Happened. Professor, artist, mom. Murdered. A Primal Scream came out of me. She started crying very hard. Police question to ask, maybe too quick. Focused on ski from the very beginning. The husband always does it. What of the husband didnt . You dont find dna, blood, anything. Someone else the real killer . Im wondering what was this man capable of . Was very emotional for me. We kept waiting for them to figure out that they had it wrong. It was 2 July 2008. Early evening and a fine Old Town called prescott, arizona. The sun going down. That Air Cooling down to a fine evening. Here at the tells History Rodeo grounds, refugees from h the Summer Heat from phoenix settled into the stands to enjoy the annual exploits of the cowboys. The same time a few miles away on the edge of town, a woman named Carol Kennedy jogged along the wellworn path that the base of the granite mountain. Sometime after 7 00, turned into her big backyard on a street called Bridle Path. Trotted past the Stone Labyr
i m trying to imagine what it was like for the family. this amazing, accomplished, interesting, intelligent family, when the leader child was charged with murdering his wife, a woman who you all loved. it was a total shock. you are going, they don t understand. if they knew him, they would see how wrong and impossible this was. even worse, prosecutors filed nor the death penalty. any chance for bail for steve given the charge was remote. still the, the whole democker family gathered in court forrer the hearing. which coincidence, had been scheduled for christmas eve 2008, then, it was delayed. it was this crushing blow seeing that, the wheels turn painfully slowly in this process. and so, we left and we are standing out in the corridor, then, they were just starting to bring steve out, and we said is, you know what, let s just sing him a christmas carole, so we started singing
question. did mr. democker flee or not? that s a yes or no question. no, he did not flee. and steve s sister sharon had a simple explanation for those coincidences, the night of the murder. the circumstantial evidence. like his dead cell phone battery. i think most of us with cell phones can appreciate that later in the day it s not uncommon for the battery to go. but their ears perked up when he drew the route and part of it came within a mile of the house on bridle path. well, he lived out there. for many years. so that was a favorite trail. they also made a great deal of the tracks that they found in the property. the shoe prints that must ve been his, the tire tracks that must ve been his. nobody knows whose those are. he did buy a pair at one point. but he doesn t know if he kept them. he said, i never keep any shoes for more than six months. he ran all the time. no shoes lasted more than six months. and he bought them a couple years earlier, is that right.
she told me that mr. democker had informed them during one of their in-person visits at the jail to bring some pencil and paper. there was a glass between them. mr. democker had brought a document with him that he placed on the glass, so that they could view it. reporter: according to renee, steve himself wrote that document. then asked his daughter charlotte, just 17 at the time, to copy it down. mr. democker then asked them to send that document which became known as the anonymous e-mail to mr. sears and to the prosecutor s office. reporter: mr. sears was john sears. one of steve s defense attorneys. steve s reasoning, according to steve s sister sharon, he d heard that story from an inmate in that air-vent conversation and desperately wanted to get the story out, and investigated. the death penalty was still on the table. so, steve was
sechez took another look, a much harder look at the money trail. not only was the insurance paid out, but it was paid to the two daughters who then transferred it to several accounts, including wire transfers to mr. democker s parents account in new york, who then wire transferred it back to mr. democker s defense team. who then wire transferred it back to mr. democker s defense team. reporter: remember steve democker was a highly-paid financial adviser. the prosecutors now believed he was using that expertise to try to get away with murder. here is a person that murdered his ex-wife then collected her life insurance of over 750 thousand dollars and is using that life insurance to pay his defense team in the murder prosecution. so then prosecutors added fraud to the charges steve was facing. but fraud is certainly not what it