question apparently by the national archives. so the fact that you again, you have such a heavy-handed approach about documents when gosh, how many examples in the past to we have of people doing much worse things than this. we don t even know that donald trump did anything wrong. these are like clippings from newspapers. these are photographs. these are documents that he s allowed to take from the white house and he was fully cooperating with authorities. they came to his house unannounced and yes, the secret service got a heads-up, but unannounced to those working hand and hand with the fbi and the authorities to go into your home and take your personal belongings, man that is pretty aggressive. martha: you know, there s a grand jury investigation that s going on. i spoke with andy mccarthy earlier. he doesn t believe that this is about a request from the national archives. he thinks that s what s being
uh-um. reporter: more evidence soon after the murder police asked jj s daughter meghan to call cara. they recorded the call, it too was played for the jury. why did you shoot him though? i didn t know if it was him coming back to kill me like he said he would or if it was a stranger coming in and that s what he said if anyone came in the house unannounced to shoot to kill. the monotone, the you know, the lack of sympathy. how are you doing? horrible. i m sorry. i don t know what to say. she s talking to the daughter of the man she just shot and killed. reporter: the jury also saw these selfies from cara s phone, taken three days after the shooting. she just killed her lover of so many years and here she is out drinking.
reporter: cara ryan s defense was well underway even before the opening statements began. the strategy, at least. attorney rodger futerman, remember, had put cara through a couple of mock trials, and discovered the majority of women convicted her, and the majority of men didn t, and the women s rationale was all emotionally based. they wanted to hear much more emotion in her. they want to hear her crying. and this client is not like that? that s not her. it s just not how she is. reporter: so futerman worked hard to ensure there were mostly males in the jury. in florida, 2nd degree murder cases have six person juries, and he succeeded. five of the six were men. we believed the men wouldn t be focused on the emotion, but more on the facts. what else did you look for in the jury? gun owners. people that were not afraid to shoot someone if they came into their house unannounced, and almost every one of our jurors had a gun, and was not afraid to use it.
was dead. what was a homicide detective to make of all that? coming up i told him to take the guns out of the house, because that s how much i did not trust her. i knew in my heart that this was not going to be an accident. yeah. my very first words were, it was a setup. she set him up. when dateline continues. dateline continues vicks vapostick. [ mid-tempo music playing ]
uh-huh. didn t show there wasn t a rape. while cara was at the rape crisis center, the detectives received new information from the crime scene. such as, first responders believed the house lights had pretty much all been on when whatever happened happened. remember, cara said it was dark in the house, but once we gathered a little bit more evidence from the detectives working the crime scene, then we did get definitely more pointed in our question and more direct. and then something odd happened. cara changed her story. remember, she told 911, my ex-husband raped me. i shot him. breaking into your home. but now? she said she didn t know who was coming into the house. somebody was in my home, whether it was jay or jack the ripper. i was scared. somebody came in the house unannounced. could have been j.j. or it could have been jack the ripper? really?