store but not that night. they said we can t go through somebody was killed. she was a young wife and mother minding the store for her husband, was it robbery? revenge? or something else? we might want to look at his relationship with his employee. years past without an arrest, but for one prosecutor this cold case was personal. that was the case that was unsolved. the clues that lovers tranquil, cash and updated lady. he said it looked like a woman in figure, a really thin guy. mystery with so many head snapping turns. it took two trials. you 18 years for justice, only to have the carpet pulled off from under you. to uncover the truth. we have a verdict. what was it the truth? and adultery is a person who has an evil thing, that does not make a murderer. i looked at him and said let s go to the comic book store and help with the party. we pulled up at the party the police stop this, i knew immediately all the crime scene tape was there and they sa
mother s couch when tragically, his wife was shot. janet george, the mother, had testified in the first trial and backed up her sons asleep on a couch story. he was on the couch. but defense attorneys altered their strategy for trial number two. ma am, do you swear from other get a read word for word of it in that transcript. i do. mom did not testify in person this time around. the defense had a stand in read jaded georgia s 2008 testimony in the record. and accounting which michael arrived at her house a little after 5 pm that. she said he was tired, so we took it up, well she took her granddaughters to a nearby playground. now, when you got back, did you observe michael at all? yes. where was he? he was on the couch, sleeping. if the jurors believe the story being recited to them, michael george could not possibly have been on his shop around 5:30 answering the phone. that s when the star prosecution witness, mike renaud, said he talk to them.
with a person for having an affairs. this is a matter of evidence. so lead defensive attorney, reminded jurors that the defendant was on trial for murder. an adulterer is a person who s done evil things, but that does not necessarily make them a murderer. the victims shoe can be seen. as for any hard evidence that michael george killed his wife in cold blood, the defense maintained it just didn t exist. and you have no weapon, no witnesses, no forensics. nothing. there s nothing to tie your guy. zero, zilch, not a. the ties into the crime. the jury, your honor. we re happy to say that we rest. and then, just in the first trial, came that moment when the prosecution rested. and the defense filed a motion saying, your honor, they haven t proved their case. there is no physical evidence which links michael george to the crime. but this time, there was no five-hour retreat to chambers for the judge to think about. her ruling came in seconds.
okay, did you recognize who s been it was? i assumed it was one of michael s vince, yes. in the prosecution s theory of the timeline, there was a missing link of logistics. how did michael get from his mother s place, back to the store, in time to kill barbara? the neighbors sighting of his van outside his mom s, could plant the seed of reasonable doubt. she has no dog in the fight. she s not a close, close bosom buddy or lifelong personal friend of janitor michaels, she s a neighbor. why wouldn t you believe her? when you take the combined testimony of janet george and peggy you have solid evidence that he was at someplace else. and that neighbor was a person that the defense team had found on its own. the police had never knocked on doors to corroborate michaels alibi, of being at his mother s. evidence in itself, the defense argued, of shoddy police work. even the former police
detective didn t know how to read that junk, apparently in the way. drug leaning up against the door? i can t tell whether his perspective here, it s hard to tell. the defense felt it had already raised enough reasonable doubt to secure a not guilty verdict. and even though they and norway had to, the lawyers wanted to offer the jury other possible murder suspects to consider in a scenario of a robbery gone bad. the defense calls mr. thomas quentin. the defense put on a witness who told a story about being with two friends outside a comic book shop in flint, michigan, some 50 miles away from michael george s shop. a sinister looking guy, he said, was peddling what appeared to be hot comics. a man approached us in a parking lot, and asked to take a look at some old comics that he wanted to sow. this new defense witness said he came forward only after watching the first comic book murder case on dateline. he testified that the venn teenagers didn t trust the seller, and