a perfect life and the perfect wife until the day he says he found her dead. valentine s day! yuck my wife my wife i think my wife is just, debt. she had enemies. there were calls that were made to scare her. so imagine everyone shocked when they charged him with murder. he just couldn t have done it. sure they ve had their problems. there was a huge number. and i m talking close to 100 phone calls to this phone number back and forth. but he did love her. i told some people at the clinic, i wish i had someone that would look at me the way jon looks at susan. the question for the jury was did he love her to death. the motive was love lost. hello and welcome to dateline. if you re a fan of fictional courtroom dramas you might think that every criminal trial and with a bombshell. maybe it s a surprise witness or an 11th hour confession. well, that kind of thing rarely happens in a real trial. but it did in the story. one last unexpected twist in a cas
and i m talking close to 100 phone calls to this phone number back and forth. but he did love her. i told some people at the clinic i wish i had someone that would look at me the way jon looks at susan. the question for the jury was didi lover to death. the motive was laws lost. hello and welcome to dateline if you re a fan of fictional courtroom dramas you might think that every criminal trial and with a bombshell. maybe it s a surprise witness or an 11th hour confession. well that kind of thing rarely happens in a real trial. but it did in the story. one last unexpected twist in the case full of surprises. here is dennis murphy with the valentine s day mystery. a dozen roses check. how about a candle lit dinner and a champagne toast to love? isn t that what s valentine s day is supposed to be about? we all know red is for the ribbon on the box of chocolates, not for the pool of blood in the master back. maybe chicago gangsters get killed on the scene val
that didn t suit the neighborhood. the lady is laying on the floor blood all over the floor. right away detectives started asking who could be responsible. now keep in mind, john hamilton was a doctor who provided abortions. his wife susan worked at the abortion clinic two days a week. is it possible that here in conservative oklahoma should be murdered by an antiabortion zealot. just a week before susan was murdered, this wanted poster have enough for doctor. a reward in heaven will be bestowed on anyone contributing to bringing this murderer to justice. and both john and susan had received threatening phone calls that week. i received phone calls there were things done, but people trying to set fire to his clinic, people vandalizing his home, putting rushers all over the neighborhood and his in his kids school, that he was wanted
robber got the jewels. that s because he was put in the back of the police car, and never got back inside the house again. and finally there was the story told by blood. the medical examiner had determined that susan had been strangled with two neckties, but her fatal injuries came from being bludgeoned by a blunt object, a murder object never found. investigators had to interpret the blood evidence left behind. and for that, they hired a bloodstain expert named ross gardner. this was a relatively contained crime scene. good amount of blood, a lot of impact spatter. gardiner carefully examined everything the doctor had been wearing that morning. a lot of the blood on his clothing could be explained by his intent to administer cpr, but the expert looked at hamilton s shoes, the left one in particular, and found that to be a different matter. the shoes were found next to susan s body. john said they fell off his
reality. dick horton sometimes worried for his extra safety but knew that she wasn t easily rattled or intimidated. without any question, she wore the pants and if there was another pair she would go and get those. if anything threats against the clinics only brought the hamilton s closer together. she was very strongly pro choice and very outspoken about it they were kind of a unit in that regard. february 14th 2001 would ve been their 15th valentine s day together. but that wednesday morning, john arrived home from the hospital and found a horrific scene. susan, lying beaten and strangled on their bathroom floor. her head bludgeoned, surrounded by a pool of blood her face savaged almost unrecognizable. two neckties were knotted above her throat, john frantically called 9-1-1. 9-1-1. please, please, send police