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The mysterious dna found under carol s fingernails after she was murdered. one thing for sure, it was not steve. we exhausted so many man hours and looked at any and all alternatives. reporter: and then it was during the long months of waiting for a new trial to begin, the prosecution had an idea. what if that 603 sample was a simple mistake. what if something just got mixed up in the lab? so investigator mike sechez looked up the autopsy done just before carol s. and submitted a sample from that for re-testing. and? nearly three years after carol s murder, a call from the crime lab. the sample dna that we sent had matched the dna under carol kennedy s fingernails. we finally were able to discover and verify who mr. 603 is.
Steven carroll divorced. it was a long, painful process. and after it was final, carol went to a nearby lake where she called catherine. she was sobbing. and at first when she called me it was like. odell! and then i realize that the sobbing and then whaling on the phone was a mixture of things. absolutely. time for a fresh start. carol had left seat teaching at that time and was on a new passion. painting! heart was flourishing. she went really well with that. and taking up for that. she remained close to her doctors, but she also stayed close to steve. and, in fact. just a few days before that july morning the whole family went to the airport together to see katie off on a study abroad trip to south africa. charlotte was staying with her
Garage. and tested them, but could no find any evidence that any of them was the murder weapon. but there was something else. in the first search of the condo, a detective remembered seeing a golf club cover, or go south on a shelf. and when they looked at the photos, there was. but when they searched the garage a second time, it was gone. and the shelf itself had, apparently been rearranged. was it possible that now the missing girl struck belonged to a different golf club? when that was no longer around? when used to kill carole kennedy? did steve knowing that he was a suspect get rid of that because it was incriminating evidence? seems like every investigative trail that they followed lead right back to the person they had suggested all along. carol s best friend knew who that was. i didn t believe steve did it, but i couldn t think of anybody else that could
Murder, american flags were draped in ancipation of the annual rodeo. and june 3, the county attorney opened his case against steve. by ticking off the reasons why in his view steve deserved to spend the rest of his natural life behind bars. by this time pretrial legal rulings had taken the death penalty off the table though the attorney told the jury the case was no less condemning. i will ask you to find the defendant guilty of first degree premeditated murder. first he said steve had motives and not just that $6,000 a month in alimony. no, carol, said the prosecutor, was worth a lot of money dead. the evidence will show that at the time of her death, that steven democker was the owner