prescription drug ring. the attorneys arranged for a meeting. an opportunity for steve to tell law enforcement what he heard so they could investigate it. they showed him the mysterious email. listen to his reaction i m sorry. i almost hate to ask you this, but can you explain why you re so emotional today? i spent a year not knowing what happened to carol and being accused of it. that s what s happening right now. there was more than the email to go on. remember the dna the medical examiner found under carol s fingernails? turned out it wasn t steve s or jim knapp s. police called the dna evidence item 603, but to defense investigator rich robinson, it represented more.
warrant. the implication, of course, was that the cover fit the club never found that killed carol. jacob said that after the detectives left he talked to steve. what was that conversation? the golf head sock cover was found after they had left. he said he had found it? yes. did he say what he was going to do with it? he didn t know whether or not to turn it in to the police or give to his lawyer. implying, said the prosecution, that steve knew the golf sock could incriminate him and didn t know what to do with it. just as the case seemed to be building momentum, two weeks into the trial, the judge left the bench at lunch break and suddenly collapsed. it was a brain tumor. and everybody waited for five weeks until a brand-new judge was appointed so they could pick up with testimony right where they left off. and that s when the jurors finally got to hear what became of the missing golf
examiner found under carol s fingernails? turned out it wasn t steve s. or jim knapp s. police called the dna, evidence item 603. but to defense investigator rich robertson, it represented much more. evidence item 603 became mr. 603. it was a male s dna that was found mixed in with carol s blood under the fingernails of her left hand. and this wasn t a small amount of dna. a reasonable person i think would think, this probably could have gotten there during an attack. jim knapp. the anonymous e-mail. mr. 603. steve s family and attorneys thought investigators should focus more on all of those things. instead, it seemed to them, prosecutors had already made up their minds, and steve would go on trial. summer 2010. two years after carol kennedy s murder, american flags were once
doing with those documents? and something else, perhaps very significant. there was blood on the doorknob of the door that led from the main house into the backyard garage. reporter: the blood became evidence item #805 collected days after carol s death. and whose dna was mixed with carol s blood? jim knapp s dna. just like the thumbprint, the question becomes when did jim knapp s dna get put on that door handle? reporter: robertson clearly had his suspicions. and steve s sister sharon did too. so you ve felt all along that jim knapp should have been a suspect and wasn t. he should ve been investigated. there were a lot of red flags that were concerning. reporter: knapp told sheriff s deputies he was no where near carol s house when the murder happened. he was at his ex-wife s place, miles away, babysitting his son. didn t they find out that the
also, after steve was arrested, they conducted more searches. in his storage unit, they found books about how to cover your tracks and live as a fugitive. at an apartment he rented in scottsdale, arizona, they found something interesting in the parking garage. i believe it was a bmw motorcycle that the detectives showed me that was in the parking garage. they believe that he had recently purchased it. reporter: and inside these locked cases, they later learned, steve had maps, clothing, hair dye, makeup, and fifteen thousand dollars in cash. charlotte, who still believed her father was innocent, reluctantly testified for the prosecution. put on the spot, she had to agree she knew he was thinking of running. and under a grant of immunity she admitted that she wrote the so-called anonymous e-mail that claimed carol was killed by drug dealers. an e-mail dictated by her father. and at one point, your dad held up a piece of paper to that