51.   Despite the accompanying fanfare, it was not the murder weapon, which to this day has never been found.

52.   Detectives are still looking for the murder weapon, Messano said.

53.   Five days of testimony ended Friday as prosecutors tried to tie the Fletchers to the murder despite a lack of witnesses, fingerprints or the murder weapon.

54.   For two weeks, police unsuccessfully scoured the neighborhood looking for the murder weapon.

55.   For example, if a gun was the murder weapon, Dietz, a skilled marksman, will use it at a firing range.

56.   Harvey said that Skyers also directed law enforcement officers last week to the gun that is suspected to be the murder weapon.

57.   He described purchasing the murder weapon through a classified newspaper advertisement.

58.   He put the clothes and the murder weapon inside a plastic container in his car.

59.   He said investigators had not found a murder weapon.

60.   He dropped a bundle containing the murder weapon.