mother. her story see much easier to believe than the prosecution s theory of an elaborate frame to just a custody dispute. common sense tell you you do not plot implant murder during an hour timeframe when you have three murdered children at home. the defense argued forget about it. but it does not tell you who kills dustin, it is really relevant to the case, a red herring. as far as i m going to the home, there s absolutely no evidence to support. that tracy and i would not talk about the attack a lot, and the testimony of tracy s best friend, mary higgins, says the defense. when she is interviewed in 2002, and 2003, she makes no reference to any journal. mary gave four or five different versions of what she
in this area. and someone had cleaned it up. so now you have a theory of foul play to explain the disappearance? now we have a theory of foul play. where investigators looking at jr as a potential suspect? he was looked at as a person of interest. mostly because marilyn said, this guy could ve done it. but jr also had a defender. linda s ex-husband, dave. could you personally feel, if jr would be somebody that could do something your being accused? no. i strongly believe he, he didn t do a thing. he is the only one that s tried to help her. and marilyn s the one pointing the fingers at him. of course, investigators had to wonder. after all, jr had backed dave in the custody dispute with linda. could dave be covering for him now? for that matter, where was dave the night linda disappeared? from what time to what time were you home? sunday i was here all day long.
there was never his way, so he didn t stick around. he divorced her? yes, sir. did you blame him? no, sir, not at all. state police say when they talked to jennifer s first husband, he described an us-against-them mentality in jennifer s insular family. they did everything together. you were either a part of their family or you weren t. stephen watkins was clearly no longer part of the family, after the divorce filing, accusations of child molesting and the custody dispute. now jennifer was losing that dispute. abuse allegations had been found baseless. a court hearing about increased visitation for stephen had been scheduled. how concerned is the skinner family about this visitation ruling? very concerned, very concerned. in their view sydney was their property. they were not going to share their property with anyone outside that skinner family, even stephen watkins. the skinner family was circling the wagons for themselves, and he was the enemy. jennifer and her fam