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An Oklahoma state representative has called for an investigation into the practices of the Oklahoma County District Attorney ’s office following…

Richard Glossip faces a December execution date as Oklahoma lawmakers call attention to new evidence of prosecutorial misconduct in his case.

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Yeah, there wasnt a whole lot of movement with the jacket. if youre sitting in the rear seat of a car and you never move, thats where the transfer would be. >> finally, in the national park near where stephanie dittricks body was found, investigators discovered remnants of a campfire. some of stephanies personal items were strewn in the grass along with a plastic shopping bag. >> there was a shopping bag from a local grocery store and once it was submitted to the washington state patrol crime la...

With a search warrant, investigators found metal shavings on ackleys jeans, in his car and in his workplace. when tested with energy dispersive x-ray spectronomy, scientists discovered that the shavings from gary ackley were the same as those found on both murder victims. but ackleys lawyer said this proved nothing. they claimed it shouldnt be surprising the metal shavings were the same because ackley knew both victims and could have transferred those particles weeks earlier. so investigators tu...

>> he said if she interveered any longer, he would kill her. >> she left the house they rented making statements like, im not going to put up with with this and i dont know why youre putting up with this either, to her daughter. >> ackleys brand of cigarettes was another interesting coincidence. >> when he bought cigarettes, he bought the cheapest cigarettes he could get his hands on. those were basic, b-a-s-i-c, brand cigarettes. that was the kind of cigarette butts located in the toilet of arl...

Killed her mother. so after his conviction, she cemented their common-law relationship by formally marrying him in a prison ceremony. >> i dont know. ive tried to understand that before and all i can make of it is domestic violence in its severest form. the brainwashing, the abuse that just makes that person just not even think for themselves because its so plain to see. you know. >> two murders, seemingly unrelated, but unmistakably connected by a series of microscopic clues. >> detectives all ...

Then he hid the blood-stained sheets with the comforter. the trace evidence shows he put arlenes body into the back seat of his car, creating the fiber cross-transfer. ackley dumped her body a mile away in a field near the railroad tracks unaware he left more metal shavings there. he also left another calling card. an empty pack of his favorite brand of cigarettes, the same brand he left in his mother-in-laws bathroom. but what was the motive for stephanie dittricks murder? >> by all accounts ga...

>> while they didnt know his last name, they knew his name was gary. they knew that he bragged about being a drummer in a rock band. >> stephanies family identified the man as her oldest and dearest friend, gary ackley. when interviewed by police, ackley recalled he was at the party but wasnt there specifically to be with stephanie. >> one of the things he told us was he had gone there to locate somebody else, had seen stephanie, so stopped to talk. the witnesses said it seemed a little bit more...

Prosecutors believe ackley killed his childhood friend in order to silence her, burying her body in a shallow grave. again, leaving the tell-tale metal fragments behind. when he disposed of stephanies personal items, he left his fingerprint on the shopping bag. >> i dont think theres anything i could say that would bother him because someone that can kill their girlfriends mom and their kids grandma is untouchable emotionally. so i wouldnt even try. >> a year after the crimes, gary ackley was co...