cover up the truth.Soaking your head in a bucket has another level of meaning.She turned him down.Well, then, he would disgrace her.As in many other cases, the more the killer does at the scene, the more clues and evidence of behavior he will leave you to solve the crime, despite the intention to mislead the police. I pointed out that the guy was between 25 and 30 years old and this was his first kill.His arrangement was clumsy, indicating that he had never killed anyone before.However, he did have a violent and vicious personality, so he may have committed some misdemeanors.If married, he was recently either separated, divorced, or maritally discordant.Like many guys of this type, he was a complete loser and felt bad about himself.He may appear confident, but deep down he feels deeply flawed. His IQ is mediocre, at most he finished middle school.The fact that he bound her hands with wire suggests that he had workshop training or some sort of related occupation.You'll find out that he's changed residences and jobs, or both, since the investigation of the case began.As soon as the limelight had passed, and he found that he was not arousing anyone's suspicions, he might well leave the town.To reduce stress, he may also start using drugs, alcohol, or smoking indiscriminately.In fact, in this case, alcohol itself may have played a role in fueling the flames.It was a bold step for the guy.He may have drank a lot of wine beforehand to boost his courage, but he would not be drunk, otherwise he would not have arranged the scene arbitrarily after committing the crime. Since the incident, he may suffer from frequent insomnia, sexual problems, and increased nocturnal activity.If he has a regular job, he may be absent from work frequently as the investigation rages on.He may also change his appearance.If he had had a beard and long hair at the time of the murder, he may have shaved it off afterward.Had he been clean-shaven, he might have started growing a beard.However, you are not looking for someone who looks rigid and orderly.He was scruffy and unkempt by nature, and any attempt to appear orderly would be a clear sign of excess control.He will find the effort exhausting him. As for the vehicle, I think the murderer in this case was still driving the regular car that murderers love: a Volkswagen Beetle.The car may be old and not well maintained; the body is red or orange. This person may have followed media coverage of the police investigation closely and taken cues from it.The police chief would be relieved if he publicly announced that no new leads had been uncovered.He easily passes a polygraph test, as many murderers do.The goal of the next stage of investigation should be to disrupt his position. He may experience a number of stressful episodes.Every June, his nervousness is likely to increase.The same happens every time Kara's birthday rolls around.He might go to Carla's grave in Culver Hill Cemetery.He would also offer her flowers, or simply ask her forgiveness. So I pointed out that the next step for you is to publicly announce that you have found a new lead that will hopefully solve the case and bring the case back to widespread attention.There must be constant hype in the media.Make the murderer as uncomfortable as