out of his marriage. he often told friends that cathy was a poorhouse keeper. but apparently jeff was no better. he called her dirty and yet his truck was filthy. he had more garbage in his truck than you would throw out in the street. i don t know if you would call him a hypocrite or something, but he didn t lave better lifestyle than his wife. the couple separated for a few years, but even after they reconciled, jeff continued to have affairs. cathy tolerated his infidelity, but she didn t like it. i felt very sorry for cathy. i felt very bad because i knew that she loved him very much and i thought she would be very hurt over that. jeff was paying off a $20,000 fine for embezzlement, and a divorce would have left him with even less money to make those payments. jeff had a friend. he had told him that i m not going to lose my stuff and i m not going to give up her life insurance policy. i ll kill her before she
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was used on one of their big, big tow trucks. it was the office building of the tow yard where jeff lamb worked. the tire iron had hexagonal heads for loosening and tightening nuts. it was tested for dna. we tried everything to test the tire iron, but it was south florida and it rains all the time. the sun would have evaporated any dna as well as the water washing it off. but since it was so distinctive, as were the wounds on cathy s body, the tire iron was still a valuable piece of evidence. the hexagonal head was placed over photographs of cathy lamb s wounds. you look at the injuries on cathy s face. there s no way in the world anything other than this did it. jeffrey lamb was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. prosecutors believe jeff wanted
but investigators couldn t understand why the dogs weren t all together. why were her two smaller dogs beat so severely and yet the biggest dog of the group was never struck? and the dog was also locked in a bedroom. the third dog was a hybrid, a wolf mix that was owned by the husband. investigators thought the blood on the dogs mouths and paws had come from cathy s attacker. but forensic testing disproved that. the swabs and clippings that had been taken from the dogs came back negative for any human dna. the couple s third dog bandit was initially believed to be unharmed, but the humane society discovered he suffered injuries, too, but not from the killer. we discovered that bandit actually had several puncture marks, which indicated that he
cathy and jeffrey lamb didn t live in one of the palm beach mansions. jeff was a tow truck driver. cathy worked for the walgreen drugstore chain. i liked jeff. he was a good kid, good to cathy, and the main thing was she loved him. on june 15, 2004, jeff got home from work around 7:00 p.m. but when he walked inside, he found blood everywhere. what s the problem? my wife, wife, my wife s hurt and there s blood everywhere. he was hysterical on the phone. he was crying so much that i think the 911 dispatcher kept referring to him as a woman. okay, ma am, i need you to take some deep breaths, breathe in and breathe out. okay. now, are you having an asthma