than my husband and me. it doesn t mean anything. but what about those who testified kevin acted suspiciously immediately after the murder? i don t think i would want to have to come home and find out that my wife was butchered and have other people criticize what my emotional response was to that situation. kevin s friend linda agreed. even if the emotional response was to try and visit sabrina in jail. just one day after she murdered kevin s wife. i thought about that. and i m thinking he might have want to say why in the hell, what s the matter with you? linda also believed kevin was unfairly judged for filing the life insurance claims as quickly as he did. kevin, she said, had to think about the welfare of his children. now i have to be the sole support. now what am i going to do? great deal of the state s evidence were witnesses said
finding the one person, other than sabrina, who could link him to lisa s murder. clearly a lie. very damaging. prosecutors were now confident jurors had all they needed to convict. but now it was the defense s turn to make its case. and kevin knoefel s attorneys weren t about to let sabrina leave that courtroom without a fight. coming up the defense tries to undercut the prosecution s whole premise, arguing there was nothing going on between kevin and sabrina. there were 12 witnesses that if they see any form of abuse they have a mandatory duty to report. and none of them did? and all of them testified they didn t do it. when deadly betrayal continues. when deadly betra continues. just two pills for all day pain relief. aleve it, and see what s possible. and also try alevex topical pain relief.
finding out that the foster daughter lisa welcomed into her home ended up committing lisa s murder only added to the collective pain and suffering. betrayal is the perfect word for what happened. somebody hurting her that she had taken in, i just can t even imagine what she must have been going through. as detective ron worked the case, he learned there had been growing tension within the knoefel home right before the murder. and the source of that tension was sabrina. she got along great with kevin and she did not get along well at all with lisa. detective discovered lisa had become frustrated with sabrina s behavior toward kevin. she was fascinated with kevin. she seemed a little vivacious in my eyes, flirty. uh-huh. like flaunting herself.
we had. she had asked me if i was able to get her a hit man. could you tell if there were any other people in the room at the time. yes. and how could you tell that. i could hear the defendant in the background talking. autumn then testified she and sabrina discussed the idea of paying the hitman by delivering drugs for him. that s when she said sabrina handed the phone to kevin. what did he ask you at that time? do you need me to take you to go run drugs? okay. what was that in reference to? the hit. autumn said she ultimately backed out of the plan all together. finally i said, sorry. i can t help you. i don t want anything to do with it. but autumn was willing to later help detective parmertor with his investigation. after hearing autumn s story, parmertor asked autumn to call kevin and talk about the hit man. thinking kevin might implicate himself. prosecutors played that recorded
woman with plenty of reason to lie. this puts you in a difficult position, it seems to me. i mean, you are defending the character of this cold-blooded murderer and the fact that she committed this murder is all on someone else. not necessarily on someone else but together with somebody else. she would never have done this by herself. without any direct proof of the alleged affair, prosecutors began by calling those who say they saw signs of inappropriate behavior between a foster father and foster daughter. sabrina s teacher, willy smith, described spotting kevin with sabrina at the school one afternoon. she moved toward sitting in his lap inside his legs. what did you do at that point? i did a double take kind of really? then nicole, sabrina s social worker/case manager, testified about a strange call from kevin just a month before the murder.