keith morrison: strong feelings. but giselle esteban, herself, was not so strong tiny and pregnant. hardly seemed physically capable of overpowering and murdering the larger michelle le, let alone finding a way of disposing her body. so they sent her home, and later that afternoon finally got a look inside michelle s car as we did much later, when the detective showed it to us. nothing had changed, nothing was touched. here, the morbid sense we were somehow violating a sad and very personal space. this is what inspector ritchie found a crime scene. once we get the car opened, you can see there s blood wiped across here in the plastic a little bit on the floor mats. and then, as you can see, there s more droplets or blood dropping down, going in a straight down pattern.
story. she was pregnant with her second child. she went to the hayward kaiser hospital for a prenatal check up hours before michelle disappeared. she spotted her old friend at a distance. were you surprised to see michelle there? yes. how did it make you feel when you saw her? at first, surprised, then annoyed, then i thought okay. keep your blood pressure down, otherwise, you are going to lose this baby. strong feelings. but, gisele, herself, was not so strong. tiny and pregnant. hardly seemed physically capable of overpowering and murdering michelle le, let alone disposing of her body. they sent her home, then got a look inside michelle s car, as we did, much later, when the detective showed it to us.
keith morrison: strong feelings. but giselle esteban, herself, was not so strong tiny and pregnant. hardly seemed physically capable of overpowering and murdering the larger michelle le, let alone finding a way of disposing her body. so they sent her home, and later that afternoon finally got a look inside michelle s car as we did much later, when the detective showed it to us. nothing had changed, nothing was touched. here, the morbid sense we were somehow violating a sad and very personal space. this is what inspector ritchie found a crime scene. once we get the car opened, you can see there s blood wiped across here in the plastic a little bit on the floor mats. and then, as you can see, there s more dplets or blood dropping down, going in a sght down pattern. keith morrison: police also found some blood smeared
why d she sneak into the school? to find michelle s new address, maybe kill her there, said ford. why d she send those texts from the apple store and the chuck e. cheese? to cover up her crime. but she couldn t hide from the cameras, said the prosecutor, the phone pings, her own electronic trail. and the dna in the car confirmed it. the evidence was overwhelming. just no refuting it, said ford. and so the defense didn t even try. instead, they did something wholly unexpected. a big surprise. giselle admitted she did it. so you re putting all of these building blocks together to show that she had to be responsible for this. yes. and then she goes and admits it? yes. i could not believe she would allow her defense to be i did it. reporter: but there was a reason, said the defense giselle had been provoked. she killed michelle in the heat of passion. michelle, she claimed, was a lying schemer who had been busy stealing what little giselle had left in life her family.
she said she spotted her old friend at a distance. keith morrison: strong feelings. but giselle esteban, herself, was not so strong tiny and pregnant. hardly seemed physically capable of overpowering and murdering the larger michelle le, let alone finding a way of disposing her body. so they sent her home, and later that afternoon finally got a look inside michelle s car as we did much later, when the detective showed it to us. nothing had changed, nothing was touched. here, the morbid sense we were somehow violating a sad and very personal space.