Morgan Absher

So like we have a clip for you guys of like when that first call to him came through and they're like,

oh, it's a fire, maybe a robbery, and the radio kind of breaks up.

And he goes, can you repeat that second half?

And they go, homicide.

And, like, you can just tell, like, again, small town.

And he just happened to have that film crew with him, right?

Happened to have the film crew with.

So we do have some clips of, like, kind of this early scene a little bit.

So as they're combing the shop for clues, they find a .380 caliber shell casing in a floor drain, had survived, and that gives us clue number one.

The gun that used these types of bullets was a pretty small, cheap gun.

It could be concealed super easily.

The grip even fits in like the palm of your hand.

But there's another interesting thing about this casing.

Most .380s have the same rifling.

It's fancy gun talk, but in other words, the spiral grooves that cause the bullet to spin as it's fired usually go a certain direction.

But the casing here had been fired from a gun with a different rifling from most 380s, and it actually went the opposite direction.

So this basically told investigators that there was only one model that would fit this casing, and that is an AMT backup semi-automatic handgun.

And back in 1991, in most states, including Texas, where this case is happening, it was still banned for people to have these small concealed handguns.

Very little demand for them, and it wasn't really useful for hobbyists or most private owners.

It wasn't accurate at distance, couldn't be reloaded quickly.