possible.Mention that you have engaged an FBI profiler on the case and that his views are consistent with your conclusions from the new evidence you have. At this point they told me that Dr. Levine had suggested an exhumation and asked my opinion.I told them it was a brilliant idea, and the bigger the public opinion was, the better it would be.Webb should have made a TV appearance beforehand and announced that if the body was well preserved and the re-examination provided the evidence they were looking for, their case would be within reach.In a sense, their message to the killer is that they are going to "reanimate" Kara so that she can come out of the grave to testify in her own murder. The exhumation will be a great thrill for the murderer.I want Weber to say publicly that he's going to crack this case even if it takes another 20 years.The murderer will be anxious, and will ask around.He will ask many questions.He might even call the police directly!Make sure you video or take pictures of everyone who goes to the cemetery.He might go there.He would be anxious to know the condition of the body.He will be even more restless when you finally declare that you are very satisfied with the state of the body.At the same time, he will become increasingly lonely and cease to associate with any friends.At this point, you can go to bars and other places to collect information and see if there are any regular customers who behave obviously abnormally.He may have recently joined a church or started a religion for psychological comfort.And while you're putting all this pressure on him, get a policeman -- maybe even me -- to make a statement in the paper that sounds almost sympathetic to him.We can say that we know he's upset, but that he didn't mean to kill her, and he's been carrying a lot of baggage about it all these years. I then briefly propose interrogation strategies similar to those that worked in Stoner's case.It is important that once a suspect is identified, not to arrest him immediately, but to put him through a rough week or so, and then extract a confession from him before arresting him.The more facts you have, the more you can say things like "we know you moved her from here to there" or "we know what happened to those water marks", the more certain you will be.It would also be useful to have an object that played an important role in the murder (like the stone in Stoner's case) in the interrogation room. After listening to my narration, the five visitors seem to have understood what I said.They asked me how I could have come to all these conclusions just by hearing the general details of the case and looking at the photographs.I don't really know the answer to this question, but Ann Burgess has said that I'm a visual person and like to make pictures in my head.She suggested that my tendency to say "I see" rather than "I think" in counseling might be what she said.Part of the reason is probably that most of the time I couldn't get to the scene and could only re-draw the scene of the crime in my mind.When the police call and ask about a case I analyzed for them years ago, as long as they describe the crime scene to me, I can often recall the case and what I said about the perpetrator. Investigators from the state of Illinois