capital murder. and was sentenced to death. to hear the clerk of court say not only your guilty but you re sentenced to death, death, death sent chills up my spine literally. but tara s mother opposed the death penalty and asked that thomas sentence be commuted to life in prison. in 2002 the virginia supreme court gave him life without parole. tara s family realizes that without science her case might never have been solved. it was the beginning we thought how in the world your going to solve a case like this and i don t think it would have ever been solved. if it wasn t the police force it would never be solved. at the end of the day we had a lot of circumstantial evidence but it was the forensic evidence that was the most powerful. young high school student,
capital murder. and was sentenced to death. to hear the clerk of court say not only your guilty but you re sentenced to death, death, death sent chills up my spine literally. but tara s mother opposed the death penalty and asked that thomas sentence be commuted to life in prison. in 2002 the virginia supreme court gave him life without parole. tara s family realizes that without science her case might never have been solved. it was the beginning we thought how in the world your going to solve a case like this and i don t think it would have ever been solved. if it wasn t the police force it would never be solved. at the end of the day we had a lot of circumstantial evidence but it was the forensic evidence that was the most powerful.