well with a woman. but those observers were mistaken, said geragos. well, i generally i don t think direct examination is my strong suit and i was concentrating on cross-examination of the witness. so paul zumot looked the jurors in the eyes and told them, i did not kill jennifer schipsi, did not burn the house. then he told them how despite their roller coaster relationship, he truly loved jennifer. his love letter presented a letter she had written him and he broke down then, a flood of tears. i was so relieved. i thought, you know, if there was any way this jury thought this man was responsible for this, now they know for sure that he s not. but he s so obvious to me that he s telling the truth. but listening to all of this
some of paul zumot s clothes. suspicious? yes. though, not exactly ironclad evidence. as you ll see, courtesy of paul s high-profile defense attorney, the man famous for defending scott peterson. his name, mark geragos. i ve had many a client who i have no doubt was capable of the acts that he was accused of. this is just not one of them. coming up in the last hours of jennifer s life, something was caught on camera. does it prove paul is not guilty? so you had sex last night with her and videoed it? yeah. anybody who watches this is never going to have the impression that this was somebody who was ready to kill her. when burning suspicion continues. for an entire month. ask your vet for more information. reported side effects include vomiting and itching.
on the surface paul zumot and jennifer schipsi. in the days after the fire on addison avenue, after paul zumot was charged with murder and hauled off to jail, events in palo alto seemed to freeze somehow. in confusion and denial from paul s point of view and unrequited grief from the people who loved jennifer. it hurt. it hurt a lot. unrequited partly because for some reason, even though he d been arrested, paul wasn t entering a plea, which is what this was all about. we decided to stand in front of his establishment every night until he made his plea. eventually, no surprise, paul did plead not guilty. and prosecutor chuck gillingham
she was so upset about something that she refused to go to the hookah lounge after the party. walked all the way home on a broken heel texting all the way. jennifer good, stay away from me. i just got home. paul, i m staying away this time for good. what a way to end my birthday. for jennifer to walk home alone at night with a broken heel and upset, she had to have been i don t even know if i ve ever seen her that mad. but that was the night before. angry messages buzzing back and forth. then, as the cell phone revealed, the pair made love during the night before jennifer s morning text messages again turned red hot angry. the subject seemed to be a debt she claimed he owed her. right around 10:30, 10:45 into 11:16 in the morning she s
too? police listened, and then had paul give them his clothes for forensic testing. questioned by police, his home destroyed, his girlfriend dead, paul zumot was very nearly in shock, said his friend. his mind was, are they sure jen for the gone and, oh, my god, she s never coming back? as the weeks went by, paul was in a kind of daze. the gist of our conversations for the first few weeks is that jennifer s not coming back. he was completely distraught about the fact that jennifer was in that fire. meanwhile, as those same weeks went by, investigators went quietly and steadily about their task, picking through the cinders of the fire and coming to the conclusion that none of it smelled right. literally.