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Woolmer probe: Security video review nearly done

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KINGSTON, Jamaica (CNN) -- Investigators trying to determine who killed Pakistan's cricket coach have nearly finished poring over enhanced video taken from closed-circuit television cameras in the hotel where he was found, a police official said.

The images are clear enough to recognize faces, and investigators are closing in on coach Bob Woolmer's time of death, Deputy Police Commissioner Mark Shields told CNN in an Wednesday interview.

On March 18, Woolmer was found unconscious in his 12th-floor room at the Pegasus Hotel and was taken to the University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The pathologist's report said he had been strangled.

Shields said there were no visible signs of strangulation, but told reporters there could have been "very good reasons" why.

He added that, though he could not rule out the possibility that the report of strangulation was wrong, he had "great confidence" in that conclusion. He added that he had "very specific evidence" that Woolmer was murdered.

Woolmer's death came hours after Pakistan's humiliating elimination from the World Cricket Cup competition by a relatively unknown Irish team on St. Patrick's Day. Shields said earlier this week that no suspects have been identified, and there was no clear motive for the crime.

"There is lots of speculation as it relates to the motive, and we have a few ideas, but I'm not in a position to share those with you," he said in a written statement. "Nothing is ruled out."

He added that police were examining the coach's computer hard drive "in order that we can see if there is anything else to establish a motive as why someone would want to kill him."

Shields told reporters that he was constructing a timeline of events leading up to the killing.

Woolmer sent an e-mail to his wife between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., about the same time that he ordered room service.

His wife has previously said that she received an e-mail from her husband to her computer in Cape Town, South Africa, just after 8 p.m. Jamaican time.

Shields said Woolmer appears to have been killed Sunday morning, but could not narrow it down beyond that. He predicted that toxicology and histology test results, which have not been completed, would help investigators further narrow down the time of death.

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