"He Started Wailing and Crying.''

WOBURN -- After State Trooper Patrick Moynihan the Lincoln crime scene appeared ''suspicious," he took the dead man's thumb print, ran it through a police database and what he discovered shocked law enforcement.

The fingerprints matched Stephen Rakes, a convicted felon, who only days before his July 17, 2013 murder, had been called off as a witness against convicted mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger.

Investigators would later determine there was no connection between Bulger's multiple- murder trial in federal court and Rakes' murder.

Through their probe, police charged William Camuti with Rakes' murder, claiming Camuti

Rakes' body was found at about 1:30 p.m. about 15 -feet from roadway in a wooded area on Mill Street in Lincoln.

Initially there were no obvious signs of foul play, Trooper Patrick Moynihan, of Crime Scene Services, testified at William Camuti's murder trial on Monday in Middlesex Superior Court.

But Moynihan testified he found what appeared to be drag marks from the road to where the body, which had no ID, was discovered.

Moynihan testified he found mud on the heels of Rakes' sneakers and crumped leaves were placed under Rakes' head.

With those signs, Rakes' death became a "suspicious death" instead of an "unintended death."