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it was on a cold wet winter night that a
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woman called police to report her
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husband missing the man was a marathon
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runner who had gone for a workout but
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never
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returned forensic evidence revealed that
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wherever the man went he ran into some
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trouble
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deep in the heart of Southern California
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lies the small town of Valley Center an
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hours drive from San Diego it's a quiet
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and peaceful community surrounded by
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Hills and
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farmland The Rustic setting appealed to
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Jane and Robert dorek who had been
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married almost 30
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years the couple lived on an 18 acre
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horse ranch they called Charisma
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Farms to Jane horses were her life she
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obviously was very passionate about her
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horses this was one of her great loves
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Bob preferred the outdoors in camping
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his passion was physical fitness and he
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was a marathon runner the thing he
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enjoyed most was going camping with his
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family with his sons in particular they
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would go and different uh hikes up uh
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Mount McKinley or they would go for
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hikes down into the Grand Canyon and you
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know spend the night there the couple
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had three grown children two sons and a
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daughter Claire who still lived at home
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Claire was a marathoner and an expert
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horsewoman on a Sunday night in February
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of 2000 Jane dtic called the sheriff to
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report her husband
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missing she said Bob had gone running a
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few hours earlier but never returned
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home when she reported him missing what
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was going through my mind even though
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he's a jogger and ran marathons I mean
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they do have uh hard attacks and things
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like that sometimes when they're
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jogging it wasn't unusual for Bob to
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take long runs but he had never been out
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this
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long the sheriff and his deputies
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searched the entire area concentrating
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on Bob's usual running
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routes the search was ended at 4:30 the
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next morning with the discovery of a
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body I noticed something on off to my
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left in the brush that appeared to be a
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body I stopped my vehicle had my
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Spotlight shining on the vehicle and
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then I walked out and confirmed that it
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was a
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body I could also see some trauma to the
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head as well as a cord wrapped around
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the victim's neck my initial thought in
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looking at the trauma to the body that
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this was a
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homicide the lack of blood in the area
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revealed that Bob's injuries had
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occurred
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elsewhere we found Tire impressions in
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mud two sets of those and we found shoe
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Impressions that weren't usable but they
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were just like deep holes in the leaf
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litter that was on the ground there were
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drag marks in the mud from the area of
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the tire Impressions to the
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body and there was a clue that Bob
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hadn't been jogging that
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day his shoes were very clean he didn't
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have have any mud or any Splash marks
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water marks on his shoes and the
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information I had obtained earlier was
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that he went out for a jog on the
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previous day which uh had been a rainy
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day as well a piece of doric's head hair
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was found underneath his shirt on his
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chest suggesting that he had been
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dressed after death and there was
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another indication someone else had
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dressed
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him his shoelaces were tied on the
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outside of his shoes the knot itself was
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not tied in the middle of the shoe as if
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somebody were to have tied their own
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shoe um the knots were on the outside
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whoever dumped the body left mountains
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of forensic
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evidence investigators knew if the
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killer was this sloppy here he'd be just
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as careless elsewhere
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word of Bob dtic murder spread quickly
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to friends and family alike it was Bob's
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son Alex who called his father's best
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friend I was standing in the kitchen
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with my wife picked up the phone and and
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he said Jim this is Alex dork and I said
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Alex how you doing he goes not too good
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they just found Bob
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murdered and um I couldn't believe it
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forensic scientists began their
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investigation by attempting to identify
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the vehicle at the crime
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scene from the tire impressions in the
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mud they measured the distance between
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the wheels the vehicle was identified as
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a pickup
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truck next they analyzed photographs of
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the tire
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Impressions first you have to look at
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the width of the tire track there's
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different size tires uh second you look
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at the design uh every tire manufacturer
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has multiple tread designs that they
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make designed for different types of
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Road
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handling the pickup truck had three
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different tire models The Impressions
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were compared to the thousands of tires
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on the
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market I noticed that the front two
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tires were the same brand tire which was
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a big O brand de IA identified the side
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rear tire as a firestone
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radial and the passenger side rear tire
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as a coper brand Discoverer
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model at the autopsy the medical
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examiner determined the dtic died due to
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blunt force trauma to the head with some
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type of
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hammer there were also signs he had been
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strangled inside his stomach was the
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undig rested dinner Bob consumed on
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Saturday night which meant he was killed
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on
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Saturday Jane said Bob left home on
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Sunday
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afternoon despite his mild mannered
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demeanor a background check revealed Bob
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dor and his wife separated just a few
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years earlier although they had recently
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reconciled and Bob had often been at
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odds with his wife and daughter over the
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costs of running the horse
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ranch Jane and CLA favored investing
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more money into the ranch for
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expansion and there was the possibility
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of a disgruntled
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employee Ranch Foreman lonel Morales had
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long sided with Claire dork in the
