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Looked like it had been moved from its normal place. blood was smeared on several walls both upstairs and downstairs. and there was something in the kitchen just above christie's body that also caught detectives' attention. >> there was a cigarette butt that was found on the kitchen counter by the stove that had been placed there and had obviously burnt out. >> on the counter? >> yes, stained the counter as it burned, absolutely correct. >> they found several more cigarette butts in the crash can under the sink as well as a beer bottle in the living room. no surprise, however. christie drank o...

Over to the lease house, walked through it, and really didn't see anything suspicious. a day or two later, other deputies were asked to go search the lease house again. by then they knew a hatchet had been used in the murders. and they found a sheath to a hand ax laying right out in the middle of the floor in a position that the first deputies walking through the house could not have missed it. they would have had to been blind to miss that sheath. >> cooper also said that during his two days in the house, he smoked multiple cigarettes. >> but when police collected the evidence, they only coll...

To prove he had not been involved in the fight. >> and we were not leaving easton, maryland, until we got his dna. >> this proved to be harder than investigators anticipated. denny smoked during his interrogation but always made sure to keep the cigarette butts. detectives offered him a bottle of water, but he wouldn't touch it. finally, they asked him to sign a document, saying he refused to provide his dna. >> we asked him to put the letter into envelope and seal the envelopes. he refused to seal the envelopes, and basically told us, look, you tried three times to get my saliva on something....

Deputies were asked to go search the lease house again. by then, they knew the hatchet had been used in the murders. and they found a sheath to a hand ax laying right out in the middle of the floor in a position that the first deputies walking through the house could not have missed it. they would have had to have been blind to miss that sheath. >> cooper also said that during his two days in the house he smoked multiple cigarettes. >> but when police collected the evidence, they only collected one cigarette butt. the rest of the cigarette butts somehow disappeared. later on, when they found t...

>> a couple of deputies went over to the lease house, walked through it, and really didn't see anything suspicious. a day or two later, other deputies were asked to go search the lease house again. by then they knew a hatchet had been used in the murders. and they found a sheath to a hand ax laying right out in the middle of the floor in a position that the first deputies walking through the house could not have missed it. they would have had to been blind to miss that sheath. >> cooper also said that during his two days in the house, he smoked multiple cigarettes. >> but when police collected...