say that, based on the analysis I have done with them, two of the many people they interviewed appear to be major suspects, one is Paul Maine and the other is his friend John Planty .Both of them were next door that day, and at least one of them had a beer, which was Planty.There had been discrepancies between their accounts, and that might have been due to their mental retardation and drinking, or it might have meant that one or both of them was not telling the truth.Planty's polygraph results were better than Maine's, but both men fit the profile very well.In fact, Planty fits better in some ways.He was more cooperative with the police and, as I presumed the killer would have done, left town after the limelight had passed, only to return later. I pointed out that the strategies I outlined could apply to both of them equally.In fact, since I think whoever the killer is, he's going to feel guilty and remorseful from time to time, it might be a little tricky to have a woman pretend to be Kara and call each of them in the middle of the night, sobbing and asking, " Why? Why? Why?" In the meantime, the papers should run articles about what a typical American girl Carla was, and how tragic it was that she was murdered at such a young age.I always like to use a dramatic approach. By the time this tactic has been in place for a week to ten days or so, the police will be able to see whether Maine or Planty is reacting the way I suspect the killer would.If one of them does, the next step is to find someone—a friend, acquaintance, colleague—to brief him and induce him to tell the truth or make a confession. On June 1, 1982, the police exhumation took place in the manner I had hoped, with the presence of Lowell Levine, extensive television and newspaper coverage, and Webb's well-placed, solemn, optimistic statement.I find it easier to get the cooperation you need from journalists in a small city than in a big city.Journalists in big cities tend to be more sensitive and feel like you are manipulating them and telling them what to report.I see it as a collaboration between the press and the law enforcement community based on their respective principles of honesty and impartiality.I have never asked newspaper or TV reporters to lie or to make false or one-sided reports.But on many occasions I have revealed information that I feel is necessary for the murderer to read and react to.As long as journalists work with me, I work with them.In some cases, when they were particularly cooperative, I gave them the scoop when the inside information could finally be revealed. . Fortunately, Carla's body was surprisingly well preserved.The re-examination was performed by Dr. Mary Case, Assistant Medical Examiner for the City of St. Louis.Unlike the first autopsy, Dr. Keith determined the cause of death to be drowning.She also found a crack in the skull.Most importantly, they got the bite evidence they needed. An organized campaign to build momentum is in full swing.Tom O'Connor of the State Police and Wayne Watson of the Financial Fraud and Fraud Section interviewed Maine at his home, ostensibly to investigate his eligibility for government benefits.They brought the conversation back to the Kara Brown murder.Although he will not confess and denies