there s really no other explanation for what has happened. when you left the techel residence, who was there? two prominent families, the caldwells and techels, once close in-laws, were now fiercely divided, camped on opposite sides of the courtroom. seth had pleaded not guilty. i was like, just look at me, like, i wanna see kind of in your eyes, how you re doing, but he doesn t look at you. she was like my best friend. prosecutors called to the stand their emotional trump card. todd caldwell remembered his lisa. everyone would tell me how much lisa and i are alike, and i would just tell everybody that she s the best parts of me. the prosecution had the burden of proving the charges, first degree murder and nonconsensual termination of a pregnancy. what did you think your strongest fact was going forward, strongest part of your story for a jury? probably the most important single piece of evidence was the shotgun. ballistics showed this mossberg 12-gauge was the
get him. go get him now, and i thought, they better get to him before i do. brian tate had been embroiled in an escalating feud with his neighbors lisa and seth. todd knew all about it and was certain his daughter was now dead because of it. this is this culmination of bad blood s been going on for a month s time or more now? right. it started about two months before the murder. seth pulled a dead deer off the road along the property line. brian tate later tossed the hide onto seth s property. seth tossed it back, and the battle was on. tate made several calls to the county, complaining about nasty acts of vandalism. todd caldwell responded to one in april. and tate pointed the finger at his young neighbor. i can t remember names. seth, seth techel. seth techel? yup. torkel? techel. techel. yeah, his dad owns champion bowl. okay. and i ll tell i just they re good people. they really are. now this guy, brian tate, does he know that you re the father-in
let s go with your theory here that was an intruder, right? i mean, is that fair to call that s the only thing i can think of. what do you think this person s intent was? i don t know. you d have to be a complete [bleep] to walk into somebody s house and shoot them. seth then bolstered the cops leading theory of the crime so far, that the neighbor, brian tate, had shot lisa. who was the first person that came to your mind? tate. my crazy neighbor who thinks that we re terrorists. seth went into detail about that juvenile tit-for-tat dispute with tate that started over a deer hide. he suspected tate tossed it over the fence so he said he responded in
that i was dorothy because i m such a grouch all the time. [laughs] but yeah, that was my favorite time with lisa. i m so lucky. but step-mom amy put on her enforcer hat when it came to lisa s teenage romantic life. i wanted to know who the boyfriends were. i wanted to know who their parents were. i was the one that they had to pass the test with. the boyfriend who passed with flying colors was a kid named seth techel. he came from a long time local family. his grandfather had been the mayor. mom was a social worker. dad owned a local bowling alley. the bowling alley was where seth as a young teen began noticing lisa. his dad was her high school coach and seth bowled almost but not quite as
my body i guess. on may 20th, 2012, seth and rachel met at a nature preserve, where they took this selfie to remember their time together. i mean he kissed me, touched me. he said that we had everything in common and that he had tried working things out with lisa and things weren t working and i was exactly what he wanted. she said seth repeatedly told her he was going to divorce his wife. did he say he loved you? yes. but rachel was hedging her bets. she told seth she was also interested in a co-worker named brandon, who just happened to call her during her tryst with seth in the park. he just started getting really jealous. and so on the 20th when he learned that you were communicating with brandon, he said what? just give me two more weeks. did you ask him what he