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When she got that. that she got married so soon, just 18, and right out of high school seemed reasonable at the time. at least to coco it did. living in utah? that kind of happens, huh? that was nothing new. i just figured, well, karin did it, too, you know? she and steve strom were in love, after all. i didn t know steve that well. he didn t talk, very quiet. this is karen s high school friend melody fairbourne. she really did love him, and enjoyed his company. but then it was about seven years in when the bad times started to outweigh the good. the problem said melody was steve who could be, she said, a mean drunk. when he would start drinking, he would start verbally degrading her. and there had been rumors of some physical abuse. ....
Benson. he said, you want to know what s funny? i said, oh, please. this it is getting better and better. he said, i took her case out six months ago and started looking at it again. just coincidence, of course, wasn t it? and i thought, wow. i says, maybe something s really going to happen this time. by this time, benson had followed a trail around the corner of the storage room from the old green suitcase to a makeshift plywood shelf where he discovered boxes and boxes chockfull of evidence. they had fingernails that they didn t know what they contained back then. but they saved them any way. they saved them. consequently they became one of the best pieces of evidence that we had. benson sent those preserved fingernails off to the lab along with other testable pieces of evidence. and then, as he and coco waited for the results, benson continued to dig into the murder file and into the life of karin strom. what happened to make her a target of somebody s murderous ....
That night? a couple of months after karen s death, steve was arrested and charged with his wife s murder. what did steve strom do? well, of course, he denied it. he denied being involved. he fought the case tooth and nail. and those investigators remained convinced that their man was steve. yes. but, as the trial approached back at the beginning of the 1980s, none of the evidence from that chaotic bedroom murder scene could be tested for dna. the technology just didn t exist then. what they had instead was a circumstantial case, the testimony of friends and family who would say that steve was sometimes verbally and possibly physically abusive. but kari nirvegs karin wanted out. there was black eyes and bruises that were witnessed by some of their co-workers and friends. but it wasn t enough. not much more than hearsay according to the assigned trial ....
Dismissed the charges and released steve strom to go on about his life. strom lost his friends, his credibility, perhaps only this friend still believed in him. i mean, everybody was saying, you did it, you did it, you did it, you did it. you know? and they chased him. they followed him everywhere he went. cops? yep. i was with him. and that was that. nobody satisfied. certainly not karen s sister coco who believed in her heart, like so many others, that steve had gotten away with murder. and that, decided, coco could not stand. her big sister had been there for her growing up and now coco would do what she could to fight for justice. 27 years. 27 years and it never left your mind? how could it? it s shocking and it s your sister. somebody you love dearly. it s, like, you go and think about it and then you give up and then it s there again. you know, it never goes away. ....
Friendship had developed. they had gone four-wheeling together and once steve and karin took ed and his wife patricia on a double date. but really casual acquaintances. so how would ed owens dna end up beneath karin s fingernails? good question. when detective benson went through the file, he discovered that, in fact, ed owens had drawn a mention. in the original investigation. so benson, all these years later, tracked him down. he was listed as a person of interest or possibly a witness, and i wanted to go over his statement and make sure we had everything correct. they had put him on record back then. yes. back in 1980 steve strom told police that when he arrived at work at 12:45 a.m. june 6th, ed owens wasn t there as he should have been to turn over the machine they both worked on. he finally did show up, said steve, a little after 4:00 in the morning drunk and throwing up, claiming he left work at ....