Went up in flames. Caller theres a fire. His wife was inside. None of it made sense to me. In the ashes, secrets. I dont care what you think you are seeing, you are dealingi with a murder. The gun, how did it end up completely underneath her body . In the front drivers seat appeared to be a note. She had rekindled a relationship with one of the executives. Did someone has something to hide . Did you kill her . No. It was like a script, he had answers for everything. He would realize this is it. You are going to hell for what youve done in this case. It was dark, past 3 00 a. M. , a hint of Crescent Moon struggled to penetrate the night here in middle america. Everyone asleep except on a quiet residential street, a woman unable to sleep watched a crime show on tv. Was the Popping Noise from somewhere in the neighborhood, or was it her tv show, or just a remnant of a windy day around her windowsill . April 30th, 2011, tornado season. And there was a storm that night. A whirlwind sweeping
he wasn t teaching homicide. he wasn t teaching wound evidence. no. what those materials proved, said the prosecutor, was premeditation. it was brett s deadly homework. but what about that last entry in her journal, the one that read like a final farewell? forged, said the state, by brett. thing is, said the handwriting expert, it wasn t well done. look closely, he said. that slight shakiness? he called that the term we use in document is tremor of fraud. the tremor of fraud. and it appeared, said the prosecution, that brett forged that note the day before vashti died, the same day he was torching hard drives, the same day he asked a staff member at the training center where he could find an overhead projector, something so outdated, it was in storage. the prosecutor said it appeared brett used the projection light to recreate vashti s writing in
storage. it appeared brett used the projection light to re-create her writing in the journal. some of his actions were reckless because the clock was winding down. she was planning to go out saturday evening in wichita and spend the night there. well, it s friday. it s friday evening. this was his last opportunity while they lived in the home together to kill vashti. then there was the lack of evidence where there should have been some, if this were a suicide, that is. did you find any soot in the airways? no. any soot in the lungs? the autopsy finding that she had no soot in her lungs, her airways and there was no carbon monoxide in her lungs, what the jury could infer from that was that vashti seacat didn t breathe in any smoke.