i was like, wow! holloway had spent an unusually long period of time at the crime scene before calling the police. he goes inside dorothy edwards house. he sees that wall of blood for the first time, but he doesn t call police. he decides that he is going to go to the other side neighbor and get her to come in the house with him. so he is at the closet door again and he decides to put gloves on. and then opens the door and lo and behold, there she was. really? he put his gloves on before he went to open the door? diana was also suspicious that holloway immediately told police who the perpetrator could be. he told law enforcement, you know, there was a boy here a couple weeks back who washed her windows. and if you get me her checkbook, i can get his name for you. and that was edward lee elmore. that boy.
distant memory until donald zalinka confronted her with it nearly 25 years later. i said let s do this. i m going to tell it all, not just the part you want to hear. but the judge in the case visibly disgusted by the tactic, disallowed the deposition. diana could continue her fight for elmore s life. at elmore s trial, prosecutor willie t. had claimed that negroid hair had been found on the body. but when the defense had petitioned to see the hair, it had gone missing. now 16 years later, the hair suddenly turned up. the prosecution has an obligation to turn over to the defense anything which is favorable. in this case, they didn t do it at the time of trial. as it turns out, none of the hairs were negroid at all. they were all caucasian hair, and they did not belong to mr. elmore. and that should be sufficient to warrant a new trial.
one name on the list jumped out at diana. thomas henderson was a state police agent who grew up across the street from dorothy edwards and james holloway and was friendly with both. tom henderson had nothing to do with forensic investigation at all. nothing. he wasn t supposed to be involved in the case anyway because these were people he knew his whole life long. there was really no reason for him to have removed these things from the laboratory. we were arguing that this evidence had in all likelihood been tampered with and quite conceivably that mrs. edwards blood had been put on the garments. it would now be up to judge kinard to rule whether or not elmore deserved a new trial. the decision would take four months to come down. we presented all this great evidence. we re very excited. we re stoked. then comes the judge s order and the cover letter said edward lee elmore may well not be guilty,
she was just sitting there on her settee watching tv. he just came in and he started on her. it took her a good 20 minutes to die. he just went on. and you didn t and there wasn t any nudging or prompting. he was relishing talking about all of the things. it was a gully washer of dumbfoundedness that day. diana s suspicions about james holloway were never pursued. he passed away in 1994. by 1995, elmore had been on death row for more than 13 years. and he had seen many of his fellow inmates put to death. elmore s survival would now depend on diana getting him a new trial. a process diana would launch only 98 days after passing her bar exam. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis,
but that will be for an appellate court to find. judge kinard had left elmore s fate up to other judges to decide. i became literally hysterical, completely sobbing. running, i threw it at john blume. what the hell is the matter with you? john blume had assigned elmore s case to diana as an intern. i was stunned. i had really expected that he would grant relief because they had presented a compelling case of mr. elmore s innocence. diana was discovering that proving elmore s innocence was not enough. to get a new trial, elmore s team would need to prove that elmore s constitutional rights had been violated. a person can be innocent but as long as they get a fair trial, that s all they re entitled to. well, that begs the question. is it a fair trial if somebody has lied?