it s your fault! because i didn t answer the phone, i blamed myself. what emotions were you feeling? guilt. but gayle does not begin to describe it. [inaudible] and it felt like god was telling me, this is all your fault. this is all your fault! after his emotional account of finding tara. the attorney gave levi a chance to explain away a series of other prosecution points. that computer search for how to kill? levi told the jury, that all came from his passion for martial arts. i remember looking up, how the ribs somebody s throat out. because i wanted to find that martial art. and rose s llama? levi testified the rest of her story that it was a lie.
was transfixed on the sex drenched marriage in the levi chavez rile. prosecutors argued the former police officer killed his wife and staged it to look like suicide. now, it was the defenses turn. their first argument, the reason investigators initially thought that dara took her own life was because she did. defense attorney david serena. it was called a suicide because their own investigators, whose job it is to go and see what kind of death it is, called it a suicide. stating what he knew the jury must of been thinking. serena admitted levi was a failure as a husband, with said that didn t make him a murderer. he was completely unfaithful to her in just about every way. absolutely. just about every opportunity. absolutely.
from her phone. and showed investigators. you thought that was an important text into? of course i did. the prosecutors found it suspicious that levi delivered all of other texts that weekend. yet you deleted every techs except for that one! how is i supposed to know how many tech side the lead? it and put him as a lying philanderer. the answer? that was the old levi. and he was now a changed man. is it possible for any person to change in one day? there is a process. and leave i was not afraid to interrupt to make his points. and it tells us that. i was telling the jury that s a process. let me speak to my jury please. referring to the jury as my jury. can i speak to my jury please? your honor. no. you need to answer the question. in nearly six hours of testimony. levi chavez tried to show he had nothing to hide. and that he did not kill his wife. turns out, levi did not do
night. with high winds gusting over new mexico s sander mountains. the police officer, levi chavez, called 9-1-1 from his own home. baby, please wake up. please. he told police he had found his wife lying in a pool of blood in their bed. in a panic, levi chavez begged for help. they are on their way. levi is it going to be easier if you go to another room? i cannot leave her. okay. oh my god. aaron jones was a detective with the sheriff s department in los lunas. when i got a call that a police officer s wife had been shot. it was just after 9 pm when jones got to the chapas home. it was disturbing, there was
and levi showed detective jones something else. i got a text. a text he received from tara earlier that day. it says, i m afraid i m going to hurt myself. i m so, as, oh, oh, oh, upset and hurt. open and shut. by 2 am, police were wrapping up their work at the chávez house, and they were headed to the to break the news. he introduced a deputy and chaplain, and said it is about your daughter. so i am already feeling weak. what did you think? i thought that it was a terrible traffic accident. never thought to hear otherwise. i asked him what happened, and, aaron jones said it is an impairment suicide. possibly the most painful