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Later, detective benson read about his colleagues frustrated attempts to mount a case against steve strom and waited with karin s sister coco for results of dna tests conducted on karin s preserved fingernails, waited to be able to say, finally, got him. coming up he said coco, the dna came back. are you ready for this? the test results are in and those theories out. a mysterious suspect emerges in the murder of karin strom when the secrets in the suitcase continues. lord, you got no reason you got no right i find myself at the wrong place [ male announcer ] the ram 1500 express. it says a lot about you. in a deep, hemi-rumble sort of way. ....
Sexually assault him with another hand that she s cut and scratched. that s how the two drops of blood gets on her panties. now prosecutor rawlings was more confident he could convince a jury that, far from having consensual sex with karin, ed tried to rape her and killed her in the process, which would explain the semen found under karin s finger nails. our view is that the most consistent explanation is she s trying to prevent him from sexually assaulting her. so in the dog days of august, eight months after he had withdrawn the murder charges against ed owens, rawlings refiled his murder case. need to turn ed owens in. i didn t figure they would ever refile charges again. but evidently they want to try it again. it was march of 2009. finally the event had arrived, almost 29 years after the murder of karin strom. it was the eve of ed owens trial in farmington, utah. coco was overcome with emotion. god, don t let me fail karin. ....
Home to be with his family just in time for the holidays. relieved. glad it s over. and his family appeared before the cameras to say they had never doubted his innocence. we ve always stood by eddie saying we knew he didn t do it. anybody that knows eddie knows he wouldn t do it. steve strom, watching all this, was horrified. or so said his friend dick. he just went to pieces again. he says, they haven t got enough on him so they re going to come looking for me again. he said, it s going to start all over. oh, the prosecutor tried to assure the public he wasn t giving up on making a case against ed owens. we were still confident ed was the guy. we just didn t want to go off half cocked, look stupid, quite frankly. frankly, it was in most people s opinion, over. it was dead as far as a lot of people were concerned. as far as i was concerned, absolutely it was. your man was free to go. he was. ....
outside the courtroom, they dodged reporters and then insisted later that the jury had simply gotten it wrong. even the family judged by their statements unaware of one more wild, improbable and impending twist. almost two months after the verdict, a may morning 2009, ed s sentencing day, waiting in the wings to make a presentence statement a woman who would offer evidence that ed once raped and very nearly killed her a few years before karin s murder. and then suddenly her statement was canceled. the judge made an announcement. ed owens had something important to say. mr. strom had asked me to kill his wife on several different occasions and then he finally offered me half of her insurance money to do it. actually, what i did was i went over to warn her and tell her that he wanted her killed. ....
Night? i believed there was some sort of a domestic dispute and that things had gotten out of hand and that s what led to her death. and everything in the case file certainly seemed to back up that point of view. was there anything else that went to motive as far as steve was concerned? nothing other than the divorce that was currently going on. it sounded to me like she may be leaving him for another man. ah, so jealousy comes into play. as well. yes. couldn t do anything about it though? well, back then, we didn t have dna. so short a confession, there wasn t really anything they could do. but now there were with those fingernails. the chaos in the bedroom where she was murdered made it obvious that karin had fought back and unknowingly retrieved his dna profile by scratching him before she died. benson spoke to steve strom now ....