before even he moved in. he wanted to be with her so bad. and then, there was justin s post-traumatic stress disorder, carrie had talked to her about it, and she can relate. amanda s own military has been also struggled with ptsd. that could be a lot to handle, if you are not used to that, and then, you start dating a guy with ptsd. it is a lot to handle. tim told police that carrie thought her relationship with justin had reached a tipping point. and she was, yeah, i can t do this anymore. i can t even keep pretending, you know, that this is gonna be okay. tim then speculated that the problems in the relationship had escalated into that saturday morning fight. her and justin got in a fight. she didn t really wanted to go back, and get into more. she was still, she wanted him to learn his lesson. and how did tim know about that fight? carrie had gone through his house after running out on
he entertained the customers. he got up there and dance with them. he would sing songs. you know, he was a good guy. tim, a divorced father of two, with ten years older than carrie. but that did not seem to matter. they were having fun, and carrie could imagine a future together. she saw everyone around her getting married, and having children, myself included. and, i know she wanted that. but tim was not interested in having more children, and that was a deal breaker for carrie. so they decide to go their separate ways. carrie soon start dating justin mueller, an iraq war vet with a very different personality than the fun loving tim. he seemed very quiet and pleasant. he was polite, he was nice. he seemed a little awkward. despite his quiet and awkward demeanor, justin looked like a good fit for carrie. he was closer in age,
behind carrie s bubbly personality. i started thinking that maybe she had committed suicide somewhere. did you think carrie was capable of taking her own life? well, she seemed depressed at times. still, detectives needed to know more. they executed to search warrants. the first at the house carrie shared with her boyfriend justin. the search warrant that we prepared for carrie s house included everything that justin owned and justin s vehicle. justin s vehicle was checked and photographed, and a sweep was made in the house. it was tidy, undisturbed, didn t look like a crime scene. another search was done at ex-boyfriend tim mcvay s house. we wanted to get into his residence, and see, was she there, was she not there? are there any clues that we need to build on? detective tina noe executed the search on tom s home. we took lots of photographs. you never know what s gonna be important, possibly, later on. tim was in the middle of a major renovation. the house was a me
time he saw carrie. did you say goodbye? i didn t really have a chance to say goodbye. just the way she left, i mean, i tried to base to say goodbye, yes. justin acknowledge that she was upset with him. the way she stormed out of the door, and i thought, maybe i upset her. in a minor way, because i wasn t paying attention to her somehow. as the hours of carrie s unexplained absence and silence grew, so did justin s concern and his texts. prosecutors had him read them in court. baby, come home, i love you. i am sorry for whatever i did. i love you. colby and i miss you. is everything okay? i gave colby his meal. did you get any kind of response? no. now, it s sunday night at 8:10. where you started to get worried then? yes. although there was no evidence presented about mcvay s motive for murder, in closing arguments, the prosecutors offered their theory. he killed carrie s in a twisted fit of rage, because he demanded her car to get to the airport, and she had sa
has he . wasn t striking you, right? no, he wasn t. he has never struck me. defense attorney also contacted detective-able thomas, who traced that trouble to big lots in wisconsin. you have no because of the transaction, right? you have no receipts with tom s name on any of that day? no, it s paid by cash. the defense confronted justin mueller. police said he was spotted in the town where carrie s phone last paint, but he wouldn t admit it. do you remember being in the milan area and all that, during the week? no. his phone records put his phone at the very least, in milan. another person indicated that he was seen in milan. what do you make of that? i think it is a huge hole in the prosecution s case. the defense also challenged the states evidence, like the carpet fibers found in carrie s hair, that investigators said matched the carpeting in mcvay