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The
Evidence
s investigators collected evidence To determine if the gun had been recently fired,
from the cabin, they found a bullet investigators tested several surfaces for the
Alodged in the mud outside. They then presence of gunshot residue. They swabbed several
searched for additional bullets or bullet holes surfaces inside the truck, as well as the hands of
both outside and inside the cabin, but no other both victims and their clothing.
bullet evidence was located. When the blue
Ford Ranger with the Tumbling Water Land The evidence was then sent to the laboratory to
Development Co. logo was discovered in New be tested with both a presumptive test and, if
Mexico, authorities searched the truck for necessary, a confirmatory test utilizing a Scanning
evidence and found an unloaded handgun nder a Electron Microscope to generate images of the
blanket behind the seat. particles and spectra of their elements.
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