all of a sudden, there is a case against you? right. it was nerve-racking. but dan mockbee passed the polygraph. and this time, the husband didn t do it. and with dan, cleared the detective focused on who was there that morning. 13 employers were working in the regular shipped one michelle was killed. detectives interviewed all 13. with each person i talked to, there is no blood, there is no evidence they ve been involved in anything. if it s one of these people you are interviewing, they ve disguised it well. they have. there was nothing suspicious about any of the 13 interviews. so, detectives started methodically digging through other evidence. starting with thermal fissures security camera footage, and right away, they spotted something unusual that happened in the morning of the murder. a vehicle in the parking lot
prove his innocence. we still have a murderer out there. i am not going to shut up until dave comes home. janet dooley was confident her husband would be found not guilty in a new trial because detective mcvay s credibility was compromised after the prosecutor branded him a liar. they lie. they cheat to win. and that s what they do. michelle s sister said they were frustrated by the judge s decision. but it didn t change their minds about david dooley s guilt. after everything that s come out, you think they got the right guy? we absolutely think they have the right guy. we have no doubt about that at all. nothing that happened since the trial, nothing in the appeal has made you think maybe the jury was wrong? no. michelle just was she deserves justice. she deserves this to be we all deserve all of this to be over with. seven long years after michelle mockbee was killed, both sides had to brace themselves for a new trial. this time, there would be a new prosecutor
court. ladies and gentlemen, david dooley didn t murder michelle mockbee sfoor his new attorneys were eager to present their new evidence to a jury. there was new evidence of course, that random person we wanted to introduce. rules of evidence prevented defense attorneys from introducing listen at that tally smith s letters in court, the one where she accused detective mcvay of being a liar. but what they did have this time around was the random dude video that had led to the overturned conviction. we have a entire first trial in this case that s conducted on the fact this is a fairly secure building. what the walking man shows is that that s not true. to the defense that random dude was just one of the alternate suspects ignored by detectives. every single thing that was done from the mom they say that david left on that surveillance tape was in an effort to convict david as opposed to
2001 and continued to work together at thermo fisher. not long after, came two daughters. madeline and carly. i remember she pretty much said be nice to people. so i am going to be nice to people. because she was nice to everybody. yeah, she was. she would always play games with us in our backyard and take us to all of these fun places. she was just a fun person to be around. but even as busy parents, dan and michelle always planned a date night every other monday. memorial day 2012 was no exception. how was she that night? happy? absolutely. normal? uh-huh, normal. the next morning, michelle got up to go to thermo fisher for the early morning shift. dan had the day off and stayed home. she wakes me up, kisses me good-bye, says i love you and went to work. and that was the last you saw of her? the last i saw of her.
michelle s siblings were on pins and needles. when the first day comes and goes and there was no verdict, were you worried at all? stressed. stressed. yeah, it was agonizing waiting. then after deliberating some 16 hours over two days word came from the jury. there was a verdict. we the jury find the defendant david dooley guilty of murder. guilty for the murder of michelle mockbee. did you have anything to do with the death of michelle mockbee? no, i did not. i did not kill her. david dooley was sentenced to life in prison. he filed an appeal. you know getting convictions reversed on appeal is a long shot. when you are innocent, it does happen. and it will happen. dooley was right. it wasn t over. two years after his conviction, a whistle-blower came forward to reveal a secret