DOUBLE HOMICIDE

"A neighboring municipality had a gruesome double homicide in which a female had been sexually assaulted and then murdered. Her husband had been murdered as he was returning home and tried to enter the residence. There was no physical evidence and no suspects.

While reviewing tickets from a non-participating LeadsOnline store, we got a serial number hit on property reported stolen during the offense. The property had been pawned months after the murders.

Using the name of the person on the transaction record we used LeadsOnline to do a complete pawn history of the suspect. We found that he had pawned other property within days of the offense. The suspect information was passed to the neighboring agency which arrested the suspect based on the information we had obtained. That property had been stolen during the offense. The suspect confessed to the offense and was convicted of Capital Murder."

Det. J.W. McRobbie #759
Criminal Investigation Division
Arlington (Texas) Police Dept.

HOMICIDE

"I just wanted to send a thanks to LeadsOnline and Action Pawn for helping us out.

Recently, a body was discovered dumped in the brush alongside a road just inside the city limits. The body was that of a decomposed male. Homicide Detectives with Austin Police were able to identify the victim and they learned the deceased male was missing some jewelry.

Homicide detectives traced the whereabouts and acquaintances of the victim and learned that he was probably killed around July 30, 2004. Homicide detectives contacted the pawn unit of APD to search any pawn activity to the known associates of the deceased male. I searched the Austin Police pawn records and did not find anything on the two names provided to me.

I then logged onto LeadsOnline and searched these same individuals. I found a possible match on one of the subjects. He had pawned four rings at an Action Pawn store in Round Rock, TX on July 30, 2004. This pawn transaction was suspicious to the homicide detectives working the case. They went to the pawn shop and photographed the jewelry that was pawned by the known associate. These photographs were shown to the family of the deceased and they positively identified the jewelry as that belonging to the deceased male.

This positive identification and documentation indicating the pawner selling these items about the time the victim died, has provided a great lead for the detectives to possibly solve this homicide case. This information probably would not have been found without the help of LeadsOnline."

Det. Joseph Lucas #2093
Property Interdiction Unit
Austin (Texas) Police Dept.

CAPITAL MURDER

"In June 2003 there was a capital murder of a well-known figure in the religious community here in Arlington. The detective working the case was able to develop suspect information, however more evidence was needed to tie the suspect to the offense.

At the request of the investigating detective, I conducted a suspect search using the LeadsOnline database and found that the suspect had pawned the victim's jewelry on the same day as the offense at a pawnshop within walking distance of the murder. With this added evidence the suspect was arrested and indicted for capital murder."

Det. J.W. McRobbie #759
Arlington (Texas) Police Dept.

CASE UPDATE from Det. McRobbie:

..."The suspect in that Capital Murder case plead guilty before the court last week to escape the death penalty. We probably would not have found the victim's jewelry without LeadsOnline. The fact that the suspect pawned the victim's jewelry after the offense was discussed at trial. Thanks!"