in the meantime, it didn t take long for investigators to eliminate julie s husband as a suspect. when he was perfectly willing to take a polygraph examination, kept in contact with the officers trying to work this case, i think all suspicion was erased. but julie s autopsy did provide some important information about the killer. the medical examiner found evidence of sexual assault. a rape test kit recovered biological evidence, presumably of the perpetrator. unfortunately, dna testing wasn t yet available. crimes in 1985 were a lot harder to solve, just based on technology.
this meant all the evidence at what may have been the murder site was compromised. somebody s been there, moving things around, and it just makes the investigation a lot more difficult. in the meantime, it didn t take long for investigators to eliminate julie s husband as a suspect. when he was perfectly willing to take a polygraph examination, kept in contact with the officers trying to work this case, i think all suspicion was erased. but julie s autopsy did provide some important information about the killer. the medical examiner found evidence of sexual assault. a rape test kit recovered biological evidence, presumably of the perpetrator. unfortunately, dna testing wasn t yet available. crimes in 1985 were a lot harder to solve, just based on technology. there are certain things that we could yield dna profiles from today you wouldn t be able to get back then. as the weeks went by and the
the alibi wasn t sufficient enough, in my mind, to totally exclude him. but like curtis pope, he, too, passed a polygraph examination. the polygraph is just a tool. it s not 100% reliable. that s why it s not admissible in court. if it hadn t have rained, maybe we could have gotten fingerprints. but you can t focus on what you could have had. you got to find what you do have. investigators needed forensic evidence to solve this crime and hoped to find some of it at the scene. every day, people fall. from a simple misstep, to tripping over a rug, to just losing their balance. and not being able to get up from a fall can have serious, lifetime consequences. being prepared is important. philips lifeline with autoalert is more than just a medical alert button. it s an advanced fall detection system designed to get you help quickly. if you fall and you re unable to push your button, the fall detection technology within autoalert can trigger the button to automatically place a call
time looking for the person that did. pope was distraught over darrell s murder. he came through the receiving line crying, and i thought he was so touched by darrell s death. and he said, i loved darrell. he was better to me than my own father. pope was 40 years old, married, with a young daughter. he did, however, have a police record consisting of arrests for petty theft. since he was the last known person to see darrell alive, he was automatically considered a suspect. pope agreed to take a polygraph examination and passed. it is not likely that somebody could come in and intentionally be untruthful and still pass the polygraph test. the next suspect was bob johnson, a roofing contractor. darrell fired johnson just two weeks before his murder. he was upset that he wasn t
lies, and sometimes big lies, to make ourselves feel more comfortable, and certainly when our survival is at stake, i mean, you can change your perception of things. this made her polygraph test useless. if she doesn t know in her own mind what is truth and what is fiction, how can she possibly react properly to a polygraph examination? there is a reason, and a very good reason that polygraph examinations are not admissible in courts of law. in this incident, tom brown passed the polygraph. and in this instance, mrs. torres flunked the polygraph. i firmly believe that both results are dead wrong. prosecutors now accepted the idea that candra was