meant just give me two more weeks? yes, and he just repeated the same statement. six days later, lisa was murdered in her own bed. and here we have a motive that we can understand. love. the whole relationship with rachel was evidence that was like a countdown to lisa techel s death. but defense attorney steve gardner countered, arguing the motive of an affair falls flat without the essential element sex. seth techel was being accused of murdering his wife for an affair that he was hopin to someday have. you never had intercourse with him. no. you ve never had oral sex with him. no. never had your clothes off. no. and you kissed a few times. yes. is that a fair assessment of the extent of your romantic relationship with mr. techel. yes. the defense also didn t
kill my wife over something that small. you know what? right now i guess i don t give a [bleep] what happens to me, okay? i know what happened, i know what you re trying to do. what am i trying to do? you re trying to get me upset and it s working. congratulations. upset at this hostile line of questioning, seth said he d had enough. got up and strangely shook thomas hand. appreciate it. and then he walked out. in the end, what did the investigators have? that seth lied about sex, but was it even that? all he admitted to was making out with rachel. and on the big question, he insisted, over and over again, that he did not kill lisa. even agent thomas expressed disappointment with the outcome of the marathon interview, nearly five hours long. you felt you d come out of a 15 round fight? it was exhausting. felt somewhat like a failure, in some regards. why? we didn t get the full confession. maybe that s because seth didn t do it. agent thomas just didn t know. but th
the mossberg with the slug that killed the pregnant lisa. investigators could fill in one big box on their checklist murder weapon. next, they worked on possible motives. was it a neighbor with a vendetta or a husband lusting after another woman? state agent birmingham and deputy phillips decided to have a talk with seth s work friend, rachel. we interviewed her on tuesday, may 29th. there s no tricks here. someone has lost their life. actually two people have lost their life. over the course of two hours, birmingham and phillips peeled back the layers of rachel s relationship with seth. they were having kind of an ongoing relationship. there are sexually explicit text messages. there are pictures, sexually explicit pictures, sent back and forth.
there s obviously more to this rachel thing. she was under the impression that lisa was going to be packing her stuff up and leaving. when? last night, today. he said he d talked to rachel about him divorcing lisa as recently as the night before at work. she just asked if i was going to go through with it and i said, yeah. i mean, i shouldn t have lied, obviously. he admitted he liked rachel s attention but said he really was just stringing her along. we were having a baby. i wasn t going to leave her. i couldn t leave. lying to rachel was wrong, he said. but he claimed that lying earlier in the interview was a way to spare his grieving father-in-law, todd caldwell, the embarrassment. this is something i didn t want todd to find out. the interview had been going