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Investigators found five other drops of blood at the scene perfectly round in between darrells body and the door. >> i said, why not lets just test these five particular drops of blood that we know or we feel like didnt come from darrell north. >> tests confirmed the blood was not darrell norths. there was only one question that remained. who left the blood? one of the two suspects or someone else? [male vo] inside this bag is 150 years of swedish experience in perfecting the rich, never bitter ...

With pope about his boots, they noticed something they hadnt seen before. some bruising under his eye. >> there was no cut, but it was a slight bruising. >> a background check revealed popes business was faltering. >> he had a reputation of just not being very good at what he did, as far as the construction of the swimming pools. >> popes business records indicated he was deeply in debt, wasnt able to pay his suppliers, and the only big client he had left was darrell north. if darrell fired pope...

Please, you know, spend your time looking for the person that did. >> pope was distraught over darrells murder. >> he came through the receiving line crying, and i thought he was so touched by darrells death. and he said, i loved darrell. he was better to me than my own father. >> pope was 40 years old, married, with a young daughter. he did, however, have a police record consisting of arrests for petty theft. since he was the last known person to see darrell alive, he was automatically consider...

He wanted to be a big shot in the worst way, you know. he wanted to own divas when he walked in there. and he is just a small little man and perhaps the most incompetent killer that bucks countys ever seen. up next, a violent thunderstorm provides cover for a brutal murder. >> an absolutely brutal crime scene. >> obviously, this was a case of an overkill. >> there are plenty of suspects with clear motives, but they all pass polygraph tests. >> its not 100% reliable. >> if investigators didnt f...

Construction site early on the day of the murder because of the severe rainstorm. she said darrell stayed behind to meet with a contractor named curtis pope. >> curtis pope was a pool contractor. darrell was basically mentoring curtis into the construction business. he stayed approximately 20, 25 minutes. he left darrell, darrell said he was going to wait out the rain, and let the traffic die down before he headed home. >> darrells wife told police, curtis pope could not be the killer. >> curtis...

So we frequent see not just a few wounds, but many, and all indicative of rage that is going on between the two involved in the assault, the victim and the assailant. >> a machete missing from his office was believed to be one of the murder weapons. the other was believed to be a knife. >> a blunt agent. we can predict that it was a larger knife, some of the wounds were at least an inch, inch and a half in width on the body surface. >> the family tried to help investigators by identifying anyone...

Darrell with a knife. darrell was caught off guard, and struck pope in the face with a paper punch, causing the nosebleed. pope stabbed darrell over 40 times. as he lay dying on the floor, a drop of blood from popes nose fell on to darrells pants. >> theres no way he could have explained the way how his blood was dripped on to darrell norths pants. >> we knew we had eliminated any possible innocent explanation for his blood being at the scene, and we felt like we had him. >> curtis pope was arre...

>> pope was distraught over darrells murder. >> he came through the receiving line, crying, and i thought he was so touched by darrells death, and he said, i loved darrell. he was better to me than my own father. >> pope was 40 years old, married, with a young daughter. he did, however, have a police record consisting of arrests for petty theft. since he was the last known person to see darrell alive, he was automatically considered a suspect. pope agreed to take a polygraph examination. and pas...

Noticed something they hadnt seen before. some bruising under his eye. >> there was no cut, but it was a slight bruising. >> a background check revealed popes business was faltering. >> he had a reputation of just not being very good at what he did as far as the construction of the swimming pools. >> popes business records indicated he was deeply in debt, wasnt able to pay his suppliers, and the only big client he had left was darrell north. if darrell fired pope during their meeting, it would h...

Investigators found five other drops of blood at the scene perfectly round in between darrells body and the door. >> i said, why not lets just test these five particular drops of blood that we know are -- we feel like didnt come from darrell north. >> tests confirmed, the blood was not darrell norths. there was only one question that remained, who left the blood? one of the two suspects or someone else?