who are you going to believe? some guy 30 years later saying the clown must have been mistaken or a guy doing thousands of autopsies who saw it? the man who took it out of the woman s body. he knew what he had. he knew it was semen. what does it say to you that this theory has changed? that they don t know. they don t know what it is but want to avoid the conclusion the most obvious conclusion the guy that looked at it june 15th, 1974, was right and that it was semen without sperm. because if that s right, then gabe ferris is almost certainly innocent. and they know that. and so they want to avoid that theory. i don t think that they re knowingly prosecuting the wrong guy. i think what they re doing is they believe it. they got locked on to a theory, they believe it, and they tend to discount all the evidence that contradicts that theory. finally, the defense closed its case by asking jurors this question if there was such a violent struggle, how come none of gabriel ferris
drien view 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. some wondered how so much of the physical evidence at the crime scene could point away from ferris and toward other suspects.
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 left by a man who was committing murder. the fingers were pointing up. in the fashion in which the lieutenant roughly has his hands positioned? yes.
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 always points to the guilty, the state was about to admit that the original detectives and
wronged by ferris. igaz, who also requested she not be photographed on the witness stand, testified that as the sun was coming up, she saw gabriel ferris returning to their honeymoon cottage. i heard the door to the house slamming, and gabriel coming up the stairs. did you notice anything at that time about his clothes? the first thing i said to him was how did you get the blood on your clothes? did he respond when you asked him about the blood on his clothes? he said, i hit a rabbit with your car and he got hung up in the wheel well and i had to pull him out. and that s how i got the blood on my clothes. ferris ex-wife testified that same night in their honeymoon cottage ferris turned on the 11:00 news. he got up real close to the television and when it was talking about cheryl miller, he was touching the television and he was making noises like he was crying but he wasn t crying. pretend crying. he told me that that was the last girlfriend he had before me. did he te