mel speegle. >> mel speegle was now the prime suspect. sheriff walt femling ordered his deputies to seal off the perimeter and to stop the nearby garbage truck from leaving the area. >> i yelled at one of my deputies to run over there and stop him from doing what he was doing. >> sir, just leave the garbage at this truck. >> that garbage truck was one house away and almost took this evidence. >> in the trash can outside the johnsons' home was evidence more valuable than anything they found inside. ñ >>> alan and diane johnson were gunned down in the bedroom of their home in the early-morning hours. their 16-year-old daughter was in the house when the shooting occurred, but unharmed. in the garbage, police found a wealth of evidence. >> in the outside trash can, a pink bathrobe. inside that bathrobe, they found a brown leather glove, a latex glove and .25-caliber ammunition. >> this ammunition did not match the ammunition used in the murders. however, it looked like the killer threw the items in the trash before fleeing the scene. the murd