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tries to burn the house down. please. i certainly wouldn t try to to hide evidence by setting a house four blocks from the fire department on fire and praying, right, that they would not get there until the whole thing had burned to the ground. that s silly. it s just silly. what s more, brett said, most of the powerpoint print out had been in a tray in another room as scrap paper. but the kbi must have moved those paper tuesday the table to make it look suspicious like they made brett s use of using a overhead projector suspicious. it s all too ridiculous said the defense. the state wanted you to believe he was trying to destroy evidence of a crime. what evidence did he try to destroy? they never say what evidence he tried to destroy. now, this guy is such a such a super criminal that where does
do you remember seeing it in that driveway ever again? three days later. three days later. if you didn t see if i understand your testimony, you didn t see anybody bring it back? no. i think he was telling the truth. to me it implies the investigation itself is faulty. how do you let somebody get into the crime scene and drive it away? so it was either gross incompetence or intentional. in my opinion it would be both. and if that happened, then what other mistakes did they make? there s something about the investigation that stinks. it just smelled bad, he said, that the state claimed it found gasoline on brett s pants when the defense expert says i would not make a determination that it s gasoline. and maybe worst of all he said the kansas bureau of investigation did not even bother checking for gunshot residue on brett s hands, the
switch now and see how you could save up to $400 a year. and get 50% off when you buy any new lg phone. xfinity mobile. click, call or visit a store today. it s not always so straightforward determining from evidence what s suicide and what s murder. brett said it was obviously suicide. her family said no way. so now investigators had to figure out who was right. they scoured the wreck of the seacat house for clues. i remember grabbing one of the kbi or fire somebody that was working the scene and i said give me some hope. are you finding something that s going to let everybody know what happened? and i remember he looked at me and he said, i will tell you this.
the known facts were stark, quite clear. vashti seacat was dead, a fatal bullet wound to the head. her house burned around her, her boys motherless, her husband a widower. now the trick would be finding evidence for or against the story behind the apparent suicide, brett seacat s story. which wasn t long in coming said lead kbi agent filleti. in vashti s purse they found a post-it note with a list of expenses. indications of money that she needed in her life insurance. the list included funeral expenses. and then they had a good look through vashti s volkswagen and in her trunk they found printed material about coping with stress and anxiety, but more important, investigators discovered something filleti knew was absolutely key. in the front driver s seat was a journal. as you open that book and go past some of the notes that she had written in reference to her