hands and feet? the prosecution had an answer for those houdini-like skills. she definitely prepared for this. i m sure she practiced the chair behind the door. the prosecutor said sandra had come up with an ingenious way to wedge that you re under the doorknob from the inside. by sliding a pillow sham along the floor. how is that, you ask? well, she played the jury this video of investigators recreating the process. the detectives videotaped themselves putting their chair on the pillow sham and pulling the pillow sham underneath the door, so you can pull it close. from the inside. so you can pull it from inside the closet? that s. right prosecutor barnett said it wouldn t be all that hard for sanders to tie her own hands behind her backs. she showed us what she showed the jury. so, how do you tie yourself up in that figure eight pattern? it s pretty simple. all you do is just put it on your tie, turn in the back, and you just mess around with it. any kind of way.
scenario of a lethal seduction. the prosecution things that the sandra melgar lured jamie to the bedroom and allure of sex play. so she gets jamie to sit down on a chair, and maybe she s massaging his neck. and then she pulls it out and while he isn t looking she makes a strike, straight up, all the way up to his neck. it was a traumatic show intel, for sure. then it was showtime for the defense. the prosecution s case was all invented non said, they said. very strong, the and yet this case, on we secrest said that sandra was the victim of a myopic bumbling investigation. this lady falsely accused. and the defendant said that sandra attacked herself. she s been tied up.
the last thing she remembered was her anniversary night with jaime. we went out. and what time was that? i m going to say about 8:00. i mean, i m just guessing. i don t know. sandra told them they stopped for mixers at a cvs on the way home. what time did you get home, do you think? probably midnight. she said the intended to share some late night romance. candles, strawberries. we made some drinks. then we went and got in the jacuzzi. in your master bathroom? right. and then what? stayed there for about maybe two hours. talking and drinking. but the intimate jacuzzi was disrupted by their dogs barking outside in the yard. he got out and said he s more was moving the dogs to the office. because they were too loud. we don t want the neighbors to complain. and he just, you know, was talking taking a while. so, i got out and was going to get dressed or change in my closet.
the point is, that it looks legitimate. not that it is legitimate, but it looks legitimate. the prosecutor argued sandra did this, just minutes before the family discovered her. which explained what the emt said she did not see on sandra s wrist. she had no bruises. no ligature marks. nothing. but the very thought that sandra could have come up with these elaborate tricks and executed them, that s sheer speculation, said the defense. that s a theory, folks. there is no evidence of that. a theory that the defense said investigators who didn t even try to cooperate with the eye witnesses who had found sandra. doctor liz said after that night, investigators never came back to ask the family what they saw. they never really spoke to your family again, is that right? yes, they never reached out to anybody. they could have asked them about the theory of the chair and the math under that year. you know? they could have asked them about the surroundings. and they would ve heard
but she said she has no injuries. still, sandra seemed disoriented. what time was? it morning or afternoon? then, between gulping sobs, sandra said she simply could not remember what happened the night before. she d been unconscious. maybe had one of her seizures. she said after a seizure that it s not uncommon that she falls asleep for several hours. by now, harris county sheriff s investigators had descended on a crime scene that was once just the millibars modest home. jamie, they could see, had sub suffered multiple stab wounds to the torso. by the looks of it, well over a dozen. the crime scene unit got to work inside. collecting evidence. things like a bloody cheer near jaime s body. and a kitchen knife fished out of the bottom of the jacuzzi. sandra, seemingly in shot from her ordeal, declined to go to the hospital. instead, she went to talk with investigators. let s start with yesterday. sandra told investigators