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with a hard bed cover in the area at the time, and others reported having heard shots. Most of those who saw the black truck had been able to give a description of its occupants, a large gray-haired man and a smaller woman with brown hair. Some reported the two seemed to be fighting, and had seen the man hit the woman. Others reported that it looked as though the woman’s face was red and she was crying.
    Three of the officers conducted a roadblock on the morning of April 8 at the intersection of County Road 182 and County Road 941 in an effort to contact more possible witnesses. While there, one of the men, David Storey, noticed a garbage collection can sitting nearby with a bag protruding from it. Storey saw a paper sticking out of the bag with the name Roberts on it, and he and the other officers decided to check the bag in case it contained more evidence. A stained brown straw purse was inside, along with a pair of blue jeans and some paper towels that appeared to be bloodstained. They also found some blue masking tape with tan paint and what they believed to be bloodstains on it, with some hair stuck to it.
    Those items, as it turned out, had no value to the investigation, since they had come from Vernon Roberts’s home improvement projects on the day of the murder, but another item inside the bag did prove to be useful. It was the hangtag from a brown Rosetti viscose tote, a new purse Darlene had recently bought and had been carrying on the day of her murder. The straw purse found in the garbage can had evidently been discarded in favor of the new one that Darlene had bought during a shopping trip with Heidi a few days previously. Since the new Rosetti purse had not been recovered at the scene, officers now had a good description of exactly what kind of purse they needed to be looking for.
    Later on the morning of April 8, the investigators at the scene decided to try to search for the murder weapon in the murky pond. They thought it might have been thrown in there after the shooting. It would require some special equipment, which was requested and was soon en route. While the officers waited for it to arrive, a partial pair of eyeglasses was spotted, almost completely hidden in the weeds and grass. The left arm, lens, and nosepiece of the glasses were collected by Investigator Mark Hicks and were turned over to the ABI for testing. This would soon prove to be the most important piece of evidence that would be found at the scene, and it provided the investigators with the break they needed to move forward very quickly with the case from that point. But until the analysis of the glasses was completed, there were still very many interviews to conduct and statements to be given.
    Sheriff Wilson told the press that there were “some possibilities” for suspects in the murder, but he did not disclose any further details. The owner of the broken eyeglasses would soon be identified he knew, and then much more information on the suspects would be made public, and arrests in the case would soon follow.

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    On April 12, ABI agents Brown and Thomas arranged to meet with Darlene’s two children, Heidi Wynne Langford and Larry Benjamin “Benji” Langford, to take their statements and to get their help to develop as much background as possible on Darlene, her family and friends, and their relationships.
    On the day of his mother’s murder, Benji and his girlfriend had both slept late at their home in Taylorsville, Georgia, he said, then left that evening to go to a friend’s home in Rockmart, Georgia. Later, they went on to another friend’s house to shoot pool, and they didn’t return home until around 6:00 A.M. It was the first time Benji had stayed out all night in quite some time, he told the officers.
    As soon as they returned home early on the morning of April 7, Benji told the investigators, he saw all the calls on his answering machine and checked the caller ID. He immediately knew that something was wrong. He first