Evil Season (34 page)

Heavy blood spatter struck the artwork in the vicinity of the murder. Sweeping marks through the blood indicated a quick and careless attempt to wipe the blood away. In several spots the killer seemed to have attempted cleanup activity, but wasn′t very good at it.
(Sarasota Police Department)

A spatter expert could look at the bloodstained artwork in the vicinity of the murder and determine from which direction the blood came and how fast it was traveling when it struck.
(Sarasota Police Department)

Blood and tissue encrusted the artwork.
(Sarasota Police Department)

There was blood spatter on the tiled walls of the gallery′s bathroom. Again, a halfhearted attempt to clean up had been made, accomplishing little more than to smear the blood over a larger surface.
(Sarasota Police Department)

Police found several palm prints in the gallery, easy to see because they were in the victim′s blood.
(Sarasota Police Department)

A palm print was also discovered in this glop of blood spatter.
(Sarasota Police Department)

The key piece of evidence, ″possible tissue from carpeting,″ was sent by the Sarasota Police Department to the FDLE′s Tampa Crime Laboratory for analysis.
(Sarasota Police Department)

The toilet in Murphy′s Shade Avenue rooming house, where he said he disposed of the vagina he stole from Joyce Wishart′s body.
(Sarasota Police Department)

The eyes of a mutilator.
(Sarasota Police Department)

On February 25, 2004, Elton Murphy was arrested and charged with burglarizing a dentist′s office.
(Sarasota Police Department)

When arrested for burglarizing this building, Murphy was armed with a hatchet and a jackknife. He was in possession of prescription medications.
(Sarasota Police Department)

The break Sarasota Police Department had been looking for came when Elton Murphy was arrested in Texas and a sample of his DNA was confiscated.
(Harris County Sheriff′s Office, courtesy Sarasota Police Department)