shoots another surprise? another surprise. what about the blood on the garage floor? what are you learning? we re learning that the blood in the garage was not human blood. it was in fact animal. blood we found out earlier that doug was into hunting, and he had actually killed a turkey a couple weeks prior. that s right, it was the blood of a turkey. that s a big revelation right there. huge revelation. then there was nikki s car, the car detectives thought doug used to transport nikki s body out to the field. there was one little drop, that turned out to be human blood in the backseat, which was ultimately determined not to be nicole s, it was likely a daughter of hers. but that wasn t the only thing theory into question. detectives found a device installed in her car, one that insurance companies used to track driving habits. it indicated the car remained in the garage the entire night of the murder. the vehicle last moved on friday the 20th, and the blood
it was probably our browned 8:30. from the pepper spray on the walls and floor, it appeared melissa came home and was attacked inside the garage. the texas also found a small button on the garage floor. perhaps ripped from that pantsuit. then one detective had an idea. use the gps and security system in melissa s vehicle to locate. it s a cadillac, cadillac has on star. they are able to activate beyond star. tell us the location of the vehicle through gps. and brought us weight to this parking lot. the car was about a half mile from melissa s house and this medical office parking lot that melissa never went to. and through on, start you could remotely open the vehicle, right? they were able to unlock the vehicle for us. inside the suv, disturbing clues. what do you find? we find a suit jacket that she was wearing the night before. and on the suit jacket there was a missing button. and that is significant because of course corresponding
some force having been applied to that blood. and no explanation for it. so what happens that night? prosecutor keen put his form to the jury. she got home that night at about 11:30. parked a car. went in through the garage door. and then as soon as she got inside the house, she was struck with something by the defendant. she went out on the kitchen rug, he said, what struck again. that blood spatter. so this would put her down, either on her, knees are on her bottom, as she is being struck and the blood splatter is on the door. and on the carpet. took her ba oth garage and later down on the garage floor. she must have blood some out of the garage floor, because there is an area three feet by six fates where blood was found. then, so the prosecutor cal try to clean up before he
the spatter in the kitchen alcove, could have been a cut finger, said the defense but any way nobody could really tell when it was left there. and as for a prosecution claimed that cal tried to wash away blood on the garage floor. there is a small amount of diluted blood that was found days after the new york state police had walked through this particular area of the house while they were conducting the search. walking out is not going to destroy the blood cells. it could dilute it if their boots are wet. finally, the defense decided jurors needed to hear from cal harris, as a caring father, not as the husband the state made him out to be, so the defendant took the stand. it was nerve wracking at first, obviously, my life is on the line and my kids, their lives are on the line. he admitted to an affair, blamed himself for the end of the marriage but denied he had threatened, hurt, or tried to control michelle. if anything, he said, michelle had been living a bit of a wild