cold case was personal. that was the case that was unsolved for my old man, my dad. the clues, that lowers triangle, cash, and a bearded lady. he said she looked like a woman in a fake beard. if a guy. it s a mystery with so many head snapping. it took to trial. we waited 18 years for justice. only two have carpet pulled off. to uncover the truth. we have a verdict. but was it the truth? he s a person who s done evil things, but that does not make a murderer. i looked at him and said, hey, let s go down to the comic book store and help buy. we pulled up at the party, police stopped us. i knew immediately all the crime scene tape was there, and they said, you can t go through. we are investigating a homicide. we are investigating the comic book store. the comic bookstore was a mom and pop shop in a strip mall outside detroit, out by the register, and to see big guys spidey, hulk and x-men. in the storage space in back was the ugly reality. one of th
in just moments, why would he be so dumb as to pick up a ringing phone in the store? he picks it up for one of two reasons, either as a businessman, it s a call and he doesn t want to lose business, or number two, it s his accomplice from the outside letting him know what s going on. couldn t investigators simply pull the phone logs and verify renaud s story by seeing what time the records showed the call coming in? not in 1990. the phone company didn t keep those kinds of logs on local calls, but remember, renaud s story had fallen through the investigative cracks altogether until a cold case cop craig keith came upon it in 2007, and in that rediscovered file was a statement saying that a guy named renaud had called the police department the day after the murder. he wanted the detectives to know that he d spoken with michael george in the comic shop at 6:00 p.m. on the fateful day.
janet george s 2008 testimony into the record, in a time that michael arrived after 5:00 p.m. that day. she said he was tired while she took her granddaughters to a nearby playground. when you got back, did you observe michael at all? yeah. where was he? he was on the couch sleeping. if the jurors believed the story being recited to them, michael george couldn t possibly have been at his shop at 5:30 answering the phone. that s when the star prosecution witness mike renaud said he talked to him. janet george was the alibi. why didn t you put her on the stand? tough call. we agonized about it. the problem with janet george is that she loves her son, but she s a wild card. her her memory is fading. the lawyers were confident about their decision not to call the mother because they had a strong witness to substantiate parts of her story. okay. peggy was janet george s next-door neighbor. on that friday the 13th, like most days, peggy said she got home from her job be
events. i remember the funeral. i don t remember anything i remember the funeral because there were so many cars. is he getting sweaty? very pale. head looking down towards the table. in 1990 in his conversation with the lead detective. michael george speculated barb was killed in a botched robbery. what was taken? very old books. they were golden aiming books. the whole case was gone. he couldn t remember exactly how many comics or the amount. he was sketchy on the details, he had no trouble coming up with a totally new answer. listen as michael s theory