store but not that night. they said we can t go through somebody was killed. she was a young wife and mother minding the store for her husband, was it robbery? revenge? or something else? we might want to look at his relationship with his employee. years past without an arrest, but for one prosecutor this cold case was personal. that was the case that was unsolved. the clues that lovers tranquil, cash and updated lady. he said it looked like a woman in figure, a really thin guy. mystery with so many head snapping turns. it took two trials. you 18 years for justice, only to have the carpet pulled off from under you. to uncover the truth. we have a verdict. what was it the truth? and adultery is a person who has an evil thing, that does not make a murderer. i looked at him and said let s go to the comic book store and help with the party. we pulled up at the party the police stop this, i knew immediately all the crime scene tape was there and they sa
mother s couch when tragically, his wife was shot. janet george, the mother, had testified in the first trial and backed up her sons asleep on a couch story. he was on the couch. but defense attorneys altered their strategy for trial number two. ma am, do you swear from other get a read word for word of it in that transcript. i do. mom did not testify in person this time around. the defense had a stand in read jaded georgia s 2008 testimony in the record. and accounting which michael arrived at her house a little after 5 pm that. she said he was tired, so we took it up, well she took her granddaughters to a nearby playground. now, when you got back, did you observe michael at all? yes. where was he? he was on the couch, sleeping. if the jurors believe the story being recited to them, michael george could not possibly have been on his shop around 5:30 answering the phone. that s when the star prosecution witness, mike renaud, said he talk to them.
weeping for a full two minutes. but lieutenant keg crease, cold case detective who rediscover the crucial evidence, was unmoved by george s tiers. mike showed no emotion back in 1990 and now he cries. my impression of that is that mike is crying for himself, it was devastating. it was just devastating. barely able to stand, george was helped to the podium to face the judge. the same judge who had apparently been a heartbeat all way from dismissing the case altogether. the jury has found you guilty of all charges. at this time i am remanded you to the custody of the compound sheriffs department. the comic book man was now a convict.
5:30, she couldn t possibly into the phone in 5:30, correct? correct. so, if somebody into the phone at 5:30, enough to be someone other than her? correct. now, prosecutors questioned the one witness they said who could identify who answered the phone, michael renaud. mike renaud. in 1990, a decade before his disabling accident, yet he was married at a young daughter and was holding down two jobs. we also attending school? yes, i was going to whiteside. how old you do there? i graduated come loud a. the prosecution wanted the jury to regard him as both a serious person and a knowledgeable comic book collector. before july 13th, 1990, how frequently would you go to the store? at least once a week. the day of the murder, he testified, he actually stopped by comics world before work. but renaud critical story for the jury had to do with the phone call he made later in the day to the shop. he had a collectors question about a spider-man comic he
on her side or on your side? my side. late in the 90-minute interview, the conversation circled back to an earlier theme: robbery, the supposed theft of the detectives asked if anyone knew that he kept pricey books in the back storage room. that s when things got testy and george s previously passive tone becomes more direct and confrontational. then i am just trying to find out how that that individual, the suspect, would have known they were there, that s all. unless it was an inside job, or unless they weren t taken. they weren t taken, it was big insurance fraud. so you re saying i am lying now. no, no, i, no. i m just, iâm just saying that, that s a possibility, mike. you have to look at all options. so now you re saying that i lied about the books being gone. so now, so now what you re saying is i better get a lawyer. we didn t say that. yeah, you did. you just said one of the possibilities. that is a possibility. insurance. okay, stop. if you re go