Nature's Evidence: Changing The Lives Of Kevin And Sue Neal

One summer day changed the lives of Kevin and Sue Neal forever when Kevin reported the vanishing of his stepchildren, beginning the case entitled Nature’s Evidence. Kevin called 911 on July 9th at 1:52 in the afternoon to report that his two stepchildren disappeared under his watch. A month later, a neighbor, whose yard linked to the cemetery, smelled and found their decomposing bodies in the back of his yard, which leads investigators to wonder one important question: who murdered these children? Prosecutors immediately turn to Kevin, a man who already had violence in his background, because not only were the children supposed to be under his watch during the day, but various pieces of crucial evidence link the murder to that day and his property.

One was Kentucky bluegrass, which was a local plant in the area. Although it was a common plant that did not provide evidence as to where the blanket had been, it does show that the blanket was outside. However, the second was for a type of weed that grows in unkept places that happened to be found in the cemetery where the dead children were found. It appears that Kevin wrapped the children’s bodies in the blanket in order to transport them to the back of his neighbor’s yard, where there is a cemetery. Also, there were none of these seeds or plants found on Kevin’s property, so the only way the blanket could have those seeds on it is if it was in another area where those plants are typically found. The cemetery where the children were buried is the conclusion for where these seeds came from, which links Kevin to the murder of his stepchildren. Therefore, based on the seeds on the blanket found in Kevin’s house, Kevin is the murderer in this

Based on their results, the bodies would have started decomposing as late as the beginning of August, which was when Kevin was in jail for an unrelated crime. The bugs were in an earlier stage of their life as they were only 40% of the length of a mature black soldier fly, since the larvae were eight to twelve millimeters long and a mature fly’s larvae are twenty-five to thirty-two millimeters long. This difference in millimeters takes about a month to grow, which would push the day of the start of decomposition to the beginning of August. Although it is unclear which entomologist is correct, the defense’s evidence does not make sense in the scheme of the case. If the children were not killed until August, then there would have been no reason for Kevin to call the police on July 9th because the kids would still be in his care. Additionally, if they really did vanish, Kevin should have been more involved in searching for his stepchildren. He claimed to have searched for them by calling their names, but when the police asked the neighbors, none of them heard him calling for the kids. If the kids were killed in August, Kevin had not been seen searching for them during the month between their vanishing and their death, which makes him seem as a parent who does not really care about his children. As a result, Kevin is probably the murderer of his two stepchildren because