poisoning. cleaned out the bank account. are you trying to accuse me of something? a brother determined to find a killer. how dare anybody do that to my little brother? it wasn t supposed to happen like this. a toxic mystery and an emotional trial. is the jury being out long a bad thing or a good thing? it was a mystery from day one. from that time, right around the end of the hockey season. it made sense of what was happening to matthew podolak, matt the hockey amateur, matt the hunter, the fisherman, the athlete. it would make sense from the very first day that matthew podolak woke up with the pain in his back. and after what happened in the hospital a couple of months later, nothing made sense after that. [noise] god knows there were accusations. well yes, plenty of those. and a brother, mark, from whom the stories, the mystery became a kind of obsession. it s had quite an effect on me over the past seven years. the story of what happened to matt
Cant see it. Someone wanted him dead. Someone who was hiding something. The details of the case are very salacious. There is sex. There is the allegation of the poisoning. Cleaned out the bank account. Are you trying to accuse me of something . A brother determined to find a killer. How dare anybody do that to my Little Brother . It wasnt supposed to happen like this. A toxic mystery and an emotional trial. Is the jury being out long a bad thing or a good thing . It was a mystery from day one. From that time, right around the end of the hockey season. It made sense of what was happening to Matthew Podolak, matt the hockey amateur, matt the hunter, the fisherman, the athlete. It would make sense from the very first day that Matthew Podolak woke up with the pain in his back. And after what happened in the hospital a couple of months later, nothing made sense after that. [noise] god knows there were accusations. Well yes, plenty of those. And a brother, mark, from whom the stories, the my
jail house snitch with multiple felony convictions, never an easy sell. so an ex friends who is talk of antifreeze in the house offers to get rid of her husband, might be real or imagined. a financial motive that, at most, might have amounted to paltry 15 grand. and a bit of dixie chicks karaoke, the performance of which may have been monstrously cruel or perfectly in innocent. still, who could ve done it? the details of the case are very salacious. then prosecutor alison ford their sex, there s the allegation of poisoning, it s very interesting and it certainly enough to keep anyone s attention but, that doesn t make it necessarily a strong case or a dead bang winner for trial. and so, the prosecutors consulted mark in the family they were all committed now. all emotionally attached. but the family should decide. he, said this is where we are, he ladle out. and he said we can take a shot
of the murder. how does he know that? a phone bill from her mother s home placing calls to arizona that night. what s a phone bill of that age doing lying around somewhere where you could grab for evidence by the defendant? her father was a meticulous record keeper. what s to say it wasn t an answering service that picked it up. they testified there was no answering machine. something changed in december 2010. there was new evidence discovered. the prosecutor who inherited the case. and that new evidence was what we consider a jail house snitch. and he came forward and stated that michael wolf told him he had fabricated the entire story about barbara participating in the murder of david jackson. a particular jail house snitch who s well-known, the da,
blood. yeah. but it didn t hold up? no. because they were already closed. that was the gotcha. this crime scene photo, said the prosecutor, was taken hours before rick supposedly stepped inside that house. notice the bathroom blinds are drawn. humphries argued that rick could not have closed the blinds, because they were already shut. the prosecutor said the defendant was lying, though he believed rick had told the truth about the murders to at least one other person. the state s star witness, robert mullens. the witness i call the jail house snitch, and you call a jail house informant. no, he s a snitch, no question about that. but at the end of the day, what we learned from robert mullens is that he s been given a fairly detailed account by gagnon, of what occurred that evening, and what the crime scene looked like. in fact, he said mullens was the first to tell police this piece of bombshell news. gagnon had mentioned an accomplice in the killings.