After a scuffle, the child died. He had a gunshot wound to the head. The case was made famous by the fact that it was believed to be a crime of passion, even though no one actually saw what happened inside the house. A gun was found near the body of the child with a bullet in the chamber and another in the magazine. This proved that someone else could have shot the child after he or she entered the house through an open door. There were several other curious facts about this case. For example, police searched the home of the suspect, Jerry Curly Day, but they never found any evidence of money being stolen from the house. Also, there were two different sets of footprints at the scene of the crime, which led police to believe that someone else may have been involved in the murder. Day was arrested for the murder of his son after police discovered that he had a record of previous crimes. They also found out that he had been fired from his job a few days before the incident. During his interrogation, he reportedly kept saying that he didn't do it, but gave no reason as to why he should not be charged with murder.