police think it was bob driving sherry s van to the hotel parking lot when the witness reported seeing it. and they think the store clerk was simply mistaken when he claimed sherry was in his store the day after her disappearance. we pulled the videotape from the store that evening, and sherry was nowhere on the tape. at bob durall s trial, despite leading police to sherry s body, he pled not guilty and took the stand in his own defense. he told an incredible tale of two men who killed sherry and forced him to dispose of her body. they said they d kill him and the children if he went to the police. actually, i was having a hard time trying not to laugh, because i thought it was so ridiculous of a story, that after two years in jail, you think he would come up with a
better a better story. but in reality, i think that he was putting half the story together during the trial. in the end, there was simply too much forensic evidence. the computer forensics and blood spatter told the story. after only two hours of deliberation, bob durall was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to 46 years in prison. i will impose a total of 560 months. despite spending months researching and planning his wife s murder, he still wasn t able to get away with it. i think the forensic evidence was everything, the direction of the blood, the patterns, how they went out around the room. like in many cases, the evidence was really overwhelming. not just a single thing, but many, many items that helped us feel confident about what we were doing. mr. durall, who was professionally involved in the
investigators concluded that the blood on the walls and ceiling was medium-velocity blood spatter, consistent with someone swinging a bloody object. scientists compared the dna from the blood in the bedroom to the dna profiles of sherry s parents and discovered that this was sherry s blood. investigators also found a bloodstain on the doorway leading to the garage. and in bob s car was the receipt for a specialty cleaning product. and police also solved another mystery. where were the duralls children on the night of the murder? a perfect opportunity for
bob had been abusive. no sign of physical violence at all. it was more that she wasn t comfortable around him. he was obsessive, controlling. he emotionally controlled her, and she just did not feel good around him. he would apparently be sort of monitoring her whereabouts. occasionally, she would go to lunch with some of her friends. mr. durall would show up. so he, in effect she describes the situation where you almost have a husband stalking his own wife. during police questioning, bob durall admitted there were problems in his marriage. as for him being involved in sherry s disappearance, he said that was ridiculous. police asked bob what happened on the night before she disappeared. bob said they went to dinner at a local restaurant. when they got home, sherry spoke with her sister-in-law. mrs. durall appeared perhaps
found some information on sherry s computer that he turned over to the police. we investigated that and discovered that mrs.?durall had, in fact, pursued a relationship outside her marriage. there were e-mails, and internet chat room conversations with a man named kevin johnson. and it was clear, the relationship was serious. i have tried to be indifferent to you and keep my feelings in check. i have been thinking about this a lot and feeling bad about my self-respect, sort of feeling like a call girl more than a friend. the correspondence included talk of the two running away together. they talked about, wouldn t it be great to go to costa rica? the cost of living there is so much cheaper. when police interviewed kevin johnson, he admitted the two had a brief affair, but insisted he hadn t seen her for the last six