know who bill was. even though that was clearly not true. i don t know you. what do you mean you don t? bill told her that law enforcement already know all about their previous conversation. they have the tape recording of you and i talking. no, i don t know. you do you understand that they have a tape recording? that i turned it in. because i m protecting myself, in my family? do you understand that? i don t know. you you can t say you don t ow me, you would be lying. if he s telling you to do this. amy this is not good. amy why are you protecting him? i did not protect. him i don t know. you she was still scared. maybe of bill. remember, lonnie had made him sound like against or. and as he prefaced amy, bill seemed to lean into that role. i am not here to kill you. i am here to, i am here to
operating this new business, these bouncy houses for children. we told him he was arrested for the murder of mickey. and at that point, he claimed to give us a statement. he didn t say anything? he didn t say anything. it was lonnie s right to remain silent as he was under arrest for murder. he was booked into the county jail. how did that feel? actually it felt pretty good. it felt pretty good. for his family, it was welcome news. what did you think? i go. what a relief. after seven years. because i knew he had something to do with mckee s murder. and one thing had not changed, there was still no physical evidence tying lonnie
the trial of lonnie for the murder of mikey was well underway. in fact, the courtroom was probably one of the last paces left with a lawyer. outside, it was chaos. the impact of coronavirus around the world is becoming more dire. it is a global battle against the virus spreading fast. in italy tonight, infections are spiking. all of these witnesses have come from italy. and we literally, within 48 hours of the last one going back to italy? there is news about coronavirus hitting italy. and within a day, we re seeing that there is a travel ban in italy. and i m thinking, what is happening? next, the orange county court calendar was wiped clean. were you worried that the trial had to pause because of the pandemic?
mechanical asphyxia. there is strangulation. or by means of strangulation. under cross examination, the doctor testified that despite those bruises on her thighs. he did not believe that mickey had been raped. he did see trauma to the back of her head. possibly called by a blunt object. could it have been a wine bottle that did not break? it could be any object that had a convex surface. it could even be a bottle, yes. the question was why lonnie would want her dead? according to prosecutors, the motive was money. lonnie had been the beneficiary of mickey s will. meaning, all that money that he parked with her during the legal troubles, belong to lonnie after she died. when bill price took the witness stand. it was to testify against his former, close friend. he looked down. he looked around. he couldn t look me in the eye. but i looked at him. i m not ashamed of anything that i said it did. remember, bill had confronted lonnie about what amy told him. which was that bill
mckee s niece, julie, was trying to get him arrested for mckee s murder. buy separately taping their conversations. lonnie said that he was really hurt. then for her to accuse me. of something that i did not do. after, i thought we were trying to help each other upset me greatly. lonnie said julie that wasn t the only one who took advantage of his kindness. there was also bill price. the friend who turned on him. and of course, amy nguyen. lonnie called her a gold digger. said she was lying. and said that bill price put her up to it. i don t trust any of them. didn t trust any of them, and don t trust any of them when it comes to a relationship.