and accuse ignatow of the crime. if i can t have mel ignatow, says maryann shore, nobody s going to have mel ignatow. he ll go to hell first! the way she was dressed didn t help. brenda s brothers were horrified by shore s very short skirt. she was a sight to behold. she looked like a tramp. this was the prosecution s star witness? this was the witness to the crime. and then there was that tape, the one ignatow s attorney had hoped the jury would never hear. he fought to keep that tape out. for years, for two years to keep it out. jurors did hear it. but there was one word on the tape that prosecutors had disregarded, a word the defense argued changed the entire meaning of the tape. the word was safe and it seemed to come out of nowhere. that one area right by where that safe is does not have any trees by it.
a conviction based on ignatow s pretrial testimony before grand jury. i d certainly like to get these proceedings over with and get on with my life. mel ignatow had been freed to walk the streets of louisville. for many, it was a difficult sight. i feel like i had let the schaefer family down. i know i had let the schaefer family down, and i let myself down. but across town, events were in motion that would change everything. steve dougherty was a carpet installer. one day he got a call from a customer who wanted to replace some carpet in her family room. just an average day. regular day, yeah. going to the house, pull out the old stuff, lay down the new stuff. quick as i could. what he didn t know is that his job was at mel ignatow s former house, the one ignatow had to sell while he was in jail to pay his league bills.
if i can t have mel ignatow, says maryann shore, nobody s going to have mel ignatow. he ll go to hell first! the way she was dressed didn t help. brenda s brothers were horrified by shore s very short skirt. she was a sight to behold. she looked like a tramp. this was the prosecution s star witness? this was the witness to the crime. and then there was that tape, the one ignatow s attorney had hoped the jury would never hear. he fought to keep that tape out. for years, for two years to keep it out. jurors did hear it. but there was one word on the tape that prosecutors had disregarded, a word the defense argued changed the entire meaning of the tape. the word was safe and it seemed to come out of nowhere. that one area right by where that safe is does not have any trees by it.