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Here's an article about Ruth Richardson Green in relation to Earhart:
Investigators seeking clues to 18-year-old murder case
May 18, 2004
"The main suspect is dead...
...For more than 15 years, investigators have been at a stalemate in the case despite having a convicted killer at the center of their focus.
DNA analysis techniques — as far as officials at the Bryan police department know — never have fully been explored by investigators...
While DNA technology has been around for more than a decade, officials at the department this week said they have had limited resources to work with as a steady flow of new cases come in....
But then in May 1987, James Otto Earhart was apprehended in the murder of 9-year-old Crockett Elementary School fourth-grader Kandy Kirtland. Investigators caught up with him while he was sleeping in his car, which was parked about 50 yards from where Green’s body had been found 15 months earlier.
“ That was when we really started looking [at the similarities],” said Lt. Choya Walling of the Bryan Police Department.
... while there’s enough circumstantial evidence to have Walling convinced, it’s still probably not enough to convince a judge or jury, he said. And a confession from Earhart will never happen. He was executed in 1999 for Kirtland’s murder....
Another area of potential evidence that hasn’t been explored yet is DNA. Back when the murders took place, techniques for tracing DNA weren’t around. But if evidence has been saved, DNA tracing “might be the magic bullet that we need,” Walling said.
The Department of Public Safety doesn’t have a DNA sample on file for Earhart to use for any sort of comparison, and none was ever taken during the 11 years Earhart was on death row, Texas Ranger Frank Malinak said....
Bryan police also tried talking to Earhart behind bars — requesting an interview with him shortly before his scheduled death. He declined....
“ I pleaded with him [and] gave him the standard ‘We owe it to the family,’” Nesmith said. “He was very unconcerned. He didn’t focus on me. He said ‘I’m not talking about that.’”..."
Investigators seeking clues to 18-year-old murder case
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Investigators seeking clues to 18-year-old murder case
May 18, 2004
"The main suspect is dead...
...For more than 15 years, investigators have been at a stalemate in the case despite having a convicted killer at the center of their focus.
DNA analysis techniques — as far as officials at the Bryan police department know — never have fully been explored by investigators...
While DNA technology has been around for more than a decade, officials at the department this week said they have had limited resources to work with as a steady flow of new cases come in....
But then in May 1987, James Otto Earhart was apprehended in the murder of 9-year-old Crockett Elementary School fourth-grader Kandy Kirtland. Investigators caught up with him while he was sleeping in his car, which was parked about 50 yards from where Green’s body had been found 15 months earlier.
“ That was when we really started looking [at the similarities],” said Lt. Choya Walling of the Bryan Police Department.
... while there’s enough circumstantial evidence to have Walling convinced, it’s still probably not enough to convince a judge or jury, he said. And a confession from Earhart will never happen. He was executed in 1999 for Kirtland’s murder....
Another area of potential evidence that hasn’t been explored yet is DNA. Back when the murders took place, techniques for tracing DNA weren’t around. But if evidence has been saved, DNA tracing “might be the magic bullet that we need,” Walling said.
The Department of Public Safety doesn’t have a DNA sample on file for Earhart to use for any sort of comparison, and none was ever taken during the 11 years Earhart was on death row, Texas Ranger Frank Malinak said....
Bryan police also tried talking to Earhart behind bars — requesting an interview with him shortly before his scheduled death. He declined....
“ I pleaded with him [and] gave him the standard ‘We owe it to the family,’” Nesmith said. “He was very unconcerned. He didn’t focus on me. He said ‘I’m not talking about that.’”..."
Investigators seeking clues to 18-year-old murder case
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