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Violence events, maybe, some of the stressors. all that should play very well to the prosecutor, who knows they have a tough time proving maybe even second degree because nobody knows what happened but him to the body. and there may well be an opportunity to show, look, let's lower it to something where he's definitely going to spend a fair amount of time in prison, but that he has a chance at life afterwafrds, and that's less than second degree. that's going to be the focus, i think, of the defense team. >> john -- >> but -- >> yeah, go ahead, sarah. >> but listen, we're defense attorneys. i'...

That. one is divorce, which comes on the 27th, the three days before she thinks she was killed and on the morning they think she may have been killed questions about inheritance. one of these questions was how long does dna last. and the answer was 1,000 years or 6.8 million years, depending on conditions. so, i think he went into this saying, i've got to scramble to make this go away. >> bob, you've been covering crime in the northeast for almost 30 years. have you ever seen a collection of evidence quite like this? >> no. i really wasn't prepared for this level of detail today. i assumed goi...

Evidence yet of that if you think about it. this could be a domestic violence fight that had a horrific consequence, the death of her, and then the cover up is what makes it look so bad. no matter what he did in the cover up, it simply does not change the level of crime, the initial crime, the murder. this may turn out to be the only thing the state can prove is some time of negligent homicide in the middle of a fight not oven the level of second degree. if i was the defense counsel, i'm focused on getting this down to only something the state can prove and not focusing on the aftermath, the h...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening. welcome to a special edition of "360: what happened to ana," everything we learned after a harrowing day in court about what prosecutors believe what happened to the missing mother of three young children, who has been missing since the new year. what was done to her by her husband, brian, and the research he did on disposing body. some of the analysis from forensic science and scientists on criminal cases, and what a trial may look like. first, jason carroll from quincy, massachusetts, on the horrifying revelations today at brian walshe's ...

Turn to how the defense may undermine their case. mark romero, who successfully defended george zimmerman. both part of the warner brothers discovery family. back with us is john miller. are there holes in the case the defense could use in their advantage to your opinion, the fact that we don't yet know what the motive was. there's a number of arguments, i assume, the defense will be making about, perhaps, what may have happened. >> well, certainly. you know, we only have 10, 15, 20 pages of what's going to be 5,000 pages of discovery. but even what we know today not only is a lack of motive, ...