John Adams
December 27, 1995
Metarie, Louisiana

Times-Picayune
New Orleans, La.
Author: JOE DARBY West Bank bureau
Date: Aug 21, 1997
Section: METRO
Text Word Count: 377

"A fingerprint of murder defendant Elbert Ratcliff was found on a business
card inside the taxi of a Jefferson Parish cabdriver killed two years ago, 
a jury heard Wednesday.

Jefferson Parish sheriff's Sgt. Patricia Lusk testified that she found 20
cards on the driver's side floorboard of John Adams' King Cab and that one
of those cards had Ratcliff's fingerprint on it. She said she recovered 
the cards after the cab was towed to the detective bureau garage the day of 
the killing. Another business card found on the ground by detectives at the
murder scene also had Ratcliff's fingerprint, Lusk said.

Adams was found shot to death in his taxi two days after Christmas 1995 in
the 700 block of Calhoun Street in Metairie. Dr. Fraser McKenzie of the
coroner's office said Adams, 34, had been shot once in the back of the 
head and died instantly.....

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December 27, 1995
John Adams (Age 34)
Shot to death
King Cab Co.
700 block of Calhoun Street, Metairie, LA. (Jefferson Parish)

Summary information courtesy of:
Nancy Burris
Head Librarian
The Times-Picayune LLC
June 18, 2007

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