Does anyone know if anything of substance came from the following? It would really be interesting to know if the 9mm casing matched the one found on Tracie's leg when she & J.B. were discovered inside the car. Also, did the soil match that on the girls' clothes?
"Since the day police discovered the bodies, they have said that J.B. and Tracie were shot while inside the Mazda's trunk. And, they've said, they believed the actual shooting happened somewhere other than where the car was found.
Yet, months into the investigation, police couldn't say where that somewhere else was.
Then, in March 2000, a woman who lived just south of town reported that she heard screams and what sounded like two gunshots on the night of the murders.
The woman didn't report the information sooner because she "didn't want to get involved," Chief Spivey said.
The area, next to what neighbors said is a now-vacant house, is surrounded by trees and has two World War II-era buildings on the property. The spider-web-encrusted buildings -- wooden structures that appear to be a barn and a half-collapsed garage -- sit about 100 feet off the roadway.
With FBI help, Spivey said, crime scene specialists and investigators combed the area and found a spent 9mm shell casing, the same caliber casing found in the trunk with the bodies.
Police sent the casing and a soil sample from the area to the state forensics lab, where they still sit. [July 2000]
Tipton said forensics experts will compare the dirt from that location with dirt found on J.B.'s and Tracie's clothing.
He said they will also examine the unique "extraction marks" left on the two casings by the gun that ejected them.
Because investigators are still awaiting those test results from the forensics lab, they don't know if the scene south of town is the actual murder scene."
The above was from an earlier post in the original thread.
