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So we frequent see 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 that 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 may...

Darrell with a knife. darrell was caught off guard, and struck pope in the face with a paper punch, causing the nosebleed. pope stabbed darrell over 40 times. as he lay dying on the floor, a drop of blood from pope's nose fell on to darrell's pants. >> there's no way he could have explained the way how his blood was dripped on to darrell north's pants. >> we knew we had eliminated any possible innocent explanation for his blood being at the scene, and we felt like we had him. >> curtis pope was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. he posted bail, but on the first day of his trial, po...

>> pope was distraught over darrell's murder. >> he came through the receiving line, crying, and i thought he was so touched by darrell's death, and he said, i loved darrell. he was better to me than my own father. >> pope was 40 years old, married, with a young daughter. he did, however, have a police record consisting of arrests for petty theft. since he was the last known person to see darrell alive, he was automatically considered a suspect. pope agreed to take a polygraph examination. and passed. >> it is not likely that somebody could come in and intentionally be untruthful and still pas...

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...

Investigators found five other drops of blood at the scene perfectly round in between darrell's body and the door. >> i said, why not let's just test these five particular drops of blood that we know are -- we feel like didn't come from darrell north. >> tests confirmed, the blood was not darrell north's. there was only one question that remained, who left the blood? one of the two suspects or someone else?