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blood-coated carpet. The bottom of the carpet was saturated with blood, too. Between the carpet and baseboard, they found four lead pellets, shotgun shell BBs. Hill collected them.
    Gage came back in and searched the wall. He noticed what appeared to be painted-over BB holes. It looked as though more shotgun pellets were embedded there.
    Mancias aimed his knife at the drywall. He bore out a triangular-shaped piece and handed it to Hill for collection.
    He then left for TCSO headquarters—he had a meeting. Gage’s thick Texas accent was becoming thicker with exhaustion. Friday had turned into a long beginning of a Saturday.
    From the dining room floor, Hill collected a hatchet and knife in a leather case. In the dining room closet, she and Day found and tagged a white-colored U.S. Navy cap with “Hatton 9153” written on it, just like the sleeping bag recovered days before; a red cassette-tape holder, also with “Hatton 9153” written on it; a Winchester model 1300 box; and one small blue dot—like those found near the fire ring at Pace Bend Park.
    From the kitchen, rubber gloves with blood on them, trash cans, a Coke bottle, a cleaning rag, and an Oshman’s Sporting Goods receipt were collected. The Oshman’s receipt was for a shotgun. There were also letters to Will Busenburg from an attorney representing Oshman’s demanding payment for the gun.
    Hill collected a sales ticket for a $19.99 skull mask; stained paper towels; a flashlight; Coke cans; and a butter knife with paint on it. The knife lay in the sink.
    She and Day tagged a three-quarters empty can of glossy white Rustoleum paint, a steel wool pad, the three-liter Dr Pepper bottle that had a white paint fingerprint on it, an Ivory soap bottle, a container of Copenhagen tobacco, a roll of duct tape, and an empty vacuum cleaner bag.
    A honing stone with honing oil for sharpening a knife was also tagged.
    In one bathroom, they collected a rug with stains, a small burgundy towel, and a cigarette butt from a trash can. She took two swabs for blood from the sink.
    From the master bedroom, she and Day photographed and tagged the shotgun boxes and a green table box containing photographs. Also in that room was a plastic Halloween sickle, like the one carried by the Grim Reaper.
    In the master bath, Hill and Day photographed and collected a blue-striped shower curtain and swabbed for blood on the side, back, bottom, and caulking of the tub.
    Then they moved into the murder scene bedroom. They took close-up photographs of the blood, which dripped from the headboard. They photographed and collected the paint-covered folding chair. From a nightstand, they took a can of Lysol, a can of Woolite upholstery cleaner, and a bottle of All detergent.
    From the drawer of the nightstand, they tagged a green address book, one empty 12-gauge shotgun shell, and an insurance packet containing a doctor’s receipt. Also in that nightstand was a military photograph. Paperback books, including a book of poetry, were scattered throughout. A poster was on the bedroom door. There was a plastic milk carton full of change.
    Near the nightstand stood a white bucket filled with milky-looking water, a red scrub brush, a red-handled paintbrush, and a blue-handled paintbrush. They collected it all.
    They bagged bone fragments from the headboard and the floor, Krylon paint from the dresser, men’s black Hanes underwear from the dresser drawer, and two Round Rock High School annuals on the floor near the dresser. Photographs of Hatton and Busenburg were in the annuals.
    They took the headboard with blood on it and a portion of the brown metal bed rail. Gage broke them down to be removed.
    A red Hoover vacuum cleaner sat in the closet. Still plugged into an outlet just outside the closet, it was stuffed beneath a high school letterman’s jacket and crammed next to a fishing pole. Hill disconnected the vacuum’s hose and found it to be filled with bone fragments and dried blood. She could see how