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. even more surprising was that the police allowed holloway, a possible suspect, to clean the crime scene the day after dorothy s body was found. law enforcement turned the crime scene over to jimmy holloway to clean up. he could do whatever he wanted in there. there was no law enforcement presence watching what happened. there was no preservation of the crime scene. diana needed answers so she drove 90 miles to greenwood, south carolina, and showed up unannounced at james holloway s front door. mrs. holloway answered the
little bit. what do you expect from an air head 17-year-old. i pled guilty to armed robbery and off i went to the louisiana correctional institute for women. one day, the prosecutor in my case came to the prison to visit and he said, i just want you to know that you don t have to be what you did that day, and you can make it, and you can be somebody. and i m still why wouldn t every prosecutor want to do that? diana began studying in the prison s law library, researching cases of fellow
proving elmore s innocence was not enough. to get a new trial, elmore s team would have 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? diana s team immediately appealed judge kinard s decision to the south carolina supreme court. but in the meantime, the state prosecutor, donald zelenka had discovered that diana had a secret that if exposed could destroy her career and damage elmore s case. he would soon call her to a deposition. don zelenka asked have you ever done anything in the course of your life that would reflect poorly on the legal profession? and i said, yes.
edwards time of death which the medical examiner had placed on saturday night during the only hours elmore had no alibi. diana hired forensic expert jonathan arden. in my opinion the victim died in the early afternoon on sunday. that time frame makes sense with the rigor mortis, the lack of decomposition. but when the state medical examiner was asked, why did you recommend that the time of death be 65 hours prior to the time of discover, given all of the evidence of the rigor mortis, the lack of decomposition, she said under oath, because that s what they told me. the police told me that s when they thought it happened. but even with all the evidence in elmore s favor, diana and jensen knew the biggest hurdle would be explaining the blood on elmore s pants to the court. blood that was supposedly found on pants and shoes matched the blood type of mrs. edwards. and this was very difficult testimony to rebut. as jensen cross-examined the
but somehow she did not get to go on that trip to tryon, north carolina, that weekend. diana realized if holloway was having an affair with dorothy, the motive could be jealous. and holloway s detailed description of what might have happened also raised a red flag for diana. he then starts telling me the story of what happened in her house, as though he were an eyewitness. 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.