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[Music] it's a small Seaside town uh just about at the end of Cape [Music] Cod in the winter time it's a really
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quiet place the people that live here year round is everyone pretty much knows one
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another I never wanted to live anywhere else it's just a beautiful place to hang
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out unless something really awful happens police are trying to solve the first murder in a small Cape Cod town in
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more than 30 years the victim a local writer named cryistal Worthington was found inside this house in Truro on
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Sunday Chrystal worington was found stabbed once through the left chest missing the heart piercing the lung and
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the knife uh made an exit wound uh uh in her back and went into the kitchen floor below
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her worthington's 2-year-old daughter was also at the house on Sunday and witnessed the attack but she was not
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hurt the details that we heard about apparently AA attempting to clean her mother's body and finding a child's
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broom with blood on it and and things like that that was really really hard to take the horror that came into this
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quiet house in the winter time at the end of the world world and just blew up these little wonderful
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lives my name is Eric Williams I'm a reporter with the Cape Cod Times and I've covered this case from the
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beginning I'd say she had a very easy smile she had a wide eyed wonderment about the world she was a mom she was a
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great mom her whole being lit up just by being with her daughter Ava she was a flirt and you know I could
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tell that there was there was an attraction I'm Tony jacket I had an affair with Christal Worthington and we
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had a child together AA Worthington it wasn't solved right [Music] away it is a murder mystery that
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continues to haunt Cape Cod I think people were spooked who is this person that did it
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where are they I mean are they a local people around here are getting very anxious and time went on and sort of
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rotating cast of potential suspects were Tred it out we got Tony jacket the father of Ava it's um disturbing to be
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Mur suspect Tony's son-in-law Kei Amato was a person whose name came up dude don't film the guy who found the body
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Tim Arnold gista was an easy person to love and sometimes a difficult person to to be around I think there was the
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feeling like we're never going to know whether this was your next door neighbor and arrest in the murder of Crista
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Worthington I mean that was a shock that was out of the blue they they arrested a
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guy I mean could you believe it [Music] [Music] this was a a great [Music] mystery How could a single mom be
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executed in her kitchen in January in Cape [Music] Cod yeah I love it in the winter time
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because it is quiet and you have and I like the cold weather in the winter time Cape Cod can
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feel like the end of the world it's a real challenge being out on the water you know mentally and physically
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really a real independent way of life it's the only World Fishing Warden Tony jacket ever really has known I feel
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fortunate and blessed that I I was born and raised here Tony is like he's like a
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Nature Boy and that according to reporter Eric Williams is is pretty much how everybody
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in the town of Truro saw him hi Nancy he's a great guy a gregarious smart uh you know really a pleasant fellow uh you
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know uh who likes the ladies you know in 1997 a new lady came to town a glamorous former fashion writer
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from New York she had a bungalow right next to the hab Master Shack and this is the hab master Shack this pink one that
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was hers she's sitting on the porch and I'm right [Music] there and jacket married with six kids
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nonetheless went for her hookline and sinker she was someone very different from the people that I knew she was
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mysterious enigmatic somewhat of a loner her name was Christa Worthington a 40-year-old Vasser grad
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she lived what seemed a Life in the Fast Lane covering the runways of New York London and Paris for top fashion
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magazines scoring an interview with fashion Superstar Eve saleron when she was just
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26 that was her building when she moved back from um Europe but Steve radlauer who dated Christa for 2 years in New
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York says she never felt part of the Glamorous world she covered I think she was feeling a little burned out after
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her European women's wear uh years her prominent New England family owned a slew of properties Ino owned by
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John Worthington Senor including this one where she moved a few months later it seemed like the perfect Retreat and
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the perfect place to have a child she had this having a baby thing in mind and I think she felt that this would be a
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good place to do that the complication was that she was not married didn't have a boyfriend she uh was I think intrigued
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with the local color local color including you yeah I could tell that there was there
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was an attraction you know ultimately I ended up over a house having a cup of tea and then one thing leads to another
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and for about a year off and on they had an affair I had become a slave to my ego
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and for the beautiful writer who desperately wanted a child and the local fisherman who already had
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six one thing did lead to another so she comes to you at some point and says I'm
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pregnant right this is a surprise this is a total surprise a surprise he didn't share with his wife of 26 years even
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when Christa gave birth to a daughter Ava in May of 1999 the day she got pregnant she was
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ecstatic I was dumbfounded friends insist Christa had been told she couldn't have a baby but jacket always
