bean is confident his positive test is the result of a prescription drug he is allowed to take. i m on wellbutrin. they d be able to tell in a lab, right? yes. getting narcotics or anything like that back here is next to impossible. so, you know, i don t i don t have a doubt when it goes to the lab i ll be all right. for bean, a positive drug test could result in a transfer out of the protective custody unit where the high-profile nature of his crime, the murder of his ex-girlfriend and destroying her corpse, could make him a target among other inmates. i haven t been anywhere, even in the county, in prison, that i haven t run into someone that knew who i was or had seen the stuff, you know, on the news about my case. that kind of thing. it follows you everywhere. i tested positive for pot maybe a year or two ago and they took me to a disciplinary unit
he can request a second test at an outside lab. bean is confident his positive test is the result of a prescription drug he is a howed to take. i m on wellbutrin. they d be able to tell in a lab, right? yes. getting narcotics or anything like that back here is next to impossible. so, you know, i don t i don t have a doubt when it goes to the lab i ll be all right. for bean, a positive drug test could result in a transfer out of the protective custy unit where the high-profile nature of his crime, the murder of his ex-girlfriend and destroying her corpse, could make him a target among other inmates. i haven t been anywhere, even in the county, in prison, that i haven t run into someone that knew who i was or had seen the stuff, you know, on the news about my case. that kind of thing. it follows you everywhere. i tested positive for pot maybe
when she did it or where she did it or, more important, what she did with the body. if you don t have a body, it makes the case more difficult. richey and the other investigators continued the tedious work of building a murder case without a body, ran fingerprints, sent information out for testing. they tested a strand of hair found in michelle s car. it turned out to be giselle s. some of her touched dna on the turn signal, too. since they knew each other, it wasn t enough to make an arrest. they checked giselle s cell phone records, found her phone, like michelle s left a trail in the hours after michelle vanished. what do you know? the location michelle s phone went, giselle s phone went. as if they were traveling together? yes. the ease dropping of
there was another problem. as ford laid out the evidence for the jury, what he couldn t do, and this turned out to be a big hole in the case, was tell the jury how the murder took place. michelle s remains were so decomposed, they couldn t the c death. they determined they not only visually examined michelle s remains but also looked for any sort of trauma to her skull and bones of anything of that nature. while security cameras recorded just about everything before and after the murder, they didn t capture the crime itself. it is my position that the evidence of the crime is supported by a sharp object. a knife, a box cutter, or something like that. i think she snuck up behind her
in the sand. i m down by the creek. woman s underwear. almost like light pink, white. it is another false lead. so, they pack up. another fruitless day in a case gone cold, or so it seemed to michael and christine. oh, what they did not know. during all those weeks and months which the family had been searching for a living woman, a police murder investigation had been very active indeed. now, in the last days of august, the hayward county inspector, frazier richey was closing in on a very hot target. to understand how he got there, we need to go back, almost to the beginning. it was minutes before midnight, may 28, 2011. 29 hours after michelle le disappeared. richey has gone to pay a midnight visit to michelle s old