was lucky she d never see me again. but they did and married within months. they settled within months in alaska where clay worked on the pipeline. he wasn t as interested in church, not the way she was. she wanted you to be there? yeah, i couldn t meet her there. it is a big issue and i m not sitting here saying it had to be my way or she was wrong. that s not an issue at all. we were different. they divorced in 2000. hot and cold. they lasted ten years that time. yes, that time. full of hope and good will, they tried again in 2006 they remarried, moved to washington state, set ophouse in deer park and from there he commuted to his job in alaska, which meant he to be gone weeks at a time. so when he came home.
flashing lights, squad cars violated the peaceful neighborhood in deer park, washington. something big going on at shannon s house. a bunch of ocrime scene tape and detectives outside the house. when her son, blake, drove up to the street they lived. the yard was blocked off. the awful news was beginning to spread around the now crowded street. do they know? do they know what s happened? where are they? and they just lost their mom. and thousands of miles away
if not for that bias, they said, the investigators would have found the real murderer. the evidence is shoddy. reporter: and there s so many other possible suspects, they say. take this theory of blake s. not long after clay s arrest, there were news reports about a man named israel keys. he was arrested for murdering a young coffee barrista in alaska and later admitted he d killed many more people, some in washington state. a serial killer whose family hailed from, of all places, a town just a few miles from chanin s house. well, why would you think it was israel keys? because he has killed over ten women. he admitted to four in washington. he was arrested a month about after my dad, so he wouldn t have been on the radar until then. reporter: serial killer? maybe.
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they had been out one full day. here was their decision. narrator: the matter of state of washington versus mr. clay starbuck verdict form a count one reads, we the jury find the defendant mr. starbuck guilty of the crime of premeditated murder in the first degree. guilty. his face looked like stone. but something else going on inside said his lawyers. how was he when that verdict happened? shocked. he actually thought he was going to be acquitted. absolutely. but chanin s mother and siblings finally felt vindicated. all along they believed it was him. and now a jury agreed. as soon as that first guilty verdict was read, it was like a ton of bricks were lifted off of us. and got the text, guilty. i jumped up and i screamed. i screamed. i was like, yes, yes!