Bad Girls by M. William Phelps Read Free Book Online

and foremost beyond the most obvious clues. Those electronic gadgets and machines can tell a lot about a person and the final movements of their lives, and often leave behind a trail to follow.
    Boetz first focused on several photos of females he found on the computer. After studying them closely and going back into the bedroom where the murder had occurred, he saw that there might be a connection.
    The corners of the photos that were torn off the walls inside the suspected murder room displayed partial images that seemed to match the corners of the photos on the computer. The setting was certainly the same. The context of each photo taken from the wall matched some of the photos of several girls on the computer.
    “It was obvious,” Boetz said. And the more he studied this, “[I] realized the pictures were of the same people.”
    They had faces now to those missing pictures ripped from the walls in the bedroom. And yet, was it significant, or just another dead end? Did the person who killed Bob Dow remove the pictures? Were they photos of the murderer? There could be, after all, a simple explanation to the missing photos, or a thousand different reasons why they had been ripped off the wall.
    “These [images on the computer] were certainly people of interest that we wanted to find and interview,” Boetz said.
    In the photos that Boetz found on the PC in the living room, most of the girls were young. They were partying in a lot of the shots. What was also clear was that they were willing participants. It looked as though they were having fun mucking around, kissing each other, and kissing an older man, who appeared to be partying with them.
    Bob Dow?
    It was.
    There was booze and weed and harder drugs being used in the photos. One photo depicted one female having oral sex with another female, one of her breasts exposed. Boetz couldn’t really make out the faces. Digging deeper into the computer, Boetz discovered girls who appeared to range in age from their young teens (minors) to adults in their forties, drinking alcohol, popping pills, smoking weed, meth, and even crack cocaine. As he searched deeper into the PC, he uncovered videos. Shocking, raunchy videos. Triple X. Lots of the girls were having sex and showing off their naked bodies. Some were giving oral sex to an older man and to each other. There were mock snuff films of girls pretending to kill one another with knives and guns. Some were extremely graphic. Some were tame. Others were obviously made under drunken circumstances, which the parties involved would probably like to forget. Still, the films were certainly made inside the house, with what appeared to be a dozen or more different girls—some of whom seemed to be underage.
    In total, Boetz and the MWPD would uncover some six hundred photos and videotapes of young girls and women doing all sorts of Girls Gone Wild antics, including illegal things—some sexual, some not. A number that later came out was in the thousands. Clear throughout was that only one man showed up in the photos and videos and appeared to be behind the camera most of the time, directing the girls.
    Bob Dow.
    “He was the one filming, and he was the one calling the shots,” said a law enforcement source. “He was the man behind the camera and sometimes not just behind the camera.”
    Best thing here for Brian Boetz was to get all of these photos and videotapes tagged and bagged. Then Boetz needed to head over to the MWPD and see how McAllester was making out with the Cruzes. Maybe begin there. Get some of these photos (the more respectable ones, anyway) out into the community and start asking around to see if anyone knew the girls. The Cruzes had led the MWPD to the crime scene. There was a good chance Kathy Cruz and her husband knew a lot more—and maybe even knew some of the girls in the photos.

CHAPTER 6
    S HE STOOD WITH her arms by her side. She wore a black tank top. A tattoo of a sad sun dotted the side of her bicep, a way