maintain my innocence for the rest of my life. he can stick to his story all he wants, but there s nothing that supports it, certainly none of the evidence we found. he wanted it all the kids. he didn t want to lose the kids, he didn t want to lose the house. he didn t want to lose nothing! those things he would have lost if he had gotten divorced, and he knows that. prosecutors don t think david s girlfriend, linda ryan, had anything to do with the murder, but questions about the case remain. why did david fire the second shot? did something that happened that night that angered him so much that he wanted to walk into the bedroom, absolutely hold the gun to his wife s head and shoot her not once but shoot her twice and then say it was a suicide? it just doesn t add up. i don t know if i ll ever be able to answer that question. forensics were the case. if we don t get dna off that
bedroom, david slept on the sofa in the family room. he told me that he had heard a shot and responded to the bedroom where his wife was asleep and found her. he took the gun out of her hand, laid it on the bed, ran back out of the room and called 911. the children were in their bedrooms. they said they heard their father downstairs. they can hear this movement immediately after hearing the noises or shots. they can hear his movement from the den area through the other three rooms, opening the door to the bedroom and going in. this corroborated david s story, but just to be sure, police confiscated david s clothing. at that point, they did make a visual inspection of the shirt and the pants. and their report indicated that it was negative for blood staining. to make certain nothing was left undone, police asked david to take a lie detector test. he passed. we didn t have any reason to dispute his story. and quite frankly, given his
so that gun can t accidentally through recoil or slam firing or dropping or any malfunction that i ve been exposed to thus far, involuntarily fire a second shot without full manipulation of the trigger. and tests showed that this trigger was difficult to pull. on most pistols, it takes between 4 and 6 pounds of pressure to pull the trigger, but this gun required almost 12 pounds of pressure. the conclusion, the gun could not have double fired. one of the beautiful things about mechanisms is they don t think. they will either function or malfunction. it is very easy with a right amount of background knowledge to look at a mechanism and determine if, in fact, it could or did fail. with that knowledge, it makes i
sandy sleeping separately, prosecutors believe david slipped into sandy s bedroom shortly before dawn and used the pistol he kept in the closet. [ shots ] the blood spatter on david s shirt and under his right sleeve proved he was the shooter. david left the gun on the bed, then called 911. she shot herself in the head. she must have had some inkling that he was going to be doing something. and here s a guy who thought he was smart enough to get away with it, if not for that second shot. after he was arrested, david duyst continued to tell anyone who would listen that he was innocent. he claimed the gun double fired and that his wife s letter was actually an attempt to frame him for her death. during his trial, david duyst took the stand to tell the jury his side of the story.
she stayed with him because she did love him, and she wanted the whole family to stay together, and family was very important to her. and so, i think that she just really loved him. i think family first, stay with the family, make it work, do everything you can. david duyst denied hitting sandy in the stable and insisted her shooting death was a suicide. he said the gun must have double fired. to find out, investigators sent the weapon to gun-maker brad bachelder. it still had the original grease in the gun. the gun had basically been fired very little. there was almost no wear on the gun whatsoever. the gun was designed for safety. it could not be fired without a complete pull of the trigger. various safety mechanisms had to be in place for this to happen, all there to prevent an accidental discharge.