we then decide to submit those shoes to a second laboratory. the examiner places the shoes under the microscope. this time, they found several microscopic stains that appeared to be blood. and this time, dna testing confirmed what investigators already suspected. those shoes do in fact contain dna and were late to match the dna of avis banks. it puts her there in the presence of ms. banks at the time of her death. the only thing police needed to figure out was whether keyon pittman was involved. q.
but at the most they may have just saw a little kissing. but as far as it like being a full out blown romantic love affair, that is not what it was. it really wasn t. carla denied any involvement in avis banks murder. and was an unlikely suspect but she didn t have an alibi for the time of the murder. investigators believe the murder took place shortly after avis returned home from work. avis banks left the daycare about 5:15 and went straight home. she got home about 5:45. no evidence shows that she stopped anywhere in between. and the murder occurred somewhere between 5:45 and 6:00 that night. witnesses said keyon was at school running basketball practice at that time. and his cell phone records confirmed he was at the school between 5:30 and 6:00 p.m.
that the weapon was the weapon that killed avis banks. but this did not necessarily put the gun in carla s hand. so investigators looked again at the shoe impressions from the crime scene. they assumed the impression was made by a man s shoe which would have been a size 8. but it also could have been a woman s shoe, a size 10. with the warrant, investigators searched carla s apartment. we went through the master bedroom closet. and carla had probably upwards of 100 pairs of shoes in the closet. that was a needle in the hay stack that we really weren t sure was going to be out there. one pair appeared to be promising. i was relatively certain looking at the photographs that they were made by these same shoes. but visually, investigators saw no traces of blood on the shoe which was disappointing.
he had a lot of girls had he was playing at the time. one of the women was 30-year-old brenda martin, the mother of one of the boys on the basketball team keyon coached. ms. martin and mr. pittman were in the early stages of a relationship. that was in the form of flirting, telephone calls, text messages, things of that nature. brenda martin had no desire the talk to police. brenda didn t want to have anything to do with this whole situation because she was married. she was married with children. brenda denied any involvement in avis murder and she had an alibi for the time of the crime. we didn t find anything with her that would put her at the scene. phone records or anything. brenda wasn t keyon s only love interest. another was carla hughes, the 25-year-old cheerleader coach who worked at the same school
with keyon. apparently they had been less than discreet with their relationship. they had been seen kissing several times in the restaurant. so i knew her to be at least more than a friend. carla hughes was the one that he was the most involved with. that i guess he had the most serious relationship and that he was seeing basically on a daily basis. carla hughes was a former beauty pageant contestant and a single mother of a 3-year-old son. when questioned by police, she adamantly denied the affair. he s not a boyfriend. he s just a friend. none of this was sexual with him. no, no, nothing. i can understand why carla hughes was lying initially. she didn t want to be in the midst of someone had just been murdered. people may have saw us being affectionate towards each other.