it was a lie they said. it was hard to hear someone basically say, we know your parents better than we do. and we know our father is a sociopath. and we know and we didn t see it. and that we re blind to it and he knows that there was hidden you re basically tell us violent in our parent s marriage that we did not know our whole lives. and we just didn t see it. you re there s no proof of that. basically telling us that we didn t know our whole lives we re to top it off, there s no proof of that. chris paul had chris hall had never been violent, argue the defense, had no motive, no reason to suddenly turn never been on his wife. it had to be a freak so, said the defense, lindsay patterson didn t really know what violent, argued the defense. and there was no reason to deter and on his wife. it had to be a freak accident. so, said the defense. lindsay patterson did not really know what she saw. in fact, if she really witnessed chris hall drowning his wife, why then didn t she c
investigator dove talked to cristi s co-workers at the clinic where she was an x-ray technician, several said they noticed a sudden change in her usually vibrant personality. one co-worker offered them more. she told us that she was contemplating a divorce. if true, and it was only an if, it might well persuade a jury. prosecutor strunsky also needed to explain why lindsay patterson saw or didn t see. why didn t she see cristi s drowned body when she peeked over the wall a second time? we were not able to explain to the jury why she didn t see cristi at that point, and i think that allowed the defense to make the argument that cristi hall was inside. the prosecution hired a water expert to do a recreation of the hall spa. andrea has been assisting law enforcement with drowning investigations for 20 years. she got in the
murder. but what struck the prosecutor is that he says hall tried to cover it up. to plan a fraud, to lie about it, not just lie about it, but lie about it effectively. i think that was very telling about who we were dealing with. suddenly the prosecutor s prospects were looking better. at the trial, strunsky made lindsay patterson his star witness, of course, it was her story, after all, that got the whole thing started. but almost as important, he called the riverside county medical examiner who testified that those lacerations in cristi s head could not in his opinion have been the result of a single accidental and the m.e. argued the particular type of bruising on cristi s face and body was the hallmark of homicide. the totality of injuries were not consistent with somebody slipping and falling and then a rescue attempt. and there was a clump of hair in the bottom of the spa, still entwine with a broken plastic hair clip. that, said
suddenly, the prosecutor s prospects were looking better. at the trial, strunsky made lindsay patterson his star witness, of course. it was her story, after all, that got the whole thing started. but almost as important, he called the riverside county medical examiner who testified that those lacerations on cristi s could not in his opinion, have been the result of a single accidental and the m.e. argued the particular type of bruising on cristi s face and body was the hallmark of a homicide. the totality of injuries were not consistent with somebody slipping and falling and then a rescue attempt. and there was a clump of hair in the bottom of the spa, still entwine with a broken plastic hair clip. that, said the prosecutor, could have only come from a violent fall. when you lose that amount of hair, it s not explained by any kind of fall.
about who we were dealing with. suddenly the prosecutor s prospects were looking better. at the trial, strunsky made lindsay patterson his star witness, of course. it was her story, after all, that got the whole thing started. but almost as important, he called the riverside county medical examiner who testified that those lacerations in cristi s could not in his opinion have been the result of a single accidental fall. and the m.e. argued the particular type of bruising on cristi s face and body was the hallmark of a homicide. the totality of injuries were not consistent with somebody slipping and falling and then a rescue attempt. and there was a clump of hair in the bottom of the spa, still entwine with a broken plastic hair clip. that, said the prosecutor, could have only come from a violent struggle. when you lose that amount of hair, it s not explained by any fall. there were minor hiccups in the case. lindsay patterson, for example, was a little inconsistent about