go see my wife and kids. no way. a confident tim permentor decided to speak directly to the jury. he took the stand in his own defense. the attitude was, look, you ve got to get up here and talk to these people. how do you remember him on the stand? i think he was calm. i think he answered the questions as best he could. very simply, i think very completely. we felt that we had made a showing that the state had not met the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. mike pinnel had waited four long years to get justice for his sister, but now he wasn t sure what the jury would do. there were times that i felt the evidence was very circumstantial.
in this day in age, we know that juries really like to see forensics. right. the dna, the blood samples. and they didn t have it. that was the biggest concern for me. but it took the jury just four hours to find tim permentor guilty of first-degree murder. he was spared the death penalty by the judge, who ordered him to serve a life sentence with no chance for parole. how are you doing today? i m fine. i spoke with him at florida s liberty correctional constitution. the convicted murderer says he s the victim of a justice system tilted against him from the start. did you murder karen? no. because this would be a great time to relieve her family of a lot of remorse and just fess to it. and i understand that, but i did not kill karen. i did not. and i ll probably spend the rest of my life here. and when i m 80, if i m still alive, i did not kill karen. i ll pay for it and i am paying
forensic evidence to show that his client was that person. in order to buy the state s case, you have to make assumption upon assumption upon assumption. that s not what our system is about. how did i do it? how on earth did not one single drop of blood get on my clothing, anything like that? or in your car, which was ripped apart. right. that s why i agreed to let them look. get what you want, because i knew i was innocent. the defense also tore into the credibility of the state s star witness, george solomon, saying it was ridiculous to think tim would get an invitation to spend the night with him after blurting out a murder confession. hey, i killed somebody. just now, or whatever. oh, really? oh, okay, well, come on, let s go see my wife and kids. no way. a confident tim permentor decided to speak directly to the jury. he took the stand in his own
no bloody fingerprints, no bloody footprints out the door. but prosecutor lowry was confident about the evidence he did have. frankly, i think circumstantial cases are sometimes the best, okay, because they don t lie. the circumstances don t lie. people lie. and that s the case lowry made to the jury. the circumstances showed tim permentor was the only one with the motive and the opportunity to kill karen. and everything he did afterwards was fabricated to cover up his horrendous crime. the issues in this case were the murder of karen by the only person that really could have done it, and that person lied about all these things. and you know, there s no reason for a person to lie about the death of their loved one, if that s really true. defense attorney clapp countered with common sense, arguing that karen s killer must have been just drenched in blood after such a frenzied attack, and there was no
wow! cheer on team usa with xfinity internet. and ask how to save up to $400 a year on your wireless bill when you add xfinity mobile. detectives were now convinced get started today. that tim permentor, the boyfriend who pledged to help solve karen s murder was really the killer. tim said police had nothing on him and were only targeting him because of his criminal record. i didn t do it. i knew somehow, some way i was going to get it pinned on me. i knew the minute i saw the body. detectives arrested him and sent him to county jail. bill lowry was the state prosecutor who got the case. what about your accused, timothy permentor? who is he? he is a psychopath, someone who i think had gotten lucky to be with karen.