steve hollerman survived the crash with only minor injuries and toxicology tests revealed no drugs or alcohol in his system. he told investigators that he and deborah were on their way home from shopping when he inadvertently drove off the highway and struck a parked car. i said, do you remember what you hit? he said, i hit a car. do you know where the car was? he said yes. i said did you see the car on the shoulder? he said, yes, i saw the taillights. and i asked him if he tried to maneuver the vehicle or tried to brake or avoid the collision and he didn t have the time to do that. the right front end of steve s jeep hit the back, left side of the parked car. steve said he was driving approximately 60 miles an hour at the time of the accident, and he was wearing his seatbelt, but deborah was not. that was out of her character. she was pretty religious about
while in the jeep, steve repeatedly smashed deborah s head into the mirror knob inside window, causing the brain injuries that killed her. then steve tried to devise a plan to cover up the crime. while driving home, he saw the parked car alongside the highway and decided to stage an accident. he got the jeep into position moved his seat back with his bloody hands, and made sure his seatbelt was fastened while deborah s wasn t and then braced himself for impact. the jeep traveled 130 feet at 40 miles per hour directly into the back, left side of the parked car. deborah s arm and bloody sweater struck the windshield, proof that she was bleeding before the crash.
while in the jeep, steve repeatedly smashed deborah s head into the mirror knob inside window, causing the brain injuries that killed her. then steve tried to devise a plan to cover up the crime. while driving home, he saw the parked car alongside the highway and decided to stage an accident. he got the jeep into position moved his seat back with his bloody hands, and made sure his seatbelt was fastened while deborah s wasn t and then braced himself for impact. the jeep traveled 130 feet at 40 miles per hour directly into the back, left side of the parked car. deborah s arm and bloody sweater struck the windshield, proof that she was bleeding before the crash. after the crash, steve tried to break the side window to make
on the passenger side rear window, you can see where blood had came from the seat and was running down the window. the l-shaped pattern demonstrated once again the physics of momentum. when blood drips down the window of a jeep traveling at 40 miles an hour and it stops abruptly, everything in the jeep, including the blood, continues to move forward. scientists believe that s what caused this l-shaped pattern. the final three pieces of evidence were crucial to understanding events before and after the crash. deborah s blood was found on the lever used to adjust the driver s seat. the driver s seat where steven hollerman was seated was pushed as far back as the seat could go. the steering wheel was bent. and investigators found steve s bloody shoe print on the passenger side window.
deborah by hitting her head repeatedly against the knob. it was a severe beating. it was severe. so when death is the result of an assault, we classify it as a homicide. steve hollerman was arrested and charged with deborah s murder. he acted surprised and dumbfounded that he was under arrest. when i cuffed him and put him in my car, he s like tony, why is this, why is that, like we were friends. steve hollerman s lover admitted spending the afternoon with steve at the couple s summer cabin. later that night, around 7:00 p.m. stephen and his wife took their purchases to the cabin. deborah may have found evidence that steve had been there earlier with his lover. regardless, the forensic evidence suggests an argument ensued and had turned violent.