i don t know. it wasn t like really her. but when candra went back to the home she shared with julio, everything changed. and when she went inside the apartment, she fell apart. she said, mama and daddy, don t hate me, don t hate me. and i said, i could never hate you. and then she said she didn t know if it was an accident or not, that she did not see him shot. and i said, my god, candra, don t you realize that man murdered your husband? in this version, candra said she was alone making breakfast at the campsite when she heard a shot. tom brown came running from the woods. candra said she ran to see what had happened to julio.
to prove his story, tom took a lie detector test and passed. police ruled julio s death an accident. the sheriff s department was very supportive of tom brown. i think that they believed the stories and that they wanted to keep an innocent man from being locked behind bars. but a few days later, candra changed her story. pubut to get from theand yoold way to the new,d. you ll need the right it infrastructure.
that she witnessed the shooting and that it was an accident. to see if this version was true, candra took a lie detector test. tom brown had been given the lie detector test, and his actually said that he was telling the truth. he knew how to pass the lie detector test. so, if i took a lie detector test, then we d at least have equal evidence against him. but she failed. polygraphs do not measure truth or lie. what they measure is emotion. and if you were a 16-year-old girl that had been raped and marched up in the mountain and god saved you, brought you down out of that mountain, you re emotional, you re talking about your husband that you loved that was shot by this murderer, would you be emotional? i think so. with nowhere else to turn, investigators looked more closely at the physical evidence.
do not withhold your mercy from me. she said the one thing she feels that saved her life was reading aloud from the bible. then will i go to the altar of god, to god, my joy and my delight. his heart had been too touched and he wasn t able to kill me. so, he came to me instead and he started crying. and he said, i didn t kill your husband on purpose. it was an accident. and the reason that i brought you up here is because i m afraid to go back to prison. over the next several days, brown told candra repeatedly that julio s death was an accident. and he agreed to let her go, but only if she told authorities