The Michigan State Police officially reopened the Roxanne Wood case in March 2001.

The 5th District Cold Case team assembled to investigate the case from scratch

was staffed by Detective Sergeant Fabian Suarez, Trooper Investigator Rob Davis,

Trooper investigator Steve Barker, and Trooper investigator Chuck Christensen,

all from the Michigan State Police. They were soon joined by Trooper Investigator Chuck Christensen, all from the Michigan State Police.

They were soon joined by Trooper Willie Thompson.

As I said, the reinvestigation started from scratch.

An article about the 2001 reopening of the case quotes the MSP 5th District Detective Bureau Chief

Lieutenant John Slank as saying, quote,

this case can most definitely be solved, end quote.

In May 2001, several items of physical evidence were sent to the Michigan State Police

Crime Lab for analysis.

Layton prints lifted from the house were searched in Aphus with negative results,

and police set about interviewing over 200 people in their quest to close this case once and for all.

The things that they were doing in 2001 are interesting. For example, they had all the drawings and

measurements made at the crime scene by the original investigators in 1987.

They turned all these over to a crime scene reconstructionist to generate a digital computer generated to scale image of the residents. Trooper Davis obtained a list from the tax assessor's

office of all the residents of the Gateway subdivision in 1987 and set out to interview as many as possible.

They re-examined the crime scene photos and came upon a photo of a boot print on the apron, which was near the back door.

The lab had examined the photo at the time of the original incident and reported that the photo lacked sufficient detail for comparison.

Truber Davis scanned it onto a disc and sent it to the FBI lab shoe print tread unit

for comparison against their database. On May 14th, he received a response back from the FBI

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