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Morgan Absher

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Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
Maury Travis: A Serial Killer Unmasked

Yeah.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
Maury Travis: A Serial Killer Unmasked

He cracked it.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
Maury Travis: A Serial Killer Unmasked

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.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
Maury Travis: A Serial Killer Unmasked

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.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
Maury Travis: A Serial Killer Unmasked

I mean, some of it was semen.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
Maury Travis: A Serial Killer Unmasked

They were definitely looking for a man.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
Maury Travis: A Serial Killer Unmasked

Semen, you guys.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
Maury Travis: A Serial Killer Unmasked

It was jizz.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
Maury Travis: A Serial Killer Unmasked

So it turns out Sandra wasn't living at the house, but her 36-year-old son, Maury...

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
Maury Travis: A Serial Killer Unmasked

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.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
Maury Travis: A Serial Killer Unmasked

And that username was literally Maury Travis.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
Maury Travis: A Serial Killer Unmasked

First name, last name.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
Maury Travis: A Serial Killer Unmasked

First name, last name, just smushed together there.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
Maury Travis: A Serial Killer Unmasked

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.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
Maury Travis: A Serial Killer Unmasked

While surveilling the house in June of 2002, members of the task force saw Maury taking out the trash.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
Maury Travis: A Serial Killer Unmasked

So they caught a ride with the garbage collectors and intercepted Maury's trash without his knowledge.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
Maury Travis: A Serial Killer Unmasked

That's how we actually get our eighth clue, a used plastic spoon.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
Maury Travis: A Serial Killer Unmasked

Within a day, the crime lab retrieved DNA from it.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
Maury Travis: A Serial Killer Unmasked

It was a match to the unknown DNA retrieved from the bodies of Yvonne and Brenda.

Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore
Maury Travis: A Serial Killer Unmasked

But without being able to say who exactly used that spoon, they couldn't prove it was Maury's DNA.