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5 takeaways from 4th murder trial of Cara Rintala, charged in 2010 death of wife
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In turnabout, lead investigator testifies for defense in Rintala trial
Published: 9/30/2016 9:16:11 PM
NORTHAMPTON In an unorthodox turn of events Friday, the defense team in the third Cara Rintala murder trial called the lead State Police investigator to testify after he had been a prosecution witness in the two previous trials.
Rintala is accused of strangling her wife, Annamarie Cochrane Rintala, to death in their Granby home March 29, 2010. Rintala pleaded not guilty in Hampshire Superior Court. Her first two trials, in 2013 and 2014, resulted in deadlock juries.
The trial, which has lasted most of September, is expected to wrap up Monday with the end of defense testimony and closing arguments, Judge Mary-Lou Rup told jurors.
believe she s dead. crying, lots of crying. reporter: nothing prepared sergeant poehler for what he saw when he went down those basement stairs. there was cara rintala, sitting on the floor with a female, looked like a female party across her lap. later found out it was anne marie. she had her eyes open. her arms were out, extended like this. reporter: there was blood. smeared and streaked. and something truly weird. paint all over the place. all over this female that she had across her lap. reporter: within minutes, more first responders arrived. some were paramedics who knew cara and ann, had worked with them. they helped an hysterical cara out from under ann s body. took her upstairs to wash. massachusetts state trooper jamie magarian, the lead investigator, studied the scene. let it talk to him. any obvious injuries to the
the paint was either wet or shiny, correct? correct. reporter: finally, the defense called, of all people, state trooper jamie magarian. in the first two trials the lead investigator had been a heavyweight witness for the prosecution. not this time. he was vital to the defense theory of a keystone cops investigation. is he going to say, investigator, you ran a shabby case here. you didn t secure the scene. certainly. reporter: there were tests you didn t run. there were things to be known. you re relying on this junk science of how paint dries. yeah, that s his job. he just needs one nugget of doubt. reporter: in pursuit of that nugget, the defense attorney grilled the investigator about the two people of interest. first, mark oleksak. remember, he d changed his alibi. but what motive could he have for murder? well maybe this ann, the drama queen, had angered him when she left her wife for her old girlfriend. he described that he had a big fallout with ann. is tha
jamie magarian, the lead investigator, studied the scene. let it talk to him. any obvious injuries to the victim here? are we talking about stab wounds, bullets holes no. no. reporter: lacerations, abrasions? there s a large amount of blood and there s several lacerations to the the head. reporter: it seemed like the body had been there for a while. i touched the deceased for the first time, with rigor mortis setting in, i thought, how long that body had been on that floor. reporter: there was an open paint bucket at the scene. and paint light-colored paint everywhere. the paint, to me, is fresh paint. it s wet. there was a thin layer of paint on the deceased that appeared to be dry in some spots, but then there was other paint on the deceased that was still wet and a large amount of paint on the floor that was wet. reporter: did this look like the case of somebody who had taken a bad fall? and somehow ends up knocking into the paint can and causing the paint to
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