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There was no way anyone could know for sure what the water flow and depth were on the day leslie died. >> if someone measured the actual stream flow of cottonwood creek within days or a week of the incident it would have been informative. >> reporter: and several new defense witnesses took the stand. there was a biomechanical engineer whod examined the mannequin used in this test. >> well, frankly, i mean, its not even right to call it testing. >> reporter: according to the defenses new expert, ...

Mothers body did after she died. >> reporter: the defense called its own forensic expert -- veteran pathologist werner spitz. he testified there were some injuries. bruising on her hand, and an apparent small skull fracture that no one else had highlighted. >> if you look carefully at this, you will see that there is an area here that is not like it should be. >> reporter: after looking at the medical examiners report and leslies x-rays, dr. spitz said there was no evidence this was a homicide. ...

Streamline the second trial as much as possible and focus in on the critical points of the case. >> reporter: but fred mueller also changed things up in this trial. he hired a new powerhouse attorney, pamela mackey, who had a roster of high-profile clients, like kobe bryant. >> what the prosecution asks you to believe is that fred mueller went from this to a homicidal maniac within seconds. >> reporter: freds new lawyer argued that the states case was beyond flimsy. >> their theory that because ...

Their theories, but did they have a case? fred went home to texas, where his family thought would be the end of it. >> his entire philosophy through all of this was it was an accident, im telling the truth. >> and he wanted to cooperate. he wanted to help them see that. >> reporter: but investigators hadnt seen that. not at all. and if fred couldnt answer their questions, theyd head back to cottonwood creek and hope that the water could. >> coming up -- fred has always said that water carried le...

Also surprised by the lack of injuries to her body. >> did you observe any injuries to mrs. mueller that were consistent with breaking a fall? >> no, i did not. >> did you observe any consistent with falling on her head and shoulders off a cliff onto granite as described to you? >> no. >> reporter: and whats more, investigators found no forensic evidence that leslie ever hit that rock. >> there was no fibers on this rock. there was no blood on this rock. there was no hair on this rock. >> report...

He had no life insurance policy out on her that he was trying to collect. what is the motive? >> fred was telling people, one being an employee of his, another being a close friend, that in fact the marriage had grown stale. that it was the same old same old between he and leslie, and that he did have a wandering eye. >> reporter: and according to the prosecution, his eye had wandered here. >> we were very good friends. >> reporter: jeannie barnes, freds former assistant, testified that fred cal...

Of those tests, pointing out, in one, how the female stand-in wasnt swept downstream and in another the mannequin wasnt washed over the waterfall and eventually sank to the bottom. >> are you seeing any sliding of the mannequin into the water? >> no. >> any washing or oozing? >> no. >> reporter: the prosecutions drowning expert was blunt. to her, freds story was pure fiction. >> the water, theres nothing in that environment water-wise that could have gotten her to that spot. a human being had to...

Applause. 0k, spen, i have a question. how long is it going to be before you are jet packing around the place like jet pack richard? uh, lets try never? seriously, you need really good core strength and really strong arms as well to stop the jets from throwing you around like this. ill tell you what, though, richard gave me two challenge coins for being a good learner, and getting just slightly off the ground, so thats something. 0h, spencer, thats brilliant! now, i have something else exciting ...

You are learning about lateral stability and rotation, but it will still shove you around a bit, but once you get your weight over the top of it, youll notice that it is really not very much. right. i mean, its really scary ‘cause i can feel the power and i can feel the heat all around me. the diesel fuel lasts for up to ten minutes. all of which, for me, will be spent at most a few centimetres off the ground. what the helljust happened?! that was honestly really good. that was incredible! tha...

The main application, richard thinks, is in entertainment — imagine seeing jet pack races across lakes, for example. but in september 2020, richard joined the great north air ambulance service to show how paramedics might quickly get to casualties in the rough terrain of the lake district. the great north air ambulance reached out and said that there appears, according to their analysis, to be a large cluster of cases where if they could move very quickly out of a vehicle with this, that would...