friendly with both. tom henderson had nothing to do with forensic investigation at all. nothing. he wasn t supposed to be involved in the case any way. because these were people he knew his whole life long. there was really no reason for him to hmoveave rethese things from the laboratory. we were arguing that this evidence had in all likelihood been tampered with and quite conceivably that mrs. edwards blood had been put on the garments. it would now be up to the judge to rule whether or not elmore deserved a new trial. the decision would take four months to come down. we presented all this great evidence. we re very excited. we re stoked. then comes the judge s order and the cover letter said, edward lee elmore may well not be guilty. but that will be for an appellate court to find. the judge had left elmore s
shattered. a pair of bloody ice tongs. dorothy edwards was found dead in her closet. the brutality of the crime scene, the blood, the way the body was, the stab wounds post mortem was just totally unbelievable. dorothy s body had 52 wounds, 11 broken ribs and abrasions on her vagina. the state forensic tape, with the evidence inside the home. hair samples were found on the bed. blood at various places. outside there were some fingerprints. in a crime scene wiped clean of fingerprints, police believe the killer made a mistake. a thumbprint found on the backdoor. dorothy s neighbor james holloway told police that edward lee elmore, a 23-year-old handyman, worked for dorothy from time to time. although he had never been convicted of a felony, police matched his fingerprints from other misdemeanor arrests and
not in a way, but like i say, i knew the truth would eventually come out, right. so that s that s kept me going. it kept my faith right, and just taking it one day at a time. that s all you can do, you know, and hope and pray that everything come out all right. mr. elmore had been incarcerated for 11,000 days. the judge told mr. elmore that he had exhausted his sentence and he was free to go. you are free to go, mr. elmore. we could walk him out that door of the courtroom and down those steps as a free man. and that was i m sorry. that was the best moment of my life as an attorney.
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a third trial was held to reconsider the sentence and again, the decision was unanimous. 36 jurors had determined that edward elmore should be put to death. 11 years later, a 34-year-old law student named diana holt came to the south carolina death penalty resource center as a summer intern. one of her first assignments was reviewing elmore s case. the first time i saw the name, i was reading through the transcript. diana started having suspicions that the trials weren t fair. she was troubled that there were