eviden forensic evidence to show that his client was that person. in order to buy the state s case, you have to make assumption upon assumption upon assumption. that s not what our system is about. how did i do it? how on earth did not one single drop of blood get on my clothing, anything like that? or in your car, which was ripped apart. right. that s why i agreed to let them look. get what you want, because i knew i was innocent. the defense also tore into the credibility of the state s star witness, george solomon, saying it was ridiculous to think tim would get an invitation to spend the night with him after blurting out a murder confession. hey, i killed somebody just now or whatever. oh, really? okay. let s go see my wife and kids. no way. a confident tim permenter decided to speak directly to the
at that point we started attacking his story. tim had a simple explanation for the time line problems, he was confused. this is what cooperation got me. confused. confused? we know you weren t confused, tim, you lied. when the pizza arrived, i was still there. 8:48 delivered. and it was right after the pizza arrived. i would say i was there another ten, 15 minutes. why do you tell cops 7:30? i m horrible at times and days and the problem was is that macroing making a mistake became a i m hiding something. cops call your mistake a lie? of course. why do you lie at times? you were there at least 8:30 to 9:30. it s impossible. no izzo receipt. you can track, okay. tim had been slipped up by
relationship like that. the relationship began with tim trying to sell karen a new car. police learned he sold her a bill of goods about himself, saying he had been a navy seal, involved in top secret missions never mentioning the sort truth about his criminal past. karen told me he exfland scars as he got on a mission. super commando stuff? i think that was his impression of himself. why are you lying to her? giving her a crock? there is no excuse for it, other than if you are an inmate or a convicted felon, no matter how good you do, no matter what you do, there is always going to be that spectre hanging over you. it was several months into the relationship before tim finally revealed his ugly secret. he was a felon that spent more than a decade behind bars, not a navy seal but a violent one-time pimp. a self-described escort king.
there is a shovel at the main terminal. there were so many people there from all different airlines the security people, it was incredible. meanwhile, the pinellas county sheriffs investigation was moving quickly on several fronts. first, they validated boyfriend tim s story. he said after visiting karen early that evening, he spent the night with a friend, george solomon in moon lake an hour to the north. he did, in fact, go up to where george was staying with his girlfriend if pasco county. there was confirmed by george and george s girlfriend. george gave us a time line consistent with what permaner gave us. his story checked out and he voluntarily came clean. he had a record. he had done time. early noon in your life, you get in trouble. what was going on with you?
why and relying on the police to do what they needed to do. and what they had to do was plenty. they processed the crime scene, filmed every inch of karen s home, knocked on doors, tried to figure out just who their victim was. detectives hol brooke and larry melvin began with the man that made that 911 call. the first thing a lead investigator will do is talk to the people closest to her. in this case, we had timothy permanner finding the office. we took him back to the office and talked him to extensively. tim a car salesman, gave them a run down in the hours leading up to the terrible discovery. he said he popped in briefly on karen the night before to drop off a gift. a photo calendar of kittens he knew his cat lover girlfriend would find irresistible. tim said he left about 7:30.