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Police detail in ves tiga tionCox News ServiceORANGE — Detective P.A. Pullen of the Orange Police Department testified Monday in the capital murder trial of Robert King Conway concerning his care of evidence and its delivery to two crime labs.Pullen said he accompanied Detective Chris Olsen to the Conway residence Dec. 23 and had observed that Conway’s right hand was extremely swollen. He told jurors how he had received evidence including a shirt from Conway that had five buttons missing.The shirt along with other evidence was placed in bags and secured at the Orange Police Department. He said that on Dec. 31, J.C. Butler handed over $972 recovered from Alen LaFleur which had an unknown substance and a substance believed to be blood on it.The bills stained with substantial amounts of blood were sent to Houston for examination. Various other items including broken glass and a button found in the inner office of Hoke’s Exxonwere also sent to Houston. Several items including a telephone receiver, remote telephone and phone cord were also sent to an Austin crime lab that specializes in fingerprint identification.During testimony last Thursday and Friday, employees at Hoke’s Exxon testified to the circumstances leading up to their discovery of the murder scene early Dec. 23.A number of officers from the Orange Police Department also testified, describing the grisly scene that night with service station owner William Hoke’s body found locked inside an inner office where he had been beaten and strangled.Detective Kris Olson testified that during an autopsy, it was discovered Hoke had been strangled by a wire placed around his neck and fastened with two nails. When police first discovered the body, there was a telephone cord wrapped around the victim’s neck.
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Port Arthur News
Port Arthur, Texas, US
Tue, Jul 22, 1986
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