RE: how they knew Leonard Manley had the shoes.. They pulled the Walmart records for anyone buying those shoes since Jan of 2016.
WAVERLY — The weeks-long trial of George Wagner IV, who is charged with killing eight members of one family in Pike County, was abruptly paused Thursday due to a juror falling ill.
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He also spoke to the shoeprint evidence Elliott testified to earlier; investigators searched purchase records and surveillance footage at every Walmart within a 50 mile radius of the crime scenes, Scheiderer said. That revealed that Leonard Manley, Dana’s father, purchased the same shoes that matched the bloody prints in the first crime scene in February, just before the homicides.
Manley had purchased size 10 shoes, however; Elliott said the shoe prints in the first scene were sized 11 and 10.5. When asked where the shoes were, Manley told investigators he’d thrown them away, Scheiderer said. BCI agents retrieved them from the garbage, but Elliott said his shoes were too worn from use to match the shoe prints, which showed new, unworn tread patterns.