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Steves attorney said the killing was a result of a Drug Deal gone wrong with carols neighbor jim knapp. Steve said he was told a similar story. Steve said somebody was communicating to him through the Ventilation System in the jail and told him a story about how a Drug Ring out of phoenix had been trying to collect money or seek some retribution against jim knapp for involvement in a prescription Drug Ring. The attorneys arranged for a meeting. Opportunity for steve to tell Law Enforcement what they heard so they could investigate it. They showed him the mysterious email. Listen to his reactio...

happened >> professor, artist, mom. murdered >> primal scream came out of me >> she literally broke down. started crying and hollering. >> the police were quick t question her acts. maybe two quick. >> they focus in right from th very beginning >> has been always does it right? but what if the husband di not. >> they don't find any dna fingerprints nothing of his in the house. >> did someone else do the rea killing? >> i'm wondering what was this man capable of >> so much tragedy so much heartbreak >> it was very emotional for me >> we just kept waiting fo them to figure out that the...

>> it became mr. 603. it was a male's dna that was found mixed in with carol's blood under the fingernails of her left hand. and this wasn't a small amount of dna. reasonable person i think would think this probably could have gotten there during an attack. >> jim knapp, the anonymous email, mr. 603. steve's family and attorneys thought investigators should focus more on all of those things. instead seemed to them prosecutors had already made up their minds. and steve would go on trial. summer, 2010. two years after carol kennedy's murder. american flags were once again draped up around the to...

And, on june 3rd, inside the square's historic court house, county attorney joe butner opened his case against steve democker by ticking off the reasons why, in his view, steve deserved to spend the rest of his natural life behind bars. by this time, pre-trial legal rulings had taken the death penalty off the table. though attorney butner told the jury the case was no less condemning. >> i will ask you to find the defendant guilty of the first degree pre-meditated murder. >> reporter: first, he said, steve had motives, and not just that 6 thousand a month in alimony. no. carol, said the prosec...

Again draped up around the prescott town square in anticipation of the annual rodeo. and, on june 3rd, inside the square's historic court house, county attorney joe butner opened his case against steve democker by ticking off the reasons why, in his view, steve deserved to spend the rest of his natural life behind bars. by this time, pre-trial legal rulings had taken the death penalty off the table. though attorney butner told the jury the case was no less condemning. >> i will ask you to find the defendant guilty of the first degree pre-meditated murder. >> reporter: first, he said, steve had...