mystery. a young mom, torn between her photographer husband, and her photographer lover, now dead in her own home. there was blood everywhere. but it would take years before dna science could advance enough to unlock the clues inside it. and then there was this diary. it also had a story to tell. everything she knew about him was a lie. a husband under suspicion. could not be more convinced there was more. a lover, subject of speculation. all of the sudden, he has a motive. after more than a quarter century, would this family get justice? hello, and welcome to dateline. she was a charismatic and talented young mother. when she died violently, her family hoped for quick justice. but as years went by with nobody arrested or charged, i hope faded. what did not fade, small traces of dna evidence. more than two decades after the crime, could that evidence solve this case? here s keith morrison with, haunting images. boyd underwood was back. back here where he a
was gone too long, maybe, he did go in there. taking the time to kill kit. overall, decided by, it was enough evidence by 2001 to warrant a visit with gregory and spokane. are you willing to talk to us about the death of your wife catherine? he was, years earlier, perfectly cooperative. letting them search through his house. so boyd and colleagues, offered gregory a chance to confess. tell us how it happened. what happened when he went back to the house? i don t recall going back in the house. come on, greg. i don t. how can you not? how can your blood be mixed with her blood, and you not recall going back to the house? how could you not remember? you can see how weak that is? how can your wife s head be almost severed from her body and you not remember i mean,
room, in a pool of her own blood. she was nude from the waist down and henry says, joe seemed to be direct. we were both fine, and going from the call. maybe kit s killer was out of control, to. the place was a mess. the tv, haphazardly placed near the front door of the speakers, ripped from the walls. a potted plant, all on the floor. the chaotic scene, her skirt and underwear pulled down like somebody had raped her, killed her, started to burglarize the house, then left before he was done. but, to the police back then, it looked phony. like this was staged. no sign of forced entry, just the rear sliding door, slightly ajar. the same entry that henry slipped through to find her body. back then, at the end of the weekend in january 83, police set out, right away, to interview people in kits and our circle, including henry. was he questioned closely? yes, we both wear. of course, detectives also
in fact, it was days, but the jury did come back. family members, bracing themselves, and my understanding is that the jurors are, at this point in time, hung, is that right? that s correct. they were hung. not just hung, split, 66. 66 was a gun punch. all of the wind went out. he recovered his poise, told the judge, he tried mordick again. i was attached to the victims family, in some respect. i found certain duty to them. september 2010, the o connell s filed into court. prosecutor wagner, sticking to the science, gregory s dna in the house. how could his dna be present when he had lived in the home for almost two months? i lived there for four and a half years. but you had been away for months. two months. two months will not eradicate all of your dna. but she claims of the house once in a while, yes, probably. did she? kitty was a terrible house cleaner.
close the gate, did you ever go back into the house? no. what did you think when they told you about your dna being found on her clothes? i was going, there is no way, i did not touch kitty that morning. he was shocked, confused by the detectives ruse, the defense told the jury. but what about the diaries, asked prosecutor wagner, and his cross-examination? the diaries outlined a real motive for murder. you wrote at various times, it was almost more than you could bear to think about that separation. i m sorry i wrote it down. why? because it has come to bite me now, instead of being true feelings of the time. i ve never been charged, had he just thrown the diaries away. why did you keep them? there is nothing in there, except for my history. our history, together. what was to be thrown away? well what they did was that look back and said look, he was involved in these violent incidents, and in fact,