days beauty and the beast until that strange terrible day. he found her at home with bruises across our throat. dead, a tragic freak accident, or was it? the weight machine she doesn t lift weights. a home gym mysteriously turned death trap, a husband mysteriously turned suspect. hello and welcome to dateline. it s the case of a fit young woman who died suddenly. her friends and family were told it was a freak accident in a gym the kind of thing that could happen to anyone. equipment does at times malfunction. but so do relationships. here is dennis murphy with the beauty mystery. claude the images are fuzzy homebody of the wedding reception. but anyone who was there remembers the event vividly. the bride own way and the groom he s the dance partner in the group goofy beast costume. kind of a strange way to begin marriage some guest murmured. but then, it was a union that would end strangely. last dance still more than ten years away that point lisa the br
otherwise. once again, here s dennis murphy with the beauty and the beast mystery. it s funny in criminal investigations how sometimes things fall into your lap from the most unexpected places. and that s what happened in the middle of july 2009. lisa had been dead for a couple weeks. detective mike davis had been at his death, desk preparing subpoenas for the patterson case when he took the call from a manager of a local burglar alarm company. he told the detective that is says man had just gotten off the phone with the customer who had some question about how his home video surveillance system worked. because summer was scott pattison. did the cops want to know something more all about this? detective davis said they did but then explain how they d been out to the patterson house and check out the video set up and notice when he popped the tray on the recorder there was no dvd. no dvd no pictures right? well detective davis almost
video he knew he finally had a case. i got goose bumps i m like go, oh my goodness. it s a temper 2009 a grand jury convened and a week later scott pattison was indicted for murder. detective davis handcuffed scott at his mom s house and escorted him to the wabash county jail. what do you say scott? i m not guilty. the state of indiana versus scott patterson went to trial in late october to those in ten. the key prosecutor told the jury was the timeline. scott s own security camera video was the star witness against him. no cameras were allowed in court but the proceedings were audiotaped. hardly had brought the weight bench into the courtroom and planted right before the jury. crime scene investigator jason
safety stops had not been secured in place just as they hadn t. the defense moved on. it would call its own expert witness. medical examiner from kentucky named dr. greg davis to give a counter explanation for that minute bruising with the funny name. the particular. actor reviewing the autopsy photos dr. davis concluded the bruises weren t caused by someone straddling lisa when she died but rather bruises that occur naturally when blood cools after death. some discoloration they can be easily mistaken but they re actually caused by a different the same witnessed offered a different version of the scenario. had scott patterson been pressing the bar onto her throat dr. davis said he would ve expected to see more significant damage to her neck. i would expect to see a