The muddy imprint left by a pair of flip-flops helped police connect the wearer to a murder.
Christopher Profet took a woman’s money and cellphone, but he left a shell casing and a footprint near a lifeless body in May 2014, Fulton County District Attorney’s Office spokesman Dontaye Carter said in a news release.
Profet was sentenced Thursday to life in prison plus five years.
LaTonya Morris-Figg wanted a new car, Carter detailed in the release. So she accompanied Profet to a Kroger and a Wal-Mart in Snellville to cash $900 in money orders.
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An hour later and 54 miles away, Morris-Figg was found dead on a dirt road in Palmetto. She had been shot twice, in the neck and the head, Carter said.
Though police interviewed Profet five days after the shooting, he was released after saying he had been with his girlfriend at the time of the murder.
Only later, after police watched the stores’ surveillance footage, did police notice the flip-flops that matched the footprint at the crime scene.
Those Nike shoes put Profet in the woods where Morris-Figg was killed, Carter said.
During the investigation, the girlfriend admitted to detectives she wasn’t with Profet at the time of the woman’s disappearance.
Profet was convicted of murder, aggravated assault, robbery and other charges.
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