Lloyd Gibson, the first officer on the crime scene. The file is indexed in dozens of thick volumes stored in the Groton Town Police Department. It includes interviews with hundreds of people, from relatives and neighbors to the pizza delivery guy who happened by the Thomas Road crime scene. Police say the killer's name is almost certainly contained somewhere inside. The state police Major Crime Squad has been assisting in the case, and Groton police spent time at FBI headquarters in Quantico, Va., in 1997 to develop a psychological profile of the killer.
Detectives continue to travel around the country pursuing leads both plausible and far-fetched.
One lead took them to South Bridgton, Maine, where Spicer had a summer home on Foster Pond. Four years before his death, Spicer had been named in a civil suit by another property owner on the pond who wanted to raise and lower water levels to provide hydroelectric power to his home. Spicer was a leading opponent. And authorities continue to investigate whether a feud involving Spicer's two sons over valuable waterfront real estate in Groton and Noank village could somehow be linked to the killing. William Spicer III, who still owns and operates the family's remaining marina in picturesque Noank, and the estate of his brother, John Spicer, who died in 1991 from a heart attack, went to court over how to divide the ownership of the two properties.