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“No The rooms were orderly There was no evident disturbance, no blood or shell casings, et cetera”
Davis said, “Noere you told that a man may have been dismembered in the bathtub of the defendant’s house?”
“I was”
“And you did all the normal tests for trace evidence, did you not?”
“Yes, we did”
“Co evidentiary?”
“No”
“Find any evidence that showed that the blood had been cleaned up?”
“Nope”
“No bleach or anything like that?”
“No”
“Lieutenant Clapper, let ive you the whole laundry list at once and save a little tis hadn’t been cleaned? You didn’t find an implement that could have been used to dismember a body?”
“No”
“So it’s fair to say that you and your tea you could do to ascertain the manner in which a crime was committed — or even if a crime was committed?”
“We did”