the neighbor down and took footprints from all three of them. todd hale s footprints didn t match. jacob hadley s footprints didn t match either. then there was carlos. it struck me odd as i inked carlos feet and asked him to step down from the chair on to the paper, and he was reluctant to do that. carlos walked down one side of the paper and then walked over the footprints he just made. something s just not right here. it wasn t hard instructions to understand and follow. it was almost like he was trying to obliterate his footprints. finally technicians got usable prints, and they were compared to the bloody footprints in christina s bathroom. this is our guy. it s his footprint. carlos palm print was also a
perfect match to the bloody palm print on christina s bathroom sink. and carlos dna matched the dna from christina s rape test kit. when faced with this incriminating evidence, carlos made a startling confession. he now claimed he had a consensual sexual relationship with christina in the couple of days he had known her. he also claimed he found christina s body several hours before todd hale did but he got scared is and ran home instead of calling police. he insisted, however, he wasn t the killer. his reason for not calling 911 was because he was a black man and he would be framed for the murder. it was estimated she was murdered between 9:00 p.m. and 3:00 a.m.
ultraviolet light. this is also used when we took photographs of the bun. the indentations strongly resemble a right toe, the ball of a foot and bits of the second and third toes. and it looked like there were ridge details in the soft bread that resembled prints. if these were footprints that matched carlos robinson, prosecutors had an open and shut case. our suspect dumped the once on the floor and used the plastic bag to carry out the knife. the buns were fresh, and the barefoot person had also stepped in these hamburger buns. but if they weren t robinson s prints, then it raised the possibility of reasonable doubt or the possibility that robinson had an accomplice. so it was almost like we had
something in the hamburger buns. one of them was misshaped. we did use some light and oblique angles and some ultraviolet light. this is also used when we took photographs of the bun. the indentations strongly resemble a right toe, the ball of a foot and bits of the second and third toes. and it looked like there were ridge details in the soft bread that resembled prints. if these were footprints that matched carlos robinson, prosecutors had an open and shut case. our suspect dumped the once on the floor and used the plastic bag to carry out the knife. the buns were fresh, and the barefoot person had also stepped in these hamburger buns. but if they weren t robinson s prints, then it raised the possibility of reasonable doubt or the possibility that robinson had an accomplice. so it was almost like we had
was a victim of her own trusting nature. carlos was her neighbor. they already met. so when he knocked on her door, she let him in. how are you doing? carlos wasn t wearing any shoes since he lived next door. once inside, prosecutors believe he made a sexual advance which christina turned down. so carlos hit christina with tremendous force, knocking out three of her teeth. he then dragged her to the bathroom where he sexually assaulted her and killed her with a knife. he filled the tub with water in an attempt to wash away evidence, but he grabbed the sink with his bloody hand as he got up leaving behind a perfect palm print. he needed to get rid of the murder weapon, so he went to the kitchen, tracking his bloody footprints.