we re hoping for a different outcome. reporter: one jaw-dropping difference the defendant himself, a classic before-and-after weight loss, about 75 pounds worth. when i went to prison, my main goal was to lose everything and become fit. a lot of courtroom observers thought you cleaned your client up quite a bit. in appearances and also his interior, his demeanor, huh? yeah, he looked a lot more presentable and also he he grew up a lot. reporter: the defense had pulled its punches on bill kyne in trial one but not this time. he s the obvious suspect. reporter: now, it seemed as though bill was the one on trial. bill kyne has lied over and over and over again. he s lied to save his own skin. he s lied to protect himself. he s lied to set up my client for murder. and the state expects you to convict kevin based on that man s word. it was funny. judge probably said 20 times, you know, there are two sets of prosecutors in this room. reporter: allison miller played
case revolved around the what so-called scientific evidence, and that was absolutely destroyed. and then you ended up with the character assassination block. some courtroom observers believe the defense had already created a reasonable doubt that testifying was in fact, risky. especially for paul, said his friend. knowing paul the way i know paul and the way he could be interpreted incorrectly, i was very nervous about paul taking the stand. risky or not, paul was determined to tell the jury his side of the story. i thought, you know, if there was any way this jury thought this man was responsible for this, now they know for sure that he s not.
ready and us, as a family unit, anyway, he asked, if paul attacked jennifer, wouldn t she will sit down with them and it tell them what happened one day. have put up some kind of a reporter: tell them the fight? tragic story of a man and a woman who sank in the undertone of what once was love. we got an outcome that nancy deserves, but it s also not a why were there no defensive winning hand for anybody. and brad lost his life as well. there s many things that were marks or scratches on paul lost, lives that have been zumot s body? forever changed. that s all for now. did the prosecution even have a for all of us at nbc news, thanks for joining us. case? paul zumot wasn t going to take any chances. in fact, he was determined to tell the jury his side of the my dad on the phone told us jenny was gone. a house in flames. the body of a woman inside. we have a body. i need a medic. story. so gerados assigned a female colleague to question paul. but it wasn t the fire that kil
and we slept together and we took two xanaxes. she took two more before me and we went to bed. so you slept together that night? oh, yeah. made up and then we video ourselves. i mean, honestly, i probably shouldn t be saying that but that s her phone, her video. so you had sex with her last night and videoed it? yeah. sure enough. when police looked at jennifer s cell phone, there was a video. she and paul having sex after their fight hours before she was murdered. so enthusiastically that anybody who watches it is never going to have the impression or take away from that that this was somebody who was ready to kill her. and as for that cell tower evidence that the prosecutor gillingham presented that seemed to show that paul had jennifer s phone with him and sending out fake messages in her name? that was nonsense, says geragos. that was one of the pieces of information that was imploded. we went and got the engineer, the actual engineer from the carrier to come in a
colleague to question paul. it must have been a strategy, whispered courtroom observers. the way to show the jury that paul could, in fact, interact well with a woman. but those observers were mistaken, said geragos. well, i generally i don t think direct examination is my strong suit and i was concentrating on cross-examination of the witness. so paul zumot looked the jurors in the eyes and told them, i did not kill jennifer schipsi, did not burn the house. then he told them how despite their roller coaster relationship, he truly loved jennifer. his love letter presented a letter she had written him and