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has felt she set him up how do I explain this I'm like all of a sudden I realize that I'm
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uh in in fact she had gone on the Lisa show the year before to talk about women who choose to be single parents trying
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to figure out how to be the best parent to your child given that there is no father she's very real she was exactly
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who she was Ava became the center of Christ's Universe says Linda schlect who babysat
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a few times a week a very devoted mother and she would always have AA on her lap
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and they would always be playing or laughing now I'm just still in a lot of dis disbelief about what's happened it
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seems so unreal unreal indeed I walked into The Newsroom here on Cape Cod and we had just gotten word from the police
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uh that there had been a murder the first homicide in Truro in 30 years sent reporter Eric Williams into high
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gear finding sources working the phones it was Sunday January 6th 2002 surprisingly you know know I knew the
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guy who found the body and next thing I know I'm calling him and talking to him about it he was
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calling Tim Arnold another former boyfriend of Christa's who lived just through the woods from her
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house Arnold's story was that he had simply dropped by the house at 4:30 that afternoon to return a flashlight and
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instead got the shock of his life sees Crystal lying on the floor in a sort of a kitchen hallway area and he sees AA
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near uh her mother's body Arnold later told police little AA was trying to nurse he said he scooped her up and ran
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outside he called 911 911 what emergency um please send de Road okay what's the problem it's
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Crystal I don't know what happened I think she fell down something I'm sure she's dead Christa Worthington was dead
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head lying in a hallway off the kitchen she was uh bruised up it looked like there had been some kind of altercation
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that she had been in she was half naked and stabbed once through the left lung the blade went through the body and
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into the kitchen floor beneath her body the front door was smashed there were drag marks on the ground
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outside and several personal items scattered in the drive some sock were found outside maybe a Barret a pair of
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reading glasses the disarray continued inside shocked EMTs carelessly grabbed a blanket from the house to cover
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Christa's body soon all of churo knew what had happened we got just a phone call that Chris got murdered what was
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your reaction when you got this phone call just disbelief I mean like why it seems so
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senseless with all the elements of a classic mystery since Sensational reports of the murder on Cape Cod topped
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the news around the country it was a murder that rocked the world of high fashion leaving Christa's nervous
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neighbors with no reason to suspect that it would take police literally years to
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solve this crime not that they didn't have plenty of suspects and it became some kind of
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some kind of awful parlor game uh you know in living rooms on the Outer Cape and maybe even Beyond as you'd sit
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around and once again go through it and try to figure out out could it have been
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Tim could it have been Tony how did it go down by the spring of 2005 Town's people were starting to think police
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never would figure out who killed Christa Worthington this was just a random awfulness that just came
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screaming out of the woods of Truro and festered for 3 years [Music] [Music] now I my
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ABCs next time you sing with [Music] me Crystal worthington's Savage murder in January of 2002 left 2-year-old Ava
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without a mother and it left the town's people of Truro edgy nervous and silently wondering if
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the killer might be one of them who else would come down to the end of the world
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in January and do this you think it's got to be someone who is here cu no one no one comes here in
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January the best potential lead to the murderer's identity DNA found on Christa's body its DNA of an unknown
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male that's consistent with someone having had sexual relations with uh the victim and it's that DNA that we seek to
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match so says district attorney Michael O'Keefe investigators first zeroed in on
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her immediate circle especially past boyfriends you look at the people who are in the immediate orbit of the
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victim's life while they waited for for the crime lab to find a DNA match they took a hard look first there was the
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neighbor and former boyfriend Tim Arnold not only had he found the body but his seamen would turn up on the
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blanket thrown over Christa then again they'd Liv together for a time in the house Tim Arnold was one of the few men
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under the age of 70 in Truro year round Christ's friend Steve L says her relationship with Arnold at times
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contentious apparently was over I don't think that she ever entertained the idea
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that this was going to develop into a long-term relationship that they were going to get married or anything like
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that she he may have he may have from what I understand he was he was more serious about that as a long-term
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possibility than she was Arnold emphatically denied to police that he had anything to do with the crime have
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some quick questions about what your memories of Christ are otherwise he refused to discuss Christa
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Worthington these days Arnold struggles with health problems mainly affecting his vision but he says memories of what
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happened in 2002 never are far from his thoughts I think about it a lot I think about it just about every
