for someone who is an adult like will, but is actually still quite young at heart, it felt inappropriate to his needs. i think it was noisy, it was scary, it wasn t as scary as the other one? it wasn t scary. yeah it wasn t scary, oh, 0k. it was for me. if potassium levels in will s blood drop too low, it affects the rhythm of his heart and that is when he ends up in hospital. last year, he spent a total of 16 nights there, and had 18 outpatient visits for blood checks. now, that happens at home. everything falls apart when your potassium level is low, doesn t it? that s right. the news is good. great. then we can come and check it again in two weeks.
following the attack o brittani. there was the shovel the knife, the duct tape, even the clothes brttani wa wearing. all collected and carefully stored away. and o course, when detective gonterman started workin brittani s case, she wanted to see it all first hand. when i went to pull evidenc and view it myself, it wasn there. where was it? it had been destroyed all of it gone due to a simple clerical error. when anyone retires, you ge a list of evidence on cases. there s a box. you either chec dispose or retain, and the box was checked dispose for this case i mean, what s that momen like when you re trying to solve this case, only to fin out that physical evidence has been destroyed by your own police department? well, i was pretty upset. i was pretty mad. okay, to b honest, i was really mad the most important piece of evidence, though, was that blood drop which was store separately. the defense woul want their own experts to test it. so if it was missing, too, the ca
his blood drop that you see here, marked as item number 1:12 matches the defendant. the heart of the prosecution s case was all that blood and dna evidence. which pointed squarely at oj simpson. but first, prosecutors detailed simpson and nichols troubled, sometimes violent relationships. which they said culminated in her murder. and in the final and terrible act, ronald goldman, and innocent bystander was viciously and senselessly murdered. later, denise brown gave the jury a of how simpson brutalized nicole right in front of her. the drug flew against the wall and this was a tough to go in there and recount what you had seen? yes, it was, i had just lost my sister. everything was just right there, i mean just so fresh. prosecutors also focused on
asked how he got them. travis explained he had been punched out by the hunter in the parking lot of the broken drum. can i see your hands? detective sholes noticed some scrapes on travis hands. what s the cuts here from? where is your costume now? my costume, we threw it away. why did you throw it away? i was looking at him, i saw what appeared to be a blood drop on his shoe. sholes pounced on that new lead. would we be able to take your shoes? take them? travis gave the cops everything they asked for. including a dna sample and permission to search his apartment where his lion costume was still in the trash. i gave them everything. without them needing to get a search warrant. i knew i didn t have anything to do with it. but investigators were suspicious. in part, because travis said he couldn t remember anything from the time he was punched until the time he got into a cab more than an hour later. and on the
there s a box. you either check dispose or retain, and the box was checked dispose for this case. i mean, what s that moment like when you re trying to solve this case, only to find out that physical evidence has been destroyed by your own police department? well, i was pretty upset. i was pretty mad. okay, to be honest, i was really mad. the most important piece of evidence, though, was that blood drop which was stored separately. the defense would want their own experts to test it. so if it was missing, too, the case against hansen might well be over. was that kind of a, oh, my gosh, what if this has been destroyed, too? yes. because then you re kind of done. i was stressed. i met with alana williams, the forensic scientist. she went to look for it and she found it. it was in the freezer. and so, thank god. still, prosecutor david waymire knew the case had taken a serious hit.