the time. the morton case was the biggest case that ken anderson had been involved in. district attorney anderson was somebody that we had seen and looked up to. he really ran the court. he ran the case. he was his timing was good. he came across as not only believable, but almost just, you know, iconic in the room. the lead investigator was don wood, who was on the witness list. we thought wood would take the stand. and we would have the opportunity to cross him. when he was passed to us for cross-examination, we d get his reports. they never called don wood. instead they called the sheriff boutwell to the stand. he didn t testify for very long. and he didn t really say that much. why were they being so careful with woods? we didn t know. in other trial news, damaging testimony yesterday in the wife-beating murder trial of michael morton. the jury relied on the
attorney in williamson county at the time. the morton case was the biggest case that ken anderson had been involved in. district attorney anderson was somebody that we had seen and looked up to. he really ran the court. he ran the case. he was his timing was good. he came across as not only believable, but almost just, you know, iconic in the room. the lead investigator was don wood, who was on the witness list. we thought wood would take the stand. and we would have the opportunity to cross him. when he was passed to us for cross-examination, we d get his reports. they never called don wood. instead they called the sheriff boutwell to the stand. he didn t testify for very long. and he didn t really say that much.
i didn t really see them as overly confrontational. it didn t really seem like they were accusatory. they were just doing what they had to do to eliminate me as a suspect. it was only in hindsight that i could see i really recognized that for whatever reason, boutwell had made the decision that i was the suspect. sometime shortly after christine s murder, which was on august 13th, 1986, michael just came into our law office. he felt uncomfortable enough with the pressure that he needed some advice. people think that if you just tell the truth, you ve got nothing to fear from the police. if you just stick to it that the system will work, it will all come to light, everything will be fine. michael came in and laid out a very simple case.
i did not do this. i don t know who did it. i ve cooperated with them. and i don t have i can t do anything else. i m out of ideas. what do i do? you get the sense that you re at these people s mercy. and you hope to god they know what they re doing. almost from the very beginning of the investigation, authorities seem to be homing in on a specific suspect. tonight that man is in jail. boutwell knocked on the door, and he told me he was there to arrest me. and i don t remember the exact words, but i said something along the lines of, you ve got to be kidding. what? to me it was just so ludicrous. i turned after some stuff in the kitchen. i grabbed eric and i told him i wanted to call a friend to come get him. he said it wouldn t be necessary. he had already arranged for some neighbors to take my son. i didn t want him to go to those
district attorney anderson was someone we seen and looked up to. he ran the court. he ran the case. he was his timing was good. he just came across as not only believable, but almost, you know, just iconic in the room. the lead investigator was don wood, who was on the witness list, and we thought wood would take the stand, and that we would have the opportunity to cross him and when he was passed to us for cross-examination, we would get his reports. they never called don wood, instead they called sheriff boutwell to the stand. he didn t testify for very long, and he didn t really say that much. why were they being so careful with woods? we didn t know. in other trial news, damaging testimony yesterday in the wife beating murder trial of michael morton. the jury relied on the medical