Michelle Amacone
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55 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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This was truly detective work to me. This is what an investigation should have been. You know, it wasn't send some DNA swabs off. send some foot impressions off. It was myself and my partners working together and just keeping at it like every single day until we solved it.
When I went to homicide in 1994, I was the only female homicide detective in the whole county.
It was a call out. I was sleeping. It was like, I don't know, two in the morning or something. The first responding deputies were already there. And the information that I had was that there was a lone male who had been shot three times in the head while he was sleeping. He was still in his bed.
The first things that ran through my mind were, you know, home invasion, the wife. And now those were really my two main thoughts, I think, when I was heading to the scene was, okay, home invasion or, you know, the wife. The wife's the only one in the house.
That was your typical trapped home neighborhood. Pretty dense. I mean, the houses were close together. It was raining that night. There was a large amount of people, already gathered neighbors, family members of Kevin James, the victim.
The scene was taped off, as usual, and the deputies walked us through the scene. So it was a two-story house. You walk into a pretty big living room. There was nothing in the living room, kitchen, dining room, or anything. At least no evidence that anything happened down there as far as blood or disturbance or anything like that.
So when we walked in there, the bed was immediately to the right of the door. He was in bed. He was laying on his right side, still covered up. He had like a couple blankets on him. There was a pillow laying next to his head and then a pillow under his head.
And the pillow next to his head, a lot of blood on it, and you could tell that there were what appeared to be at the time bullet holes in that pillow.
When we took the blanket off of his head, it was clear that there were three gunshot wounds right in the temple area. They were very close to each other. A lot of blood.
It was very execution style. He was on his right side. His right hand, my memory is, was like under his head like he would sleep. And then the other arm was just like, his left arm was like thrown across his body. Like his position in bed looked very relaxed.
His eyes were shut. It just looked like he was sleeping. I mean, until you got close to the bed and saw what was happening, it just looked like he was still asleep in bed.
We did check the front door for any signs of forced entry. None. Nothing looked like it had been touched. Same in the kitchen. TV's still, you know, where it appeared they belonged. You know, anything of value that you could immediately see just seemed to be in its place. And they also found, I want to say like $800, I believe, in Lisa's purse. So not a burglary, not a robbery.
So Kevin James, he was a mechanic. He and Lisa had been together for a long time. Their oldest boy was 12. So it was over 12 years. And then they had a younger son, seven. So he was a dad. He was a mechanic. From all accounts, a really nice guy. Super nice, really friendly. Everybody in the neighborhood liked him. He was just a really nice guy, according to everybody.
Other than the shell casings, there is absolutely no physical evidence in the house. None. I mean, we have the shell casings and we have Kevin's body and the blood. And that's about it. They're not seeing any like shoe impressions in the carpet. No mud trapped in. No. I mean, anything that you would. There's no there's no forced entry. There's like nothing.
We were told that the deputies had spoken briefly with Lisa James, the wife, and she told them that She had been sleeping in her oldest son's room because she had lupus. Kevin James Sr., the victim, had a cold, flu kind of thing. So she didn't want to sleep with him that night because she didn't want to catch anything because her immune system was compromised.
She had also told deputies that when she was sleeping, what woke her up was she heard what she felt was someone breaking into the house through the slider in the master bedroom. And then she heard three gunshots.
No fingerprints, no handprints, nothing on it that would indicate that someone touched it. None. It was clear that no one came in through that slider.
It was raining, and their backyard had no grass. It was all mud, and they had a Rottweiler in the backyard. So we went over and looked over the balcony. There's no ladder. There is nothing that you could have gotten up to the balcony and into the slider with that's still either attached to the balcony, leaning against the balcony, or even laying in the yard. It's just mud.
And the only prints in the mud are dog prints. There's no footprints, nothing. That would indicate that anyone came through there to get up to the balcony to go through the slider. So those were the two main red flags right there. Like no one came through that slider or the backyard.
He clearly was upset. And he had bits of crying and true crying and clearly was upset. But he really handled himself amazingly well. and was able to talk to me and answer my questions and really stepped up. And like I said, really well-spoken, really mature for 12 years old, I thought.
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