it was a brain tumor. and everybody waited for 5 weeks until a brand new judge was appointed, so they could pick up with testimony right where they left off. and that s when the jurors finally got to hear what became of the missing golf cover. go ahead and open your evidence bag please. reporter: detective theresa kennedy showed it to the jurors and the judge explained a stipulation made by the attorneys. on july 5, 2008 reporter: turned out, days after carol s murder, steve gave the golf sock to his attorney, john sears. who kept it in his locked office until steve s arrest. that s when sears turned it over to law enforcement. reporter: so was the curious case of the migrating club sock an attempt to cover up a murder, or a bit of confusion. an investigative dead end? prosecutors weren t done, mind you. they next tried to tie steve to the crime scene. they didn t find any of steve s dna or fingerprints at carol s house, but they did see those tire tracks. a criminalist com
warrant. the implication, of course, was that the cover fit the club never found that killed carol. jacob said that after the detectives left he talked to steve. what was that conversation? the golf head sock cover was found after they had left. he said he had found it? yes. did he say what he was going to do with it? he didn t know whether or not to turn it in to the police or give to his lawyer. implying, said the prosecution, that steve knew the golf sock could incriminate him and didn t know what to do with it. just as the case seemed to be building momentum, two weeks into the trial, the judge left the bench at lunch break and suddenly collapsed. it was a brain tumor. and everybody waited for five weeks until a brand-new judge was appointed so they could pick up with testimony right where they left off. and that s when the jurors finally got to hear what became of the missing golf
and that s when the jurors finally got to hear what became of the missing golf cover. go ahead and open your evidence bag please. reporter: detective theresa kennedy showed it to the jurors and the judge explained a stipulation made by the attorneys. on july 5, 2008. reporter: turned out, days after carol s murder, steve gave the golf sock to his attorney, john sears. who kept it in his locked office until steve s arrest. that s when sears turned it over to law enforcement. reporter: so was the curious case of the migrating club sock an attempt to cover up a murder, or a bit of confusion. an investigative dead end? prosecutors weren t done, mind you. they next tried to tie steve to the crime scene. they didn t find any of steve s dna or fingerprints at carol s house, but they did see those tire tracks. a criminalist compared them with the tires on steve s bike. the tread on this tire is similar to the tread we observed of this tire track. and did you find any
until a brand new judge was appointed, so they could pick up with testimony right where they left off. and that s when the jurors finally got to hear what became of the missing golf cover. go ahead and open your evidence bag please. reporter: detective theresa kennedy showed it to the jurors and the judge explained a stipulation made by the attorneys. on july 5, 2008. reporter: turned out, days after carol s murder, steve gave the golf sock to his attorney, john sears. who kept it in his locked office until steve s arrest. that s when sears turned it over to law enforcement. reporter: so was the curious case of the migrating club sock an attempt to cover up a murder, or a bit of confusion. an investigative dead end? prosecutors weren t done, mind you. they next tried to tie steve to the crime scene. they didn t find any of steve s dna or fingerprints at carol s house, but they did see those tire tracks. a criminalist compared them with
appointed, so they could pick up with testimony right where they left off. and that s when the jurors finally got to hear what became of the missing golf cover. go ahead and open your evidence bag please. reporter: detective theresa kennedy showed it to the jurors and the judge explained a stipulation made by the attorneys. on july 5, 2008. reporter: turned out, days after carol s murder, steve gave the golf sock to his attorney, john sears. who kept it in his locked office until steve s arrest. that s when sears turned it over to law enforcement. reporter: so was the curious case of the migrating club sock an attempt to cover up a murder, or a bit of confusion. an investigative dead end? prosecutors weren t done, mind you. they next tried to tie steve to the crime scene. they didn t find any of steve s dna or fingerprints at carol s house, but they did see those tire tracks. a criminalist compared them with the tires on steve s bike. the tread on this tire is similar to th