Morgan Absher
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Yeah.
He cracked it.
Because what investigators find when they get this IP address back, it was from a home that was owned by an older woman named Sandra Travis.
Based on, you know, the DNA evidence that police found at the crime scenes, though, they did suspect that they were looking for a man.
I mean, some of it was semen.
They were definitely looking for a man.
Semen, you guys.
It was jizz.
So it turns out Sandra wasn't living at the house, but her 36-year-old son, Maury...
And to really hammer home that they had the right guy, when Microsoft handed over the IP address to investigators, they also were able to provide this like Microsoft screen name that like this account was going by.
And that username was literally Maury Travis.
First name, last name.
First name, last name, just smushed together there.
The home was placed under around-the-clock surveillance at that point, and it wasn't long before they had enough evidence to make an arrest.
While surveilling the house in June of 2002, members of the task force saw Maury taking out the trash.
So they caught a ride with the garbage collectors and intercepted Maury's trash without his knowledge.
That's how we actually get our eighth clue, a used plastic spoon.
Within a day, the crime lab retrieved DNA from it.
It was a match to the unknown DNA retrieved from the bodies of Yvonne and Brenda.
But without being able to say who exactly used that spoon, they couldn't prove it was Maury's DNA.