so you can see that all the way across that top line the numbers are the same as james knapp and there are many points of difference with steve democker. your point was that on each of these analyses, james knapp matches each one of these, and steve democker doesn t. that s right. reporter: in fact, neither steve democker s d-a, nor his fingerprints, were ever found at the crime scene. so, had police focused on the wrong man all along? and because steve democker knew that, did he make a foolish mistake like a frightened man would? the anonymous e-mail, the voice in the vent, all of that occurs once he s placed in custody, loses hope and becomes desperate. that should not, in our opinion, should not have been introduced in this trial. that s a whole separate trial, a whole separate issue. the defense tried to keep all that out of the trial did not succeed. yeah, because it makes him look like a bad,
sechez took another look, a much harder look at the money trail. not only was the insurance paid out, but it was paid to the two daughters who then transferred it to several accounts, including wire transfers to mr. democker s parents account in new york, who then wire transferred it back to mr. democker s defense team. who then wire transferred it back to mr. democker s defense team. reporter: remember steve democker was a highly-paid financial adviser. the prosecutors now believed he was using that expertise to try to get away with murder. here is a person that murdered his ex-wife then collected her life insurance of over 750 thousand dollars and is using that life insurance to pay his defense team in the murder prosecution. so then prosecutors added fraud to the charges steve was facing. but fraud is certainly not what it
reasons why in his view steve deserved to spend the rest of his natural life behind bars. by this time, pretrial legal rulings had taken the death penalty off the table. the attorney told the jury the case was no less condemning. i want to ask you to find the defendant guilty of the first-degree premeditated murder. first he said steve had motives and not just that $6,000 a month in alimony. no, carol, said the prosecutor, was worth a lot of money dead. the evidence will show that at the time of her death that steven was the owner and beneficiary of two life insurance policies. the total was $750,000. steve and carol s daughters,
yeah, of course, i wanna do that, i m happy to give you dna, i wasn t there. so, i assume that will be good for me. that is true. if it is like you say, then once we do our, our lab work, and i m just i m cold and tired. steve asked them, what were they thinking about him? was he a suspect? i don t know what looking suspicious looks like. i know i didn t mean to ask, just the to be tired. no, and here s the whole thing with it, there s certain things in what is going on. just like we have got a suspicious death and right now, we don t have any other person. well we have no other person right now. so, it was a long night in that little room. the detective gave steve a blanket asked again about that trail. the proximity of where the trail is. i know.
knob on a door that led from the main house in to the backyard garage. the blood became evidence item 805, collected days after carol s death. and who s dna was mixed with carol s blood? jim knapp s dna. just like the thumb print the question becomes when did jim knapp s dna get put on the door handle. robertson had his suspicions and steve s sister sharon did too. you felt that jim knapp should have been investigated. he should have been investigated there were a lot of red flags that were concerned. jim knapp said he was nowhere near carol s house, he