to say, isn t it? whatever you want to hear, boss. so it is like a game? very much so a game. he was enjoying this interview. four years after kristene chapa was raped and shot, four years after mollie ogene was murdered next to her, david strickland faced a jury of 12. were you confident, worried. of course i was worried. i felt horrible. i didn t know how it was going to end upcoming out. when you saw mr. strickland for the first time? i didn t know what the think to be honest. i was just thinking, he did this. he wasn t the monster you imagined? no, he wasn t. sometimes those are the scariest people though. prosecutor swift laid out his evidence, from gunshot to snapshot to mug shot. the gun, the shell casings and the gloves. as for the letter, smith told the jury police had found remnants of it on david strickland s computer. you can delete the letter off of your computer, but if
that s right. chris melchor went on to explain that he and strickland were no longer on good terms. melchor believed strickland had stolen several of his guns, so he had strickland arrested. yeah, the gun robbery put a damper on their relationship. strickland pleaded not guilty to the gun sheft charge and was released soon after, but the charges were still pending, and volaman wondered, could strickland have written that letter as some kind of elaborate payback for melchor having strickland arrested? i know there was bad blood between david strickland and cristobal melchor, but to accuse someone of murder? if you think that letter was written by david strickland and you think the letter includes things that only the killer would know well, i think the logical inference was that strickland had something to do with the murder. finding david strickland was now volaman s priority. according to melchor, strickland left utah after his arrest and returned to texas, so detect
you have used the spell check/grammar check function, that information is still stored in the computer. and that s what you found? and that s what we found. why do you think mr. strickland wrote that letter. he had to know suspicion would eventually boomerang back on him. that s what most people would think. it is a foolish thing to do. it is a very foolish thing to do. before prosecutor smith rested, he called kristene to the stand, putting her face-to-face with david strickland. i wanted him to see me and see what he had done but he would not look at me. defense attorneys john gilmour and jimmie grandbury don t dispute she was a sympathetic witness but in
found at the scene and the two shell casings from the test fire were linked to the same weapon. for detective volaman that report was the missing piece of the puzzle, which he believed now directly linked david strickland to the shootings. the day i looked at that ballistics report is the day we arrested david strickland. the charges, aggravated assault, aggravated sexual assault and capital murder. while in custody, david strickland agreed to sit down for a police interview. just have a seat more fe. the county prosecutor sam smith watched the interview through a one way mirror. he would claim to have committed the murder. you re saying you did this? sure, i did it, everything you said i did. and in the next sentence with a smile on his face saying, but that s what you wanted me
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