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debate over whether to expand the
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ranch we felt it warranted further
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investigation and an interview with him
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to see what time he when was the last
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time he was there and what did he do
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when he was there Leonel Morales CLA and
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Jane dork all denied any involvement in
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Bob's murder lonel and Claire each had
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aliis Jane said she was home all day
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working with the
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horses she cooperated with police by
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voluntarily allowing them to search her
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home actually the homicide detective
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took me aside before he went in and said
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now Carolyn this is a consent search um
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so I want you to all we're looking for
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is patent obvious blood don't be
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crawling under things and looking up
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don't be opening drawers don't be doing
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anything just be as inobtrusive as
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possible it was muddy so it's a no shoe
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house so to be polite is a consent
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search and this is the only time ever in
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my life I've done this at a scene take
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off my shoes investigators examined the
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house and especially the master
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bedroom and found nothing out of the
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ordinary but criminalist Carolyn ganet
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decided to take a closer look around and
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it was in her stocking feet that ganet
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made her Discovery just happened to step
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in one corner of the bedroom and I could
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feel wet carpet underneath my feet
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through my stocking feet and my heart
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just jumped cuz I knew exactly what that
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was the bedroom floor was wet as if
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something had recently been cleaned from
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the floor and the carpet had a slight
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tinge of red what really struck me was
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how how easily we could have missed it
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if we hadn't taken off our shoes we
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would have missed it we would not have
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found that scene at all I asked the
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family if there would be any reason that
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we would find blood in the master
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bedroom the family number of family
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members began to speak uh one was Jane
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dorch sister Bonnie long who had
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indicated that one of the dogs had cut
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his declaw and uh had been
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bleeding investigators decided to
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conduct more tests to see if it was dog
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blood in the bedroom or something
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more not long after the murder of
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55-year-old Bob Dora tick investig
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vators had no shortage of forensic
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evidence or suspects in the master
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bedroom of the doric's
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home investigators found traces of Blood
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on the floor that had been cleaned
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up and when they looked
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closer they found even more they could
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see what appeared to be blood spatter
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all across the comforter of the bed I
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could see blood spatter on the headboard
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I could see blood spatter on the wall
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behind the
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bed and there was blood on the brick
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wall and on the stove in the corner of
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the bedroom some had even dripped down
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into a utility room below I looked at
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the stains on the wall stains on the
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brick work and they were all consistent
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with uh in size about a half a
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millimeter in diameter maybe a little
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bit less a little bit more with medium
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velocity it's what I would expect to
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have seen in a beating merits analysis
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revealed the blood spatter emanated from
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the top of the bed where Bob may have
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been
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sleeping the shapes of the stains on the
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wall and on the nightstand uh showed me
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the direction they were traveling in so
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I just took strings on the wall knowing
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the direction they were traveling and
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pulled them
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back taped them onto the wall which gave
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me an area of
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convergence that area of convergence
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told forensic scientists the location of
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Bob's head during the
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attack Meritt also found castoff blood
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spatter on the ceiling created when
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blood is thrown from a moving object
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there was circular stains on the ceiling
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directly above the bed that's the first
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indication of calf off the other
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indication is directional stains linear
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stains going away from that site so
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there were stains on the ceiling
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basically in a line going towards uh the
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wall DNA testing confirmed it was Bob
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doric's
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blood based on an interpretation of the
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blood spatter investigators believed
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doric's death came from a massive head
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wound the attack didn't occur out on
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that road that attack based on the blood
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stains occurred in that
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room inside the home investigators also
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found a piece of black rope consistent
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with the Rope found around Bob's
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neck I told Jane we were confident and
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there was no doubt that Bob was
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assaulted in the master bedroom and the
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family
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gasped but investigators found no blood
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anywhere else in the
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home meaning the killer had carried the
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body downstairs and out of the house
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police couldn't find the murder weapon
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or any bloody clothing inside the home
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and there were no signs of forced
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entry an intruder never takes the time
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to clean a crime scene I've been a law
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enforcement about 28 years I've not seen
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or known of one case where an intruder
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has come into a house murdered somebody
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inside a house and cleaned up
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afterwards police found the pickup truck
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in the garage there were no visible
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signs of blood so investigators looked
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to see if blood had been
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removed we used Florine we sprayed most
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of the outside of the truck and also the
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inside and we did find several areas
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that fluoresced there was one area um in
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particular on the bed of the truck that
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Florest it was fairly large which was an
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indication blood had been present then
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washed
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off DNA testing of the hidden blood
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residue showed the blood was
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Bob's the left front tire is turned
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towards me and I can see the pattern on
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the tire clearly as I'm approaching it
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and I know what it's supposed to look
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like for the Tire in that location if it
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were at The Bu dump scene and as I
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closer and closer it looks like it I'm
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getting closer it clearly could be it
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and and I get right up to and I'm I'm
