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- Abandoned Vehicle Report from the New Orleans Metro
Police Department
- Vehicle Located: 1986 Buick LeSabre matching
Mississippi APBs
- Faxed Report to the Yoknapatawpha County Sheriff's
Department October 5, 1997
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- On October 5, 1997, New Orleans Metro Police
Officers Lajoux and Morris were called to Metarie,
Louisiana, to investigate a possible abandoned car (1986
Buick LeSabre, brown) parked outside a liquor store
(Micheletti Spirits) on E. Chapman Avenue. Owner of the
store, Carl Micheletti, stated to officers that the car
had been parked in the lot for two straight days and
nights without moving. On further inspection of the
locked car from the outside officers noted what appeared
to be blood on the back passenger seat, the dash and
stains on the front passenger seat. Car impounded and
towed to NO Metro garage pending further examination.
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- Louisiana license plates (xxxxxx) were issued in
East Feliciana Parish to one Margret Jasper, deceased.
Car was garaged and plates stolen without current owners
knowledge. East Feliciana Sheriff's office confirms.
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- Vehicle match to APBs # W-12797 and # W-12997.
Contact to Sheriff Charles Lamar and Detective Terrence
Nelson of the Yoknapatawpha Sheriff's Department.
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- Sheriff Charles Lamar gave authorization for
Louisiana Crime Lab impound and forensic analysis
immediately. Deputy Wise of the Yoknapatawpha County
Sheriff's office will arrive to assist on October 6,
1997.
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- Interview with Carl Micheletti of Micheletti
Spirits conducted by Officer Lajoux of NOMPD, Mr.
Micheletti recalls a tall blonde woman entering the store
on Friday and buying 3 fifths of bourbon. He watched her
walk to the lot and thinks she may have been near this
vehicle. He states most of his customers are regulars
and he'd never seen her before. He recalls remarking on
how pretty she was and she said something to the effect,
"You might see me on TV." Subject was wearing white
shorts, striped close fitting t-shirt. Mr. Micheletti
made a positive identification of Victoria Symons from
APB photographs.
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- Preliminary Forensic Report:
- Louisiana Crime Lab reports finding the following:
- Vehicle registration plate scratched, attempt at
obliteration, plate lift positive. Registration number
shows last owner as George Keel, Oxford, Mississippi. No
registration found in glove box.
- Testing indicates type A blood was on the seat and
floorboard of the back seat of the car.
- Trace of type B negative on front driver dash.
- Stain of blood type O on front passenger seat.
- A revolver gunbelt, police issue, was found under the
passenger front seat along with two Hornady .357 Magnum
JHP-XTP live rounds #9050.
- Steering column and key hole had been popped and the
car was apparently driven with a screwdriver acting as a
ignition key.
- 17 latent print lifts from vehicle, map, fast food
wrappers, side mirror.
- Road map of western United States with pen marks near
Fort Worth, TX; Albuquerque, NM the Grand Canyon in AZ;
Yosemite National Park in NV; Las Vegas, NV; Sacramento,
CA; and San Francisco, CA.
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- Forensic Match:
- Preliminary forensic reports show that Type A blood
may match deceased fugitive, Anthony Phelps, Mississippi
APB #12897.
- Type B negative smear may match Deputy Schiff,
deceased, of the Yoknapatawpha County Sheriff's
Department.
- Type O blood may match fugitive Edward Arthur Pierce,
Mississippi APB #12797.
- Gunbelt and .357 Magnum matches issue of
Yoknapatawpha County Sheriff's Department.
- Fingerprint evidence:
- Latents lifted from vehicle match owner George Keel,
fugitive Pierce, Phelps, and Symons. No other
discernible prints.
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