Seattle cops pull old switcheroo with “chewing gum survey” – collar murder suspect from 1976 killing.
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Seattle cops pull old switcheroo with “chewing gum survey” – collar murder suspect from 1976 killing.
You've probably seen the trick of retrieving DNA off a suspect's soda can on any TV crime drama; authorities in Seattle pulled off an even-more creative gambit by polling a suspect with a phony “chewing gum survey" -- and caught a suspected killer.
A retired dental technician in Augusta, Maine woman named Blanche Kimball, 70, was fatally stabbed on June 12, 1976, and investigators questioned her then-tenant, a Vietnam vet named Gary Robert Wilson, twice.
He denied the crime, and officials had no evidence to hold him, at which time he left the small town.