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Kristene were referred to as "number one" and "number two" during their assault. Previously, DNA found on a cigarette butt and energy drink can at the scene both matched to Spellman. Spellman had been staying with his father's best friend just down the street from the scene of the crime. Eyewitnesses also placed Spellman at Violet Andrews Park both before and after the crime.
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Strickland's possession was matched to bullet casings at the crime scene. Strickland had also inserted himself in the original investigation, talking to investigators and being seen at the crime scene just days after the
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Spellman, who had recently pleaded guilty to his involvement in an armed robbery in Nevada in which he and his cohorts referred to
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Layton Police investigating the burglary had discovered evidence in
Strickland's car including two guns, ammunition, a suppressor, gloves and a backpack containing condoms, flex handcuffs, bolt cutters, a knife and other items. These items were turned over to investigators in the Olgin case.
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Strickland, his father Larry Joe Strickland, and Taft Pharmacy, the family business, seeking $ 500 million in damages. The complaints against Strickland's father and Taft Pharmacy were later dropped from the lawsuit.
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Strickland in 2014 after Chapa's father received an anonymous letter containing information about the crime not released to the public. The letter accused a Layton, Utah, man of the murder of Olgin; police found that the man had an alibi.
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Koumbis, a local gun store owner and the husband of a defense witness, was murdered in his own store in an apparent robbery-gone-wrong. Corpus Christi police concluded that the robbery was targeted.
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