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 * Official﻿﻿﻿ Document Ewes Ville County﻿ Sheriff’s Office**

= CASE SUMMARY =


 * Case Number: 00126743**
 * Compiled by Senior Detective Noonan Friday 18th December**

At 7.30 on the 11 th December 1953 the Ewes Ville Country Sheriff’s Office received a phone call from a distressed female who identified herself as Mary Maloney, the wife of Sergeant Patrick Maloney. Mrs Maloney claimed that she had arrived home from shopping at Sam’s Grocery Store, to find her husband dead on the floor of their living room. Two squad cars were sent immediately to the scene. An ambulance also attended and established that Mr Maloney was in fact, dead. Coroner Doctor Hudson was called to the scene, along with a representative from forensics.

Mary Maloney was found sitting in an arm chair, clearly deeply shocked and very upset. She claims that upon discovering the victim, she did not touch him or any other item in the room (apart from the telephone). Photographs of the crime scene were taken by forensics and the usual areas fingerprinted. Forensics have failed to find any fingerprints other than those of the victim and his wife.

Doc Hudson, inspected the body and found that the victim had received a heavy blow to the back of his head, which crushed the victim’s skull. Autopsy reports show that the victim died not from the blow, but from the resulting blood loss and swelling of the brain; the stress of which caused a cardiac arrest. It is unlikely that the victim regained consciousness after the blow and the positioning of the body, leads us to believe that the victim’s body was not moved or touched post-mortem. The doctor suggested that such a wound would have been made by a large heavy blunt object, such as a baseball bat, metal vase or such. A comprehensive search of the house, surrounding gardens and neighborhood failed to find the murder weapon.

Currently the team lead by myself has interviewed all available witnesses and corroborated all of their alibis. A door knock of the neighbourhood has failed to uncover any further leads or witnesses. An appeal in the local newspaper also failed to elicit any further useful information.

Given the facts and evidence currently available, I have drawn the following conclusions: 
 * As there is no evidence of a struggle at the scene other than a knocked over side table and lamp all of which could have occurred as the victim fell to the ground, I believe the victim knew and was comfortable with his killer.
 * Without the discovery of the murder weapon the case is unlikely to be solved.
 * It is unlikely that the murderer would have wanted to carry a large heavy object (most likely covered in blood) out of the house and around the neighborhood where he/she would attract attention. The murder weapon is therefore somewhere in the house probably right under our noses.