strip mall would say he saw a different suspicious character, someone wearing what appeared to be a fake beard. possibly a bearded lady. the shop was small, the percentage was wide, aisles of bins filled with comic books out front by the register and a door to the back storage room. barbara george had been found just inside the back room. on the far wall was a locked door that led to the alley. inside the comics corner crime scene techs became videotaping the crime scene. this was the cash register. there were seven and $50 still in the cash register untouched. in a glass case just behind the till o wall of collectible vintage comics, the good stuff. they hadn t been ransacked. in the storage area, some pins had been toppled over, but the emt might have done that as they rushed in to assist barb george as she lay on the floor. more than $400 would be found in her pockets, good jewelry she was wearing wasn t taken.
on her side or on your side? my side. late in the 90-minute interview, the conversation circled back to an earlier theme: robbery, the supposed theft of the detectives asked if anyone knew that he kept pricey books in the back storage room. that s when things got testy and george s previously passive tone becomes more direct and confrontational. then i am just trying to find out how that that individual, the suspect, would have known they were there, that s all. unless it was an inside job, or unless they weren t taken. they weren t taken, it was big insurance fraud. so you re saying i am lying now. no, no, i, no. i m just, iâm just saying that, that s a possibility, mike. you have to look at all options. so now you re saying that i lied about the books being gone. so now, so now what you re saying is i better get a lawyer. we didn t say that. yeah, you did. you just said one of the possibilities. that is a possibility. insurance. okay, stop. if you re go
around her mouth. her pupils were dilated and big. and i could not find a pulse. lenora happened to be a nurse and took charge. she noticed only a small amount of blood and concluded that barb had suffered a heart attack or a seizure. she told her husband to call 911, while she began administering cpr. i had never done cpr on someone that i knew and loved. it was, please god, let this be ok. she s a mother. as the ambulance rushed barb to the hospital, lenora ward felt she d done her professional best, but she wasn t at all sure her prayers would be answered. i knew that she was medically in dire straits. the woman rushed into the emergency room that evening was 32-year-old barbara george. she d put on weight after having the two children, but she was physically fit, an enthusiastic softball and volleyball player. doctors and nurses began working feverishly to get a pulse, thumping the woman s chest in rapid bursts.
out about his wife. the former lieutenant testify that michael started chatting without prompting. he made a statement that i thought was noteworthy. what was that statement? something must have fell or dropped on her in the backroom. why is that statement interesting to you? because i never told him that misses george s in the back room of the store. he knows things you should ve known? he knows evidence that only the shooter window. not realizing how unique that information is. later that night, according to police, michael george told investigators, 2 white boxes of expensive comics were missing. and that poor barbara must ve stumbled into a robbery gone bad. a theory police and prosecutors subsequently rejected. this is why it s not a robbery. the dining room was on barnett, we know at least 20 500,000. their summer $20 cash in the registers. they were untouched. the expense of comics behind the glass, were untouched.
gunning down his wife in the back room of their comic book shop. his future was about to be decided. the foreman read the verdicts. count under one, first degree murder. we find the defendant guilty. guilty of first degree murder. michael george slumped and sobbed in his attorneys arms. please be seated. barb s sister and two brothers seemed to share a gasp of relief. it took away my oldest sister, she did not see it to see me get married, she didn t get to see my son being born,. she will never get to see him do anything. i mean, he took a part of me away. across the room, the convicted man s younger daughter, one of barbs two children, collapsed into her stepmother, renee. michael george would go on