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Article: LOCKHART TIED TO CRIME SCENE TECHNICIAN SAYS FINGERPRINTS BELONG TO MURDER SUSPECT
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- June 17, 1989
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THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION.
There were no witnesses to the violent death of Windy Gallagher Oct. 13, 1987 - just finger and palm prints in the blood-spattered bedroom of her Griffith apartment.
Sgt. James Fedorchak, a Lake County police fingerprint expert, testified Friday that those prints belonged to accused serial killer Michael L. Lockhart.
Deputy Prosecutor Thomas Vanes asked the crime laboratory veteran Friday if he was sure about the prints. Fedorchak replied, "I'd stake my life on it."
It is the first conclusive evidence placing Lockhart, 28, of Toledo, Ohio, at the murder scene and tying him to the fatal stabbing of 16-year-old Gallagher ...