parachute. no, no. he was very athletic, he was very coordinated and he was a very careful person, a thoughtful person. reporter: dina didn t just insist something wasn t right, she opened her checkbook and hired her own experts. including dr. judy melanack, a suspected forensic pathologist, who reviewed the autopsy photos and disagreed with the official conclusion. max had too many injuries to be explained with an accidental fall. reporter: she thought max s injuries indicated he had been assaulted before he felt. what s more, she questioned whether the fall itself could have happened, as the sheriff s department described it. measurements showed the railing was 32 inches high. 6-year-old max was only 45 inches tall. his center of gravity was too low, even on the scooter, his center of gravity is too low.
mr. jennings had murdered his wife, that i was use whatever influence and whatever pressure i could to make sure that he stayed in prison the rest of his life. can you accept a deal like that? absolutely. so dwight scanned the file, just a quick look. and this was strange. it was obvious that was something that just wasn t right. remember what the trial attorney said about the black bathrobe, too bad they didn t tested for gunshot residue? dwight, with his years in law enforcement lit up when he saw that. they must have tested the robe. it should ve been tested for gunshot residue all the way up to the right sleeve. sure, if he fired the gun there would ve been gunshot residue. no such reporting existed for the testing of that sleeve and that robe. it did not make sense. the started working with lawyer lindsey phoenix who requested
that his friend bryan had shot his wife hatami in a botched robbery attempt. then brett, in fear for his own life, killed his friend. it looked like self-defense. but sheriff leon lott knew they couldn t close the case without thoroughly checking out brett s story. there were three people there. and two of them were dead. so we had to light on him to explain to us what happened. so we listened to everything that he was saying and then we would go back and check it. investigators went over brett s account, starting with the moment bryan entered the house. before long, something unusual came to their attention. brett told police he was sitting on the downstairs toilet when he heard the shots ring out. but what if the female crime scene investigators notice this. the toilet seat was up. our csi lieutenant is a female, and she made mention of that because it particularly bothered her. it takes one to look at this notice that. right. as they poured over crime
fall guy, prosecutors said brett stage the crime scene and planted that gym bag and ammunition. i guess the idea that was supposed to be some kind of murder by. and place the gun he used to kill his wife in bryan s hand. there is no way bryan brought that down to bret s house, affront has defied. did you know whether bryan had a gun? no, but heck no he did not have again. brian was scared of guns. there is no way on this earth that bryan capnerhurst had a pistol. none. zero. it did not happen. and there was something else that gunshot to the four arm bryan had suffered a major gunshot wound to his arm. but he was still clutching the gun as he lay down on the floor. a medical examiner testified it s unlikely the gun would have stayed in his hand. in my medical opinion, based on the shots to the arm, to the
little slower in south carolina. afternoons in columbia can be spent on the meandering saluda river or nearby lake murray. and tucked away inside this capital city is ascot estates. we re old southern charm mingles with new money. not much in the way of drama here. until april, 2012. friday the 13th. when something sinister happened. i turned on the news and saw the double murder. totally confused because there is no way of knowing for sure what is going on. it was my husband who called me and said something terrible had happened. and i said, what happened? what happened would become the center of a mystery. a who done it that began with a frantic 9-1-1 call. who shot your wife? a friend of mine, brian. is he still there? the call came from a most unusual place. the gracious home of well liked