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but it s an understanding, and i know you never understand the universe and everything that happens in it, but with my sister, i just want to know why. but that last bit about not understanding everything, as we spoke, she could have no idea. the trial date was close. the state s case was ready. and then michael studebaker, ed owens defense attorney was driving to work when his cell phone rang. it was his own forensic expert. and said, you re not going to believe what we just found underneath the fingernails. i literally had to pull over because my mind was just spinning. coming up arrested, then released? what could possibly have led to that? we didn t expect that. that was a curveball. when the secrets in the suitcase continues. [ female announcer ] letting her home be turned into a training facility?
i loved her so much that i want her to know the monster got you and now i m facing the monster and i m going to get him. but who was the monster? as the trial began, the defense attorney offered his theory to the jury, that ed and karin had been having an affair, the semen got under her nails earlier before the night of the murder, a night when he wasn t even there. where was ed the night of the murder? i ll tell you where ed was. ed s a drunk. he went to the bar. he closed the bar. but he was not at the stroms house murdering karin strom. the defense wanted the jury to believe it was an angry and jealous steve who grabbed karin by the neck and choked her to death, an entirely different story than the one told by the prosecutor. as karin strom was struggling for her life, what she was doing was collecting the evidence that now testifies to you who her killer was.
it was the dna, like a legal magic wand, it seemed that test had changed everything in the karin strom murder case. and now ed owens, a man who would have escaped detection forever without dna, was about to go on trial for murder. then a remarkable or at least extremely curious discovery. the material under karin s fingernails was ed owens dna, all right, there was no dispute about that. the curious thing was the type of dna. it was seminal fluid. what did you think when you heard that? i thought there s semen and fingernails. that sure doesn t show murder. it shows consensual relations at best. ed must have had sex with karin, said the defense attorney. naturally the detective heard about the discovery semen, but