Charles Huber
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So he's like, just get in and I'm going to just turn the key and see if we can get it started.
So he's like, just get in and I'm going to just turn the key and see if we can get it started.
For whatever reason, if it was drugs or alcohol or what was involved, after the sexual assault, Bruce kind of passes out and falls asleep. She kind of slinks out and goes running down the street naked to one of the neighbor's house. Please help me, please help me, like knocking on everybody's door.
For whatever reason, if it was drugs or alcohol or what was involved, after the sexual assault, Bruce kind of passes out and falls asleep. She kind of slinks out and goes running down the street naked to one of the neighbor's house. Please help me, please help me, like knocking on everybody's door.
Without a complaining witness, all charges are dropped and Bruce is let go and is free to be out on the street again.
Without a complaining witness, all charges are dropped and Bruce is let go and is free to be out on the street again.
Again, there's never been any proof that tied into that because of the time frame. From the time she disappeared to the time she was found, it was nothing but skeletal remains. So there was no DNA or anything to tie Bruce to that murder.
Again, there's never been any proof that tied into that because of the time frame. From the time she disappeared to the time she was found, it was nothing but skeletal remains. So there was no DNA or anything to tie Bruce to that murder.
As they were processing that scene and then going back to Bruce's house, they found a box of photographs. And they found hundreds of photographs of young women in vulnerable positions. Most of them were naked. Some of them were clearly drugged. A lot of them were clearly getting these photos taken against their will. It was pretty disturbing photographs.
As they were processing that scene and then going back to Bruce's house, they found a box of photographs. And they found hundreds of photographs of young women in vulnerable positions. Most of them were naked. Some of them were clearly drugged. A lot of them were clearly getting these photos taken against their will. It was pretty disturbing photographs.
So Lyle PD, they do a direct comparison from Bruce's body to get DNA and they find a direct match to their murder weapon in the Pam Maurer case.
So Lyle PD, they do a direct comparison from Bruce's body to get DNA and they find a direct match to their murder weapon in the Pam Maurer case.
Once they do that, they send out a critical reach, which is a bulletin that goes out to all local law enforcement and basically says, hey, anybody that has any cold case homicides from the 1970s, this is the guy that we just discovered that may be a serial killer that was in the area abducting young girls and using different means of strangulation.
Once they do that, they send out a critical reach, which is a bulletin that goes out to all local law enforcement and basically says, hey, anybody that has any cold case homicides from the 1970s, this is the guy that we just discovered that may be a serial killer that was in the area abducting young girls and using different means of strangulation.
When we received that, our detectives at the time kind of were like, hey, wait a minute, let's look at Kathy again. So we left with the detectives from Lyle and started looking back into our case.
When we received that, our detectives at the time kind of were like, hey, wait a minute, let's look at Kathy again. So we left with the detectives from Lyle and started looking back into our case.
The main place where he would go to get photos developed in the 1970s was at the Northgate shopping plaza. So he was at Northgate on a regular basis, which is where Kathy was employed at the time of her homicide. So that was one of the things that kind of started putting pieces together for us on our end.
The main place where he would go to get photos developed in the 1970s was at the Northgate shopping plaza. So he was at Northgate on a regular basis, which is where Kathy was employed at the time of her homicide. So that was one of the things that kind of started putting pieces together for us on our end.
They're doing the old, I say old-fashioned now, it's still the main way of doing DNA collection, but they take the swab and they roll it across the article of evidence and then they test that DNA that's collected on the swab and then compare it to whatever DNA they can find on there.
They're doing the old, I say old-fashioned now, it's still the main way of doing DNA collection, but they take the swab and they roll it across the article of evidence and then they test that DNA that's collected on the swab and then compare it to whatever DNA they can find on there.