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January 9, 1964: the Oklahoma State Crime Bureau reported that blood found under Tama Hallmark's fingernails was the same type as her own. The possiblity still existed that the blood may have belonged to her attacker.
January 14, 1964: Oklahoma Crime Bureau Director Earl Goerke reported that the prime suspect (then unnamed, but later revealed to be Bert Michael Lana) had been "cleared" by a lie detector test. Since Lana would later be charged, it probably would have been more accurate to say that he had "passed" the test, as opposed to being cleared by it.
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