On July 1st, 1992, the Companos were heard by neighbors arguing with each other. Chris, the husband, claimed that after arguing, the wife, Karen, left the house to allow herself to calm down a bit. That was the last time anyone saw her. Chris told reporters that they were fighting because of his reoccurring drug use, which Karen wanted to seek help for. Chris did not want her help. When she left to go to a local store, Chris left to go to a bar where he stayed until about midnight. The next morning when Karen was still not home, Chris called her work office to check if she was there. They reported that she was not, so Chris called the police to file a missing persons report. While the police were at the house, they didn’t find any signs of foul play or any of …show more content…
Under that trash bag was a large, dark brown stain. They then proceeded to use a hemostick to detect if that stain was blood or not, and it was. The officer said that he put on a pair of gloves that day and felt the stain, it was still moist. The padding underneath the carpet was soaked with blood. Forensic tests proved the blood to be human. They automatically suspected the blood belonged to Karen and felt that Chris new more than he was telling them, which he …show more content…
They decided to take measurements of what they found and reenact the scene. For example, they put an object on carpet that weighed approximately the same as a human head. Then they poured human blood around that object until the stain was the same size as the one found in the Compano home. They found that for someone of Karens size, 40% of blood loss had occurred in the bedroom, a loss that someone cannot live through. This showed that someone had in fact died in the bedroom in a pool of blood. They just needed to determine if it was