finger at his young neighbor. i can t remember names. seth, seth techel. seth techel? yup. torkel? techel. techel. yeah, his dad owns champion bowl. okay. and i ll tell i just they re good people. they really are. now this guy, brian tate, does he know that you re the father-in-law of the neighbor? no, and i don t want to tell him that because i don t want that to affect maybe what he does or doesn t do. and he thinks that s the source of his trouble? right. those people over in the trailer property across the way? yeah. well, if you can, let us deal with it. what if what if what if i m the one who s gotta catch him? brian tate told todd that dog feces and rocks had been hurled at his home. he then showed todd the evidence. he described the vandalism of his home in stark terms. he says that he thinks these
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that [ bleep ]. go get him. go get him now. todd s rage was directed at the neighbor on the other side of the fence topped with barbed wire. a 56-year-old disabled army veteran named brian tate. i just remember saying, go get him. go get him now, and i thought, they better get to him before i do. brian tate had been embroiled in an escalating feud with his neighbors lisa and seth. todd knew all about it and was certain his daughter was now dead because of it. this is this culmination of bad blood s been going on for a month s time or more now? right. it started about two months before the murder. seth pulled a dead deer off the road along the property line. brian tate later tossed the hide onto seth s property. seth tossed it back, and the battle was on. tate made several calls to the county, complaining about nasty acts of vandalism. todd caldwell responded to one in april. and tate pointed the
strangely shook thomas hand. appreciate it. and then he walked out. in the end, what did the investigators have? that seth lied about sex, but was it even that? all he admitted to was making out with rachel. and on the big question, he insisted, over and over again, that he did not kill lisa. even agent thomas expressed disappointment with the outcome of the marathon interview, nearly five hours long. you felt you d come out of a 15 round fight? it was exhausting. felt somewhat like a failure, in some regards. why? we didn t get the full confession. maybe that s because seth didn t do it. agent thomas just didn t know. but the women in the caldwell family, without knowing any of seth s admissions about rachel, believed with 100% certainty that seth did not kill lisa. especially lisa s sister and seth s great friend, presley. i was never thinking that seth did it. only todd caldwell was no
for an affair that he was hopin to someday have. you never had intercourse with him. no. you ve never had oral sex with him. no. never had your clothes off. no. and you kissed a few times. yes. is that a fair assessment of the extent of your romantic relationship with mr. techel. yes. the defense also didn t accept the state s take on the neighbor as a harmless eccentric. the most compelling evidence as to how this occurred involved the neighbor, mr. tate. he was mentally ill. i m done talking to you. and, according to the defense, dangerous, too. the defense then hammered home the portrayal of the unpredictable neighbor by using todd s own complaint summary from that day. you re in the awkward situation of being their best witness. right. you believed he could become a danger. anyone who should respond to that residence again should use extreme caution. that is correct, i did. the defense theorized that