Ricky Gardner
Appearances
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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder
He said, I've been busy with a paper. I'll do it next Wednesday. I can't do it this week.
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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder
Dr. Howard Hasem called us, and I never will forget that phone call. He was upset, and he said, you know, you've let them get away. And so they vanished.
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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder
The Christmas letters were so biting and so full of hatred that Elizabeth wrote yinz.
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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder
About her parents and how much she despised them. And she talked about, should we get rid of them now or should we wait until we graduate and then do that?
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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder
And I got the phone call. He said, this is Detective Constable Terry Wright calling from Richmond, England. He said, do you know Elizabeth Hazelman? Are you in Soaring?
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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder
And I said, yes. And I said, I think you need to come over. We have the murderers incarcerated.
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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder
He told me that he came at him like this and he fought like a bear, that he refused to die.
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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder
The physical evidence, well, we've got the sock impression that we found at the scene.
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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder
Yes, yes, ma'am. Early, we were able to determine that this was not a burglary.
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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder
The Hasems must have let whomever did this to them into the house because there was no sign of forced entry. But I'd never seen any human being that had been injured by another human being in that fashion.
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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder
She told us that her and her German boyfriend had rented a car on that Friday and drove to Washington to sightsee.
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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder
They had sent it to Washington Marriott, and we was able to verify later that they, in fact, had. We found the receipt, the hotel receipt, where they had checked in on the 29th and gotten room service twice.
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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder
Well, she said that she loved her parents very deeply and that she was very fond of them.
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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder
So once we put pen to paper, we sat down and we looked, and if you went from Charlottesville to D.C., D.C. back to Lynchburg, Lynchburg back to Washington, and then back to Charlottesville, That's pretty close to being 669 miles.
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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder
We asked her about that miles, and she said that they had gotten lost. That's pretty lost. Yeah, pretty lost.
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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder
I mean, we're talking college kids. Didn't put a lot of stock in that.
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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder
There was several droplets of O blood found on the screen door, and there was two small spots found in the master bedroom.
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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder
It was from Dr. Howard Hasem, who is Elizabeth's half-brother. He thought his sister had something to do with his parents' death.
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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder
And of course, he didn't like yens. He didn't think much of yens either.
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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder
What was your impression? He was very sure of himself.
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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder
I was. When we asked him to give us his blood and his fingerprints, he was adamant. He said, I can't do that.
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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder
His explanation was that if it got back to our State Department, that... A German diplomat's son was a person of interest in a homicide or suspect in a homicide case that his whole family would be deported.
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True Crime Vault: New DNA Analysis in a Murder
Dr. Howard Haston called us, and never will forget that phone call. He was upset, and he said, you know, you've let him get away.