William Holmes
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He was going to lose in this divorce. He had already lost some money. He was going to lose some more. He may lose custody of his son.
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As he was leaving the scene, he threw the silencer over the fence into the tennis court and left quickly in this direction. He got in his car and took off.
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The numbers just don't seem to add up as far as the distance he traveled and the time that it would have taken him to travel. First time we had talked to him, it was 11 o'clock. After he knew that we knew the time of death, being 10.37, then he put himself here at 10.30.
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There was a cordless telephone near her hand. Dr. Ellis arrived on the scene. He was told that Mrs. Ellis had been found deceased in the residence.
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It amazed everybody around the area that somebody who was the wife of a doctor would end up dead.
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I asked him if he remembered me. He said he did. And I told him the reason we were here was that he was under arrest for the murder of Miriam Ellis.
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You go home with it every night. Probably be better off for you to get down that side.
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We got the right guy. It took a long time, but it was done. It was done correctly.
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It was a typical winter night, cold, had several inches of snow on the ground from a fresh snowfall the day before. My name is Trooper William Holmes. I was one of the investigators in the Miriam Ellis homicide. This particular investigation was probably a little more involved than most of the cases we do. The killer entered this pipe from the other side of the roadway.
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We had to kick the door to get into the residence. Miriam was lying on the kitchen floor. There was a cordless phone very close to her as she laid on the floor.
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The rifle that the killer used was altered to fit to a homemade silencer. We had no way of knowing how long he spent here before he had the opportunity to take a shot. A kitchen window was the only window in the residence that did not have the drapes drawn. And he waited for Miriam to walk in front of the window. There was one shot fired that killed the victim.
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Certainly one of his first questions was what evidence was found.
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It was interesting to us at that point that he would ask that question. From here, it's the third house up.
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On the night of the murder, to get to Miriam's residence, the killer came down this embankment and through this pipe so as not to be seen from the road. Proceeded through the pipe underneath the street. And once he got out of the pipe, he continued in this stream bed towards the rear of the victim's house. He would have came out of the creek bank here.
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After walking along the back of the tennis court, he would have come down over the bank, crossing the small stream, taking up a position next to this tree, approximately 73 feet to the rear of the victim's house, in which you can see there's a clear view of the kitchen window. And at that time, he would have fired one shot. Goes directly through the window and pierces her heart.
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Somebody wanted Miriam dead very badly and took great pains to accomplish that.