todd kept them out of the room where their mom lay dead. then, he said, he cleaned up the house as well as he could. and at 10:26 am, 7 hours after rachel died, he phoned a lawyer friend and asked him to inform the authorities. tell me exactly what you heard from your neighbor. what i m willing to tell you is that i m an attorney. i received a call notifying me of the situation. about the same time, 10:30 am, todd took his children to the neighbor s house. i said, there s been i didn t tell them rachel was dead. i said, we have a very serious situation across the street. can you please watch the kids. murder investigations are of course based on more than just witness statements.
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again was the right thing to do. exactly. it was a tough conversation to have with i went and spoke with mixed mom. she believed with the rest of the family it wasn t a suicide. exactly. and they were very supportive of all of us to do an examination. with meg s family on board, the prosecutor asked a court to order her examination. we definitely needed the body of meg purk to be exhumed for the medical examiner. if the body is not in good shape, could this go forward? if it had been too decomposed, it s unlikely this case would ever have been prosecuted. while the detective pressed forward, that summer, lidl report up the murder investigations in august 2011 scott purk was indicted for two arson s. the fire in his home, and the one at amy salvage eo s duplex. can we show you of photo of
night. there was no one to support any part of the story boney had just told. there is not one shred of evidence that puts those two people together. richard kammen was a new face on the defense team. and the reason there s flog is because it didn t happen. the defense insisted boney was the sole killer in the garage that night and that back in 2000, investigators ignored evidence pointing to the convicted felon. to make that point, the defense called damon fay, a veteran homicide detective who now trains police in how to conduct murder investigations. i don t like testifying against other cops. i m very uncomfortable with it. fay recited flaw after flaw in the camm investigation. the most significant, he said was the handling of boney s sweatshirt. when a homicide detective actually gets some physical evidence that s got somebody s name on it and dna, you hug it, you love it. it is such a rare event. and they thought of it as an artifact. which in non-legal terms means