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First time. jason s own story. the second trial began in february of 2012. this time howard cummings let led the prosecution. hoping to use jason s own words to convict him. but first, prosecutors called that night clerk at the gas station, gracie, who had remembered jason complaining about the locked pumps. when he came in to pay, he started cussing and raising cain. what time did this happen? five, 5:30 in the morning. a time when jason said he was at the hotel. then prosecutors had new witnesses and new testimony. wanted jurors to hear about cassidy, whose bloodied footprints, they contended, made her a silent witness to murder. when i got to cassidy i said what are you doing? daycare workers took the stand. ....
Front porch to have a smoke just after midnight on july 9th, 2011. the day she went missing. after that, nothing. what happened after midnight in that house? exactly. that was the million dollar question. the video files from midnight until 6:00 in the morning that day were corrupted, according to the tech guy who examined them. we could see footage, but what it was, it was very disjointed. most of it was not time stamped. most of it was not date stamped. so it was not in a manner that you could just go in and click play and just play through everything. the bottom line, the police had zero, nada, zilch. and so, with no compelling reason to stick around lawrenceville, matt leili moved back up north to vermont, to be closer to his family. that was in february of 2012, almost seven months to the day after nique s body was found. nique s stepmother, betty chatham, says the move effectively ended all contact between nique s family and her two youngest daughters amanda, 12, and rebe ....
beyond just being sloppy, o the fact they didn t close the case and they didn t listen to the family, those two things are not evidence of a cover-up it wasn t that they didn close the case. they didn t do anything to create a case. he says that in 1986, the detectives were protecting stephanie lazarus. they actively covered up th identity of the person who committed this crime the rasmussen s lawsuit alleging a cover-up wa dismissed in 2011. charlie bec was then the lapd chief and he spoke with us about the case i can accept somebody tha is unable to solve a crime tha is solvable. i cannot accept somebody that covers up a crim or covers up an individual involved in a crime and i have no absolutely no indication that is what happened here there is intoing to suggest they deliberately looked awa from stephanie or not a road they didn t want to go down? i think it was a lack o ability, not an act to exclude stephanie. in february of 2012, nearly 26 years to the day s ....
First time. jason s own story. the second trial began in february of 2012. this time howard cummings let led the prosecution. hoping to use jason s own words to convict him. but first, prosecutors called that night clerk on the gas station, gracie, who had remembered jason complaining about the locked pumps. when he came in to pay, he started coughing and raising wartime did this happen? five, 5:30 in the morning. a time when jason said he was at the hotel. then prosecutors had new witnesses and testimony. wanted jurors to hear about cassidy, whose bloodied footprints made her a silent witness to murder. when i got to cassidy i said what are you doing? daycare workers took the stand. she told jurors that she had watched costly play alone, days after her mother was murdered. she had the chair and the ....
Stick around lawrenceville, matt leili moved back up north to vermont, to be closer to his family. that was in february of 2012, almost seven months to the day after nique s body was found. nique s stepmother, betty chatham, says the move effectively ended all contact between nique s family and her two youngest daughters amanda, 12, and rebecca 9. he was to provide us with a telephone number. he was to set up a skype account so that we could talk with the girls. nothing. packed up. moved. five months later, in the summer of 2012, the investigative file passed to cold case detective sergeant john richter. i was actually in the homicide unit as a corporal when her body was found. does that stay with you? yeah, i would say that there s certain cases that stick with you. and this is one. at first richter did what all cold case detectives do. he re-interviewed witnesses. when that went nowhere, richter took another look at matt leili s ....