When I arrived at the scene the first thing I noticed was the body. The coroner said he died from head trauma and was drunk. The wife says they fought before she went to a party. She invited some friends over afterwards. She was home for ten minutes before her friends arrived. She met them at the door and told them Mr. Volupides slipped and fell down the stairs when he was coming down for a drink. For a man who fell down the stairs he had unnaturally perfect clothes. After noticing his clothes I looked at the carpet on the stair and on the floor and how they looked untouched. After closer examination I realised he still had a glass in his hand. It also was unbroken. Nothing looked out of place on the wall on the stairs. His clothes were perfect, there …show more content…
Volupides had fallen down the stairs, his clothes would have been a mess. The carpet on the stairs would have also been messed up if someone fell hard enough to die. Another strange thing is the way he’s lying, typically if someone fell down stairs they would land face first not feet first. Next, he was dressed up underneath the robe he was wearing. Someone wouldn’t be dressed up if they’re lounging at home. This suggests that Mr. Volupides was planning to go to the party. He also had a unbroken glass in his hand. When he fell two things should have happened. One, he would have dropped the glass to try and save himself. Two, the glass should have broke even if he didn’t drop it. The weird thing is, is that the glass was in his left hand, and going down the stairs with the railing on the left side, he would have held the railing with his left hand to catch himself. The other odd thing is, that if he was falling down the stairs, he would have tried to stop himself by grabbing something on the wall, but everything on the wall was perfectly in place, nothing moved. Lastly Mrs.Volupides cooked the blood off of the murder weapon. It was the frying pan that had the burning food in it when I arrived at the
The blood, hair, and shoe print found at the crime scene were all Anna’s, making it very unlikely someone was there with her when she died. Also, at the scene there was no signs of struggle such as bloody handprints on furniture, or blood trails which would make it less likely to be a homicide. I believe Anna accidentally died by falling down and hitting her head on the table since the table was 41cm tall and had blood on it. The blood spatters on the floor were 10mm, which is the size they make when dropped from 40cm. Once Anna hit the floor, I believe she passed out due to the lack of blood and impact of hitting the floor, later dying of blood loss. I came to this conclusion because accidental is the most reasonable manner of death. There is no struggle, and almost all of the evidence was related to Anna. Also, the table being the cause of her death makes a lot of sense. There is blood on the table and the blood drops fell from the same height as the
We were presented with many facts that all pointed to Mr. Washburn as the murder. In the house all of the entrances were thoroughly inspected by authorities, and they found no sign of ransacking. “[They] examined all the locking mechanisms, all the doors and windows. In [their] opinion there was no evidence of any forced entry” (P.81). When police looked for fingerprints, “They were all of the Washburn family and the maid” (P.81). There was no trace of an outside party; somebody usually in the Washburn house committed the murder. While in the living room, an officer found a drop of blood. The evidence technician was called the next night to run some tests. “He sprayed the living room carpet with luminol. It is a luminous spray, and when it comes in contact with blood it illuminates” (P.82). To both men’s surprise the whole living room was illuminating. After spraying further the men found a trail from the living room through the kitchen to the garage. In the closet the men found a wet mop, which was tested for blood and also came back positive. Somebody tried to clean his or her bloody mess, and try to save himself. The physical evidence proves the killer was somebody who was familiar to the Washburn household.
That night, many witnesses reported having seen a man changing the tire of his van and waving any possible help away angrily while others reported seeing a woman wandering around the side of the dangerous highway. More witnesses reported that Kenneth and his wife were having many violent disputes at their home that usually resulted in Kenneth pursuing an angry Yvonne around the block. The most compelling evidence against Mathison, however, is purely scientific. Detective Paul Ferreira first noticed that the extensive blood stains inside the Mathison van. After hearing Mathison’s original account, he summoned the assistance of famed forensic expert Dr. Henry Lee to analyze what he thought was inconsistent evidence. Blood stains on the paneling and the spare tire in the cargo area reveal low-velocity blood stains meaning that the blood probably dripped from Yvonne’s head onto the floor. The stains found on the roof and steering wheel were contact transfer patterns probably caused by Mathison’s bloody hands. Blood stains on the driver’s side of the van were contact-dripping patterns which indicate that Mathison touched the inside of the van multiple times before and after moving his wife’s body. The final groups of blood stains on the instrument panel of the van were medium-velocity stains which show investigators that Mathison probably struck his wife at least once in the front seat causing the blood to fly from her open head wound. The enormous amounts of blood inside the van lead prosecutor Kurt Spohn to investigate the Mathison case as a murder instead of a misdemeanor traffic violation.
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The following day, a fisherman was at the Treeland Blvd. pond when he spotted some stuff floating in the water. Upon closer inspection he noticed it was firefighters gear and figured something must be wrong since firefighters do not just leave their equipment. The police had the pond drained and found a green Chevy truck at the bottom. Inside the truck was a substantial amount of blood; when the blood was tested it was that of Brandy Hall. The amount of blood in the cab of the truck makes it unlikely she will be found alive. The woods around the pond were also searched but nothing more was found.
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