charming little cottage on addison avenue here in palo think i could have convicted alto. time to play house. him. inside his jail cell, his paul started to think about friends say, paul zumot is marriage. and for paul s 36th birthday, trying to say strong, waiting for his sentencing, his lawyer jennifer planned a party full of working on a motion for a new promise. trial. she invited most of his close paul is optimistic this is friends to dishdash, one of his favorite restaurants, and i think they had over a dozen all going to get resolved. people, almost 20 people or something. and he s still sad. he still says pray for jennifer. today, the palo alto cottage has been repaired. and jennifer created a cute table setting. she created a perfect party for paul. new love perhaps growing in there? cake and everything. the young people still come to the cafe to socialize and smoke hookah. his brother runs the place now. in fact, people who were and paul? there described the party a
and at 1:17, paul was not at the house. so where was paul? trying to pick up paperwork at the palo alto police station and then at the hookah lounge where he appears on security camera video footage around 1:37 p.m. and then from there he headed to his anger management class about 18 miles away. on the way, he stopped at the restaurant depot seen here on camera around 3:30. so there simply wasn t time in between, said geragos, for paul to go to the cottage, strangle his girlfriend and douse her body with gasoline. a solid alibi, said geragos. his client simply couldn t have killed jennifer, and he couldn t have started the fire. how could he have been in two places at once? and as for rosie, the yellow lab who alerted to a gasoline smell
case revolved around the what so-called scientific evidence, and that was absolutely destroyed. and then you ended up with the character assassination block. some courtroom observers believe the defense had already created a reasonable doubt that testifying was in fact, risky. especially for paul, said his friend. knowing paul the way i know paul and the way he could be interpreted incorrectly, i was very nervous about paul taking the stand. risky or not, paul was determined to tell the jury his side of the story. i thought, you know, if there was any way this jury thought this man was responsible for this, now they know for sure that he s not.
according to forensic experts, she was dead before the fire started. the method? a particularly intimate form of killing. death by strangulation. strangling someone is a very personal killing. it s a very angry killing. it s not like shooting someone from a long way away, i don t imagine. you re touching the person and feeling their life s blood ebb from them. who could have been so angry with jennifer? paul had told detectives that he and jennifer had taken out restraining orders against those brothers, hisham and tony ghanma. men part of his inner circle who he had considered former friends. they re trying to get us. they are trying to harm me. who is that? hisham. the guy you have a restraining order against? several restraining against him. he hit me.
some observers as strange. after all, there had just been that one little inconsistency. and though paul and jennifer did fight sometimes, they seemed crazy in love, too. paul had been shopping for a diamond ring, for heaven s sake. there was a part of paul that was mourning his girlfriend, and then there was a part of him that was he didn t understand why he was in custody. and he didn t understand why he couldn t just cry for his girlfriend and for his life that had just changed 100%. it certainly did. paul zumot was taken to jail to await trial on a charge of murder in the first degree. big mistake, said paul zumot. when i first saw him, he all he was really still telling me is, you know, me being in custody, all of this is going to blow over with. you know, they re going to realize i m not the person who did this, and this will be over with. coming up drawing back the curtain for a peek of life with paul.