i heard wailing. i came inside and it was wilson in the living room crying. my wife consoled him and grabbed his shoulders and just said, think about stephen s smile and he would forgive whoever did this and i think he started wailing more. the day after stephen holmes murder, a man working across the street from the crime scene contacted police. this individual indicated that a white pickup truck with a horizontal stripe alongside of it raced out of the durango s parking lot prior to the police arriving. the witness said this happened at about 11:00, just after the time police believe stephen was killed. the description was so detailed. i mean, a loud muffler, stripes on the side, you know, a small pickup, white. it was a very clear description of what type of a vehicle it was. for two days, police officers
fingerprint in stephen s office and his blood drops near the sink. you had feet print leading to the manager s office and shoe prints leading from the office to the kitchen. now the case is coming full circle. prosecutors believe wilson saintil was desperate for money, and believed his only recourse was to rob the restaurant where he worked. as the maintenance man, he stopped by after hours, knowing the cash receipts would be in the safe. saintil probably made some noise in the kitchen. stephen walked out of his office to see who was there. hello? that s when stephen saw the knife. stephen ran to his office and tried to close the door, but saintil was still able to get inside.
pointed to wilson saintil as the man who killed stephen holmes inside the steak restaurant. but investigators wanted to know what happened to the $8,000 missing from the restaurant s safe? that s when they learned that saintil visited a local furniture store the day after the murder. the furniture store had a security camera in the office, which showed saintil paying off a $1,200 debt in cash with $100 bills. much of the money stolen from the restaurant was in $100 bills, from the gift certificates they had been selling on the night of the murder. the fact that he pays off his debt at the furniture rental company so quickly after the murder is it s just bizarre. and forensic testing found a connection between saintil s
went further, comparing saintil s dna to the blood droplets on the kitchen counter and faucet. those six foreign male dna profiles found at the scene did match the suspect in the case. the 51-year-old haitian national was arrested on suspicion of murder. do you have anything to say at all? they ve got the wrong guy. they got the wrong guy? yes. you didn t kill stephen holmes? no. you don t know anything about it? stephen was my good friend. although his blood and fingerprint were both at the scene, police had a problem. there was a plausible explanation for his blood to be at the sink in the kitchen. the defense is clear, he s a maintenance worker. he s a prep cook. people cut themselves all the time. and there was no proof his fingerprint was in stephen s blood. it could have been there previously. so you find a fingerprint of my client here, wilson saintil, inside the restaurant. what s the big deal?
of each and every employee. in a stunning development, the print on the manila folder matched the last person anyone expected, especially stephen holmes family. it belonged to wilson saintil, stephen s best friend, the restaurant s maintenance man and prep cook. stephen s family couldn t believe it since the two often worked late together. stephen would bring in cds specifically that he knew was the type of music that wilson liked so that they could put it in and it would go through the whole store and they could be listening to that music while they were working. wilson saintil went to the ceremonies to honor the deceased, hugged family members, cried when it was appropriate. there was no flight issues. there was no obvious signs that we needed to suspect him of anything. but investigators naturally