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a perfect life and the perfect wife until the day he says he found her dead. valentines day! yuck >> my wife -- my wife -- i think my wife is just, debt. >> she had enemies. >> there were calls that were made to scare her. >> so imagine everyone shocked when they charged him with murder. >> he just couldnt have done it. >> sure theyve had their problems. >> there was a huge number. and im talking close to 100 phone calls to this phone number back and forth. >> but he did love her. >> i...

and im talking close to 100 phone calls to this phone number back and forth. >> but he did love her. >> i told some people at the clinic i wish i had someone that would look at me the way jon looks at susan. >> the question for the jury was didi lover to death. >> the motive was laws lost. >> hello and welcome to dateline if youre a fan of fictional courtroom dramas you might think that every criminal trial and with a bombshell. maybe its a surprise witness or an 11th hour confession. ...

Robber got the jewels. thats because he was put in the back of the police car, and never got back inside the house again. >> and finally there was the story told by blood. the medical examiner had determined that susan had been strangled with two neckties, but her fatal injuries came from being bludgeoned by a blunt object, a murder object never found. investigators had to interpret the blood evidence left behind. and for that, they hired a bloodstain expert named ross gardner. >> this was a rel...

Cord at the level of the eighth thoracic vertebral body. >> which meant she would have been partially paralyzed, and stab wounds to her pectoral muscles and her aorta led the medical examiner to conclude she was unable to write anything on the wall. >> she would not have had enough blood pressure and enough blood volume to repeatedly dip her finger in repeatedly because her fingers arent a fountain pen. her finger wasnt bleeding. so, she was already dead when those were written. >> and blood spa...

And partially severs the spinal cord at the level of the eighth thoracic vertebral body. >> which meant she would have been partially paralyzed, and stab wounds to her pectoral muscles and her aorta led the medical examiner to conclude she was unable to write anything on the wall. >> she would not have had enough blood pressure and enough blood volume to repeatedly dip her finger in repeatedly because her fingers arent a fountain pen. her finger wasnt bleeding. so, she was already dead when thos...

Karen had suffered a severe injury to her spinal column. >> one of the stab wounds goes and partially severs the spinal cord at the level of the eighth thoracic vertebral body. >> which meant she would have been partially paralyzed, and stab wounds to her pectoral muscles and her aorta led the medical examiner to conclude she was unable to write anything on the wall. >> she would not have had enough blood pressure and enough blood volume to repeatedly dip her finger in repeatedly because her fin...

>> the tbi lab did examine the rustler blue jeans in 1984 and they did determine there was some blood on there. however, as to the type of stains that were present and to the possible cause, they did not make any determination at that time. >> under a magnifying glass, crime scene reconstructionist jerry findlay found tiny drops of blood embedded in the fabric, about 1/32 of an inch in diameter. it was medium-velocity impact spatter, the kind usually produced when someone is hit with a blunt obj...

Would have just been on the top of the weave, but rather down -- driven into the weave much more consistent with impact spatter. >> the blood spatter was the same size and shape as one would expect to find after inflicting a beating with a blunt object. dna testing of this blood revealed it was cathy lambs blood. >> we had impact spatters at the scene on the wall, and we also had impact spatters on the left interior thigh area of the dark jeans of jeffrey lamb. >> this was definitive proof jeffr...

And partially severs the spinal cord at the level of the eighth thoracic vertebral body. >> which meant she would have been partially paralyzed, and stab wounds to her pectoral muscles and her aorta led the medical examiner to conclude she was unable to write anything on the wall. >> she would not have had enough blood pressure and enough blood volume to repeatedly dip her finger in repeatedly because her fingers arent a fountain pen. her finger wasnt bleeding. so, she was already dead when thos...

James examined the jeans. section by section under a stereo microscope. >> well, the dark color of the jeans certainly made it more difficult to see blood. >> but at 60 times magnification, james could see things invisible to the naked eye. deep within the fabric on the jeans left leg near the inside of the thigh, james saw tiny specs of what appeared to be blood. >> the suspected blood stains were actually down within the weave and between the weave of the fabric, which indicated to me that the...