The World's Worst Crimes by Charlotte Greig

Author:Charlotte Greig
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: True Crime
Publisher: Arcturus Digital Limited
Published: 2018-03-13T12:00:43+00:00

A profile is compiled

The FBI Signal Analysis Unit concluded that the kidnapper’s voice had been disguised using a Variable Speed Control Device, which suggested that he might have a background in electronics. This prompted the FBI to compile a profile which speculated that the man they were seeking would be in his late twenties or early thirties, single, overweight and unattractive to women. The fact that he indulged in cruel mind games, including calling the family reverse-charge on the day of Shari’s funeral and describing in graphic detail how he had killed her, suggested that he was probably separated after an unsuccessful marriage and was likely to have a history of making obscene phone calls, all of which were to be proven correct. Two weeks later the same man abducted nine-year-old Debra May Helnick from outside her parents’ mobile home in Richland County, 38km from the Smith residence. Then he phoned the Smiths and told them where the girl’s body could be found.

It was about this time that the FBI had a break in the case. They subjected Shari’s ‘Last Will and Testament’ letter to microscopic analysis using an ESTA machine, which detects the slightest impression in paper which would be invisible to the naked eye. It revealed a grocery list and a phone number which had been written on a sheet elsewhere in the pad from the one Shari had used. The phone number led detectives to the home of a middle-aged couple who had been out of the country at the time of the murders. But they recognized the profile as a description of their handyman, Larry Gene Bell, who they had allowed to live in their house during their absence.

Larry had aroused the couple’s suspicion when he had picked them up from the airport and talked about nothing but the murders, and their suspicions were confirmed when agents played the couple a recording of Larry’s final phone call to the Smith family in which he had not bothered to disguise his voice with the electronic device. His DNA was later recovered from the stamp he had licked before posting Shari’s ‘Last Will’ and matched with a sample obtained on his arrest.

In 1996 Larry Gene Bell became the last person to die in the electric chair in the state of South Carolina.

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