around it? how do you process all of it? how do you move forward every day? and how would they make the case against ken and persuade the state to start from scratch? ken s story had never changed, that shirlene killed herself, accidentally or on purpose, with an overdose of pills. of course, the state still had evidence, like that pill bottle the sisters said they found stashed in the back yard of the condo, as if ken fed the pills to shirlene, then tried to hide the bottle from the police. but defense attorney edmunds could show ken didn t try to hide anything, that, in fact, he took paramedics to the medicine cabinet himself. they counted down tablets in a bottle of pills to see how many were left, and how many tried to figure out how many she d taken. which is what she said she had done. and there was a potential new defense witness who knew shirlene well, didn t like her at all, in fact. and she has her own strange theory on what happened to shirlene. you get to know the
charged with her murder. next to look at the case, prosecutor dan oyasato, who found ken s remarks about strangulation very disturbing. and here s why. this was viewed as an overdose. that s how this case went to the hospital. that s what tiffany and tammy were thinking. that s what the police department was thinking. and yet, as oyasato began to dig deeper, he found that ken talked about strangulation more than once. he brought it up with the medical examiner s investigator and was basically telling them, this is not a strangulation case. in fact, said the prosecutor, ken tried to persuade the examiner not to do an autopsy. but, of course, there was one. the result took months but, sure enough, cause of death, said the medical examiner, brain damage due to ligature strangulation. when an arrest
at shirlene. i have pushed shirlene. there it was in his own hand, evidence she left for you to find? yes. and suddenly the sisters truly believed their mom was sending secret clues that almost screamed open in case of death. attempting to solve the mystery, they found a willing ally in detective cambra. one plan they came up with together? secretly recording a phone call with ken. tammy made the call from the police department. the strategy was for tammie to act friendly, supportive. hello. ken? yeah. hey, it s tammy. ken told tammy he was deeply concerned for shirlene. i love her. it s not the same without her here. i miss her very much. but ken also said he was
i feel really bad for my family because it s not their mother. they didn t make the promise i did. because every time i m not there someone else has to cover all the things that i normally do. tiffany, especially, makes the trip to hawaii repeatedly, and kids and husband know they re on their own whenever she rolls out the suitcase stuffed with case papers. we will get a conviction. and i will do everything i can possibly do in order to make that happen. the case has dogged detective, nick cambra, too. he s retired now, but he counts the years and wonders. do you perceive enthusiasm in the prosecutor s office to not at all. to go after this? not at all. they would do so reluctantly? yes. but why? if prosecutors won a conviction once, why not just do it again? at this point it s not my decision. but what i can say is, provided the evidence was not suppressed and is still available, there is more than ample evidence to prove his guilt. anticipating a new trial
here s what s happening. thousands of people rallied nationwide saturday for the women s march in support of abortion rights. monday marks the first state to cut the pre-courts new term. on the docket, and mississippi case that could transform abortion rights in the u.s.. that threat along with the court s refusal to block texas s so-called heartbeat bill, has many abortion rights activists sounding the alarm bells that the reversal of roe v. wade could be on the horizon. and now back to dateline. welcome back to dateline. i m andrea canning. months before surely in van gandhi daily. she asked her children to investigate before anything happened or. now sure leads has can was on trial for her murder. prosecutors argued can strangled his wife. the defense insisted she overdose. ken was about to learn his feet. then a chance meeting would