M. William Phelps

It always seemed to go back to Jones' death and Schwartz having to raise them alone.

He strove to get the best out of them all.

And being an overachiever himself, expected it.

In all of the investigations I have been involved in, you have to consider the victim's chosen career path, especially when someone has high visibility within what is a high profile company.

We saw this recently with the healthcare CEO murdered on the streets of New York.

so a question came up was dr schwartz targeted after all he knew big players within the scientific world hundreds of millions of dollars were at stake had he been involved in research or something else that could have gotten him killed

Detective Locke was not ruling any possibility out.

Locke's next point of evidence gathering was the grim task of attending the autopsy and seeing what unusual details of the crime the postmortem revealed.

So Schwartz fought with his attacker, which meant there was going to be DNA.

With over 700 autopsies under her belt, Dr. Carolyn Revercombe noticed immediately after she started her cursory inspection of Schwartz's body that he had suffered two stab wounds to his neck that went entirely through one side of his body and out the other side.

She counted 27 stab wounds to his torso, along with several additional stab wounds, some superficial, some penetrating the skin an inch or more, others all the way through his body.

Just as they had thought back at the crime scene, many of those stab wounds going all the way through Schwartz's body were inflicted when he was not moving and did not have blood pressure, Revercombe confirmed.

This was significant.

Schwartz's killer repeatedly stabbed the guy when they didn't have to.

So Schwartz was on the floor, face down, not moving, his killer standing over him, jabbing the weapon into him over and over in a sordid, murderous frenzy.

Overkill.

The pathologist then saw a possible pattern.

There were three particular wounds in a group on Schwartz's upper left back, very close in space, that appeared to be in the shape of a three-leaf clover.

The suggestion was that these three wounds had a ritualistic sensibility about them or were inflicted for a purpose other than to cause pain and death.

Then one other point Reverend Cone made was the weapon.