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Worked on the case for free. he believed lotties story was a game changer. >> now theres a logical explanation of how the hairs got there. this is one of those places where you have to shake the system and say, wait a minute. this is so obvious. he didnt get a fair trial. >> i couldnt let it go. i have a conscience. i have to live with me. >> so lottie decided to come forward. she filed affidavits with the court and in 2013, judge mary staley granted daker a hearing for a new trial. but jesse ev...

>> in his room we found a piece of paper with the address where this crime occurred. we found a torn up letter that was his words to lottie spencer. >> dakers torn up letter to lottie was hateful and threatening. prosecutor jesse evans. >> he specifically talks about having plans and backup plans to exact revenge on lottie and the worst part about the letter is he gets to the end and he says, but im going to let you live. im going to get revenge on you but im going to let you live. >> to police ...

>> if a man sleeps in a blanket, can his hair transfer to the blanket? >> yes. >> and if a man has sex in a blanket, can his hair transfer to a blanket? >> yes. >> the doctor laid the scientific foundation, but dakers chances really hinged on lottie. a hush came over the courtroom as a nervous lottie made her way to the stand and swore to tell the truth. >> just prior to karmen smiths murder, i gave her two blankets, blankets that i knew that you used in my roswell apartment. >> she acknowledged...

Reached for the right reasons. i know that we have done things the right way and i feel confident in the defendants guilt. >> the ruling included a harsh rebuke of lottie. the judge said she lacked credibility and her new testimony appeared to be concocted by the defendant but lottie seemed ready to carry on her fight. >> somebody needs to stand upsay, wait a minute, justice was not served in this case! >> on that point, lottie is not alone. dakers attorney agrees. >> circumstances of how daker ...

Charges she made against daker. >> did waseem threaten you, your life? >> no. no. >> did he threaten anyones life around new. >> no. >> are you in love with waseem daker? >> no, i never was in love with mr. daker. >> and youre not today? >> no. >> but lottie says even though she and daker were in a relationship, she still feared him and until recently genuinely believed he was a murder remember. >> i was terrified of him. that was no lie. ive had the nightmares. ive lived in that fear. >> she sa...

>> defending waseem daker was waseem daker. >> i want to point out three principles of law i want to give you. >> before he took over his own case, he had been represented by an experienced father and son team, michael and jason treadway. they were still advising him. and believe the states case was vulnerable. >> they had no case without those hairs. thats why they didnt go forward initially. they didnt have a case. and they knew it. >> their advice to daker, focus on those hairs and dont obses...

>> she had been not only tortured and murdered, but she had been undressed at some point and redressed. >> at karmens bedside, the hammer she had wanted for peace of mind. never touched as she fought for her life. not far away was the suspected murder weapon, a piece of rope. crime scene technicians dusted for fingerprints and collected blood samples. the evidence was sent to the state crime lab for analysis. >> the lab tests kept coming back without the physical evidence that we needed, that li...

Five layers of bedding and i was shocked and i started to get pretty scared at that moment because i had given karmen two blankets just before her death. >> they were blankets that lottie now says she and daker had slept in together. >> mr. daker used those blankets on a number of occasions. i mean, he was welcome in my home and we were friends and he had spent the night and clearly i knew that his dna could have been on those blankets. >> remember karmen had been found under several layers of b...

Somehow it arrives and its a hair with a root. theres real problems with that piece of evidence. >> it was a serious challenge to the states key piece of evidence, and daker once again connected the evidence to lottie spencer, a liar, he said, who had ruined his life in the most treacherous way. >> she didnt make all of these false allegations. she derailed their investigations by making all of these false allegations. >> for lottie, all of the fear and hurt from her darkest days came rushing ba...