Prosecutor Lowry News Today

When she got dolled up, oh my god, gorgeous. Did she write these letters . Was this a hint to who killed her . This is a message saying this is my killer. Like you would see in a movie. And the ending, that was just like a movie, too. I cant believe what people do to each other. Hello, and welcome to dateline. Roc, in this case, those three letters would tell a story all their own. When Karen Pannell was found murdered in her South Florida home, the letters scrawled in blood above her body seeme...

haunting crime but only one caller was tellin the truth. father versus son. >> i grabbed him, i said stop. he throws me to the ground >> hes very good at making up stories, but that is not true. >> each is accusing each other of the crime >> yes >> and you have to figure ou who the killer is? >> that is the problem >> broken glasses, a pair of sandals, specks of blood what investigators get it right? >> no one on our side of the family had any doubt >> we may have the wrong guy i jail ...

scene. >> you can almost recreate the crime. >> right there on the wall, a mystery scrawled in blood. three cryptic letters. what would you make of this? >> is that a word? is that a person? >> the clues pointed to so many directions that it was a total mystery. >> the case, the murder of a former model and flight attendant. >> when she got dolled up, oh my god, gorgeous. >> did she write these letters? was this a hint to who killed her? >> this is a message saying this is my killer. >...

>> you can almost recreate the crime. >> right there on the wall, a mystery scrawled in blood. three cryptic letters. what would you make of this? >> is that a word? is that a person? >> the clues pointed to so many directions that it was a total mystery. >> the case, the murder of a former model and flight attendant. >> when she got dolled up, oh my god, gorgeous. >> did she write these letters? was this a hint to who killed her? >> this is a message saying this is my killer. >> like ...

No bloody fingerprints, no bloody footprints out the door. >> but prosecutor lowry was confident about the evidence he did have. >> frankly, i think circumstantial cases are sometimes the best, okay, because they dont lie. the circumstances dont lie. people lie. >> and thats the case lowry made to the jury. the circumstances showed tim permentor was the only one with the motive and the opportunity to kill karen. and everything he did afterwards was fabricated to cover up his horrendous crime. >>...

Once she got past the superficial aspect of him and realized what he really was like, she wanted out of that relationship, and that ultimately led to her death. >> prosecutor lowry said permentor thought he could outsmart the cops by playing the bereaved boyfriend, playing to the hilt at the crime scene. >> oh, god! >> the prosecutor said permentor got thrown off the tear-stained script when he called karens best friend soon after making the 911 call. >> he said katherine, its tim. im a karens a...

Relationship and that ultimately led to her death. >> prosecutor lowry says perminter thought he could outsmart the cop, by acting the bereaved boyfriend, playing to it the hilt. but the prosecutor says he got thrown off his tear-stained script when he called his best friend soon after making that 911 call. >> he says catherine, im tim. im at karens apartment. she is laying on the floor. there is blood everywhere and she has been stabbed. >> stabbed? >> stabbed. >> not dead, she has been stabbed...

Stabbed her. >> prosecutor lowry sized up his case, a rejected lover with a violent history, a man who was at the scene of the crime and who lied about it. he charged permenter with first degree murder and decided to seek the death penalty. weeks before the trial was scheduled to start tims friend george solomon, his sleepover alibi witness, recanted his story. >> he told me this whole new story that permenter admitted he killed karen that night. >> blurted out a confession. >> when he got up. >...

Psychopath, someone who had gotten lucky to be with karen. once she realized what he really was like, she wanted out of that relationship and that ultimately led to her death. >> prosecutor lowry says permenter thought he could outsmart the cops by acting the bereaved boyfriend, playing it to the hilt at the crime scene. but the prosecutor says permenter got thrown off when he called karens best friend soon after making that 911 call. >> he says catherine, its tim. im at karens apartment. shes l...

Fingerprints, no bloody foot prints out the door. >> prosecutor lowry was confident about the evidence he did have. >> frankly i think circumstantial cases are sometimes the best. they dont lie. the circumstances dont lie. people lie. >> thats the case he made to the jury. the circumstances showed tim permenter was the only one with the motive and opportunity to kill karen. and everything he did afterwards was fabricated to cover up his horrendous crime. >> the issues in this case were the murde...