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Testimony describes Internet searches
10 December 2004Investigators traced Thomas E. Murray's electronic footprints on the Internet to myriad sites about murder and poisons, a police specialist testified Thursday.
Murray, charged with killing his former wife at her home near Lawrence last year, searched for topics such as “The best way to murder someone” and “How to poison someone,” according to testimony in his preliminary hearing in Douglas County District Court.
He told a friend that he had been searching for ideas for writing scripts for a crime-related television show, according to earlier testimony.
Testimony could conclude today with the playing of a lengthy video statement Murray gave to detectives. District Judge Robert Fairchild would then decide whether prosecutors have presented enough evidence for the case to proceed to trial.
Murray, 48, a professor of linguistics at Kansas State University who has been suspended from his job, is charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing and beating of Carmin Ross-Murray on Nov. 13, 2003.
The couple had divorced in June of that year but was in a dispute over custody of their daughter, who was 4, according to previous testimony in the hearing that began Monday.
Lawrence Police Detective Dean Brown testified Thursday that he examined a computer taken from Murray's university office.
On Oct. 8, 2003, searches were conducted from Murray's office computer for “How to murder someone and not get caught” and “Extradition and the United States,” Brown said.
On Oct. 17, searches were made for “colorless and odorless poisons,” Brown said.
Searches were conducted on Oct. 22 for “Murder for hire,” “How to hire an assassin,” and “How to make a bomb,” he testified.
Three days before the killing, Brown found that Murray's computer was used to search for topics relating to a script from the television show that Murray had mentioned to a friend.
Brown testified that on Nov. 12, the day before Ross-Murray died, Murray's computer was used to search for information about highway exits between Topeka and Kansas City and U.S. 40.
The detective also noted that Murray's office computer, and another at home, showed no user-initiated activity the day Ross-Murray was slain.
In other testimony Thursday, a Riley County police officer described surveillance of Murray's house on Nov. 14 before police notified Murray that his former wife was dead.
The officer said that a handful of times during the hour that the officer watched the house, Murray appeared to be walking back and forth and occasionally peered out the windows.
To reach Tony Rizzo, call
(816) 234-7713 or send e-mail to trizzo@kcstar.com.
Source: Kansas City Star
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