they brought joe back in, grilled him again. he swore it wasn t a beating it all, i slap during an argument. afterward, he and lynne remained close friends. besides, said joe and his girlfriend, they were in bed together when the murder happened. they volunteered to take a polygraph. and they both passed. soon after that, joe giarrusso, who didn t look anything like the man the neighbor saw, was eliminated as a suspect. in fact, one by one just about all of those male friends came up clean. and seemed to want to do whatever they could to help find her killer. they all had good things to
witness. you have a whole bunch of pieces and, on the surface, they don t appear to be connected. it s our job to connect them all together. put it together, to give you the final piece. so, no smoking gun? but there aren t any? the whole thing is a smoking gun. lewin fired the opening shot. the evidence will show, ladies and gentlemen, beyond any reasonable doubt, that this man, douglas bradford, on august 30th, 1979, in the middle of the night, crept in there, with that handmade go rot, got her while she was sleeping and brutally murdered her. then, more than 20 witnesses provided by. each to recount a memory, or offer an opinion, or just one tiny piece of the whole. khalid detective gary hilton. gary hilton was 72, and still tormented by his inability to close the case. so, in a way, he was trying to clear his conscience. i saw a nice body. i ve never seen anybody so bad off. she was sliced, diced and butchered. i want to be there for lynn. they were all these peop
sure enough, i get the card. as robert shapiro. yes, that robert shapiro. the lawyer who represented adjacent. the man who found legal zoom. here was a true courtroom celebrity, robert shapiro, who had been practicing law for nearly 50 years, and represent the scores of hollywood s rich and famous, including, of course, oh jason. og will do everything he can to cooperate with them, to help solve this horrible murder. almost 20 years now since he helped engineer simpson s acquittal in the infamous trial. len sister, donna, was well aware of shapiro s reputation. i certainly wasn t going to be intimidated. maybe she should have been. once he stepped in, doug bradford was not on bail within hours. that will look for the trial, well, if there was a mountain of evidence against oj, the circumstantial bits and pieces
big putting the case away. why? not you ve been carrying around that baggage all of these years. i want to put it back. on that shelf. now it was time for someone else to carry that burden. the man who carries so much misery in the first place. in december 2014, doug bradford, was back in court one more time to be sentenced for the murder of lynne knight. now wearing a jail suit, not his business suit. but still defiant as ever. as he indignantly address the court. i want you to hear me speak now! very clearly, and not ambiguously, what my family and friends already know. i did not murder lynne knight. on the an innocent man wrongly convicted.
and i went, oh no! oh no! we ve lost! we blast! the people of the state of california, versus. and then the verdict was read. we have the verdict find the defendant, douglas, guilty of the first degree murder of lynne knight, a felony as charged in count. [inaudible] doug bradford submitted to handcuffs, took a last look at freedom. and was led away. no family there to be, or a cry out, or say goodbye. even his attorney, robert shapiro, was conspicuously absent. on vacation. was it like to see that guy after all those years? oh it was very satisfying. very satisfying. he was a cocky, arrogance guy. i believe that until the time he heard the verdict, he thought he won. some people will ruin themselves, and then have the capacity to lie to themselves. to a degree that, the rest of us cannot understand. and this is one of those guys. it was almost 35 years to the day. after the murder of lynne knight.