Free Blood Ambush by Sheila Johnson

called her right back within two minutes, and she sounded like she was sleeping.”
    Knight told Barbara about the card, and she gave her another MasterCard number, which processed through. The next day, Knight had to call Barbara back about what color she wanted her Transitions lenses to be.
    “She told me that she wanted to refund the frame and use her boyfriend’s black Silhouette frame, to go with gray lenses. I called her a few days later to let her know her lenses were here and she needed to pick out a new frame or bring us one to use. She said that her mom had died and that she and her boyfriend were in Texas, and said she would be back in a couple of days to get her lens order.”
    Barbara then arranged for Knight to ship the new contact lenses overnight to her in Texas.
    After taking Knight’s statement, Jolly and Thomas showed her the broken glasses that had been recovered at the crime scene. She and another employee, Danielle Lyn Anderson, positively identified them as being the same pair of eyeglasses that had earlier been made to order at the Conyers Pearle Vision for their customer Barbara Ann Roberts.

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    With a vital piece of evidence now positively placing Barbara Roberts at the scene of Darlene Roberts’s murder, the investigators quickly began the process of obtaining search warrants for the apartment of Bob Schiess in Conyers, Georgia. They had learned that Schiess and Barbara had been in Texas for Barbara’s mother’s funeral and were due to fly home on the following day, so there was no time to lose. Since the officers felt that they had ample justification to request warrants, they immediately presented affidavits and applications for a search warrant in the Magistrate Court of Rockdale County, Georgia.
    Special Agent Brian Johnston, of the GBI, prepared the paperwork after being assigned to assist SA Thomas, of the ABI, in the investigation of Darlene Roberts’s murder. In presenting his credentials as part of the warrant application, SA Johnston stated he had spent over ten years in law enforcement and had been with the GBI for over five years. He also gave Thomas’s credentials as part of the warrant, stating that the ABI special agent had been employed by the Alabama Department of Public Safety (ADPS) since 1997. Thomas, Johnston said, was currently assigned to the ABI Area II, which covered Cherokee County, Alabama, and had been involved in the murder investigation since its onset, and had provided the pertinent facts and information to justify the obtaining of the warrant.
    Johnston began by outlining the circumstances and details of the murder of Darlene Roberts, including a description of the green plastic film found wrapped around her neck and the white cotton gauze strips lying nearby at the scene. He also told of the three witnesses who had observed the black Dodge Dakota pickup, with a bed cover, in the immediate area of the crime scene, near the time of the murder, and the man and woman they had seen with the truck and had subsequently identified from photo lineups as Robert John Schiess III and Barbara Ann Roberts.
    The murder weapon, Johnston said in his warrant application, was a 12-gauge shotgun, which had not yet been recovered, and also missing was Darlene Roberts’s brown Rosetti viscose purse and her cell phone.
    The piece of broken eyeglass frame found at the scene was described, as was the phone call Barbara Roberts made on April 7 to reorder her eyeglasses from Pearle Vision in Conyers, Georgia. She told the clerk that she had broken her glasses and only had the right lens and right arm remaining. The warrant application described how SA Thomas presented the left lens, arm, and nosepiece recovered at the crime scene to the Pearle lab tech, who identified them as being the same eyeglasses that had been sold to Barbara Roberts from that store.
    The investigators, SA Johnston said, had determined that Schiess and Barbara were currently living on St. Clair Drive, Conyers,