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Investigators followed Douglas advice and a second autopsy was performed on Karla on June 1982. Douglas gave them a very clear profile of the killer and an audacious plan to catch him, which included bringing a lot of publicity on the case and exhuming Karla’s body. Weber also decided to contact FBI profiler John Douglas, even though his work wasn’t widely known or respected at the time.

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Although forensic dentistry was fairly new at the time, it had just been key to convict serial killer Ted Bundy. Homer Campbell, a dental expert, took a look at the autopsy photos and noticed bite marks on Karla’s body that had been so far overlooked. Time passed and Karla’s case grew cold, but the investigators refused to give up and once Don Weber was appointed state’s attorney in the county, he reopened the case. Two witnesses saw her talking to a man outside her house at around 10:45 am and a friend of Karla’s went by shortly after 11 am, but no one opened the door.

She was with her mother in law on the phone, and Karla said she had to hang up because there was someone on the door.

The last time someone spoke to her was between 10 and 11 am. The autopsy determined that Karla had died of strangulation and was dead by the time her head was placed in the water. Their accounts of the day and how long they’d been together were a little hazy, so they were polygraphed: Prante passed, Main’s was inconclusive. Both men had been drinking and smoking pot on the porch of Main’s house during June 21, but claimed they hadn’t seen anything suspicious. They also looked into Paul Main, Karla’s neighbor, and his friend John Prante. Oddly, she was wearing a thick sweater she saved for special occasions, and it wasn’t something she would have put on during summer time.Īfter Mark’s alibi was corroborated and he was cleared, police investigated several other suspects, including her stepfather and an ex boyfriend, but nothing came out of it. She had been beaten and strangled, and still had two socks tied together around her neck.

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She was naked from the waist down, her hands tied behind her back, and her head had been submerged in a barrel full of water. At around 5:30 pm of June 21, 1978, Mark arrived to the house with a friend who was helping him carry some things and found Karla dead in the basement. Karla Brown (22) was a popular, beautiful woman from Wood River, Illinois, who was brutally murdered the day after she moved in a new house with her fiancé, Mark Fair. A Brutal Crime with an Unexpected Piece of Evidence