In he was transferred to the Florida Department of Corrections as part of a routine interstate transfer. Florida prison officials refused to allow him to be interviewed, citing "security reasons. She was concerned because she hadn't heard from them over the Labor Day weekend. Marie's other daughter, Mary Lou, accompanied her to Joan's house. It was a visit that would change their lives forever.
When Marie and Mary Lou went to the house, they found it unusual that no one answered the door when they called. They knew Joan must have been nearby because her car was still parked in the driveway, so they rang the doorbell several more times. Still, there was no answer. They decided to take a look inside the house. When they entered, they immediately knew something was terribly wrong. The interior was splattered with blood and a putrid smell permeated the air.
As they walked further into the house, they made a heart-wrenching discovery. They saw Joan lying beneath blood-soaked sheets in the hallway. Her oldest daughter, Jennifer, was lying nearby and Melissa was on the kitchen floor. All three had been brutally murdered.
Marie and Mary Lou were horror stricken. Just days earlier Marie had spent the day with Joan and her grandchildren shopping and enjoying time together. It was hard to imagine that they were all dead. The mother and daughter called the police soon after they discovered the bodies. Within moments, rescue workers arrived on the scene followed shortly thereafter by detectives. The house was cordoned off and an investigation of the crime scene began. Detectives were shocked at the savagery of the crime.
Even the most seasoned investigators had difficulty holding back tears. All the victims had been stabbed multiple times with kitchen knives. The youngest child, Melissa, was stabbed so fiercely that one of the blades actually broke off in her neck. She also had her skull bashed in with a kitchen stool. Apart from the 57 stab wounds inflicted on her body, Joan was also bludgeoned and strangled. It was believed that they were murdered three days prior to the discovery.
The Warwick Police Department had their finest working on the case. They were determined to catch the person responsible for the murders and they worked day and night reviewing evidence and interviewing locals who might have information related to the crime. McCrary, to assist in the investigation. McCrary stated in his book The Unknown Darkness, that he believed the murderer was likely someone from the Heaton's neighborhood.
Moreover, he suggested the crime was probably connected with another unsolved murder that took place two years earlier in Buttonwoods. The coincidences between the crimes were significant. In July , Rebecca Spencer, 27, was found dead in her living room. She had been stabbed repeatedly with a packing knife.
At the time of her death she was preparing to move to another neighborhood. In both the Heaton and the Spencer cases, the killer used a weapon that was already present in the house. This presented strong evidence that the killer originally entered the residence for another purpose, such as to burglarize the house. It is likely that the intruder was caught unaware and murdered the eyewitnesses using what McCrary referred to as a "weapon of opportunity.
Robbers often burglarize houses they know. The more familiar you are with the contents of a house, the more successful your robbery will be. Consequently, burglars regularly choose to rob houses that are close to where they live. Moreover, he believed the murderer lived in the Buttonwoods area because both crimes were committed five houses from one another. Another similarity between the cases was an unusual display of "overkill. Due to the excessive nature of the crimes, it was highly probable that the same person committed the murders.
McCrary suggested to investigators that the "frenetic manner of the stabbing," used to kill the Heatons likely resulted in the murderer stabbing his own hand. He told them that they should look for someone in the neighborhood with a cut or bandaged hand. McCrary's advice was of great use to investigators because it significantly narrowed the search for a suspect. They had a location in which to begin and a possible characteristic of the suspect. All they needed was some luck.
On September 5, , just one day after the bodies were discovered, investigators got their first real break in the case. Pendergast asked the youth if he heard about the murders. Craig responded with concern that he was aware of what had happened and that he had seen the bodies coming out of the house the day before.
He lived just a few doors away from the Heaton family. During the conversation, Pendergast and Brandreth noticed that Craig had a bandage on his hand. Suspicious, Pendergast asked how he hurt himself. Craig claimed that he got drunk several nights earlier and punched his hand through a car window on Keeley Avenue. As the detectives pulled away they could not help but wonder if Craig was telling the truth about his hand.
Why would he admit to two police officers that he vandalized a car? It seemed unlikely that a teenager would commit such ghastly crimes as the Heaton murders, let alone such a good-humored and vivacious kid as Craig. However, the fact that the boy had a cut on his hand and lived on the same street as the Heatons was too much of a coincidence to ignore. It was something both officers felt compelled to follow up on, which they did. The detectives wrote up a report and began to investigate Craig's story.
