we then decide to submit those shoes to a second laboratory. the examiner places the shoes under the microscope. this time, they found several microscopic stains that appeared to be blood. and this time, dna testing confirmed what investigators already suspected. those shoes do in fact contain dna and were late to match the dna of avis banks. it puts her there in the presence of ms. banks at the time of her death. the only thing police needed to figure out was whether keyon pittman was involved. q.
life couldn t have been better for avis banks, she graduated from college, found a job she loved in a daycare center and met the man she planned to marry. but an unexpected pregnancy changed some of her plans. when i learned ava was pregnant, i wasn t thrilled. i know avis asked for forgiveness, that she was going to make it right by marrying him. her fiance was keyon pittman, a middle school teacher and basketball coach. mr. pittman was excited about the family that they were beginning, they had already picked the name out for the child. avis and keyon bought a house together in the suburb of jackson, mississippi. but tragedy struck just a few months before the baby was due to be born. when keyon came home from work and found avis lying on the garage floor in a pool of blood,
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he had a lot of girls had he was playing at the time. one of the women was 30-year-old brenda martin, the mother of one of the boys on the basketball team keyon coached. ms. martin and mr. pittman were in the early stages of a relationship. that was in the form of flirting, telephone calls, text messages, things of that nature. brenda martin had no desire the talk to police. brenda didn t want to have anything to do with this whole situation because she was married. she was married with children. brenda denied any involvement in avis murder and she had an alibi for the time of the crime. we didn t find anything with her that would put her at the scene. phone records or anything. brenda wasn t keyon s only love interest. another was carla hughes, the 25-year-old cheerleader coach who worked at the same school