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Most seasoned investigators will tell you that murder investigations, regardless of how bizarre, extreme, or even brazen the crime might appear, almost always follow the Occam's razor theory.

That the simplest explanation is the most likely explanation.

How could a car, in other words, get stuck in the mud at the top of Dr. Schwartz's driveway on the night of his murder, near the time of his murder, and those in the vehicle not have some sort of a connection?

Which is why detectives follow the evidence, no matter where it takes them.

As the investigation headed into the second day, Schwartz's coworkers were trying to cope with not only losing a colleague,

but a friend.

One of the major courses of Dr. Schwartz's research focused on what we know today as forensic genetic genealogy.

23andMe, Ancestry.com, and so on.

Those companies collecting DNA from anyone willing to send it in, which can be later used to help solve murders and identify Jane and John Doe's.

As his work colleague and friend Terry Woodsworth says, Dr. Schwartz was greatly interested in how DNA and the internet might work together.

And so, as word of his murder trickled out, confusion and disbelief followed.

Thinking about who could be behind his brutal murder, Detective Greg Locke held steadfast and followed his gut instinct of the simplest answer being the likeliest answer.

Find the kid who had gone to the neighbors to call a tow truck and rule him in or out of the murder.

So it appeared as though a random vehicle had gotten lost, pulled in, and was turning around when it got stuck.