They learned that there was no police report of a car window being smashed in the area Craig mentioned. They also went to Keeley Avenue and found no evidence of glass on the street. The two detectives began to further doubt Craig's story.
Craig became a viable suspect in the Heaton murders. Even though many in the department believed the officers were wasting their time investigating him, Pendergast and Brandreth decided to follow their gut feelings and pursue Craig as a lead. They just needed more evidence to support their theory.
In the meantime, expert blood analyst Dr. Henry Lee was contacted by police and asked to examine the Heatons' residence for clues. He went to the house and analyzed the blood splatters and trails. During his investigation, he gathered vital clues from the crime scene including a bloody sock imprint. Whoever left the imprint wore a size 13 shoe. Craig Price was not an average teenager. At age 15, he already had a history of offenses including a record of breaking and entering, theft, peeping into houses and using drugs.
He was also known to have a violent temper. Police had been called to his house on more than one occasion to settle disputes in which he was involved. Investigators working on the Heaton case decided it was time to question Craig more thoroughly. They went to Craig's house and asked him to come with his parents to the police station, which they did.
During questioning, Craig was asked more detailed questions about how he cut his hand. He maintained his story that he hurt himself while trying to break into a car.
Investigators were not convinced and asked him to take a lie-detector test. The following day, Craig submitted to a polygraph. He was asked questions relating to how he cut his hand. The test revealed that Craig was lying. According to Lang, "it was the first big break in the case.
Even though the polygraph proved that Craig was dishonest, however, it didn't prove that he was involved in the murders.
Investigators needed more evidence. During interviews with Craig's friends and acquaintances, investigators learned that he ran with a gang of juvenile delinquents who were known to burglarize houses.
More significantly, they discovered that Craig boasted about killing Rebecca Spencer. It was the first evidence they had connecting Craig to a murder.
Investigators were quick to obtain a search warrant for his house. They devised a plan to set up overnight surveillance of the house before actually going in to search the residence. They wanted to make sure Craig was there and didn't leave the premises. In the early morning hours of September 17, detectives gave the signal to move in on the house. A team of officers led by Collins, Anderson and Colgan rang the doorbell. Craig's father answered the door and was shocked to see the police on his doorstep.
He had no choice but to let them in. The rest of the family, including Craig, his mother and brother were awakened and asked to sit in the living room during the search. They were all visibly distressed by the drama, except for Craig who dozed off to sleep on the couch. It didn't take investigators long to find what they were looking for. While searching the shed behind the house, a trash bag was found full of incriminating evidence. Within the bag were several bloody knives from the Heaton household, along with bloodied articles of clothing, gloves and other objects.
Investigators woke up Craig and arrested him for the murders of Joan, Jennifer and Melissa. Surprisingly, he seemed unaffected. Craig was ushered from his house to the police station with his parents in tow. He was booked, then interrogated about the murders. The detectives hoped Craig would come clean about his crimes.
They got more than expected. During the interview, Craig amazed detectives when he immediately confessed to the Heaton murders. He described in detail the events of the fateful night, although his story periodically changed. Eventually, he became worn out and decided that it was easier to tell the truth. According to Lang, "what came out of his mouth next stunned even the most experienced and jaded listeners and sent his father, John Price, to the men's room to vomit, rendering him unable to return.
Craig's horrified mother stood by her son as he recounted the events that took place at the Heaton residence approximately two weeks earlier. He told his interrogators that his primary intention was to burglarize the house.
He said that he found an open window in the kitchen, which he crawled through. He accidentally landed on a table, which broke but, despite the noise, he continued in the burglary. He claimed that he walked through the residence looking for items to steal. He didn't realize that the noise had awakened Joan.
She walked into the kitchen and spotted Craig when she turned on the light. In a state of panic, Craig said that he grabbed Joan, then beat and strangled her.
Joan's screams woke up the children who stumbled out of their beds to the hallway. Melissa ran to the kitchen to call the police but Craig overpowered her. Craig tackled the girls to the floor, then went to the kitchen, grabbed some knives and began to stab them all. During the attack, one of the girls bit Craig's hand. In a fit of rage, he bit the girl back on the face. Craig also bit Joan. Moreover, he smashed the youngest girl over the head with a stool, when she continued to struggle against him.
Craig didn't expect that the three would put up such a fight, but they did. They fought until they succumbed to their injuries. Craig said that during the murders he had accidentally stabbed his hand. He removed the gloves he was wearing and tended to his injuries in the bathroom. He didn't realize that he left a trail of blood and sock prints behind him. Evidence collected from the crime scene was later found to support Craig's story.
