based on how you think he should be acting? i don t know if it s fair. but in my business, it s realistic. because, you have to look at all angles of an event and make sure that your uncovering everything that s there. on the ledge where leslie fell, investigators found fred s camera and the photos of leslie s last moments alive. as he stared at leslie, the vibrant wife and mother, sheriff bruce s gut told him, keep looking. the vibes were all. wrong all the alarm bells were going off, even to this day, it gives me a little bit gives me the chills. coming up vibes on one thing, but investigators thought they also had evidence that fred wasn t telling the truth. he told me she fell 20 feet. where was the trauma? where were the injuries? why did i not see what i expected to see? there were no broken bones. any substantial abrasions or contusions. what really happened to leslie that day?
leslie mueller did not suffer any significant injuries in her fall from the ledge, fred mueller must have drowned her. that s their case. they won t give you the way of that theory. they won t give you the how. the defense, again, criticize the prosecutions recreations. and told this jury there was no way anyone could know for sure what water flow and death are on the day leslie died. if someone measured the actual stream flow of cottonwood creek within days or a week of the incident, it would be informative. and several new defense witnesses took the stand. there was a biomechanical engineer who examined the mannequin used in this test. frankly, it s not even right to call it testing. according to the defense is new expert, the states test had a big flaw. the dummy couldn t sink or flow in water the same way a human does. in fact, it was an even
michael golob was on duty. a call went out over the radio for a female drowning victim. golob headed over to the base of the trail. there he ran into fred. he comes barreling down at a very high rate of speed. kind of slams on his brakes. starts yelling at me. let s go! let s go, let s go! the ems responded notice the man he was trying to help could also be injured. fred s face was also scratched up. he had some superficial lacerations and so i take a minute to make sure this isn t my second victim. to make sure he s okay. he assures me he s fine, he s fine. just kind of wants to keep going. but then, as fred drove, he seemed disoriented. he pulled over but he couldn t seem to find where leslie fell. i start to unload from the jeep. he says no, this isn t it. and we get back to the jeep. he continues upstream, or uphill. after another stop, they found the right place and hike toward the creek. all of a sudden i hear yelling. and the yelling is coming from downstream.
he said that she had apparently fallen off of the waterfall. fred told golob the same thing he told investigators. he d watch leslie swan dive off the cliff, hitting granted before sliding into the water. all of a sudden i was struck with the fact that there was no trauma. did you see any blood on leslie mueller? there was no deformities. there was no blood. even leslie s clothing seemed unscathed. did you notice any markings, tears, scrapes on the jacket? there was none. it was remarkably pristine. the pathologists who performed leslie s autopsy was also surprised by the lack of injuries to her body. did you observe any injuries to misses mueller that were consistent with breaking a fall? no, i did not. did you observe any consistent with falling on her head and shoulders off a cliff onto granite, as described? no. and what s more, investigators found no forensic evidence that leslie ever hit that rock. there was no fibers on the rock.
matthew durkan, a deputy colorado state attorney general came on board, he was later joined by ryan bradley, on loan from the boulder county da. what was your first impression? very tough case. they combed through the case file. fred statements, leslie s autopsy and all those tests conducted at the creek. this location was a breathtakingly beautiful case in the middle of nowhere. it was the perfect place to commit a murder where nobody would see. coming up authorities take a closer look at the scene. the defendants story did not match up. and for the mueller kids, a shock. i was just like, why? and i said all we can tell you that. a new chapter opens but nothing in this case will go the way anyone thinks. when dateline continues. people can get it bad. and for those who do get it bad, it may be because they have a high-risk factor. such as heart disease, diabetes, being overweight,