when you came, after he was yes, yeah. i ask her specifically if david were came home that morning, and she says no. two stahl and mcvay, janet dooley had just contradicted her own husband story. so police questioned her again about that apparent discrepancy. you told the other detective that he didn t come home that day. i did? janet seemed surprised. she told police that david did, in fact, come home and the reason she offered raised more questions for investigators. he said he ripped another pair of pants. yet to come home and just, you know, grab a new pair of pants. janet s statements were not helping her husband s cause. david dooley never said anything about ripped pants to police. adding to the confusion, detectives spoke with thermo fisher employee joe seagert, who told them he talked with dooley that morning. according joe he made it a
things together their self through their eyes. and i did. dave didn t change his clothes and didn t chage his story. dna was picked up from five different places, and none of that was match to david dooley or anybody else. there were many unknown dna profiles. one of these unknown profiles could have been the killer. the defense noted that something set off the warehouse alarm item just three days before the murder. you think that s significant. yeah. yeah, it s significant. that means that someone could have gained access to thermo fisher. after both sides had presented their cases, it was time for closing arguments. no one could think of any reason to kill michelle mockbee. so what motive would david dooley have to kill michelle mockbee. but it was only after the
courtroom drama. but the issue for the dooley trial wasn t the affair. it was an 18-page letter in which the prosecutor blasted the detective who was by then her former lover, as an outright liar, both personally and professionally. she ended up reading her own scathing words into the court record. now that i know what a bleet [bleep] you are, i am going to grapple with [bleep] ethical issues in every case in which you were involved. she says she was upset because mcvay didn t tell her what was on a thermo fisher video she had come across. dooley s attorney continued reading. not to mention the fact that you allowed me to go through a complete [bleep] murder trial without mentioning that video. now that i know it what the [bleep] am i going to do now. what the am i supposed to do now? right. that tells the story doesn t it?
all the hard evidence the state didn t have. dna evidence, murder weapon. blood evidence, marks on david dooley. dooley never testified in front of the jury, but he did talk to dateline about the case against him, and his story that differed from his wife s. you say you went home to check on your wife. and she says he came home to change his pants. what s the truth? why don t you agree on the same story? we agree that i came home. did you go home to change your pants? no, i did not. why would your wife say you did? i don t know. we talked about that a couple of times. the only thing welcome back come up with is she didn t hear me properly. janet dooley has serious hearing problems and on the day of the murder she says she only saw a pair of ripped pants in the house and thought that s why david said he came home. a person who cannot hear put
if it s one of these people you are interviewing, they ve disguised it well. they have. there was nothing suspicious about any of the 13 interviews. so, detectives started methodically digging through other evidence. starting with thermal fissures security camera footage, and right away, they spotted something unusual that happened in the morning of the murder. a vehicle in the parking lot not entering but leaving, around the back of the building. detectives matched the truck to its owner, david dooley, the janitor. and one of the workers who found michelle s body. dave dooley s truck is seen leaving the parking lot at 6:31 that morning. right after the murder? that s right. that s right. the security tape showed dooley returning to the warehouse around 7:00 a. m., detective mcvay thought it was not that he hadn t mentioned that when i first spoke. they needed to speak with dooley again, so they went to