The blood analysis conducted by Dr. Lee showed that some of the blood samples matched Craig's blood type. Moreover, Craig's shoe size was the same as the sock prints. There was no doubt he was telling the truth. Craig further admitted to covering the Heatons' bodies with blankets, probably out of shame for what he had done. He then tried to clean up the crime scene with towels but he feared that if he stayed too long police would catch him.
He quickly gathered the knives, gloves and some of the bloodied towels and sprinted from the scene. Craig said he immediately returned to his home several doors away. He confessed that he hid his blood-soaked clothes in a bag in the attic. Detectives were alerted to the evidence and later found the bag in the precise location where Craig said it could be found.
Following Craig's detailed account of the Heaton murders, he surprised detectives again. When asked about Rebecca Spencer, Craig admitted that he also killed her. He was just 13 years old at the time. Craig had no difficulty remembering his first murder. He provided investigators with details of the night in question, while showing little remorse for what he had done.
After his confession, a wave of disgust mixed with relief passed over the detectives. Four murders solved within the space of several hours was a rare break. Investigators working on the case were glad they finally had their man. They just hoped Craig would get what he deserved for the atrocities he committed, preferably a very long prison sentence. They would have a long wait. Craig Price had the law on his side. Despite the brutal murders he committed, Craig would never have to face a trial or serve prison time because he confessed to his crimes just weeks before his 16th birthday.
According to Rhode Island state law, all the courts could do was hold him in a training school until his 21st birthday and no longer. Thus after five years, Craig would be a free man with a clean record. The thought of Craig serving only five years for four brutal murders enraged the citizens of Rhode Island, especially the families of the victims. It was obvious that the law was working against them.
They immediatelyknew something was terribly wrong. The interior was splattered with blood anda putrid smell permeated the air as they walked further into the house. They saw Jon lying beneath blood soaked sheets in the hallway, her oldestdaughter, Jennifer was lying near by, and Melissa was on the kitchen floor.
All three had been brutally murdered They called police and withinminutes it was swarming with detectives detectives that were absolutelyhorrified by the brutality of the crime. It was nothing they had ever seenbefore. All the victims had been stabbed multiple times with kitchenknives. The youngest child Melissa, Whas, stabbed so fiercely that one ofthe blades actually broke off in her neck. She also had her skull bashed inwith a kitchen stool. Apart from the fifty seven stab wounds, inflictin herbody Joane, was also bludgened and strangled.
It was believed they weremurdered three days prior to the discovery. They believed that themurder was likely some one from the Heaton's own neighbourhood. In fact,detectives thought.
Maybe the crime was possibly connected with anotherunsolved murder that took place two years earlier in button woods. Thecoincidences between the two crimes She had been stabbed repeatedly with packing knife. At thetime of her death. She was preparing to move to another neighborhood in boththe heaten and Spencer cases. The killer used a weapon that was alreadypresent in the house. This presented strong evidence that the killeroriginally entered for another purpose like to burglarize the house.
It waslikely that the intruder was caught, unaware and murdered the eye witnessesusing whatever was convenient, robbers, often burglarize houses. They know themore familiar you are with the contents of a house.
The more successful yourrobbery will be. The heaten home was only five down from where RebeccaSpencer was killed. Something else unusual in both cases was the overkill. Joan and Rebecca were stabbed approximately sixty times and thechildren approximately thirty times, due to the excessive nature of thecrimes. It was highly probable that the They seemed pretty sure thatthe killer probably injured him or herself in the knife attack.
Just one day after the heat and familywas discovered. Investigators caught a lucky break. Two detectives weredriving through the park near the home and spotted a familiar face. Fifteenyear old, crag price, one of the detectives had coached him inrecreation basketball.
They stopped to talk to him Aske. If he had seenanything suspicious. He told them that he lived just a few houses down fromthe heatons and saw when they took the bodies from the home while he wastelling them about it.
The detectives noticed a bandage on Craig's hand. Hesaid that a few nights prior he got drunk and put his hand through a randomcar window, super sketchy to admit underage drinking and bandalism,instead of just making up something less criminal, so that was a waving redflag, but the murders were so completelyheartless and violent that it was hard They checked into his story where he said he smashed the car window andfound that to be a lie back of the crime scene.
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