recognize because when it dries, the edge of the stain will be darker than center of the stain. and where was ken between 12:20 p.m. to 1:40 p.m., the time of his wife s murder? mr. fitsue says that he had left the house around 11:30ish and had driven up to belmont, an area about 40 minutes north of where he lived to examine a vacant lot. no one saw ken at this lot, and ken s cell phone records showed he wasn t in that area when the school called to tell him his wife was missing. so ken s story, his alibi of where he was located, he was actually in the palo alto area when he received the phone call. prosecutors believe ken s motive was secrecy. he didn t want the divorce or anyone to know he wasn t the biological father of his oldest son, and he didn t want anyone to know they were virtually bankrupt. it was almost like a clock
they met as young people, and i think they shared a love of music. that s kind of what got their relationship going and they married a couple of years after that. ken and christine lived in palo alto, california, where they raised two sons. christine was a music teacher in the local public school. ken was a real estate consultant. life was going well for the couple until one day in 2000 when ken got a call from christine s school. christine had failed to show up for her 1:00 music class. and this was very unusual. she was very punctual. she was very much a perfectionist. ken had no idea where she was. so he and two co-workers drove to the house to see if she was there. when they arrived, they found
as he attempted to clean the blood, water splashed on his bloody shoe, diluting the stains, which proved he was there during the clean-up. then he took christine s shoes and placed them on the steps to support the fake story that she tripped. ken put his bloody shirt, shoes and towel in suv. he never imagined police would search his vehicle since christine s death would be ruled an accident. he picked up two co-workers to support his alibi, but he was much later than he expected since the clean-up took more time than he anticipated. his cell phone records showed he was still in palo alto when christine s school called to say
have a storybook marriage. ken and christine inherited a large sum of money from ken s family and rarely had to worry about finances. by the time they moved to palo alto, they had about $2 million in real money. but investigators learned the troubling fact about their finances. because of failed business ventures and overspending, they were virtually bankrupt. they had financial problems. they were not going to make their mortgage. christine s closest friends told police the stress of impending bankruptcy was eating away at their marriage. christine was thinking of leaving ken and taking her half of the house and separating herself from his life completely. but there was something else that bothered investigators. going up the stairs, there s
investigators asked pathologists to check her hands. there was no wounds on her hands. and even though there was no blood on the souls of ken s shoes, this luminol pattern made it clear he had stepped in christine s blood in the kitchen before it had been cleaned. the shoe print patterns shown in the luminol were consistent with the pattern of the bottom of the shoes that were found in mr. fitsue s vehicle. the blood stains found on ken s shirt and shoes were medium velocity blood spatter. this definitely didn t support ken s story. the stains are all consistent with being near the source of blood at the time that the beating took place. even more damning was the fact that the blood and the sides and tips of ken s shoes had been diluted, consistent with standing nearby as blood was being cleaned with water. dilute blood is often easy to