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day sometimes writes about Christa the Christ I knew was a person of contradictions she was by turns bright
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talented and ambitious and then a homebody who wanted nothing more than to spend time with her
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[Music] child while Tim Arnold may have been at the top of the suspect list I was
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interviewed a lot early on Ava's father Tony jacket wasn't far behind you can certainly understand why the police
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would think that you had a to kill her why was no motive what was the motive Eva wow according to Christa's friends
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jacket had little time for the baby at first and eventually Christa demanded that he at least pay child support she
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also demanded that he' tell his wife Susan you didn't have a clue no he said I had an affair and he said
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there's a child and I said um you're kidding then to Tony's total shock she forgave him take I walk on the beach
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it's been too many years and he's a nice man people make mistakes he's only human
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look at it isn't it lovely I don't want this anger in me I just want to make this all
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work and by the time of the murder the jackets claim it was more or less working the three of them had a
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relationship of sorts with Ava at its Center Tony they say had no reason to kill Christa we had her over for dinner
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and it was a little uncomfortable the first time but the more I got to know her I I liked her I thought she was a
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nice person Susan says Tony was at home with her when Christa was killed but police
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refused to rule anyone out and the suspect list was expanding to Agatha chrisy size proportions at times even
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including Tony's then son-in-law Keith Amato who'd taken an outside shower or two at Christa's house near the beach
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even Christa's elderly father was drawn into the investigation through his 29-year-old
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girlfriend love taking pictures of me don't you a former heroin addict upon whom Christa thought he was spending far
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too much money meanwhile the State Crime Lab was hopelessly backed up months passed with
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no word on the DNA taken from Christa's body the police went to the FBI for a profile of the killer but nobody seemed
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a fit then finally a year after the murder the crime lab at last produced results disappointing results because
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the DNA from Christa didn't match Tony jacket or Tim Arnold or any other suspect the police had
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you have this ever widening Circle if you will of Investigation going on first group of people are looked at very very
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intensely nothing is developing you widen that Circle the widen Circle brought in DNA from repair men trash men
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delivery men with pressure mounting Dao Keef took an unprecedented step asking for DNA from every single man in Truro
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State Police investigators were actually in Truro today asking men outside the post office outside coffee shops for
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saliva samples for at that point like what are you crazy I mean this is such a needle in a hay stack how many people
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have been tested so far um I'm not going to say specifically but dozens of people
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dozens and dozens these guys are throwing darts at an elephant you know I mean they got no chance it's just
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crazy but Chance is a Str strange thing in the three years police were searching for Christa worthington's
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killer an uneasy piece settled over Cape Cod somebody that knows still no arrests
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in this case no one's been ruled out either as the investigation dragged on you know it just makes you think you
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know no one has been named a suspect only the random DNA Roundup got much public attention it did seem to smack of
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some desperation meanwhile whole books were being written about this unsolved murder
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investigators under intense pressure still would rule no one out including Tony jacket I'm left in limbo if they
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don't solve it and it's it's it's not right little Ava his daughter with Christa was sent to live with a friend
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Amira Chase whom Christa had named Ava's Guardian in her will jacket was allowed
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to see his daughter only one afternoon a week who loves you Daddy D right Daddy loves you yeah you know that's my
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daughter you know the chase is a nothing to this little girl he fought for custody Worthington
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jacket matters 02 w006 all right but lost to Christa's friend and Tony thinks he knows
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why while being the suspect definitely cost me custody more than anything else a custody of my my
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[Music] daughter by 2005 jacket was getting used to another reality we just going to live
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with the fact that um the perception of my being a suspect is going to stay but then on April 7th investigators caught a
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stunning break the crime lab had a hit we have a brief statement to make a match for DNA found outside and inside
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Christa's body it just was a bombshell huge bombshell because we were just like electrified couldn't believe that they
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had come up with a match suddenly a match a suspect and an arrest all announced to the World by da Michael
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O'Keefe three and a half years after the crime last night at approximately 7:15 p.m. detectives from the Massachusetts
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state police arrested Christopher a mcgaan for the 2002 murder of Christa a Worthington which had a lot of people in
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town asking Christopher who who would have figured it would have been the garbage man that's right Christopher
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Macwan had been Christal worthington's garbage man tro was astonished and relased Leed it seemed like a done deal
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the results were they were in the quadrillions so you're talking about his absolute as one could possibly get well
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you know pretty much police picked up a docel maowen at his rooming house lying on the bed watching cartoons marijuana
