the death penalty. it didn t look too good for kris. the lead detective said he denied ever being in room 1215, while his fingerprints were all over the place. that was a lie. kris denied having a gun, he clearly did have a nine mm pistol. the investigator said that was the type of weapon used. according to kris, derek had stolen $441,000, just embezzled it. so kris had a motive. he clearly hated the moo youngs, and finally, the star witness was nevill butler. kris s case went to trial. in court, the defense presented no alibi witnesses and kris never took the stand. ron patillo was the defense investigator on the case.
looking to see where the evidence takes me and it didn t add up. the deeper i got into the investigation it began to dawn on me that kris was innocent. he was very, very loyal to kris and he carried on after the case was over even though he was not being paid or anything. ron and clive noticed discrepancies in the prosecution s story about the murders and sat out to look for answers. i demanded to see the files of the prosecutor and the police, and as i m going through it i m sitting there with extraordinarily bad coffee in the police headquarters going through this very carefully tabbed file, i discovered that nevil butler, the star witness, failed his polygraph test. i discovered they never found the weapons. this case was covered up more than any other case than i had ever seen in decades.
never took a sworn statement during the interrogation to document that fact. and the lie detector test kris took later that evening would support chris version of events. they had one of the top polygraph examiners do the test. despite having numerous alibi witnesses, kris was booked and held without bail. it would be a year before he got his day in court. put it this way, i went from living like a prince to an animal. on the eve of trial, kris and his investigator, ron patillo, felt good about their chances. kris had seven or eight alibis, i had located people and gotten him sworn statement that
the case. he was a young lawyer who made a name for himself fighting death penalty cases on a pro bono cases. by the time i had gotten there, the u.s. supreme court had sent this back down, my first thought was how did i get myself into this. despite his reluctance, clive decided to meet the man who was presumed guilty. i don t decide first if they re guilty or not. they don t trust you. he insisted on giving me a lecture about the fact that he didn t do it. and i found that quite convincing, although i will say the evidence against him was pretty strong at the time. as a former cop, ron patillo also had doubts about kris s innocence when he first joined the case. initially, i just thought kris killed these guys, but i m