when questioned by police, lisa admitted she, too, had a relationship with jeff lamb. in fact, lisa s husband had caught them together in a compromising situation just a few weeks before cathy lamb s murder. so i kicked my front door in and he was on my couch with no shirt on. he had shorts on or pants on or something, no shirt, socks, shoes. i got mad at him and chased him out the black sliding glass door. ray then said he called jeff on the phone. i left a message on his cell phone that if he came around my house or my family again, that, you know, i was mad, i said i ll do anything to protect my family and i don t want him around it. when we first learned that raymond had been so angry with jeff, he was somebody we were interested in, we certainly had to investigate. both ray and lisa aserbell had an alibi for the day of
while jeff admitted he had an affair with joy slidell, he claimed their relationship was over. jeffrey s story was he had reconciled with his wife and they were going to be permanently living together again. and it was contradictory for joy slidell to come over and say, no, we re moving over to this house in jupiter. joy slidell was now a suspect too. but she had an alibi for the time of the murder. she worked as a waitress at a nearby restaurant and dozens of customers saw her. next, jeff s cell phone records identified yet another suspect. on the afternoon of the murder, jeff lamb spoke with another female friend on the telephone. the first phone call that was made after we believe the murder took place was made to lisa aserbell, who turned out to be joy slidell s neighbor. lisa aserbell was a married mother of two children.
cathy s murder and were eliminated as suspects. but police were still troubled by lisa s telephone calls to jeff on the afternoon of the murder. lisa said they were purely social. phone records proved that lisa made these calls from home. but jeff s cell phone records indicated jeff wasn t at work, as he claimed. we get the phone records, which showed he is down by that house. the phone towers are hitting off of phone towers closer to the house than they are where he claims to be. and investigators found another contradiction. jeff said his dog, bandit, was in a locked bedroom when he found his wife s body. but investigators found bloody paw prints in the bedroom. and the blood was cathy s. this meant the killer put the dog in the bedroom after cathy s
to separate them, he hit cathy s dogs and took his dog, bandit, into the bedroom and closed the door. he took cathy s diamond earrings to make it look like a robbery. one of those earrings was later found in his pocket. jeff changed his shirt and shoes but not his jeans. he probably didn t see the blood on them. jeff s friend, lisa, called him on his cell phone just after 5:00 p.m. the call bounced off a cell tower near jeff s home, proving he wasn t at work as he had claimed. there s no evidence lisa new anything about the murder. when he returned to the tow yard, he threw the murder weapon up onto the roof, thinking no one would ever find it. it was planned.
but police were still troubled by lisa s telephone calls to jeff on the afternoon of the murder. lisa said they were purely social. phone records proved that lisa made these calls from home. but jeff s cell phone records indicated jeff wasn t at work, as he claimed. we get the phone records, which show he is down by that house. the phone towers are hitting off of phone towers closer to the house than they are where he claims to be. and investigators found another contradiction. jeff said his dog bandit was in a locked bedroom when he found his wife s body. but investigators found bloody paw prints in the bedroom. and the blood was cathy s. this meant the killer put the dog in the bedroom after cathy s murder.