Double Killing Probe Turns To 7 Bullets
San Diego Union · February 12, 1964
Police homicide investigators yesterday were leaning heavily upon their only physical evidence in hopes of solving the slaying of a young Navy couple in Ocean Beach.
Seven hollow-nosed bullets may hold the key to who killed Johnny Ray Swindle, 20, and his bride, Joyce Ann, 19, of 5073 Voltaire St., the night of Feb. 5 as they strolled on a sidewalk at the foot of Narragansett Avenue near the beach.
The seven bullets cost less than 14 cents. A box of 50 shells sells for 90 cents.
They are .22-caliber long-rifle hollow-point bullets of the type commonly used by hunters. At 50 feet they would be deadly.
It is the hope of police now that modern criminal investigative methods, in the absence of the death weapon, will reveal the type and make of weapon.
Police have the help of the Federal Bureau of Investigation laboratory in Washington.
They have reached the opinion that the death weapon probably cost $50 to $60 new. The ammunition was made by the Remington-Peters Co.
Police yesterday asked Phoenix, Ariz., police to send them one of two .22-caliber shell casings found at a motel where a young couple was killed in a slaying similar to the one here.
