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- case #2 - the garroted photographer
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- sgt. haskill had five minutes left on
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- his lunch break. it was 1:55 p.m. and he
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- was reading about the latest egyptian-
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- jordanian peace accord in the new york
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- times when a call came into the
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- station. he decided to donate his five
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- minutes to the town and picked up the
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- phone. bari sue marsden, the owner and
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- day manager of the coachman motel (h),
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- called to report a man murdered in room
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- 203. the victim, richard jecko, was
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- discovered by the chambermaid, mary
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- tully, when she went in to change the
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- sheets.
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- jecko had been a regular guest at the
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- coachman over the last six years. he was
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- a portrait photographer for family foto,
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- inc., based in atlanta. jecko's terri-
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- tory included rockland and westchester
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- counties and he passed through huxley
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- every six months or so. whenever he was
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- in town, he would book adjoining rooms
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- 203 and 204, sleeping in 203, where he
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- was found. he used room 204 to take
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- family portraits and as an office for
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- showing proofs and taking orders.
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- you were taking your first look
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- around the murder scene when dr. nizer,
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- huxley's coroner, arrived. richard jecko
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- was lying face down on the rug near the
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- middle of the room. he had been killed
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- with a length of fine wire pulled
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- tightly around his neck from behind. the
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- wire had been left embedded in his neck,
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- and his head had been partially severed.
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- there was a pool of blood on the floor,
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- soaking into the carpet.
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- teddy bayer and zeke shields, the lab
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- boys, arrived with the ambulance. dr.
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- nizer and the lab boys promise to have
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- their preliminary reports waiting for
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- you at the police station (i) within the
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- hour.
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- to win, you must:
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- 1. discover who killed richard jecko.
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- 2. give three sets of clues with
- matching evidence that support
- your conclusion, showing the method,
- opportunity and/or motive for the
- murder.
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- all players start at the coachman motel
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- (h) at 2:05 p.m.
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