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Frye and Ficke went from the hospital to 75 Temple Grove.  They were joined by Jenkins and two evidence technicians, and the party searched the house for two hours or more.

In the bath of the master bedroom they found a Holiday Inn towel with reddish stains, suspected to be blood.

In a nightstand drawer they found twenty-four live .38 cartridges, twelve each of Remington and Winchester.

In the garage they found a damp hand towel.

They spent considerable time examining the Dunaway Oldsmobile parked in the garage.  Frye found reddish smears, suspected blood, on the front of the driver's headrest.  He found blood-like smears on the interior door handle, driver's side.  Later the car was towed to the 33rd Street station, where it was examined again.  Technicians found a tissue paper with a blood-like stain crumpled under the driver's seat.

Detectives questioned Dunaway.  He had not bled in his car, he said; he had no explanation for the stains.  They had not been there on Christmas Eve, when he exchanged cars with Tommy Zeigler.

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Dr. Guillermo Ruiz began to autopsy the bodies at 7:00 A.M. on Christmas Day.

The first body was that of Virginia Edwards.  She was five feet nine, 147 pounds.  Ruiz traced the path of the bullet that had passed through her right arm, then penetrated her chest, one lung, the liver, and stomach.  He recovered the .38 caliber slug nearly intact from under the skin on the left side of her torso.

The second shot, the killing bullet to her head, was in three fragments in her brain.  Dr. Ruiz noted powder tattooing around a bullet wound in a finger of her right hand, and surmised that she had been shot at close range while holding her hand to her head.

Eunice Zeigler, five feet six and 114 pounds, had died from the gunshot behind her left ear.  Ruiz recovered the bullet in two pieces. He found no other injuries.

Perry Edwards, who apparently had struggled so bravely at the back of the store, was five feet ten, 150 pounds.  He had been shot five times.  There were through-and-through wounds—that is, from bullets that had exited the body-in his right ear, his right shoulder, and his left shoulder.  Ruiz recovered two .38 caliber slugs from his brain, the close-range shots that had killed him.