closing. our whole defense was, he didn t do it. so if we can point to unknown individuals that were trying to gain access to the building, that would definitely have been used. remember, tally smith said she didn t know about the map on the video during the trial but finally learned about him from mcvay afterwards. but then, she did nothing. she didn t go to the judge. didn t go to the attorney general. and she didn t go to the defense either. she wrote a letter to bruce mcvay saying how could you do this to me. i get live with the worry that someone on the defense side will find it at some point and we will wind up in trouble over it and the entire case will be tainted because of it. you wrote that? i did write that. in defense of her actions tally smith testified she subsequently calmed down and never sent that letter. and besides, she said, the video with the random dude, was much ado about nothing.
detectives matched the truck to its owner, david dooley, the janitor. and one of the workers who found michelle s body. dave dooley s truck is seen leaving the parking lot at 6:31 that morning. right after the murder? that s right. that s right. the security tape showed dooley returning to the warehouse around 7:00 a. m., detective mcvay thought it was not that he hadn t mentioned that when i first spoke. they needed to speak with dooley again, so they went to the apartment he shared with his wife, janet and dooley wasn t surprised to see them. a kind of figured it would happen, to do a follow-up. before detective mcvay even brought up, dooley told him he d gone home the morning of the murder. mcvay recorded their conversation. i came back here, and then went back to fisher. it came back here? i can back here, yeah. i couldn t get a hold of my life, and i came home to make sure she was okay.
yesterday you didn t tell me you left. why, you are just i didn t think about that. the detective also question david s wife janet separately, to see if she would tell the same story. this conversation would prove critical to the entire case. what she said is in dispute because a part of the recording is hard to hear. once the first time you saw dave after he left . was the first time i see him yesterday? yes. when you came, after he was yes, yeah. i ask her specifically if david were came home that morning, and she says no. two stahl and mcvay, janet dooley had just contradicted her own husband story. so police questioned her again about that apparent discrepancy. you told the other detective that he didn t come home that day. i did? janet seemed surprised.
dooley didn t murder michelle mockbee. his new attorneys deanna dennison and jeff lawson were eager to present their new evidence to a jury. there was new evidence of course, that random person we wanted to introduce. rules of evidence prevented defense attorneys from introducing listen at that tally smith s letters in court, the one where she accused detective mcvay of being a liar. but what they did have this time around was the random dude video that had led to the overturned conviction. we have a entire first trial in this case that s conducted on the fact this is a fairly secure building. what the walking man shows is that that s not true. to the defense that random dude was just one of the alternate suspects ignored by detectives. every single thing that was done from the mom they say that david left on that surveillance tape was in an effort to convict david as opposed to make sure they had the right person. the defense brought up other warehouse employees. they fo