smith, the jailhouse snitch. david said nathan was worried the lady might have seen him while he was walking. nobody knows that except nathan. it s consistent with our evidence. the inmate also testified why nathan wanted denise out of his life. well, he said she was overbearing and he got to the point where he had wanted to move on with his life and met some manos and stuff like that. did he tell you the name of that someone else? some student named anna or something. it was what the inmate said about the timing of the murder that they found chilling. smith testified that nathan told him he planned the murder specifically for valentine s day. it was supposed to be some type of present to this other check.
been nearly impossible. the timing really gets to the point where it s almost not realistic. what about the state witness who claimed nathan had convinced the whole crime to him? the defense argued david smith was a jailhouse snitch, convicted felon, who got a deal for his testimony. he wasn t worth cross- examining. do you really believe that david smith is the type of person that nathan is going to confide in? and then seek counsel from? according to defense, the main weakness with the state case was motive. an affair with aina. he argued there was no evidence to support the theory that nathan killed his wife so he could be with a 20-year-old, no matter who asked her, aina insisted her relationship with nathan was platonic. what s the relationship
only that dawn murdered teresa, but they were convinced she tried and failed to kill her with xanax overdose at the casino. the sheriff s department believe, that was an attempt on her life, that we had nothing that could really support that. but if tim evans was to get a conviction, he needed more, more evidence, some concrete proof that dawn had pulled the trigger. you can bet dawn was not about to tell them anything. but that does not mean she wasn t talking. we had another young lady that was going out of jail and she came to us and said that dawn had been talking about the murder. but that could have just been gossip, mind. you from a jailhouse snitch who could not backup. but dawn did have a cell mate. she was kind of in a jam herself. and she wanted us to try to help her. we can put a word into the da or word into the jail. that was enough to get some cooperation from. her right. the objective was simple.
obviously, an unsuccessful suicide attempt. but the defense argued that pedro s desire to end his own life was very real, pedro was combing the web for information about chloroform. rubbing alcohol, and sleeping pills because he was planning his own death. he even brought along a shovel as part of his plan. at the beginning, i was going to go and dig myself my grave. so the jury had to decide, who is pedro bravo? a killer without accomplishments. or a self destructive love sick boy. but before they got the case, prosecutors gave the jury something else to consider. some of the weirder evidence to come from a jailhouse snitch. could you state your name please? michael johns angelo. michael angel who had cut a deal in exchange with leniency since of his own case was a
review note to say, oh walter was confessed in jail. there is another confession. a jailhouse snitch could come forward to say that he had admitted again he had killed barbara jean. but the story the snitch told went even further, about why ogrod committed a crime. the story was that walter had fallen in love with barbara jean s mother, sharon, who had lived across the street. so walter decided that if he murdered barbara jean, the police would blame john fahy and when john fahy was taken away, sharon would be so upset that he should come to walter and then that would be, it would fall for him. prosecutor or be no argued that this delusional fantasy was the true motive, details or be no said that he did not