any involvement in the case, it can be seen that he must be paying close attention to media reports and has some inside information.For example, Watson mentioned that Maine did not list Acton Street on the list of previous addresses.He said it was because the police kept bothering him about the murder of the girl next door, so he was trying to forget that unpleasant memory. "Isn't she the girl who was shot, strangled, and drowned in a 50-gallon bucket?" Watson said. "No, no! Not shot, not shot!" Maine replied flatly. Just before and after the autopsy, a man named Martin Higdon came to the Wood River police station and said that he and Kara Brown were middle school classmates. The current media reports have aroused discussion among his colleagues.He believes the police should know that a female colleague of his claimed that at a party shortly after the murder, a man said he had been at her home the day Carla was killed. O'Connor and Rick-Chente met with the woman, Vicky White (no relation to Rick White).She corroborated Higden's account.She said she and her husband, Mark, attended a party at the home of Spencer and Roxanne Bond and talked to a man she knew at Lewis and Clark Community College.The man said he had been to Carla's house the day she was killed.He mentioned where the body had been found and the bite marks on her shoulder.He had to plan to leave Woodriver because he thought he would be the prime suspect.At that time, she thought he was talking nonsense and didn't take it seriously. The man's name was John Planty. How could he have known about the bite marks when the police had only learned of the bite marks two years after the murder, and announced it to others so soon after it happened?O'Connor and White couldn't help but wonder.They then meet with party host Spencer Bond, whose recollections are identical to those of Vicky and Mark White.Bond also mentioned that Maine had told him the details of when Kara was found.问题在于：梅因是从普兰蒂那里听说这些的呢，还是另有隐情？虽然普兰蒂的测谎结果比梅因好，韦伯和警方却认为梅因不具备这种犯罪的胆量，也不可能聪明到栽赃陷害普兰蒂的程度。 邦德最近看见过普兰蒂驾驶着他那辆红色大众牌旧面包车。尽管我说中了车辆的颜色和厂家，但车型没有搞对。而这一点本身却很重要。就在此时，我们发现案犯偏爱的车型正在转变为面包车。比塔克和诺里斯使用的是这种车。史蒂文·彭内尔使用的也是这种车。有别于小汽车的是，在面包车的后部你可以为所欲为，而不会被人看见。你实际上拥有了一个可以移动的谋杀场所。 我听说约翰·普兰蒂在案发以后开始蓄起胡子，对此我不感到奇怪。邦德同意在跟普兰蒂谈论这件案子时带上窃听器。虽然普兰蒂不承认是他杀的人，但他的情况表明他非常符合侧写特征。他在刘易斯一克拉克县学过焊接。案发后他离开了城里。他离了婚，与女性相处困难。他对案件调查十分好奇。 6月3日，星期四，韦伯办公室取得了法庭指令，要求普兰蒂于次日提交一副齿模。唐·格里尔局长对他说，他们这样做是想缩小调查范围，假如他的齿模与咬痕不吻合，他们就可以排除他的犯罪嫌疑。 不出我之所料，普兰蒂离开牙医诊所后，给韦伯打了电话。他想知道调查的进展情况。韦伯很有头脑，让他的助手凯斯·詹森同时收听了电话，从而保证韦伯日后可以作为可能证人出庭作证。在与韦伯通话的过程中，关于他何时待在保罗·梅因家中这一点，普兰蒂的说法和以前有了出入。如我所料，他显得挺合作。 警方窃听了邦德与普兰蒂的第二次通话，从中又了解到一些情况，随后他们录下了邦德与梅因之间的一段对话，得到的收获更大。普兰蒂告诉邦德，他每天要抽好几盒香烟。梅因甚至表示，或许是因为卡拉拒绝普兰蒂的性要求才激怒了他。于是警方再一次约见了梅因，他说他认为普兰蒂要对谋杀案负责，但是在他与普兰蒂私下交谈之后，他又推翻了自己的说法。 下一周的星期二，韦伯、拉欣和格里尔飞赴长岛去请教莱文博士。他们给他看了重新验尸的照片和三副齿模：梅因的齿模，另一长期嫌疑人的齿模，以及普兰蒂的齿模。莱文当场排除了前两个人。虽然他没有绝对的科学把握认定，全世界只有普兰蒂的齿痕与被害人身上的咬痕吻合，但他的齿痕确实与咬痕吻合——丝毫不差。保罗·梅因被拘捕，以妨碍司法罪受到了指控。 普兰蒂被指控犯有谋杀罪和私闯民宅强奸未遂罪。他于1983年6月出庭受审，7月间被判定有罪，判处75年徒刑。 此案前后历经了四年，在许多富有献身精神的人们的共同努力之下，凶手终于被绳之以法。我感到特别高兴和欣慰的是，我收到了州助理检察官凯斯·詹森写给联邦调查局局长威廉·韦伯斯特的感谢信的复印件。他在信中写道：“社区终于有了安全感，受害者的亲人觉得正义得到了伸张，这一切若是没有约翰·道格拉斯是不可能实现的。他始终是个大忙人，我觉得他的努力不应被忽视。在此我谨致以诚挚的谢意，并希望能有更多的道格拉斯，以其才干和才华来帮助我们。” 这些都是溢美之辞。不过，可以称幸的是，我在前一年1月份说服了学院副院长吉姆·麦肯齐，使他相信我们的确需要“更多的约翰·道格拉斯”。他又设法说服了总部给我们增加人手，尽管这意味着要从其他部门挖人。