Steves attorney said the killing was a result of a Drug Deal gone wrong with carols neighbor jim knapp. Steve said he was told a similar story. Steve said somebody was communicating to him through the Ventilation System in the jail and told him a story about how a Drug Ring out of phoenix had been trying to collect money or seek some retribution against jim knapp for involvement in a prescription Drug Ring. The attorneys arranged for a meeting. Opportunity for steve to tell Law Enforcement what they heard so they could investigate it. They showed him the mysterious email. Listen to his reaction. The dna the Medical Examiner . There was more than the email to Go On. Remember the dna the Medical Examiner found under Carols Fingernail . Turned out it wasnt steves. Or jim naps. Police called the Dna Evidence Item 603. To the Investigator Robertson it didnt represented more. A became mr. 603. A Males Dna found mixed in with Carols Blood under the fingernails of her left hand. This wasnt a s
To the charges steve was facing. but fraud is certainly not what it was, said defense investigator rich robertson. these girls voluntarily, on their own, believing in their father s innocence, dedicated money that they inherited to defend him. how can that be wrong? the girls decided to use that money for their dad s defense. there was no fraud, or the insurance company would have been the first one to say, hey, we got a problem here. so, was that just piling on, on the part of the prosecution? yeah. reporter: the much bigger issue for the defense, said investigator robertson, was that phony e-mail. an e-mail the attorneys presented in court as real. because, they said, they, too, were duped by steve. suddenly, the attorneys are in an awkward legal ethical kind of posture and in relationship to their client.