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 romance between detective bruce mcvay and prosecutor linda tally-smith. the scandal rocked the prosecutor s office and would lead to serious questions about david dooley s conviction. brian hamrick covered the scandal for nbc cinncinnati affiliate wlwt. all the information about the personal conversations between the prosecutor, linda
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. at 5:53 a. m. a security camera captured michelle s car as it arrived at the parking lot. she stopped by the warehouse s time clock and headed upstairs to her office. about an hour later, a supervisor named ed noticed a big stap on the upstairs hallway carpet. he started looking arounded the area with the help of coworker, the janitor, david dooley. ed was out on the mezzanine just part of the ways, and i was holding the door. and there
defense had wrapped up its closing that the prosecutor gave her answer to that question. laying out her theory of motive for the first time. i would suggest to you that the evidence is right in that stack of stuff over there. you have time cards. you have invoices. all kept in michelle s office. you think the motive was the time cards? yes, i believe that michelle had actually discovered the fact that he had actually been triple dipping by clocking himself in, clocking his wife in, and getting paid hourly to do a job that they were already being paid a monthly salary to do. that feels like a thin motive. sometimes desperate people do desperate things. was david dooley desperate enough to commit murder over falsified time cards? it would be up to the jury to decide. coming up we the jury a verdict from the jury. but the real stunner was what came after.
murdering michelle mockbee. what did you client say afterward? no, not again. michelle s siblings had a different reaction. when they read that guilty, just felt everything bam, release. lots of tears. lots of tears. lots of hugs. they end of the day, this is a guilty man. and the jury rightfully found him guilty. david dooley maintains his innocence and remained silent at his second sentencing. he still says i am not going to confess to something i didn t do, even if it means this judge could change my sentence, give me a lower sentence. i am never going admit to something that never happened. the judge sentenced dooley to 43 years. he is appealing. it has been years since michelle s death. but she s still part of her daughters lives. madeline and carlo say it is the little things that remind them of their mom.
welcome back to dateline i m natalie morales. david dooley was on trial for the murder of his coworker michelle mockbee. there was no physical evidence linking him to the crime. but in her closing argument the prosecutor laid out a provocative theory suggesting david killed michelle because she caught him falsifying his time cards. the jury was about to render its verdict. but the twists in this case were just getting started. here again is josh mankiewicz with the early shift. after waiting a full day without hearing a verdict, 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.