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and an open bottle of prescription painkillers were on the table nearby incredibly he'd been right under
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their noses from the start did you kill Christa chist interviewed twice both times he had denied knowing Christa
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Worthington he'd given police's DNA voluntarily more than a year earlier the laboratory could not get you results as
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quickly as we would have liked them well a year right right when detectives took
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him in for questioning maowen waved his right to a lawyer they say he again denied knowing Christa and then he's
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presented with what I would suggest is a relatively strong piece of evidence that
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he's lying DNA correct police say that's when his story changed he admits that yes he went there
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on Friday night yes he had sex with her and yes he beat her but he doesn't want to bring himself
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to admit that he killed her so he blames the worst part of it on someone else the
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somebody else was macau's friend Jeremy Frasier who'd been with him the night of
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the murder but Frasier's DNA wasn't found anywhere on Christa's body was there an operating assumption that the
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last person who' had sex with Christa worlington had killed her yes from the beginning yes and you believe that to be
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the case yes Christopher macau's interview at the police bar lasted about 6 hours and for whatever reason he
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declined to have it recorded so the only record of this crucial interview is a report some 20 pages long that the
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detectives wrote from their notes about a week later in it maau is sometimes confused
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and comes up with at least half a dozen different versions of what really happened the night police say Christa
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Worthington died Chris mowen didn't commit this crime and the police know it attorney Bob George took macau's case
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after the police interrogation and says they jumped to conclusions from the start noting that the DA's website
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listed this murder as solved almost from the moment of macau's arrest a person of
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Chris mccowan's race class and limited capacities was an easy target an especially easy target he says because
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Christopher maowen literally wasn't smart enough to defend himself this is a person with a 76 to a 78 IQ on his best
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day meaning on a day where he's not using drugs and alcohol uh not under pressure under pressure and Under the
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Influence he was using Percocet that day he was using marijuana that day George says his client was putty in the hands
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of the police this is a false confession and I don't accept it I don't know how much of it is coming from Chris
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mccowan's mouth or how much of it is coming from the police investigation I don't
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know as for the DNA the Lynch pin of the prosecution's case the significance of that George says is all in how you look
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at this crime what's now in session please be seated and the police he's about to tell the jury are looking at it
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all wrong the forensics in the case could very well set Chris McCowan free that person
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who killed Chrystal worington was white they had footprints that were unidentified they had palm prints that
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were unidentified and they had unknown male DNA from three individuals under her
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[Music] fingernails down the cap today the infamous Crystal worlington murder case
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has gone from a who done it to a courtroom drama all right calt of Massachusetts versus
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Christopher M maau prosecutors go into Christopher macan's trial confident that the jury will accept their Simple Theory
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of Christa worthington's murder that he went to this location for the purpose of having sex with this
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person that that was denied to him and in a rage he raped her and killed her [Music]
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the case against Christa's alleged killer district attorney Michael O'Keefe concedes depends on two vital pieces of
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evidence the DNA and the statement together were the two major pillars of the case first the DNA We performed DNA
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analysis on 23 samples the state's experts says it proves Beyond doubt that macowan had sex with Christa Worthington
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Christopher Macwan matched the major profile in the mix then the statement can you tell us your
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name for the record please my name is Christopher Mason with Christa's father and other family members looking on
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employed as a trooper with the Massachusetts State Police Trooper Christopher Mason tells the court that
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although maau didn't actually confess he did admit to police that he beat Christa
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and watched her die Mr maau stated I never meant for that lady to get killed it's a nightmare after Nightmare and not
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a day goes by that I don't think about it he went up there looking for sex Crystal Worthington confronted him and
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it got very ugly in the prosecution scenario Macwan was drinking heavily that night he joined friends at a local
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Club they were videotaped by an onlooker while taking part in a rap contest this
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person wanted the company of a woman after partying and drinking all night so O'Keefe continues at around
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1:30 a.m. macw drove to Christa's house in Truro where he killed her and he was alone he was alone and he
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didn't have any prior relationship with her other than his familiarity with who she was where she lived and the fact
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that she lived alone that is where macau's attorney Bob George insists prosecutors have it all
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wrong now when he found the DNA for 39 months you will hear they were looking to speak to Christa's last Lover he
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wants to convince the jury there is reasonable doubt about everything in this case suddenly Christa's last lover
