jury believe? with the conclusion of our story, here s keith morrison. reporter: giselle esteban readily admitted she killed her friend michelle le. but she claimed it was in the heat of the moment. she was angry, provoked by michelle. a defense which in a way blamed michelle for her own death. to friends and family sitting in the courtroom the strategy seemed outrageous. but yet after the jury had been out four long days they all worried that it worked. i was wondering if the jury sat in the same trial that i sat in. we were going crazy. we were really afraid that either they felt sympathy for the defendant because she is a woman or that she has children or you never know. by the fifth day we were thinking what if what if they let her off easy? reporter: then finally on the fifth day the jury announced they were ready. there could be no acquittal. their choices were first-degree murder or voluntary
manslaughter, a verdict that could have esteban back on the street before she s 40. i remember hearts are just pounding. everyone being lined up. and we sat down and we saw the jury walk in. and a couple of them like you can just tell on their faces that they were exhausted. they looked exhausted. and we were just all holding hands in the front row. we were all shaking. and you could see butch, and he was just up there, like his hands on his head and all of us were just praying. and then we heard guilty of murder, first. i burst right into tears. that feeling was just so indescribable. how much relief was there. reporter: giselle esteban was
school did the same thing. they just looked for the one morning by scott s car alarm. computer record of the key card being used and they pulled up scott went to investigate. and while he s out front he the security video from that hears his mother screaming. he goes inside. giselle is inside of his house. she s inside his room tampering moment and that place, and with his computer. reporter: sound familiar? it was the same thing esteban voila, there was their thief. was doing at the nursing school. and when was this vis-a-vis so i had him had them send the murder? four days before, on the tuesday. me the still photographs. reporter: but there was something else. and when i looked at it, i a piece of evidence you have to hear to believe. immediately identified that it scott told the detectives that was giselle esteban. four months before michelle s reporter: the picture was dated may 26th, one day before michelle le disappeared. so what else did she do that disappearanc
iranians have decided, ok, we re going to look to the east. economic cooperation with china, with russia, this is our policy. that has been gaining strength over the years. what happens now in this new context of war in ukraine is that that policy is being challenged now. and for iran, the time has come to, in a sense, sort out this priority, these are the russia. vis a vis. also there is an impact on china as well, in a sense, because it in the nuclear talks russia sticks to its demands, then there is fear that china might also support russian positions in the nuclear talks. so then we will have an even bigger
exactly. and it has an air of credibility. reporter: and thus it s not first-degree murder. yes. a voluntary manslaughter. and then you get out in nine years. reporter: so that was the big fight? yes. reporter: and there was another problem. even as ford methodically laid out the evidence for the jury, what he couldn t do and this turned out to be a big hole in his case was to tell the jury how the murder took place. michelle s remains were so decomposed the coroner couldn t determine the cause of death. the pathologist report indicated that they not only visually examined michelle s remains, but also examined it using an x-ray, to look for any sort of trauma to her skull, her bones, anything of that nature. and they couldn t locate any. reporter: and while security cameras seemed to have recorded just about everything before and after the murder, they didn t capture the crime itself. it s my position that the evidence of the crime is most supported by an assault