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sure that this is the right
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impression the front tires were type O
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brand the passenger side rear tire was a
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Cooper Discoverer the driver side rear
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tire was a firestone radial all were
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identical to the Impressions left at the
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crime
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scene the white pickup truck was
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registered to Jane
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dork before leaving the residence
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investigators found one last piece of
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evidence in the trash there were
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actually several syringes and one of the
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syringes was a large barrel
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syringe appeared to be a syringe that
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might be used on
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animals the syringe contained Trace
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Amounts of a potent horse tranquilizer
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called Ace
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promazine it's also known as Mellow
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Yellow from the song from the' 60s um
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only 3 Ms would put my horse make my
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horse very sleepy toxicology tests did
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not detect a promazine in Bob's blood
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sample although it could have been
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present in amounts too small for testing
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to
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identify on the outside of the syringe
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was a bloody
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fingerprint the blood was Bob
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dtic the finger print was
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Janes you'll often hear it said that one
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of the best things you can find at a
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crime scene is a suspect's fingerprint
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in the victim's blood and now how do you
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explain that 3 days after Bob dork was
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found dead on the side of a road his
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wife Jane was
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arrested and charged with
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murder your honor I'd like to say that
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I'm innocent
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I loved my husband I love him
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still in May 2001 Jane dtic stood trial
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for the murder of her husband
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Robert prosecutors believe that Jane
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injected Bob with the horse tranquilizer
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while he was sleeping on Saturday
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night she then struck him in the head
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while he was in bed
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and then on the floor near the
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stove when Jane threw away the syringe
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she left her fingerprint in Bob's
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blood after dressing the body she either
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carried or dragged it downstairs to her
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pickup
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truck when she left the body alongside
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the road she did everything but sign her
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name to the
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crime the clean shoes were proof he had
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not been jogging the shoelaces showed
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that someone else had tied
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them and the blood underneath his shirt
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was proof he had been dressed after he
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was
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dead and then there were the tire
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Impressions from her pickup
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truck friends saw Jane late Sunday
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afternoon at a nearby shopping center
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which is where prosecutors think she
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threw away her bloody clothes and the
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murder
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weapon everything that was collected
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just pointed the finger at Jane dork
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there all these different pieces of a
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puzzle and when you put it all together
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it just pointed the finger at Jane
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dork the motive appeared to be money
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Jane was very interested in spending a
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lot of money on the horses the care of
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the horses the boarding of the horses he
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didn't mind Jane's uh hobby Jane and
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cla's hobby with the horses however that
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they regularly had disagreements about
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how many Family Resources this hobby
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should
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use two years earlier when the couple
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separated Jane learned that under
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California law she would have to pay Bob
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alimony in the event of a divorce since
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she was the primary wage earner Bob
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initially told me that she was extremely
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angry about the possibility of having to
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pay him alimony it it made her
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livid and that uh she got very
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threatening we found some letters dated
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the Friday before he was killed where he
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was already looking for a job maybe he
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said this isn't working out and I think
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we should go ahead and get a divorce and
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she was not about to pay him any
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alimony at the trial the fence claimed
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that Claire dork with the help of Leonel
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Morales killed Bob
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dork they produced a letter Claire wrote
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to her father filled with deep hostility
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over alleged
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abuse she just lived her life and trying
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to please her father and it built up a
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tremendous amount of hatred and
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resentment over the years about her
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relationship with her father the defense
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claimed that Leonel Morales was
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sympathetic to cla's position was
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suggested that since he basically worked
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for CLA dork and CLA dork didn't like
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her father that he would do anything for
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CLA but police were satisfied that each
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had a solid
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Alibi we were confident that CLA was out
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of town for the weekend and Jane was the
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only one that was home and Jane was the
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only suspect in our
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mind Claire do you know why your mom is
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pointing the finger at you CLA Dora tick
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and Leonel Morales invoked their Fifth
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Amendment right against
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self-incrimination and did not
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testify Jane offered no explanation for
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how her fingerprint in her husband's
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blood was found on a syringe containing
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a horse
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tranquilizer after 3 days of
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deliberation the jury returned their
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verdict cause find the defendant Jane
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Margaret dork guilty of the crime of
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Murder in the First Degree in violation
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I was sad but I was I was elated that
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Justice was served from me she stole you
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know one of my best friends away from me
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and from all his other friends and it
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was it was the worst kind of theft
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really Jane dork was sentenced to 25
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years in
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prison there was no dispute about the
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critical role forensic evidence played
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in Jane doric's
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conviction the forensic made it clear he
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wasn't out for a jog as she explained
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the forensics made it clear his shoes
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were tied and his clothing was put on
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after that body was pummeled and so the
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forensics told the story as so often is
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true when you find a body in a homicide
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case the body itself tells a story
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one
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