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Body. darrell may have used it to defend himself, causing an injury, a facial cut, or nosebleed. to identify the killer, dna samples were collected from the two suspects, bob johnson and curtis pope. dna testing revealed it was curtis pope's blood at the crime scene. >> if darrell north had not taken some steps to defend himself, this case wouldn't have been solved. >> would have never dreamed that firing somebody would cause somebody to, you know, go postal. >> darrell's family couldn't believe that the man whom darrell had mentored in business and treated in many ways like a son would have d...

A polygraph and had, in fact, paid money to download a book on how to beat it. >> as testing continued on the blood stains on the floor of the crime scene, investigators noticed one blood drop on darrell north's pants that they had previously overlooked. >> there was a vertical drop on the back left pant leg of darrell north, while he's laying on the floor. >> the shape of the drop was perfectly round. meaning that the origin of the blood was stationary, and hit the fabric at a 90 degree angle. >> the significance of such a drop falling and hitting the pants perpendicularly while mr. north is ...

Noticed something they hadn't seen before. some bruising under his eye. >> there was no cut, but it was a slight bruising. >> a background check revealed pope's business was faltering. >> he had a reputation of just not being very good at what he did as far as the construction of the swimming pools. >> pope's business records indicated he was deeply in debt, wasn't able to pay his suppliers, and the only big client he had left was darrell north. if darrell fired pope during their meeting, it would have been the end of pope's company. >> pope's finances were in terrible shape. he was on the fin...

This tiny drop of blood on the back of darrell north's pants told an important story. since the blood hit darrell's pants at a 90 degree angle it meant the killer was standing over darrell's body while he was bleeding from his own wound, and he continued to bleed as he left the scene. >> we observed those vertical drops of blood leading away from mr. north's body, that was a very significant thing for us to find because we knew then that the killer's dna was going to be present on that scene. >> and there was a possible explanation for how the killer was injured. the dented two hole paper punc...

Not just a few wounds, but many, and all indicative of rage that is going on between the two involved in the assault, the victim and the assailant. >> a machete missing from his office was believed to be one of the murder weapons. the other was believed to be a knife. >> a blunt agent. we can predict it was a larger knife, some of the wounds were at least an inch, inch and a half in width on the body surface. >> the family tried to help investigators by identifying anyone who night have had a reason to harm darrell. >> i thought it must be a stranger, you know, that maybe was robbing him or so...