By Nicole Krylowski & Wendi Punchak
THE MARTIN/HAYES HOMICIDE
CASE FILE
Factual Evidence
Fingerprints
 Wine Glasses – three wine glasses,
two with separate finger prints,
one wiped clean
 Wine Bottle - bottle was wiped
clean except for a latent print
lifted the paper label by the Crime
lab. No matches but suspects will
be brought in for fingerprinting
DNA
 Saliva discovered on one wine
glass that did not match the DNA
of either Vanessa or Jeremy
Factual Evidence Cont.
Trace Evidence
 Vanessa - small amounts of down
feathers were discovered in her
nostrils. Covered in a leaf from a tree
native to Virginia. Animal hair also
found clinging to her couch
 Footprints – two set of mud-covered
footprints leading up to Vanessa’s
apartment, dirt originating from
dense, damp forest that surrounds a
popular vacation spot, Lake Newark.
Boots prints taken from all suspects
 Jacket - suspects jacket discovered
with residue created from a fired
weapon
Motive for Murders
Vanessa Martin
 Mare Sue William – hated and bad-mouthed
Vanessa, stole her boyfriend. Both fought for
assistant manager position at Maul-Mart
 Ben Boggs – dated Vanessa and was angry that she
wouldn’t leave her boyfriend (Jeremy) for him
 Mildred Smith – Vanessa was a noisy neighbor
 Lindsey Parker – competed for assistant manager’s
position against Vanessa at Maul-Mart
 David Thomas – competed for assistant manager’s
position against Vanessa at Maul-Mart
Motive for Murders Cont.
Jeremy Hayes
 Marie Sue William – said Jeremy was sweet
 Ben Boggs – Jeremy was the one who was
dating Vanessa, and whom Vanessa wouldn’t
leave to be with Boggs. The reason Boggs
stopped seeing Vanessa
 Mildred Smith – Jeremy brought in her garbage
cans on a regular basis. Said he was a very nice
man
 Lindsey Parker – no known motive
 David Thomas – no known motive
Method of Murders
Vanessa Martin
 Prior to the murder, she was impaired through
the use of a poisonous mushroom or plant
source that made her weak and unable to fight in
self defense
 This was the toxic substance found in her
stomach contents
 The victim was then asphyxiated(suffocated)
through the use of a feather pillow
 This supports the evidence of down feathers that
were found in her nostrils
Method of Murders Cont.
Jeremy Hayes
 Impaired through use of mushroom based
poison.
 Shot in torso area twice.
 Boggs seen early at Store behind the gun
counter.
 Two Muddy foot prints found in the house
reveal that the murderers must have been in
the forest.
Murderer(s) Uncovered!
 We believe that the murders are co-perpetrators :
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Mary Sue, and Ben Boggs.
We have made this decision based on all information
gathered and written in the chart that we
completed.
Mary Sue and Ben Boggs had motive and desire to
kill Vanessa and Jeremy.
Both perpetrators were know to have been outdoors
( muddy footprints)
Ben Boggs known to be behind gun counter (shot
Jeremy)
Mary Sue worked with groceries ( mushrooms/plants
in dinner food)
Animal hair found in apartment (Mary Sue’s dog)