played it out in his cruiser. he told the jury, this was the story about a spoiled woman, bambi bennett who manipulated her boyfriend, rick gagnon into doing her murderous dirty work. get back the deed, get her mother in law. he had heard from bambi how her parents were not fair to her, that they had her land, my parents were horrible people, they were taking advantage of me. to make things right, argued the prosecutor, the dutiful boyfriend and his right-hand man entered the house and hunted down bambi s parents in their nightclothes. the jury had just heard a drama of southern gothic proportions, dripping with family greed and hatred. now, it was time for an entirely different story. none of the puzzle pieces fit. rick s defense team, including attorney barbara pratt, told the court that the
fear. by now, humphries suspected bambi was somehow involved in her parents murders, but was skeptical she could commit a double homicide on her own. so the prosecutor turned her attention to bambi s boyfriend, rick gagnon. he was in line with bambi, extremely faithful to her. and according to humphries, willing to do anything for her. you have the daughter and boyfriend who seem to be in some kind of conspiracy with their egos? well, an agreement to accomplishing a goal. the alibi that bambi and rick gave detectives, that they were at home and leading up to the murders, was difficult to prove. each gave the other as a witness. they said, we were at home, you know. rick was, there i was there, my boys were in the next room. the prosecutor began to wonder, could this mysterious blood droplets at the crime scene be linked to rick and bambi? the evidence has not come back, we did not know you did not know if someone else has been in the house? it could have been ri
you. there was no here, there s no fingerprints, there is no dna. nothing. but he did have charlie s blood on his shoe. to humphries, that evidence was part of a bloody trail from the crime scene that was about to lead both the prosecutor and rick gagnon into a courtroom showdown. coming up one of rick gagnon s fellow inmates comes forward with a damning story. he s been given a fairly detailed account of what occurred that evening. stuff that had a bit in the newspapers. no. when dateline continues. two pills relieve allergy headache pain? and the congestion that causes it! flonase headache and allergy relief. psst! psst! all good! my a1c was up here; now, it s down with rybelsus®. flonase headache and allergy relief. his a1c? it s down with rybelsus®.
he noticed the blood. rick said he worried bambi, facing outside, might look in the window and freak out all over again. he went in, stepped through the bathroom and closed the blinds. and then he stepped in blood? that s the story? but it did not hold up? the case was already closed. that was the gut, the crime scene photos, say the prosecutors taken hours before rick supposedly steps inside that house. notice the bathroom blinds are drawn. humphries argue that rick could not have closed the blinds, because they were already shut. the prosecutor says the defendant was lying, though he believed rick had told the truth about the murders, to at least one other person. the states star witness, robert mullins. he called on the jailhouse informant, probably, but some people call him the jailhouse
or the very least, that she would give up rick. she did not do neither. you don t want to be charged. no. i m not going to be charged because i did not do anything. we are done, lock her up. because, you re not gonna tell us anything? we will lock you up. put some handcuffs on, are charged with two counts of murder. but the detectives were not yet done trying to break bambi. on the way to her booking, bambi said the hammer came down hard one more time. now, they surrounded me like a pack of wolves and said, go get those crime scene photos of her mom and dad. and i said, no, no, no. and that was trying to cover my face. and they were pulling my hands over my face. and he said, you did this. you. detectives said the same thing too rick gagnon. they arrested me, that was pretty much it. if bambi did it, then i had to be a part of it. so, there it was. a daughter and her boyfriend,