transmitter, because Jayne had traded it in for another car. According to Jayne, his door bell rang and when he asked who was there, he was shot at through the door. He returned fire and saw Michelle, who he did not recognise, crawl away leaving a bloody trail on the lawn. Jayne grabbed additional guns and followed Michelle shooting him to death. Michelle was shot nine times with three different weapons: an M1 carbine and .22- and .38-calibre pistols. The shooting was ruled to be self-defence and no charges were brought against Jayne. Jayne boasted of crushing Michelle's testicles using vise-grip pliers. When investigators tried to verify this claim, they discovered that the coroner's report and medical records had gone missing. Murder of George Jayne On October 28, 1970, George Jayne was fatally shot in the heart through a basement window in his Inverness home while playing cards with family on his son, George Jr.'s, sixteenth birthday. Investigation A neighbour boy identified the get away car as red and white with a license plate beginning 936. Melvin Adams, a 37-year-old dishwasher from Posen, Illinois, became a suspect when he was spotted driving a red-and-white Ford with a license number beginning 936. When questioned Adams was found to be carrying $10,000 in cash. Seventeen of the bills in Adams possession were found to have Silas Jayne's fingerprints. In order to keep Jayne from fleeing while the investigation continued, agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided Jayne's home at Our Day Farm confiscating eighteen weapons. Jayne was charged with illegal possession of firearms by a felon, the rape he was convicted of at age 17 being a felony. When arraigned, Jayne was required to surrender his passport. In May 1971 George Jayne's widow, Marion, accompanied by Illinois State Police investigator David Hamm, offered $25,000 in cash to Melvin Adams as a reward for information. Adams told them that Julius Barnes was the shooter. He also told where the murder weapon was hidden and where Barnes could be found. Rather than take the $25,000 reward, Adams accepted an offer of immunity from prosecution. Barnes' fingerprints were on the murder weapon and he also decided to cooperate with authorities. Adams and Barnes said that Edwin Nefeld, the chief of detectives at the Markham, Illinois police department, had been hired by Silas Jayne to assassinate George. Nefeld subcontracted the murder to Adams,