free. we ve we ve got to get this case solved. on this day, larry and sandra s mom toshie had to see darren at grandson austin s little league game. that s darren on the field coaching. and in the dugout with his girlfriend cherrine, a woman he d known since before sandra s murder. and it was at this point, 2009, three years after sandra s murder, when larry felt the time had come for him to go from investigator to avenger. he was seriously thinking about killing darren. if i ever figure out a way to get away with it, it will happen. fortunately, the arrival of a new kauai police chief put his hands on hold. darryl perry, a 30-year veteran of the honolulu pd, agreed to meet with larry and listen to his theories about the case. he showed to me the scene and explained to me what happened, and i could feel his
we ve we ve got to get this case solved. on this day, larry, and sandra s mom, toshie, had to see darren at grandson austin s little league game. that s darren on the field, coaching. and in the dugout, with his girlfriend, cherene, a woman he d known since before sandra s murder. and it was at this point, 2009, three years after sandra s murder, when larry felt the time had come for him to go from investigator to avenger. he was seriously thinking about killing darren. if i figure out a way to get away with it, it ll happen. fortunately the arrival of a new kauai police chief put his plans on hold. darryl perry, a 30-year veteran of the honolulu p.d. agreed to meet with larry and listen to his theories about the case. and he showed me the scene.
tell us that he did know what it was like to lose a child. he came out of retirement and took the job as head of the kauai police department after the sudden death of his 26-year-old son, erickson. i feel in a way that i m working through him. that he motivates me. i believe that things happen for a reason. and in fact, i told larry this. i told him, there s a reason why we met. i don t know what the reasons are. but i m here for you. so after meeting with larry, chief perry sent sandra s file to a couple of friends in honolulu investigators with the state attorney general s cold case unit. i asked them to see if they can find anything else that we may have missed. and they did indeed find something using what was breakthrough science for that time, early 2009 cold-case investigators extracted touch dna from sandra s shirt and bra. chief perry called larry with the news. and he said they got something.
you know, it was still dark. ponce also found this email sandra sent her lawyer just three weeks before her murder. darren started asking me about my boyfriend, as he calls him, ryan. he got really upset and started swearing at me. he started shaking me telling me to tell him the truth and don t ever call him again. ponce worked the investigation for close to a year. and as he weighed and reweighed the evidence, he always came back to darren. who lacked an alibi. who called in sick to work. who gave conflicting accounts about the morning the of the murder. who left blank the diary entry for the 25th. who failed a polygraph. who was jealous of ryan. who never called sandy to find out why she didn t pick up the boys. ponce delivered his final report to chief perry, and prosecutor iseri, and a handful of fellow investigators.
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