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