Lined In Chalk

The date was February 12th, 1980. The place was San Angelo, Texas. Officer Robert Lloyd and his partner had been on patrol when they received a call about a shooting at a place called Musick Jewelry Store.  Lloyd said he didn't know what to expect. When he and his partner walked inside, they found a female laying on the floor, face down in the middle of the showroom.  The victim was 20-year-old Sheila Elrod. She was the store clerk.  Sheila's killers had gone there with the intention of robbing the jewelry store. They ended up walking away with roughly $100,000 in jewelry.  One of the people involved in the investigation was sergeant Fred Dietz. Dietz used to work security at the jewelry store and he knew Sheila.  Dietz was also one of the first people to get work, with the intention of catching Sheila's killer. One of the things her killers hadn't intended on was leaving behind a clue, which they did.  It was determined that Sheila's killers broke the jewelry cases

 On January 28th, 1978, crime scene Technician Scott Boatright was called to a homicide at a Holiday Inn in Tysons Corner, Virginia.  The victim was 25-year-old Mona Lisa Abney. Her body was discovered when the maid entered the hotel room in order to clean it. Mona's hotel room had been ransacked, and her cash, credit cards, and jewelry were all missing.  However, something Scott Boatright would notice was that the ransacking had been staged. Boatright had also noted that the killer may have wanted it to look like there was a bigger struggle than what had actually occurred.  The medical examiner would go on to determine that Mona Lisa Abney had been raped and strangled. This does seem to match up with how she was found. She was found laying on her back, almost named from her waist down.  The investigators (mainly a man named Ron Yeager) actually began working their way through the hotel. One of the people they talked to was a maid who claimed to have let a man into Mona's room.