work. but things clearly changed after that. remember, they were all lovey-dovey and paul was even talking marriage the night before the fire. and now here he was not more than a year later on trial for her murder, listening to the prosecutor take the jury inside the last days of paul s relationship with jennifer. how did gillingham do that? jennifer s cell phone. detectives discovered and this was rather curious that most of her text message history had been deleted. but law enforcement has changed a lot. it s had to, to keep up with high tech. the palo alto cops managed to find a phone expert all the way across the country in new hampshire who had a very deep look into that cell phone and was able to pull up thousands, literally thousands of deleted text messages between jennifer and paul in the last few months of her life. and, oh, boy. from jennifer, you re nothing but a selfish cold-hearted scam artist liar. furious. that didn t read like any old quarrel. and the timing? jen
candlelight vigils outside of paul s hookah lounge by jennifer s friends and family. we decided to stand in front of his establishment every night until he made his plea. eventually, no surprise, paul did plead not guilty. and prosecutor chuck gillingham found himself sifting through the records of a two-year romance studded with restraining orders, bitter quarrels, scratches, bruises, 911 calls. these are two people who had makeups and breakups and she gave verbally as good as she got. after one of their flare-ups, paul was ordered to attend anger management classes.
a sealed crime scene. rosie was trained to identify some of the tools of arson kerosene, oil, gasoline. rosie stopped in her tracks. she d apparently found something. chuck gillingham is a deputy district attorney in palo alto. was gasoline there? no question at all. it s in her hair. you can smell it when you walked in just with your own nose, and the remnants of the gas can was found next to her right hip. there was still enough remnants of the gas can to identify the type and make and model of the gas can. wow. that s like somebody leaving a gun beside the body with their fingerprints all over it, isn t it?
but that was the night before. angry messages buzzing back and forth. then, as the cell phone revealed, the pair made love during the night before jennifer s morning text messages again turned red hot angry. the subject seemed to be a debt she claimed he owed her. right around 10:30, 10:45 into 11:16 in the morning she s now referring back to those text messages and telling him, he better bring a check and don t come back or she s going to the san jose police department to file a charge by 3:00 that day. and that s the last text message anyone has with her, the last contact she has ever with anyone. and just before noon is when paul lost his temper and choked her to death, drove to a gas station, bought a can of gasoline. later, returned home and torched the house. and somewhere along the way, said the prosecutor, he erased it all of those angry text messages she sent him. every single one between the defendant and her, every single one is gone. months worth. and then paul us
few months before the fire, but then she was not happy about paul, not at that point, anyway. i have pictures of the damage that he did to all of my furniture. he kicked in my car. somebody saw him at starbucks spit in my face on my way to work. but things clearly changed after that. remember, they were all lovey-dovey and paul was even talking marriage the night before the fire. and now here he was not more than a year later on trial for her murder, listening to the prosecutor take the jury inside the last days of paul s relationship with jennifer. how did gillingham do that? jennifer s cell phone. detectives discovered and this was rather curious that most of her text message history had been deleted. but law enforcement has changed a lot. it s had to, to keep up with high tech. the palo alto cops managed to find a phone expert all the way across the country in new hampshire who had a very deep look into that cell phone and was able to pull up thousands, literally thousands o