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was a rapist for starters George claims his client and Christa may have been involved Chris macowan could have
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reasonably had a consensual sexual relationship with Kristal Worthington and anyone who doesn't believe it is
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someone who just refuses to accept it and that's the defense's explanation for the damning DNA evidence that Christa
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Worthington voluntarily had sex with mwan probably that Thursday his day for picking up the trash and that later
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someone else came along and killed her you don't have macau's fingerprints at that scene you didn't have macau's hair
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at that scene you M's DNA at that scene consensual sexual episode on Thursday but George says getting the jury to
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believe that could be a problem because his client is being tried in Lily white Cape Cod if you had the same body of
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evidence and Johnny white bread was home for the holidays it was from some affluent family on the C the same body
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of evidence he wouldn't have been charged but miles away in New York Christa worthington's former boyfriend
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Steve radlauer says race has nothing at all to do with his doubts let's hear about that consensual relationship how
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long had that been going on I saw Christa two weeks before she was murdered roughly uh it wasn't going on
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then because we would have heard about it that would have been her top story top of the cryistal news would have been
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I'm having an affair with my local Trashmen mhm you won't believe it top story back in court the defense also
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must deal with its other big problem that statement and when he walked into that police station on April 14th 2005
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the police had to get a statement out of him so they intimidated him George argues in a 6-hour
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interrogation much as they' done with other suspects like Tim Arnold and when you told them that you did not kill
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Christa Worthington what was said to you oh yes I had was like getting worked over you
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know like physically getting beaten up another one-time suspect Keith Amato described a similar experience Trooper M
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slammed his hand down on the table and said this this is a murder investigation and if we so choose we will turn your
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life inside out they did exactly the same thing to them that they did to maowen except that they were smart
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enough and they had the wherewithal in the background to know when to say stop cut it out I'm not doing this anymore I
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want a lawyer as far as IQs go what is uh what What's the score for someone who's mentally George's witness
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forensic psychologist Eric Brown claims that with an IQ of about 76 Christopher maowen simply couldn't understand the
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police's questions in 69 is mentally yes and he's 76 on his best day yes rubbish says the prosecution maowen
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seems smart enough when Brown gave him an intelligence test for relativity he indicated Einstein and for Gandhi he
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wrote spiritual leader of India and for Coran he wrote Muslim bible that's correct and he was clever enough the
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state argues to con coed a story blaming someone else be the truth the whole truth his friend Jeremy Frasier who
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appeared uncomfortable the moment he took the stand did you drive up uh to Crystal Wilton's house with Christopher
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maau I did you have anything at all to do with her death no I didn't but Bob George wants the jury to believe Frasier
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could have what were you drinking couple bears at the party did you tell the police it was like six Coronas I don't
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recall certainly fre and maen were together that night the videotaped Rap Contest shows Frasier listening to music
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with mowen nearby but Frasier supplied an alibi he later was seen at another party then slept at a friend's house and
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his DNA doesn't show up anywhere at the crime scene he was a convenient py for the defendant to blame had nothing to do
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with this murder no Bob George ALS o argues that police bungled the whole investigation there were fibers hairs
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DNA that never made it to a lab and a crime scene contaminated by careless EMT they had all kinds of evidence at that
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scene that was either mishandled ignored or thrown away Christopher maowen never testifies
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betting that his attorney has created enough doubt in this case to set him free it's based
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on an assumption a false assumption that a vaser educated wealthy Heist could not
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possibly have had consensual sex with a black uneducated troubled garbage me while the jury in the Christa
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Worthington murder trial deliberates there's always that question as to what's the truth what isn't the truth
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the case is still being tried in the court of public opinion who have been following the trial and everyone in
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towns got an opinion I think the preponderance of evidence indicates that he's guilty I think he deserves every
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bit of a reasonable doubt if it's there I wouldn't be surprised if the guy gets off days go by the clock ticks on
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without a verdict it's always good when they're out a long time Christopher mowen's lawyer Bob George is taking an
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optimistic view insisting that time and the evidence are on his side if you can't trust what you find at
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the crime scene because the scene has been corrupted if you can't trust the statement because it's
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unreliable and if the DNA doesn't mean anything because the defendant could have been involved in a consensual
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relationship with the victim then what happened for five agonizing days the jury including two African Americans
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debates that very question they said they were hopelessly deadlocked then on day six right jury a
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shocker the judge announces he is throwing one juror off the panel a white woman whose boyfriend was arrested in an
