now with the conclusion of the valentines day mystery. here again is dennis murphy. tom babble, the blood spatter expert hired by dr. john hamilton had wrapped up his questioning under the defense attorney. as a last witness in the trial, he d refuted a lot of the prosecutions findings and bolstered his client s case. then came the prosecutors west lanes turned to cross examine. now courtroom lawyers like to talk about perry moistens mason moments when a trial is electrified, but are hardly ever happens. it did in this case, it didn t ever. the prosecutor tossed of an open-ended question. well, mr. bevel is there anything the states experts or the oakland oklahoma police department missed in their examination of the evidence? the blood spatter expert on
would he hoped to show the skeptics at s trial was yes, the doctor was a man indeed who loved his wife. maybe loved her too much. john hamilton is a controlled guy. he wants to have everything in control, in order. to the prosecutor, the valentine s day carted john had received that morning lit the fuse for the violence that followed. in that card, susan had written a message alluding to the couples flare up just a couple of days before. susan, ballistic with suspicions that he was having a fling with a stripper. the prosecutor told the jury that he envisioned a murder this way. the doctor, coming back midmorning after his first surgery, trying to patch things up with his wife, who majorly wasn t buying. it he knew that she was still considering divorce. something happened in that bathroom that absolutely triggered him in which he grabbed the ties and then he
there s no question it s something that i would recommend. for ten months, ever since that valentine s day when he was arrested for the murder of his wife, john hamilton had kept his silence behind bars. now he would be able to tell his side of the story. matt garden, doctors lead attorney knew it would be uphill. we have a circumstantial case and i think the prosecutors in this case we re putting a sinner as sinister spin on it as they possibly could. to do the defense team seemed obvious from the first moments that investigators never seriously considered any one other than the husband. the focus was always on john, never anywhere else. who was never on anti abortion protesters, never on anyone there were calls that were made to susan that scared, her there
was he trying to cover up earlier injuries? that would cause a suspicion for us to wonder why he s scraping his hands up. that goes to another issue we talk about maybe being staged or draw attention instead of emotionally upset over the loss of his wife. still, there was the doctor seemingly solid alibi. after all he had a busy morning performing not just one but two surgeries with only a brief stop at home in between. i think that the biggest part for us was to try to figure out how he could get there and spend anytime there and get back to the second surgery. and, as the detectives looked more closely into the doctor s timeline that morning they saw a whole. not a big one but maybe enough time to kill and get back. they learned that second surgery, originally scheduled for 9 am hadn t actually gotten underway until 9:40. and why was it delayed? because dr. john hamilton was
one thing everybody knew who knew the couple including the neighbors seem to agree on, was that whoever susan s killer was it certainly was not john hamilton. he just couldn t have done it. he was so kind and you never heard him raise his voice or anything like that. investigators had plenty of theories to work with. but before that valentine s day was over, they would have a suspect in custody. a name that would shock everybody. coming up. the motive was love lost. when dateline continues. continues whooping cough is highly contagious for people of any age. and it can cause violent uncontrollable coughing fits. ask your doctor or pharmacist about whooping cough vaccination because it s not just for kids. for people living with h-i-v, keep being you. and ask your doctor about biktarvy. biktarvy is a complete, one-pill, once-a-day treatment used for h-i-v in certain adults.