Read the case file from Brandl’s Criminal Investigations, He Hit Her Until She Fell . . . and That Was Just the Beginning starting on page 363 of your text and address the following:

• If you were the criminal investigator assigned to investigate this case, what interview questions would you have asked the witnesses and why? 

From the Case File He Hit Her Until She Fell . . . and That Was Just the Beginning

It was a cold Super Bowl Sunday on January 26, 2003, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Jackie Lawer and her friends were having a party. Jackie was twenty-four and worked as a bartender at a popular restaurant and tavern in Milwaukee. She had a lot of friends and knew a lot of people. She was typically happy and enjoyed life, and this particular Sunday was no different. The usual crowd was at the partymostly people who worked together at the restaurant. As the game ended and the party came to end, one of Jackies friends, Patrick Hubbart, twenty-two, agreed to give Jackie a ride home. Patrick wasnt her boyfriend; they were just good friends. They joked and laughed as they rode to Jackies apartment building on the trendy east side of the city. It was about 2:30 a.m. when the pair pulled up in front of the building. Jackie and Patrick said good night, and Jackie hurried to the front door of the apartment building. Patrick watched as Jackie walked up the front sidewalk of the building toward the front door. As he drove off, he saw Jackie approach the door. He then did a U-turn and again drove past the front door of the building. He could no longer see Jackie, so he assumed she made it safely into the building. Patrick then headed home to get a little sleep. He had to take his parents to the airport in just a few hours.

Just before 8:00 a.m. on January 27, the Milwaukee Police Department received a phone call from a citizen who reported a body lying in his backyard. Officer Sanchez responded to the location, as did Detective Olson. As written in Detective Olsons report,

[t]he human body was face down just off of and east of the alley pavement at the rear of 2471 N. Palmer. The body was located just south of a foundation wall that runs west to east from the alley along the probable north property line of 2471 N. Palmer for almost 20 feet. The victims head was in a northeast direction just south of the wall and at the base of a tree six feet east of the alley pavement. The victims feet extended in a southwest direction toward the alley. It could not be immediately determined if the person was male or female, as the upper torso had a bloody yellow jacket pulled up the body and over the head. The lower torso of the body was nude except for a sock that was on one of the feet.

Milwaukee Fire Department arrived and began resuscitation efforts on the body just after PO Sanchez arrived. While this was done, PO Sanchez taped off the scene to prevent scene contamination. PO Sanchez indicated that as the Fire Department personnel attended to the victim, they removed the bloody yellow jacket from the victims body and moved it to the south of the body. Firefighter Irrizary found a drivers license in the lower, left front coat pocket of the bloody yellow jacket and gave the ID to PO Sanchez. The victims body was then conveyed from the scene by the MFD to St. Marys Hospital.

The drivers license belonged to Jackie Lawer. She had a faint pulse and a core temperature of 81F. The outside temperature was 4F. Doctors at the hospital reported to the attending detectives that Jackie had severe injuries and lacerations to the back of her head. Jackie died on January 27, 2003, at 3:45 p.m.

Investigators collected numerous items of possible evidence in the area where the body was found. There was so much trash in the area that investigators were uncertain if any or all of the items actually related to the crime. Investigators collected the clothing that was removed from the body by the fire department. They also found and collected from the immediate vicinity what appeared to be a towel with blood on it, three used condoms, five keys on a key ring, an unopened pack of Marlboro Ultra Light cigarettes (from the pocket of the victims yellow jacket), blood from the grass where the victim was found, a partial wrapper for fudge chocolate chip cookies, an ATM slip, an envelope, a broken flashlight, and the victims ID.

While investigators were collecting the evidence where the body was discovered, other detectives went to the address listed on the victims ID with hopes of contacting and notifying friends or relatives. As these detectives approached the apartment building where Jackie lived, they found a large amount of blood near the door of the building, with a blood trail leading to and ending in the street in front of the building. Also near the door was a hamburger still in its wrapper.

The area in front of the building and the street were secured, and a neighborhood canvass was conducted by officers. None of the twenty-four people who lived in and around the apartment building had seen or heard anything the night before. When one of Jackies neighbors was asked by the police if she had noticed the blood on the front stoop of the building, she said she had seen it as she left the building in the morning but had thought someone dropped a red slushy on the steps. The attendant who was working the previous night at a nearby gas station was also questioned. He reported that someone matching Jackies description had entered the store at about 3:45 a.m. Upon checking the cash register receipts and the video surveillance, police confirmed this person was indeed Jackie, and she had purchased a pack of cigarettes and a hamburger. The surveillance video showed several people entering the store before Jackie, and several entered after she left; investigators wondered if any of these people were responsible for her murder.

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