apparently, too. and jennifer and paul worked hard to get it. they seemed only too happy to spend it. when jennifer and paul first got together, paul took jennifer to new york city. and i remember he was like a kid in a candy store, just planning all of these elaborate, wonderful things that they were going to do together. they were passionate, these beautiful people. they both had strong personalities. their love burned hot. jennifer was a very strong, independent woman, and she would not accept anyone disrespecting her or even looking at her inappropriately. and she was very strong-willed. me, like i always did, told him you need to be careful because girls can be evil. so he said, no, she s different. i love her. i already love her. she s great. and so in september 2009, paul and jennifer moved into the charming little cottage on
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jury that he was innocent. with this risky move pay off? here s keith morrison with a conclusion of burning suspicion. defense attorney had done what he could to poke holes in the murder case. arguing that the prosecution had no solid scientific proof or clear evidence zumot was anywhere near jennifer when she was strangled, when the house was set on fire. anyway, he asked, if paul had attacked jennifer, wouldn t he have put up some kind of fight. why weren t there defensive marks or scratches on the body. did the prosecution even have a case? paul wasn t going take any cases. in fact, he was determined to tell the jury his side of the story. so assigned a female colleague to question paul. must have been a strategy, whispered courtroom observers.
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 dateline continues. - for my family, we are three for three in our siblings for getting married. i thank eharmony for that. - [narrator]top waiting,
that one little inconsistency. and though paul and jennifer did fight sometimes, they seemed crazy in love, too. paul had been shopping for a diamond ring, for heaven s sake. there was a part of paul that was mourning his girlfriend, and then there was a part of him that was he didn t understand why he was in custody. and he didn t understand why he couldn t just cry for his girlfriend and for his life that had just changed 100%. it certainly did. paul zumot was taken to jail to await trial on a charge of murder in the first degree. big mistake, said paul zumot. when i first saw him, he all he was really still telling me is, you know, me being in custody, all of this is going to blow over with. you know, they re going to realize i m not the person who did this, and this will be over with.