but about the victim. 40-year-old paul duncsak, a wealthy pharmaceutical executive, how he, the victim, had weathered a brutal divorce from ates daughter stacey, how paul on the day he died was trying to turn the page, on the phone chatting with his new fiancee lori when he stepped into his house the night of august 23rd, 2006. he was inside the house and he said, and you left the air conditioning on. i said, no, i never turned on the air conditioning. then suddenly he started to scream. on the stand, the fiancee recounted paul duncsak s last words. he said, oh, oh, no, and then he stopped speaking, and i heard a thud like a falling sound and nothing. and i was calling his name and he wasn t answering. the court heard how the fiancee immediately called 911 and local police arrived within minutes to discover a lifeless
paul duncsak, slumped inside a narrow hallway of an otherwise pristine house. any sign anywhere at the residence of paul duncsak of forced entry? no. an investigator who processed the crime scene testified that the evidence pointed away from a botched robbery. the victim, he said, was still wearing a rolex watch and had $300 in cash on him. multiple gunshot wounds were testimony to a violent death. does that tell you anything? it tells me somebody wanted this man dead very, very badly. to preempt the standard defense argument that the cops never seriously pursued anyone but the accused, the prosecutor called a young neighbor to the stand. he told the court he d seen a green van with a mysterious woman inside it around the time of the murder, but the tip seemed to be one of those investigative red herrings. i did not then nor do i now believe that that van was
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the prosecution had painted edward ates as a liar, a schemer, and worst of all, a cold-blooded killer, but as his lawyer was about to assert, those were just words. where was the hard evidence of ates guilt in the murder of paul duncsak? well, first of all, i knew walking into the courtroom every one would presume he was guilty. the myth that everyone is innocent unless proven guilty is false. we walk in knowing that the jurors say, well, he s indicted. the prosecution and the police believe he did it. let s find out how guilty he is. what i had to show the most was scientific fact that he could not have done it. the attorney began his argument at the crime scene itself where the defense claimed the detective who so meticulously went over every piece of evidence collected