Summary In early October 1992, in the mountains of western Virginia, hunters stumbled upon a dead body, badly decomposed and under a pile of trash. Animals have nibbled on the arms, and a shovel is still standing upright in the ground nearby. The hunters panic and leave, but eventually call police, and the Henry County Sheriff's Department comes to the scene. Some of the remaining skin is removed from a fingertip and taken to the Virginia State Crime Lab in Roanoke. At the lab, a fingerprint is made and entered into the AFIS system. They quickly get a hit -- Jerry McClendon, a sailor from Virginia Beach. Checking out McClendon's house, it looks like someone has moved out, and detectives soon discover that the pillowcase in Virginia Beach matches a sheet found with the body in the woods of western Virginia. The medical examiner now issues a belated autopsy report: Jerry McClendon died of asphyxiation. He concludes that the body had been dead about two weeks before the hunters found it. They find a very high level of a drug chemical in McClendon's system. Circumstantial evidence is pointing strongly to former roommates, David DeShazio and Roxanna Latham, now living in Henry County, VA. Detectives also discover several ATM withdrawals from Jerry's checking account, about two weeks before his remains were found. Working with a bank employee, they cue up surveillance videotape taken at the time of the ATM withdrawals; it's David and Roxanna on the tape.

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