James Addy

On his way back to the crime scene, Brandon Osborne located a T-shirt in the middle of Route M.

I came upon this shirt laying in the road, went around the shirt and passed it, and then I stopped.

And I'm thinking, we're kind of close to the crime scene here.

I probably better pick that up just in case.

This discovery is pretty amazing.

I mean, the deputy was not out searching for evidence.

He was driving back to the crime scene in the dark.

He spots the t-shirt.

He's got the good sense to pick it up.

And boy, is it going to turn out to be important.

That T-shirt, we later learned had gunshot residue on it, had Molly Watson's blood.

It turned out to be a very important piece of evidence.

Meantime, there's an autopsy.

It revealed that Molly Watson died of a single gunshot wound to the back of the head, that the trigger was pulled when the gun was flush against Molly's head, and that it was a small caliber weapon that was used to kill her.

The medical examiner is able to extract a bullet from the body of Molly.

The problem is this bullet is crushed beyond recognition.

That's not what police want to hear when they're building a case against a suspect.

Prosecutors were not able to identify a murder weapon because the bullet that they found was too damaged to be able to match it up with any particular firearm.

All we can say about the projectile is that it would be consistent with a small caliber ammunition.

The 22 would be considered a small caliber firearm, along with several other calibers.