Richard Crafts Case Study

Although Helle's husband, Richard, was originally a potential suspect, why did police keep looking for her?

• she called her husband

• he passed a lie detector test

• her body was found

• she called the police

What brought police attention back to Richard as a suspect?

• he bought a new freezer the week before Helle's disappearance

• he rented a wood chipper a few days before Helle's return home

• he was cheating on his wife

• he confessed

Police found more than 50 pieces of human bone and several ounces of human tissue. What ultimately lead to the identification of the body?

• a finger bone

• strands of hair

• a tooth cap

• DNA from the tissue

What did police find in the river?

• a chainsaw with the serial number filed off

• a hacksaw with bone fragments lodged in it

• a ban saw with the serial number filed off

• a chainsaw with bone fragments lodged in it

How did Richard kill his wife?

• with a knife

• with a blunt object

• with a gun

• with a chainsaw

What was Richard Crafts' sentence?

• life in prison

• death penalty

• 50 years

• he was acquitted

Connecticut history to secure a murder conviction without a________

• corpse

• Weapon

• Car

• Wood chipper

Crafts went to the police saying his wife had gone away after an argument and never returned, prompting him to file a missing persons report. But friends of the missing woman alerted investigators that she planned to divorce her husband and had said she was____________

• afraid for her life

• Having a affair

• Leaving to never return

• Going to Disney World!

At 4 AM strangest thing was that Richard Crafts was frantically operating a huge ___________ at the height of a major snowstorm.

• Chainsaw

• Woodchipper

• Crain

• Truck

During the same frenzied period, Richard Crafts had also gotten a new truck, picked up a large commercial_____________, using an alias, and traveled outside his immediate area to purchase several other noteworthy items such as rubber gloves and a flathead shovel.

• Freezer

• Ice cream maker

• Airline