jeffrey lamb was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. prosecutors believe jeff wanted out of his marriage. he often told friends that cathy was a poor housekeeper, but apparently jeff was no better. he called her dirty and yet his truck was filthy. i mean, he had more garbage in his truck than you would throw out in the street. i don t know if you would call him a hypocrite or something, but he didn t live a better lifestyle than his wife. the couple separated for a few years, but even after they reconciled, jeff continued to have affairs. cathy tolerated his infidelity, but she didn t like it. i felt very sorry for cathy. i felt very bad because i knew that she loved him very much and i thought that she would be very hurt over that. jeff was paying off a $20,000 fine for embezzlement, and a divorce would have left him with even less money to make those payments. jeff had a friend. he had told him that i m not
he was on the roof because it had been leaking over the tow company. and he found a fire tool that was used on one of their big, big tow trucks. it was the office building of the tow yard where jeff lamb worked. the tire iron had hexagonal heads for loosening and tightening nuts. it was tested for dna. we tried everything to test the tire iron, but the problem is it s south florida and it rains all the time. the sun would have evaporated any dna as well as the water washing it off. but since it was so distinctive, as were the wounds on cathy s body, the tire iron was still a valuable piece of evidence. the hexagonal head was placed over photographs of cathy s wounds. you look at the injuries on cathy s face. there s no way in the world anything other than this did it.
an unknown assailant not only attacked cathy lamb but also her two dogs, nipper and dakota, presumably with the same weapon. cathy s friends and even mr. lamb himself said that those dogs that were in that house would have torn apart a stranger. but investigators couldn t understand why the dogs weren t all together. why were her two smaller dogs beat so severely, and yet the biggest dog of the group was never struck? and the dog was also locked in a bedroom. the third dog was a hybrid, a wolf mix, that was owned by the husband. investigators thought the blood on the dogs mouths and paws had come from cathy s attacker, but forensic testing disproved that. the swabs and clippings that had been taken from the dogs came back negative for any human dna.
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into jeff lamb s finances. a few years earlier, jeff s former employer accused him of stealing almost $30,000. he returned the money and agreed to pay an additional $20,000 fine. his current job as a tow truck driver didn t pay particularly well. and these payments were a hardship. $20,000 isn t a lot of money to most people, but to some people, it s like a million dollars. police also discovered that jeff was the beneficiary of cathy s $29,000 life insurance policy. he was making restitution for prior criminal activity. i think he was tired of making those payments. in a search for forensic evidence, investigators had the presence of mind to confiscate the clothing jeff was wearing the day of the murder.