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unrelated crime in a phone call with him she was taped criticizing the police police and there's concern about bias
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you are to be discharged from the began circulating around 11:30 this morning that this jury had finally come
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to a Verdi is now in session please be seated two days after a new juror is seated
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readyy The Log Jam breaks what say you Mr Foreman Christopher M learns his fate we the jury minous return the following
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verdict of guilty of Murder in the First great he was devastated by the verdict anyone with eyes could see that he was
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terribly uh hurt by what happened hours later before he sentenced he addresses the court for the first
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time this case here is a very horrendous case I feel sorry for the's family her daughter and her
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and never me for this never take place but he still claims he had nothing to do with ch worthington's death but
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you want to all I can say is that I'm I'm an innocent man in this case and and that's that's all I got to
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say the court doesn't buy it the court hereby sends you to be prison at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution
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at Cedar Junction for during the term of your natural life without the possibility of parole an indictment
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number 05-19 the jury found youil hey Chris did I want to not guilty of course I wanted to not guilty you know my
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belief in mccowan's innocence is what drove me I believed he was innocent and still believe he's innocent and we
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believe he's not guilty uh until the day I die you want me to stand at the podium
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even after after the verdict Bob George refuses to give up he's a little suspicious about what really happened to
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get that juror removed you've got a juror receiving phone calls on her cell phone from someone who's incarcerated in
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a deliberating deadlock jury in a major murder case from the jail you don't have
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to be all over W homes to figure out there's something strange about that we'll find out what
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happened I think there's a lot of conspiracy theory types that you know will never be satisfied Eric Williams
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who's covered the case from day one says while replacing the juror confused things in the end he has confidence in
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the jury's decision there was enough evidence it seemed to push them to unanimously agree and I think for most
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Cape cotters that's good [Music] enough well this case changed my life radically it's not something that you
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ever IM imagine you're going to have to deal with kind of like being in a dark tunnel I wonder if you'll ever see light
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[Music] again are you glad that this is finally all over now officially cleared as a
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suspect in Christa's murder Tony jacket is relieved at the verdict he know the jury deliberated and carefully looked at
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all the evidence although remarkably he isn't sure the jury got it right I felt there was Reasonable Doubt all over the
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place I think about the trial I think about what it did to me and and and I think
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about her Tim Arnold too is happy it's finally over but to this day he is haunted by
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what happened sometimes the weight of events forces you to look back whether you want to or not just something that's
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always there these happen to be a few snapshots I took of Ava and Christa when they were
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here only a couple of weeks before she was killed Ava lives still with her legal
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Guardians and by all accounts she is doing well one pretty little girl yeah she was really sweet when you look at
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this today what goes through your mind well you know I I mean basically I think she was really happy she was a great
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person we miss her a lot Ava never will remember those happy times but Christa's friends are
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determined that one day she will know how much her mother loved her how would you want to tell her about the
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past um a little bit at a time yeah is that good AA won't have her that's it's the enduring tragedy the
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whole thing [Music] for nearly 16 years 48 Hours has covered the aftermath of Christa worthington's
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murder and Christopher mowen's trial of guilty of murder in the first degree soon after his
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conviction the verdict was called into question when several jurors made allegations of racial bias during their
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deliberations that prompted the trial judge to take the unusual step of calling all all 12 jurors back to court
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to be questioned their testimony revealed there was racial tension in the Jury Room and macau's attorney Bob George
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thought it was sufficient grounds for a retrial well in my opinion it's enough to establish that the statements were
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made and that the bias statements were made now it's up to the judge to determine whether or not there's going
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to be a new trial but the judge ruled against maau upholding his conviction in 2010 the
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state Supreme Judicial Court agreed Mallen from the moment he was sentenced all I can say is that I'm an innocent
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man has refused to give up the fight Mr Macau do you deserve any trial he now has a new legal team and they have filed
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another motion for a new [Music] trial but for those closest to Christa Worthington like has moved on Tony
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jacket maintains a warm relationship with his daughter Ava who now is in college and continuing to thrive
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[Music] I was knocked unconscious I couldn't protect her 1978 a team murdered who
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would want to kill her and why 1984 another team murdered same Beach multiple suspects but one of them worked
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for the police 48 Hours Crime Time double feature continues next on CBS [Music]