reporter: the image would be seared in her mind it didn t look right she couldn t go there. i still wanted to believe it was an accident. i didn t want to think something horrible happened. reporter: but all that blood, up the walls, could it all be from a fall down the stairs? and that s precisely what was gnawing at detective holland i ve seen falls um i ve had family members fall and to me it did not look anywhere like like a fall reporter: something to him seemed off about kathleen s body position, too. her body was definitely not in the position that it would be in if she came to a final resting position after the fall. reporter: they processed the scene, photographing the stairwell, documenting the pool of blood and spray up the wall outside, drops on the walkway and a smear on the front door. in the kitchen, blood stains on a cabinet, and underneath, a drop of blood on the counter and right beside it, an opened wine bottle and two glasses. it was, you know, ver
exaggerating. when candace finally got inside, she says, michael brought her to the back staircase where it happened. my sister s blood is washed in pools up against the wall. i mean, her blood was everywhere. the image would be seared in her mind. it didn t look right. she couldn t go there. i still wanted to believe it was an accident. i didn t want to think something horrible happened. but all that blood, up the walls, could it all be from a fall down the stairs? and that s precisely what was gnawing at detective holland. i ve seen falls. um i ve had family members fall and to me it did not look anywhere like like a fall. something to him seemed off about kathleen s body position, too. her body was definitely not in the position that it would be in if she came to a final resting position after the fall. they processed the scene, photographing the stairwell, documenting the pool of blood and spray up the wall. outside, drops on the walkway and a smear on the front d
her mind. it didn t look right she couldn t go there. i still want to believe it was an accident. but all that blood up the walls, could it all be from a fall down the stairs? that s precisely what was gnawing at detective holland. i ve seen falls, i ve had family members fall. and to me, it did not look anywhere like a fall. something to him seemed off about kathleen s body position, too. her body was definitely not in a position that would be in if she came to a time resting position after the fall. they processed the scene. photographing the stairwell. documenting the pool of blood and spray up the wall. outside, drops on the walkway and a smear on the front door. in the kitchen, blood stains on a cabinet and underneath, a drop of blood on the counter and right beside it an open wine bottle and two glasses. it was very, very time consuming.
so the police kept saying, you know you may not want to go in. there s so much blood. this is really awesomely scary. reporter: the police were not exaggerating. when candace finally got inside, she says, michael brought her to the back staircase where it happened. my sister s blood is washed in pools up against the wall. i mean, her blood was everywhere. reporter: the image would be seared in her mind. it didn t look right. she couldn t go there. i still wanted to believe it was an accident. i didn t want to think something horrible happened. reporter: but all that blood, up the walls, could it all be from a fall down the stairs? and that s precisely what was gnawing at detective holland. i ve seen falls. um i ve had family members fall and to me it did not look anywhere like like a fall. reporter: something to him seemed off about kathleen s body position, too. her body was definitely not in the position that it would be in if she came to a final resting position af
not ready and then she pushed me. watch again. know won t go. 3, 2. once you say no. no. ready? [screams] yeah, you could hear the teen say she no longer wanted to jump. holderson says she doesn t remember much of the fall except she was trying to change her body position in the air. i could have died, easily in the air i was trying to push myself forward so i could be like straight up and down so that my feet hit first but that didn t really work. it didn t really hurt. hit the water face first, puncturing her lung and air bundles in her chest. people thought when she surfaced she was fine but then she started drowning. a off-duty medic swam tout rescue her. 50% of people die when you fall that high. the teen was lucky she wasn t paralyzed. she fell in the water