On the afternoon of May 20, 2001, Kelly, a 20-year-old American girl, was found dead in the office of the Blue Earth State Park Service in Minnesota, where she worked.
Nestled in a vast expanse of natural beauty, Kelly Blue Earth State Park is a haven for campers, adventurers, and rock climbers. In order to cope with the daily office, maintenance and ticket sales, several houses were built at the entrance to the park.
Kelly worked as a conductor here and did her best to run the park. However, a sudden tragedy deprives this tranquil park of peace. On May 20, Kelly was on day shift, and due to the lack of recreational facilities in the park, there were not many visitors, and the park arranged for her to sell tickets at the office window alone.
At 2:40 p.m., when her colleague was about to come to **, he noticed that the office was unusually messy and there was a foul smell in the air. Colleagues shouted Kelly's name as they walked deeper into the office, but there was no response.
When they found Kylie, she collapsed on the floor next to the ticket counter, her head bloody and the floor around her stained red. After arriving at the scene, after investigation, it was found that Kelly had fought fiercely with ** before her death, with multiple abrasions on her body, and a deep strangulation mark on her neck, and the cause of death was an unknown blunt object blow to her head.
At the scene of the crime, hundreds of fingerprints were collected, and all items in the office were photographed and fixed. However, because the scene was too messy, I could only ask Kelly's colleagues to help check the situation at the scene, hoping to find ** as soon as possible.
* A Chinese-made field-specific electronic watch and a pack of cigarettes were found next to Kelly, while the office safe was stolen and about $2,000 in cash was missing.
This confuses them as they don't understand why they killed Kylie and took a decorative stone that weighed about 5 kilograms. In order to find the real culprit, it is necessary to determine the time of Kelly's murder as soon as possible, but the results of the medical examiner's autopsy are not yet available.
* Kelly was found writing love letters to her fiancé before she was killed, and she mentioned in the letter that the letter was written at 2 p.m. And **'s colleague entered the office at 2:40 p.m., so Kelly's murder was locked between 2 p.m. and 2:40 p.m.
*After investigating the scene, it was found that the time of the watch was fixed at 2:16 p.m., which may coincide with the time of the crime. However, despite the screening of visitors and staff in the park, no suspicious persons or clues have been found.
However, a woman's testimony provides a new clue. She claimed to have seen a white sedan speeding out of the park at the time of the crime and speculated that the driver might have been **.
Although she didn't see the license plate number or the driver's appearance, this was still an important direction. Due to the lack of further clues, the tourists and staff were left and an investigation into Kelly's social connections began.
They found out that Kylie was only 20 years old and that her social relationships were very simple, mainly her parents, co-workers, tourists, and her newly engaged fiancé.
At the scene of the murder, ** suspected that Kelly's fiancé might be involved, but on the day of the crime, he had a perfect alibi, so ** had to shift his attention to other suspects.
Kelly's parents had an excellent impression of their son-in-law-to-be, and they were convinced that he would not do such a thing. ** Another of Kylie's suitors was investigated, but his suspicion was eventually ruled out.
However, despite the investigation of everyone around Kelly, no clues have been found. A red stone was found in a remote stream near the local park, and staff identified it as the missing stone from the office.
This discovery rekindled their hope, and they began to re-examine all the leads. However, although five days have passed since the incident, ** has still not been found.
The people around them are very scared, and they are worried that ** is lurking around them. *They are still persistently searching for clues, hoping to find ** as soon as possible, so that Kelly and her family can get the justice and comfort they deserve.
The stone found in the stream became the key evidence** It was tested and found that no fingerprints and DNA were left on the stone due to the erosion of the stream.
However, based on the shape of the stone and the wound on Kelly's head, the medical examiner determined that it was the murder weapon that hit Kelly. Although hundreds of fingerprints were sorted out, no special clues were found after comparison, and the case reached an impasse.
Then, **turned his gaze to the watch and cigarette found at the scene, although no fingerprints were extracted, and the watch and cigarette were not uniquely identifiable, **firmly believed that they were left**.
Experts managed to find three sets of DNA on the watch, one of which was Kylie's, but the other two were unknown. Because the three sets of DNA were mixed together, the technology at the time could not isolate and identify them, and the DNA was not found on the cigarette, so the clue was broken.
Since then, despite the ongoing investigation, there has been no new progress. All that remains in the park is the legend of Kelly's murder, and everything seems to be calm again.
Five years later, the police officers in the Kelly case found new clues in the file. He thinks that perhaps a breakthrough can be found through the three sets of DNA on that watch.
As time went on, the DNA technology became more and more mature, and he handed over the watch to the experts. After expert research, those three sets of DNA were finally successfully isolated and identified as owners.
One of the groups fits perfectly with Kelly, while the other two belong to a man named Randy and his wife. Surprisingly, both Randy and his wife have criminal records, especially Randy, who has been jailed for theft, wounding, gambling, and taking contraband** on multiple occasions.
* By comparing the fingerprints in the database, it was found that many of the hundreds of fingerprints at the scene of Kelly's crime matched Randy's fingerprints, which were mainly distributed around Kelly and on the safe.
* Randy is found to be related to Kelly's murder, but he is serving a prison sentence and has time to commit the crime. However, he is about to be released in a month's time, and if he is caught by surprise now, he may be able to escape.
Therefore, ** decided to find out the situation with Randy's wife first. When they pull out the watch's **, Randy's wife admits that it belongs to her husband and also explains that because she used the watch to measure her blood pressure, it has her DNA on it.
Tell her that the watch was found at the crime scene and that it had her DNA on it. Randy's wife is nervous and says she has never killed anyone.
*When questioned about Randy's wife, she becomes nervous, but promises to cooperate with the **investigation. She said that Randy smoked the same cigarette as found at the scene, had a white car, and was not home at the time of the crime.
This information makes ** suspicious of Randy. However, when ** goes to the prison to find Randy, he firmly denies the crime and says that he has never been to the park and that his watch has long since been lost.
* You can only leave for a while, and hurry up to collect evidence. Randy's wife helps at this point, and she provides some** to prove that Randy wore that watch and smoked that cigarette.
According to the details on the **, it was determined that the watch was the one found at the scene of the crime. This chain of evidence convinces Randy even more that he is.
On the eve of Randy's imminent release, ** finally has enough evidence to charge him with a first-degree crime, and immediately takes action the next day to take Randy away.
Although Randy insists that he did not kill Kelly and that he took his watch, the prosecution came to the opposite conclusion by gathering a large amount of evidence and reconstructing the circumstances of the crime.
According to prosecutors, Randy came to the park that day with the intention of stealing, but was accidentally discovered by Kelly, and the two sides engaged in a fierce fight. In the process, Kelly is controlled by Randy and forced to open the safe as he asks and take out more than $2,000 and give it to Randy.
However, Kelly doesn't give in and continues to fight Randy, causing Randy's watch and cigarette to be ripped off, and he immediately fights back, knocking Kelly to the ground, picking up a rock from the office and frantically smashing it at Kelly's head.
After confirming that Kelly was unconscious, Randy quickly got up, left the office with the rock, and fled the park in a car. However, Randy is unaware that his watch and cigarette were left at the scene of the crime.
Randy was charged by the prosecution with a first-degree crime, and although he repeatedly emphasized that Kelly did not kill him, he was eventually sentenced to life in prison. Kelly died heroically to protect the park's property, however, in the face of life and death, money seemed insignificant.
Her heroic actions are commendable, but in the face of disparities in power, we should protect our own lives. I hope this case can sound the alarm for everyone, in the face of gangsters, life safety is the most important thing, don't risk for property.
After all, life is priceless.
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