meaning well, you know. it didn t add up that it was brad, and it didn t add up that it was ted. but marty perhaps? there were signs like those excess irv voice mails. please call me. and the bank video. his own admission that he hoped to reunite with suzie. the problem is he saw susie canoodling with brad, the mini van washed on his return home and yet marty larson was not arrested. i think that frustration was really, really hard for the family. what was your expectation? that they would look at this material they had and just go and arrest marty? i guess i just anticipated these things would move forward and that who was responsible would be held accountable, and time just kept on going. the thing is at that point
of actual proof that marty killed susie. i believe there was not enough evidence to bring this case and that s one of the reasons why it wasn t filed for all those years because other prosecutors had determined there wasn t sufficient evidence. much more evidence against ted casey, she said. ted casey, i believe, was the only one who had a real motive. they were fighting about the children, the monetary aspects of their marriage, and she had indicated to marty on several occasions that she was fearful of ted. and i i believed that his recounting of what he did that morning, had it been properly investigated, would have found to have been less than a perfect alibi. prosecutors, of course, argued that there was no evidence that ted or brad or his then wife or anyone but marty larson killed susie. the defendant himself testified
i was hoping going through a car wash it would spray everything off, but it didn t do a very good job though. a deer? really? but did you check into whether or not he actually did hit a deer? we did. we checked with the highway patrol. it was consistent with a deer. it was not a live deer that he hit running. it was actually lying in the interstate. and when they tested the tissue on the van, sure enough it was not human. it was animal tissue. but then when police asked if there was anyway they d find susie s dna in, on, or under the van, marty said something as he often did that made police wonder. well, i guess what i m saying is what i know is my thought is that was a deer. i guess i don t know for certain that it couldn t have been her. what? was he trying to tell police he ran susie down? is there something you want to tell us? no. i haven t done anything.
you every time? yeah. marya was laid to rest in that little cemetery outside circle next to her uncle rusty and her mom susie. she had a hard time living without her mom, and i guess that s why she finally went to be with her mom. that was tough. just about didn t make it through that one. three of them. and right along with the family that day was the new prosecutor on the case. it showed me a lot about brant light because he traveled from helena after only meeting that girl only one time. he came from helena to her funeral. and he had a message for the family and for marty larson. it was very clear in this case from both sides there was not going to be any plea negotiations. we never talked negotiations. we simply talked about trial. let s go to trial. bravado? circumstantial cases, especially like this one, can be tricky things.
the apartment building in downtown glendive. ping, ping, ping, past the ever-listening cell towers, and suddenly the cop had some homework to do. i had no idea who marty larson was. he was the third man to put himself near susie casey the night she vanished, which is why he called the state department criminal investigation. agent lee johnson found himself standing outside the apartment staring at this freshly washed mini van. video, again, courtesy of the police. it was obviously very clean on the exterior because it had gone through an automatic car wash. the interior had heavy condensation on it. what did you find inside? the carpets had been cleaned.