It was clear from the crime scene that the attacker had been injured, so detectives watched for someone with recent injuries. They also kept an eye on Benjamin's bank accounts, since it looked as if his checkbook was gone. That hunch paid off.

Bank records showed that he had visited the Riggs Bank branch on Friday, February 2, to cash a check. Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire, knowing it could not have been Benjamin, requested the bank's videotape. After they viewed it, they knew what the