i can t believe what people do to each other. it was terrible. it s terrible. around back, cox, the crime scene tech, found the security bolt on a sliding glass door had been dislodged. there were other signs of tampering. there was a cable box that was open. you start to think to yourself, somebody s trying to cut the wires. there was a knocked over bird bath. so there was evidence outside that at first you need to think to yourself, i think that this might be a burglary. and karen s overturned purse on the stovetop supported the break-in theory. anna cox took an inventory of everything at the crime scene. a pizza box, a garden glove, a grocery receipt, all routine findings so far. but it s what authorities spotted next on the wall just above the body that would turn this case into something out of the movies. a three-letter message in blood. you didn t have to squint to make it out, either, roc. on the victim, karen s right hand index finger was clearly stained with blood. ro
in this day in age, we know that juries really like to see forensics. right. the dna, the blood samples. and they didn t have it. that was the biggest concern for me. but it took the jury just four hours to find tim permentor guilty of first-degree murder. he was spared the death penalty by the judge, who ordered him to serve a life sentence with no chance for parole. how are you doing today? i m fine. i spoke with him at florida s liberty correctional constitution. the convicted murderer says he s the victim of a justice system tilted against him from the start. did you murder karen? no. because this would be a great time to relieve her family of a lot of remorse and just fess to it. and i understand that, but i did not kill karen. i did not. and i ll probably spend the rest of my life here. and when i m 80, if i m still alive, i did not kill karen. i ll pay for it and i am paying
settling down hadn t been part of karen s growing up. she and her five brothers had been raised as military brats and moved bases a lot. now they were traveling from far flung parts of the country for her funeral. shocked and in mourning for the lost sister who had always been their glue. all the boys kind of got involved in their own stuff. then there was karen. she was really what connected all of us to the family unit. what does that tell us about her? she was really more important to us than we knew. i think she was always more interested in family as a whole than she was in herself. brother mike wasn t alone in thinking his kid sister could have been a sky s the limit person. she could have been anything she wanted, a scientist or a doctor or whatever. well, her friends loved her.