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Preston
Craig HUGHES III |
Crime Scene Photos
Preston Hughes III's
Apartment
When Sgt. Gafford came to talk with Preston, he made a note in his
report about seeing
a pair of silver rim
eyeglasses on the couch but
at that time he gave little thought
about them. Wonder why Officer
Hale
didn't list the eyeglasses, later identified as
belonging to
the female victim, along with the other items
he turned into the HPD
property division? Is it possible the eyeglasses were planted?
Even in this close-up of Preston's couch, it is difficult to
identify the object between the
couch cushions
as eyeglasses
belonging to the female victim. Wonder where the "blood"
is that was
on these
eyeglasses when introduced at trial? Wonder where the photo
is showing these eyeglasses
at the scene of the crime?
This is the knife and sheath seized from Preston's apartment. The
knife was tested,
not in the lab, but
in the courtroom before the
judge, the prosecuting and defense
lawyers just before the "forensic
expert"
was to testify. The "rumored" results -
positive for animal
blood not human blood and the judge
allowed the knife to be
introduced at trial as the murder weapon.
The items of
interest in this photo are the maroon shirt and the small clear
plastic bag
containing a green
leafy substance. The maroon shirt was
listed with the items that
Officer Hale original collected from
Preston's apartment but the green leafy substance
showed up later
just like the eyeglasses.
Officer Hale
seized two navy blue shirts from Preston's apartment. One was sent
to the
crime lab for
testing. Again the crime lab found blood but
not enough to determine
if human blood and not
enough to type.
Another "no brainer".
What happened to
the sheet on Preston's bed? It was never turned into the HPD
property division.
It was stained with fresh semen. Did Sgt. Gafford
contaminate the vaginal swab from the
female victim when he
hand-delivered the swab to the crime lab.
These blue jeans
were sent to the crime lab the be tested for blood of the victims.
The crime lab found
blood but not enough to determine if human blood
and not
enough to type. It would seem to be a
"no brainer" that if
these blue jeans
were worn by the murder, there would be blood all
over them.
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