and social care act. when you read christie s report, what s really confronting is that there are a whole list of issues here which the authors believe had a direct impact on her death. not recognising the risks after a ligature attempt three months before she died. a shortage of skilled staff. a lack of secure nhs and social care places. the report s authors say such issues, we believe, were the root causes of christie s death. oh, that s big. mm hm. what do you say to that? even there it s saying multifaceted and systematic failings. words they ve waited more than three years to see. but what they say is tough. it was horrible reading it, cos it s there in black and white that it was their fault. you know, there was always a bit of. i think a bit of doubt
believe had a direct impact on her death. not recognising the risks after a ligature attempt three months before she died. a shortage of skilled staff. a lack of secure nhs and social care places. the report s authors say such issues, we believe, were the root causes of christie s death. oh, that s big. mm hm. what do you say to that? even there it s saying multifaceted and systematic failings. words they ve waited more than three years to see. but what they say is tough. it was horrible reading it, cos it s there in black and white that it was their fault. you know, there was always a bit of. i think a bit of doubt that we would get that much. we were right. we were right all along in saying how awful it was in there for these young people.
so you think that darren came up, followed her, had the confrontation there, killed her with a ligature, choked her to death. then what did he do? you know, i think after the incident happened over here he went back and just took off and headed back home. and nobody saw him? it was still dark. ponce also found this e-mail sandra sent her lawyer just three weeks before her murder. darren started asking me about my boyfriend, as he calls him, ryan. he got really upset and started swearing at me. he started shaking me, telling me to tell him the truth and don t ever call him again. ponce worked the investigation for close to a year. but as he weighed and reweighed the evidence, he always came back to darren, who lacked an alibi, who called in sick to work, who gave conflicting accounts about the morning of the murder, who left blank the diary entry for
there is boxes on the shelves. everything is stacked. everything is kind of in his home. on the other side, is kind of disheveled. it was messy, but nothing seemed out of the ordinary for a basement. until they notice something alarming. we more closely examined the area and found will appear to be blood splatter on the walls and the shelving. crime scene techs spare spray the basement with luminol and found even more blood. blood that someone tried to wipe away. then a discovery inside a garbage bag. we find what appears to be a rod with two handles, knotted so that you could hold on to both handles and use it as a ligature. a weapon used for strangulation. the evidence was telling them a story. one that wouldn t end well for craig rideout. we were pretty sure we had our murder scene. this is a big moment in this case. it is. coming up a bombshell about craig rideout s soon to be ex-wife. craig didn t want to believe that there was a romantic relationship betwe
as we look at the body we notice faint red marks on the lips. that was interesting. you don t usually see that. there was no ties. there was no rope. there was no tape. just red marks. yeah. just red marks. little red marks that somehow looked familiar. it looked like two parallel lights and then perpendicular to those were little lines probably 1/16th of an inch apart. i have seen these marks before sometimes on the flex ties we use to make arrests. wow, he used zip ties to bind her. he cut them off afterwards. he did we knew that immediately. the detective s mind went to the darkest of places. diane must have been restrained, helpless and terrified as she watched her killer prepare the ligature and put it around her neck and the killer must have