Update Hank Johnson
On the night of July 10th, 2008, Hank Johnson was found by his girlfriend. He was severely beaten and on the floor of his hotel room, covered in his own blood. He was beaten with baseball bats, had three cracks in his skull, and a fatally cracked nose. He never regained consciousness. Hank died less than two weeks later.
One detective dug into this case, found suspects, and found the two valuable guitars missing from Johnson’s room. Those guitars were two black electric guitars: one BC Rich and one Metal Man bass guitar. However, he was told to back off and his files disappeared. He left the force.
But Hank’s mother kept digging and after begging and pleading with “police for nearly two years they finally agreed to bring in medical examiners and exhume her son’s body. In March of 2010, scrapings of possible DNA evidence from Hank Johnson’s fingernails were sent to the Texas Crime Lab. Employees at the crime lab declined to speak with News 3 about Hank’s case. According to his mother, back in May, the evidence was entered into CODIS, a computer software program that operates local and national databases of DNA profiles from convicted offenders.”
Click here for more including a video clip. In the clip, you can hear a DA promising a detective hell if he does not back off from the case!
To be continued…
Categories: Cold Case News, Forensics, Unsolved
Tags: Autopsy, Crime Labs, Crime Scene, DNA, DNA Database, Evidence, Finger Printing, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Partial Finger Printing, Police, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Texas, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, Witnesses