reporter: the jurors listened to steve s interview with the detectives, conducted the night carol was killed. we ve got a suspicious death and right now we don t have any other person. and you re suspecting me. well, we have no other person right now. reporter: in which you can hear the suspicion, said the defense. and steve, said the attorneys, felt a cold fear overcoming him. he s afraid of what s happening, that the investigation is all on him, they re not focusing on anybody else, anything else that focuses on him, and he s afraid that nobody will believe him. reporter: that s why he buried the getaway bag, they said. wasn t a sign of guilt, but of terror. in fact, it didn t turn up until months after steve was arrested. you never had any evidence that mr. democker tried to use that bag to flee, correct? that he tried to use the bag to flee? yes. i believe that s precisely what he did. he never fled. we arrested him before he could flee, yes. well, you r
back. i m wondering if you can see what you can find out, and let me know something. by that time, it was dark. steve, and carroll s daughter, charlotte, her than boyfriend, jacob, we re, at that moment, at steve s house. waiting for him to come home. jacob was living there while he tried to sort out a few issues with his parents. what was a relation like with him, and what was charlotte s relationship like? charlotte was very close with steve. he had offered me to stay with him before. trying to figure something out just to make my situation with my parents better. so, i had a lot of respect for him. i definitely looked up to him. that evening, steve, an avid outdoorsman, was overdue from a mountain bike ride. it was getting late. really night, actually. it was very, very on. he would usually have dinner
though such a club was never found, the golf sock was evidence it existed, said the prosecution, and the shape of carol s wounds confirmed it. then, to bolster an alibi, as his ex-girlfriend renee girard testified for the prosecution, steve allowed his cellphone battery to die. something he never normally did. in general, there was usually a battery in his phone and an extra battery either charged or being charged. did you ever know him to be to not have a phone at the ready if he needed to use it? i didn t. reporter: renee also revealed that a month after the murder, steve told her something that in hindsight seemed very significant. in the evening we would take a walk on the golf course and he picked up a bag on the way out the door one evening and as we were walking told me about the bag and what he was going to do with it. reporter: a getaway bag. which she said he buried on a golf course. and sure enough, with renee s
the tires on steve s bike. the tread on this tire is similar to the tread we observed of this tire track. and did you find any discernible differences between them? no i did not. reporter: and those shoe prints. they brought in an expert from the fbi. did you find any shoes that seemed to be comparable to the impressions that you observed in these photos from the crime scene? yes. i found one shoe that could have made those impressions. reporter: a la sportiva pike s peak. records showed that steve bought a pair of those shoes two years before the murder. but when detectives searched his house, they didn t find any such shoes. so, intriguing, but hardly proof. prosecutors knew they had a big problem. that anonymous e-mail linking the murder, not to steve, but to jim knapp and illegal drugs. so, even as the trial went on, investigator mike sechez was interviewing and re-interviewing witnesses. including steve s girlfriend,
the trial, the proximity of where the trail is. where the trail, is where you are writing. we showed chosen a different era. i wish you would have chosen a different trail also. because, and here s the thing, right now of course, if i had done it, i probably wouldn t have chosen to right near that. the scene of what sounds like, maybe, a crime. maybe so. but wherever he was, he picked up something that a detective simply couldn t ignore. very fresh, multiple scratches on his, arms and legs. steve said he got those writing a rough mountain trail honest bike. detectives photographed him, before letting him go home. meanwhile, overnight, other detective searched steve s office, and his home, and his garage. they took pictures, lots of pictures. after the autopsy next afternoon, the medical examiner reported that carole died from blows to the head, it minister