what did you hear? they were in the bedroom. did you know what was going on in that bedroom? i had kind of a good idea. i knew they were [ bleep ] around. when i heard her make weird sounds, i just said [ bleep ] this, i don t want to be a part of any crime scene and left. if they told you the son was going to come up you d get a second opinion. 13 years later you look at somebody for who they are when they come before you. the jury can believe some, all or none of what these people testify to. then there were expert witnesses like this pathologist who said that dna testing had advanced so much in the years since hannah s death now they could detect denny s dna on blood droplets discarded in the trash bag and on the t-shirt found on her body in the car. the dna profile from it one of the cuttings from inside the pockets is consistent with denny ross.
but if they told you the sun comes up in the east, you get a second opinion. 10, 15 years later, i think you look at somebody for who they are when they come before you. the jury can believe some, all or none of what these people testified to. and then there were expert witnesses, like this pathologist who said that dna testing had advanced so much in the years since hannah s death that now they could detect denny s dna in blood droplets in hannah s pants discarded in that trash bag. and even on the t-shirt on hannah s body inside the car. one of the cuttings from inside the pockets is consistent with denny ross. the new evidence: his blood on the victim s clothing seemed to belie his testimony of two teenagers making out, kissing and stuff. there is usually no blood unless it is a violent exchange. one of the prosecutor s witnesses was this one, who said
ernie scherer is charged with murdering his parents. the evidence against him was largely circumstantial except for a small slip of paper discovered at the crime scene that could be the key to blowing the case wide open. here again, keith morrison. it was september 2010, just months before ernie scherer iii was to go on trial for the murder of his parents. prosecutors pored over the evidence scott dudek and his detectives had collected. was there anything else? anything they missed, they might use to seal the case against ernie scherer? and that s when they saw it. something quite odd. they came across a piece of paper that we had collected that had blood droplets on it. just one small piece of paper, which one of the
and according to humphries, willing to do anything for her. you ve got the daughter and boyfriend who seem to be in some sort of conspiracy? the theory goes. an agreement to accomplish a goal. the alibi bambi and rick gave detectives that they were at home during the hours leading up to the murders was difficult to prove. each gave the other as a witness. she said, we were at home. you know, rick was there, i was there, my boys were in the other room. the prosecutor began to wonder, could those mysterious blood droplets at the crime scene be linked to rick and bambi. dna results did not come back. you knew somebody else was in the house. it could have been rick. as humphries waited for the results, he obtained a search warrant and took another look at some of rick and bambi s belongings. including their shoes. there s blood on the shoe. what did the lab analysis say about that? it was big charlie s blood. the prosecutor didn t buy rick s story about having ste
you know, i m not real sure. i m at the river bottom, and there s some pools of blood. and i m guessing it s just an animal, but in the water right by the river there s a shoe. reporter: sergeant chad carpenter was one of the first on the scene. this is what the jogger sees, blood here. pooling blood? clotted blood? yeah, so basically in this area right here, you had the blood droplets. and then on the cement right here you had mud in this area. on that beam right there. in this area you had a little bit of blood. and then you had pooling down on the ground right there. and then in this area, down to those rocks, was where the majority of the blood had been deposited. reporter: down there is where most of the blood was? yeah. it was a large amount of blood. reporter: with all the wildlife around, they thought it might be animal blood, but we called forensics out and we did a presumptive test, which was able to tell us that it actually was human blood. reporter: human