there was no wounds on her hands. and even though there was no blood on the souls of ken s shoes, this luminol pattern made it clear he had stepped in christine s blood in the kitchen before it had been cleaned. the shoe print patterns shown in the luminol were consistent with the pattern of the bottom of the shoes that were found in mr. fitsue s vehicle. the blood stains found on ken s shirt and shoes were medium velocity blood spatter. this definitely didn t support ken s story. the stains are all consistent with being near the source of blood at the time that the beating took place. even more damning was the
basement. this meant, christine hadn t been killed in the basement where her body was found. upstairs in the kitchen, investigators found small drops of blood on the legs of a chair, indicating she might have been attacked while eating her lunch. we were comfortable with some blunt forced injury with an edged surface like the edge of a two by four. and the obvious object that was right in the center of that crime scene was the table itself. and the table had supports and then a cross member that served as the footing, if you will, of the able, that was something her head was forcibly struck against that type of an object. the room was sprayed with luminol and even crime scene seasoned analysts couldn t believe what they had seen. it was clear, the chair in the kitchen had recently been covered in blood. a nearby kitchen wall also showed evidence of is a brutal confrontation. the landing between the kitchen and the basement looked as if christine had been lying there in a pool of bl
and the basement looked as if christine had been lying there in a pool of blood. there were some shoe print patterns in the area of the kitchen door. and the stairs left no doubt she had been dragged there after she sustained massive injuries. it was obvious we were standing where a very brutal event had taken place. an event that was followed by an extensive clean-up. to the naked eye, you could see nothing. it was clearly clean. but why would a killer spend all this time cleaning the crime scene? it was a who done it? a murder in a beautiful place. and we just knew that at that point, it was going to be a big story. no one in palo alto, california, could imagine who would want to hurt christine
to check her hands. there was no wounds on her hands. and even though there was no blood on the souls of ken s shoes, this luminol pattern made it clear he had stepped in christine s blood in the kitchen before it had been cleaned. the shoe print patterns shown in the luminol were consistent with the pattern of the bottom of the shoes that were found in mr. fitsue s vehicle. the blood stains found on ken s shirt and shoes were medium velocity blood spatter. this definitely didn t support ken s story. the stains are all consistent with being near the source of blood at the time that the beating took place. even more damning was the fact that the blood and the sides and tips of ken s shoes had been diluted, consistent with standing nearby as blood was being cleaned with water. dilute blood is often easy to
investigators asked pathologists to check her hands. there was no wounds on her hands. and even though there was no blood on the souls of ken s shoes, this luminol pattern made it clear he had stepped in christine s blood in the kitchen before it had been cleaned. the shoe print patterns shown in the luminol were consistent with the pattern of the bottom of the shoes that were found in mr. fitsue s vehicle. the blood stains found on ken s shirt and shoes were medium velocity blood spatter. this definitely didn t support ken s story. the stains are all consistent with being near the source of blood at the time that the beating took place. even more damning was the fact that the blood and the sides and tips of ken s shoes had been diluted, consistent with standing nearby as blood was being cleaned with water. dilute blood is often easy to