but thankfully, it provides for safeguards which allow mistakes to be corrected. unfortunately, we can t undo the suffering that the stallings have endured during this entire ordeal. and i apologize to them both personally and for the state of missouri. 19-month-old d.j. is returned to the stallings. he has spent his entire life up till now in foster care. in 1993 stallings files a wrongful death suit against the hospital and lab for the mistreatment and misdiagnosis of her son ryan. she receives an out-of-court settlement. it was our goal to get this over with so we can go on with our lives. the stallings ask for a public apology, but the lab and hospital remain silent as the case was not brought to court. they ran us through the coals in the public when it was the other way around. now we want a public apology, which they will not grant us.
how anybody could have convicted him on that because it was so obviously not an accurate analysis of the case. sperber re-examines the photos and molds. his analysis highlights a problem above and beyond what dr. campbell noticed. sperber reiterates to plourd what he already told prosecutors. the spaces between krone s teeth do not match the spaces in the bite mark. the length and the shape of the teeth marks themselves also don t match. there s no way that mr. krone could have caused those bites. mr. krone, again, had a full line of teeth incapable of causing spaces as i saw in the photograph that they submitted to me. sperber is further concerned by the ability of the state s bite mark expert to definitively link krone to the bite. the pliable nature of skin tissue makes it impossible to concretely match a biter to a bite. many, including sperber, feel it
sent to prison for a child molest type offense that occurred 30 days after the murder. investigators interview phillips in prison and tape record what he has to say. on the recording, he admits to arguing with ancona that night. what happened? she said, get out of here, i m cleaning up. and i can t remember. and i walked out. she mumbled something, you know, like in anger. i don t know what happened after that. i just kind of got upset, i guess. phillips stops short of confessing to murder, but the state is convinced by the evidence that krone is not guilty of the crime. prosecutors announce the stunning development to the public at a press conference. it was a tough case, in which there was a victim here.
must be supported by other forensic evidence. i became convinced that what happened is that this expert came into court and basically misrepresented the science of bite mark to the jury and wrongfully convicted ray krone. plourd files a request with the arizona supreme court to reopen the case and allow him access to the dna and physical evidence collected at the crime scene. because the bite mark video was presented to the defense only one day before krone s trial, the court agrees to reopen the case and grants krone a new trial. the phoenix police department now must provide plourd with all the evidence from the crime scene. the amount is significant. basically, the dam broke and i got access to everything. he very quickly found out it wasn t just the bite mark evidence in the case and that it was much other evidence, and none of it really fit ray. i mean, they had fingerprints of the crime scene.
but the prosecutor still has doubts. if indeed there was no poison, what were the crystals in ryan s brain, and how to explain the ethylene glycol found on the baby bottle? mcelroy voices his concerns to stallings new lawyer, bob ritter. he said, well, what would it take to convince you? i said first we d have to have somebody totally disassociated with the case and somebody who s recognized nationwide as an expert in this area. and those people are going to have to come up with some answers to some serious questions i have. the defense attorney asks mcelroy to bring the case back into court. i agreed with the defense attorney that patricia stallings would be entitled to another trial. at that time, however, i still felt very confident that it would be a conviction if we tried her again. the judge grants a new trial. patty, how do you feel?