perfect match to the bloody palm print on christina s bathroom sink. and carlos dna matched the dna from christina s rape test kit. when faced with this incriminating evidence, carlos made a startling confession. he now claimed he had a consensual sexual relationship with christina in the couple of days he had known her. he also claimed he found christina s body several hours before todd hale did but he got scared is and ran home instead of calling police. he insisted, however, he wasn t the killer. his reason for not calling 911 was because he was a black man and he would be framed for the murder. it was estimated she was murdered between 9:00 p.m. and 3:00 a.m.
carlos palm print was also a perfect match to the bloody palm print on christina s bathroom sink. and carlos dna matched the dna from christina s rape test kit. when faced with this incriminating evidence, carlos made a startling confession. he now claimed he had a consensual sexual relationship with christina in the couple of days he had known her. he also claimed he found christina s body several hours before todd hale did but he got scared is and ran home instead of calling police. he insisted, however, he wasn t the killer. his reason for not calling 911 was because he was a black man and he would be framed for the murder. it was estimated she was murdered between 9:00 p.m. and 3:00 a.m.
carried the knife out of the apartment it wouldn t drip blood anywhere. this was yet another clue that the killer lived nearby. not only did he have bare feet, but he was concerned about leaving a blood trail, possibly one leading straight to his door. this pointed towards two men who hadn t previously been thought of as suspects. the man who claimed he found christina s body, 32-year-old todd hale, and christina s next-door neighbor, carlos robinson who had called 911. both knew one another since they both helped christina move into her apartment three days earlier. investigators had been suspicious of todd hale s claim that he d been able to enter christina s apartment through a small window opening without disturbing the items on the entertainment center inside. we thought for todd to get in through that window he would have to maybe have an acrobat s physique, which he did not.
todd, they felt might have been a suspect because of the way he entered the apartment. he wasn t invited in. he opened the window, removed the screen and snaked himself in through this small opening. so they asked him to do it again while they watched. we allowed him to demonstrate how he climbed through the window and around that entertainment center. and he was able to do that even wearing some steel-toed work boots. hale got inside again without touching any of the items on the entertainment center. it was a little bit amazing watching him do that. it was like watching a burglar in action. next police ask christina s neighbor carlos robinson to provide a routine statement and he willingly complied. investigator described him as being very helpful, very cooperative. when the police left the room, of course, they keep their
her ex-boyfriend, jacob hadley, who had previous arrests for physical violence against christina. he shot at her, he beat her several times, she has restraining orders against him. the other two include the man who found christina s body and christina s next-door neighbor who called 911. sometimes people will report the crime just to steer suspicion away from them. but investigators needed forensic evidence to compare to the suspects and were fortunate to find some footprints at the scene. you can t see the prints really with the naked eye unless you re really looking, and i m sure that the suspect never realized that he had had left so many prints behind in his haste to collect the physical evidence that he thought might be damning. these barefoot prints which contain ridge detail can be identified belonging to a certain person just as fingerprints would. so todd hale, jacob hadley were asked to provide prints. we brought jacob, todd, and