The only available crime scene report
is a GCPD supplemental report, dated April 22, 1993 that was presumably
authored by Jack Burnette, the assigned investigator. It is also labeled with the subtitle, supplement by J. D. “Judy”
Graham, but the report seems to consist of the Crime scene technician’s verbal
report to Burnette, presumably from their notes and memories that then was
editorialized by Burnette.
Other than vehicle identification
number and statistical data about the vehicle and its position in the Gwinnco
Muffler driveway and an inventory of items found in the car and its trunk, and
a notation regarding the technicians returning to the vehicle to run the engine
for several hours, there is only one paragraph describing the inside of the
vehicle and that is significant.
Burnette first described the position
of the victim in her automobile. He
then states that there were what appeared to be blood on the center console and
the victim’s glasses with its right lens missing were on the floorboard under the
console, leading the reader to believe that the glasses were deep on the
floorboard instead of just beneath the ashtray in the dash. Burnette then
states the pieces of glass from the right lens of the victim’s glasses were
“scattered” in the passenger seat, in front of the console and around
floorboard of the vehicle. Finally Burnette states that there were blood
spatters and small bits of flesh and bone located in the passenger area and on
the windshield and the passenger door. Burnette says nothing of bullet caused
high velocity blood spatter, either forward or rearward in the vehicle.
Burnette was wrong about any shards from the right lens of
the victim’s glasses, the blood spatter and bits of flesh and bone on the
passenger seat and the passenger area. When the photographs of the front seat
area of the victim’s car are examined in detail, they can be seen only just
behind the glasses in the mid-console area, and there was blood on the
passenger door, and two small drops of blood on the passenger seat, but these
drops of blood cannot be described as high velocity blood spatter, and they
came from a different source than the gunshots to the head of the victim.
The facts would not support the police and prosecution theories,
and Jack Burnette then tried to make the best of this in his report of the 22nd.
He made these few general statements about blood and other items and simply
ignored everything else.