就这样，我弄来了包括比尔·哈格梅尔、吉姆·霍恩、布莱思·麦基尔韦恩和罗恩·沃克在内的第一批人马，随后又弄来了吉姆·赖特和贾德·雷。结果没过多久，他们都做出了可观的贡献。 虽然大家都在尽心尽力，但是有些案子，如卡拉·布朗一案，拖了好几年才结案。另外一些案子尽管也同样错综复杂，但只要一切进展顺利，只需几天或几个星期就能侦破。 西南部的一个调查局外勤站有一位名叫唐娜·林恩·维特尔的速记员，一天晚上在她位于一楼的公寓里被人强奸并杀害。罗伊·黑兹尔伍德和吉姆·赖特接到了局长办公室的明确指示：火速前往当地破案。当时，我们已把全国划分成若干区域。该案正好发生在吉姆负责的区域。 我们要毫不含糊地传达这个信息：任何杀害联邦调查局人员的凶手都不能够逍遥法外，我们会不惜一切代价，将凶手缉拿归案。第二天下午2时，调查局人质营救队的一架直升机载着两位特工和他们匆忙收拾好的行李，从匡蒂科飞往马里兰州安德鲁斯空军基地。他们在那里转乘了局里的一架喷气式飞机。他们一下飞机就马不停蹄地赶往犯罪现场。当地警方正保护着现场，等待他们的到来。 维特尔是一位22岁的白人女性，从小在农场长大，虽然为调查局工作已有两年多时间，但直到八个月前才搬到城里居住。她不了解在城市生活面临的危险，在一个主要由黑人和西班牙裔人居住的工业区租了一套公寓。公寓楼管理员考虑到了安全因素，让人在每位单身女性租住的公寓门外上方都安装了一只乳白色的走廊灯泡，而不是通常的发黄光的灯泡，以便于让她手下的工作人员和保安人员给予特别关照。这一安排没有对外公开。然而虽然管理员的用心良苦，但即便最不经意的人很快也就看出名堂了。 警方是晚上11点过后不久接到报案的，当时一位住户注意到受害者房间的窗纱被扯了下来，于是打电话告诉了大楼保安人员。受害者一丝不挂，浑身是血，脸部遭到殴打，身上有多处刀伤。验尸结果表明她遭到了强暴。 攻击者是从前窗强行闯入的，进去时撞倒了一件大型盆景。电话线已从墙上的插座中拔出。饭厅地毯和厨房地板上有让人触目惊心的大块大块的血迹，攻击似乎主要发生在这里。尸体所躺的地方留下了一片血迹，看上去好像是与真人一般大小的天使，张开着翅膀，仿佛在飞翔。地上的血迹表明，受害者被从厨房拖进了起居室。从尸体上因自卫而留下的伤口分析，她似乎是跑到厨房拿了把菜刀，但被凶手夺了过去并转而用来对付她。 维特尔那些血迹斑斑的衣物在厨房地板边缘靠近碗橱的地方被急救医疗队队员发现。她的内裤和连裤袜卷成一团，显示出那是她躺在地板上被凶手脱下的。警方到达现场时，屋里的灯全是关着的。他们推测，很可能是凶犯关掉了电灯，免得在他离开后很快有人发现情况不妙。 根据从同事、家人和邻居那里了解到的全部情况来看，这位年轻女子具有腼腆的性格、诚实的为人和坚定的信仰。她在一个严格而虔诚的宗教环境中长大，对待宗教问题非常严肃。她一点也算不上有魅力，似乎没有什么社交活动，不管是与男同事还是女同事都少有来往，他们都把她描述为认真、勤奋，但是“与众不同”。这大概跟她缺乏社会经验和受庇护的成长环境有关。没有人暗示她有任何违法行为，或是与“不正经的人”有任何瓜葛。在她的公寓里没有发现毒品、烟酒或避孕药。她父母对她的贞洁深信不疑，并且认为她为了维护自己的贞操会不要性命。 在仔细查看现场之后，罗伊和吉姆也得出了这样的结论。虽然屋子里到处有血，有一处血迹却引起了他们的格外注意。它紧靠着浴室的门口。在浴室里边，他们注意到尚未冲洗的抽水马桶里有小便，但无卫生纸。 这使他们马上觉察到侵入者与受害者之间发生了什么事。当听到有人闯进时，她一定是在浴室里。她站了起来，没顾得上放水冲马桶就走出去查看是怎么回事。她刚跨出浴室门，凶手就对着她的脸猛击一拳，主要是想把她打晕过去。吉姆和罗伊找到了藏在起居室一个坐垫底下的凶器，一把菜刀。 凶器本身也向他们传递了一点信息——作案者闯入公寓并非蓄意谋杀。他未拿走任何贵重物品这一事实说明，他是为了盗窃以外的目的而来的。有关证据显示，他闯人的目的是强奸。假若他是想谋杀她，而不是在她身上寻欢作乐，那么就没有必要拔下电话线。公寓很容易闯入，被害人缺乏姿色，他一言不发地突然袭击，这一切都说明他是个脾气暴躁的硬汉式人物，智力低下，缺乏社交技巧或自信心，不会用言语控制他人。他很明白，除非从一开始就完全控制住这位温和的受害者，不然他就无法达到目的。 他没料到，这个腼腆文静的女子会如此拼命地反抗。她的所有背景情况都向侧写人员显示，这正是她为保住自己的名节而会做出的反应。但是作案者是不会知道这一点的。她越是反抗，他就越是处于失控的状态，他的怒火也就越旺盛。我从同是由企图强奸最终演变成杀人的卡拉·布朗一案中认识到，案犯的出于发怒而杀人与为了“收拾”自己造成的狼狈局面而杀人相比是位居次要地位的。在这起凶杀案中，这两者似乎具有同样的重要性。作案者的怒火是持续的而非短暂的。地上的拖痕表明，他在厨房攻击她之后，把她拖到另一个房间，在她血流不止、奄奄一息的情况下实施了强奸。 罗伊和吉姆在抵达的当晚就开始着手了侧写。他们要找的是一个20到27岁的男子。一般情况下，在基于性欲而引发的谋杀案中，如果受害者是白人，你可以估测凶手也是白人。两位特工坚信作案者的本意是强奸，所以强奸案的“规则”是适用的。这是一个以黑人和西班牙裔人为主要住户的公寓区，白人女子遭黑人男子强奸的发案率相当高，因此本案凶手也很可能是黑人。 他们认为作案者没有结婚，但有可能与某个女人一起生活，经济上依靠或剥削她。任何与他有关系的女人都可能比他年轻，比他幼稚，或者比较容易支配。他不会和任何他觉得不好对付或者对他构成威胁的人来往。尽管他可能不太聪明，在学校时成绩一般(可能在行为方面也构成问题)，但也许经常在街头厮混，打起架来能不让自己吃亏。他会对周围人摆出一副不好惹的硬汉子架势。他穿衣服也会尽可能买最好的。他还可能热衷于运动，以保持身体强健。 他可能住在供低收入阶层租住的单元房里，离犯罪现场步行可及。他可能干的是一份粗活，跟同事或上司频繁发生冲突。因为脾气暴躁，他大概没参过军；即使参过军，也会提前退伍。两位特工并不认为他以前杀过人，但可能有盗窃和使用暴力的前科。罗伊·黑兹尔伍德是研究强奸及危害妇女犯罪活动的一流专家之一，他坚信作案者有强奸或性暴力的前科。 他们预测了他的案发后行为，包括旷工、酗酒、减轻体重和改变外貌，在许多方面与杀害卡拉·布朗的凶手相仿。尤为重要的是，他们觉得这种类型的人会跟家人或密友谈及或吐露所犯罪行。这一点是关键，可以利用它制定出将他缉拿归案的前摄策略。 因为知道作案者会密切注意新闻报道，罗伊和吉姆决定接受当地媒体的采访，将侧写公诸于众。他们惟一秘而不宣的重要细节是种族因素。万一推测有误，他们不想因此导致调查工作走入歧途，致使可能的线索得不到正确利用。 然而有一点他们是广而告之的，那就是他们相信：作案者不管跟谁谈起过谋杀案，此人的自身处境也十分危险，因为他或她现在掌握了凶手有罪的把柄。他们敦促说，如果你发现自己陷入了这种处境，请赶快与当局联系，不然一切就太迟了。不到两个半星期，案犯的武装抢劫同伙就给警方打来电话。嫌疑人遭到了逮捕。基于谋杀现场留下的掌纹与其吻合，他受到了起诉。 我们事后重温侧写时，发现吉姆和罗伊的预测真是料事如神。案犯是一个22岁的黑人男子，住址与犯罪现场相隔四个街区。他单身，与姐姐住在一起，经济上依靠她。谋杀案发生时，他因强奸罪正在服缓刑。他受到了审判，被裁定有罪，判处了死刑。他的死刑判决最近才执行。 我经常跟我的人讲，我们应该像孤胆侠客那样策马进城，帮助伸张正义，然后悄然离去。那些蒙面侠客是谁？他们留下了这颗“银制子弹”。Who are they?噢，他们来自匡蒂科。 在处理完这起案子后，吉姆和罗伊驱车悄然离去。他们当初是乘局里的专机奔赴现场的。任务完成后，他们搭乘民航班机返回，坐在飞机后部的经济舱里，与快活的度假者及尖叫的孩子们挤在一起。但是，我们清楚他们立下了大功，所有得到他们留下的“银制子弹”的人们也都清楚。