but early in the afternoon, jennifer was still alive, sending real, not fake text messages from her phone. by all accounts, she was alive at 1:17. by 1:17, paul was not at the house. so where was paul? trying to pick up paperwork at the pal alto police station and then at the hookah lounge where he appears to security footage. and from there, says the dense attorney, he he headed to his anger management class. on the way, he stopped at the restaurant depot. so there simply wasn t time in between, said garagos, for paul to go to the cottage, strangle his girlfriend and douse her body with gasoline. a solid alibi, said garagos. his client simply couldn t have killed jennifer and he couldn t have started the fire.
and just one night before, paul told police some guys in a truck tried to follow jennifer home. somebody was just talking to her. and it was fine. that was okay with me. but we had people threatening us in the past, okay? i don t know what s going on. and i think that s what caused the fire, i believe. tracking you, you said? somebody was threatening us. okay. so was paul zumot on to something? detectives went to talk to the brothers and, of course, checked to see where both men were the day of the fire. there was no doubt they were nowhere near the fire. they had alibis. one of the brothers was in their cafe and he s on videotape. the other was at home depie about 20 miles away. we have receipts and videos from both locations. so once the gangham brothers were in the clear, the cops did
arson and murder, which struck some observers as strange. after all, there had been just that one little inconsistency. and though paul and jennifer did fight sometimes, they seemed crazy in love, too. paul had been shopping for a diamond can ring, for heaven sake. there was a part of paul that was mourning his girlfriend. and then there was a part of him that was he didn t understand why he was in custody. and he didn t understand why he couldn t just cry for his girlfriend and for his life that had just changed 100%. it certainly did. paul zumot was taken to jail to await trial on a charge of murder in the first degree. big mistake, said paul zumot. when i first saw him, he s all he was really still telling me is me being in custody, all of this is going to blow over with. they re going to realize i m not the person who did this and this
character assassination block. the solution? paul zumot himself appears to have demanded it. the chance to defend himself to the jury by testifying. some courtroom observers believe the defense had already created a reasonable doubt that testifying was in fact, risky. especially for paul, said his friend. knowing paul the way i know paul and the way he could be interpreted incorrectly, i was very nervous about paul taking the stand. riskary not paul was determined to tell the jury his side of the story. coming up i thought, you know, if there was any way this jury thought this man was responsible for this, now they know for sure that he s not. but what did the jury think? when burning suspicion continues. i m so frustrated. i just want to find a used car without getting ripped off. you could start your search at the all-new carfax.com
not going to want to convict somebody and put their liberty at stake based on dog evidence. still, as he presented his case, geragos had a problem. he knew it. what it came down to was the character assassination block of the case. the first two blocks of this case revolved around the the so-called scientific evidence. and that was absolutely destroyed. then you ended up with the character assassination block. the solution? paul zumot himself appears to have demanded it. the chance to defend himself to the jury by testifying. some courtroom observers believed the defense created reasonable doubt that testifying was, in fact, risky. especially for paul, said his friend nikita. knowing paul the way i know paul and the way he could be interpret eed incorrectly, i wa nervous about paul taking the stand. risky or not, paul was