most everybody around charleston, south carolina, seems to know who the county solicitor is. scarlett is what people call her. solicitor scarlett wilson, officially. a well-known and popular prosecutor. and solicitor wilson had a problem. actually, two problems. for one thing, though heather kamp practically leapt at a deal to turn state s evidence against ethan, her credibility, as you ll soon see, was not exactly aaa. and despite all the information the a-team uncovered, what could be used in court was thin. i mean, frankly, we didn t have a lot of evidence. we had a lot of opinions, and we had a lot of conjecture. but actual evidence, it just wasn t there. kate s skeletal remains gave the solicitor none of the forensic evidence that juries like to see. and the coroner was unable to establish even a cause of death.
kate waring had to die. he began to make the choice to join in the scam to rip off kate waring. finally, the prosecutor scarlett wilson, felt ready. and almost a year to the day after kate was found she launched the trial of ethan mack. the sole defendant in the courtroom. heather having taken the plea agreement. the warings tried to prepare themselves, though what they saw defied preparation. we had to see images and see what it was like when they found her and then go through all the forensics. and we were seeing that for the first time along with the jurors and all those other spectators in the courtroom. one by one, the a-team took the stand, as did detectives and experts from the charleston police department, to present the evidence. over a stupid forgery. prosecutor wilson told the jury that ethan and heather killed kate to avoid getting caught for forging kate s checks and using her credit cards. then heather took the stand and
testify. because she broke the deal, the sentence, 39 years. 14 more than ethan. this was heather kamp s kill. while certainly ethan mack was involved and certainly he laid his hands on kate, i do not believe that but for heather kamp we would be here. still, said andy savage after the fact, solicitor wilson could have had a much stronger case had the charleston police acted more aggressively. just one example, when police arrested ethan and heather because of their incompetence, they released the property, the crime scene where the homicide took place, they turned it back over to the landlord without examining it. the landlord went in and vacated the premises. he took all their furniture out and put it in storage. cleaned the place. cleaned the place. it wasn t until over two weeks later, knowing that the property had already been tainted, the crime scene was destroyed. no wonder scarlett wilson
again is keith morrison. most everybody around charleston, south carolina, seems to know who the county solicitor is. scarlett is what people call her. solicitor scarlett wilson, officially. a well-known and popular prosecutor. and solicitor wilson had a problem. actually, two problems. for one thing, though heather kamp practically leapt at a deal to turn state s evidence against ethan, her credibility, as you ll soon see, was not exactly aaa. and despite all the information the a-team uncovered, what could be used in court was thin. i mean, frankly, we didn t have a lot of evidence. we had a lot of opinions, and we had a lot of conjecture. but actual evidence, it just wasn t there. kate s skeletal remains gave the solicitor none of the forensic evidence that juries like to see. and the coroner was unable to establish even a cause of death. as for those personal items of
reporter: finally, the prosecutor scarlet wilson felt ready and almost a year to the day after kate was found, she launched the trial of ethan mack, the sole defendant in the courtroom, heather having taken that plea agreement. the warings tried to prepare themselves though what they saw defied preparation. we had to see images and see what it was like when they found her and then go through all of the forensics and we were seeing that for the first time along with the jurors and all of those other spectators in the courtroom. reporter: one by one, the a-team took the stand, as did detectives and experts from the charleston police department, to present the evidence. over a stupid forgery. reporter: prosecutor wilson told the jury that ethan and heather killed kate to avoid getting caught for forging kate s checks and using her credit cards. then heather took the stand and told the jury it was ethan, not her, who lured kate to their