plus luminosity for a long-lasting natural glow new stay luminous makeup from easy, breezy, beautiful covergirl what you just told us here just now, is that you can t do that with just one hair. no that is just what you said. gabriel ferris was on trial for killing cheryl miller 30 years earlier. the defense had challenged the credibility of the witnesses and raised serious questions about the evidence, including this one, how could gabriel ferris, a natural blonde with a normal sperm count have raped and murdered cheryl miller when forensic experts working the case back in 1974 had told detectives to look for a dark-haired killer who was sterile. your next witness? prosecutors had a chance to explain. in the age of csi, when so many believe that criminal science is infallible and that the evidence
rendezvous with ex-girlfriend, cheryl miller, a meeting that ended in murder. over time, years, evidence keeps pointing to gabe ferris. not tony alvarez. not abbass esfehani. gabe ferris. but the defense disagreed and insisted that the prosecution s theory made no sense. that even though admittedly ferris has been a scoundrel, sleeping with cheryl miller in the days before his wedding to another woman, there was no evidence that he killed her. it s a sleazy thing to do. but it doesn t amount to murder, people. soon the fate of gabriel ferris was in the hands of the jurors. among them, a retired mechanical engineer, a pipe fitter, and a marketing executive. what was that first, two undecided, four not guilty, and six guilty. and you were among those undecided.
who on june 15th, 1974, was in cheryl miller s bedroom with his hands around her neck squeezing the last breaths from her dying body? see if we can replicate roughly the position of the body in relation to the dresser. the prosecution next used a dummy to demonstrate for the jury evidence that it said would conclusively link ferris to the murder. what do those circles represent? it represents the area with the latent fingerprints identified on mr. ferris were located. remember, two of ferris fingerprints were found on a dresser in the victim s room, but the state argued that it was the position of those prints, just inches from the victim s head, that was key. the prosecutor used a police officer to show the jury that the prints could only have been
and what about all that blood igaz says ferris was covered in? the big problem with that, there was no blood at the crime scene. just a little bit in her nose. otherwise, there s no blood. even if you believed her, that he had blood on him, you would say so what? because there s no blood at the crime scene? absolutely. terri s story has evolved over the years, the time switch, different details come in and out. it s never been consistent. the truth is the truth. the truth does not change over time. and her story has new details and every time it just expands. i thought of some other things, but i m not sure if they really happened or not. do you recall saying that? yes. and the defense was particularly interested in how igaz qualified the events when she gave her statement. it seems every time you give a statement, there s something new in there. is that not correct? that s what i remembered. what do you mean when you remembered, ma am? i had to stop, rethink ever
of gabriel ferris hairs ended up on the victim s body. and there was nothing of mr. ferris at the crime scene, is that correct? that s correct. does it make sense? no. it doesn t make sense. when you have a violent struggle with an especially hairy defendant, you would expect to find at least some of his hair at the scene. and you wouldn t expect all of the hair found on the body is dark hair that doesn t match her, and doesn t match him. coming up, ferris fate is left in the hands of the jury.