Stray Cigarette Case Summary

1.) Title of Case:

Date:1983

Victim:Rodney Wyman

Suspect: Shawn Marsh

Summary:On the night of August 22nd, Rodney Wyman and his coworker were at a local motel watching television, when he heard a noise from the back room. When he got up to check it out he was approached by a gunman at the door. The gunman shot him in the chest and the shot was fatal. Twenty-three latent prints were collected and ran through the AFIS database,but no leads came back.Then, 27 years later, fingerprints were collected from the television set that the gunman had tried to steal but was unsuccessful at doing so. The fingerprints were ran through IAFIS. The prints matched a man named Shawn Marsh. Investigators located Marsh and collected fingerprints and palm prints from him. The prints were a match. In April of 2013 Marsh was put in prison

Eaton

Summary:In 1997 the body of a 14-year old girl was found in a Racine County(Wisconsin) marsh.Her name was Amber Gail Creek.Racine County identified the suspect as 36-year old James P. Eaton. For seventeen years investigators analyzed all evidence in the death of Amber, but they finally got a break in the case when investigators found fingerprints on the black plastic bag used to suffocate Amber. Investigators were able to track Eaton and pull one of his prints off one of his cigarettes. The fingerprints matched those found on the plastic bag and on the victim’s body.

3.)Title of Case:30-Year Old Murder Case solved

Date: 1978

Victim:Carroll