was used on one of their big, big tow trucks. it was the office building of the tow yard where jeff lamb worked. the tire iron had hexagonal heads for loosening and tightening nuts. it was tested for dna. we tried everything to test the tire iron, but it was south florida and it rains all the time. the sun would have evaporated any dna as well as the water washing it off. but since it was so distinctive, as were the wounds on cathy s body, the tire iron was still a valuable piece of evidence. the hexagonal head was placed over photographs of cathy lamb s wounds. you look at the injuries on cathy s face. there s no way in the world anything other than this did it. jeffrey lamb was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. prosecutors believe jeff wanted
had been in a fight and probably had been in a fight with the other two dogs. so the dogs attacked one another, but not the killer, even while the killer was beating them. and they stood there and they took their beatings, and then they went and they hid. to animal behavioralists, the reason was clear. and a stranger wouldn t have been able to beat those dogs brutally the way they were beaten without them fighting back. somebody obviously knew the dogs, so it had to be somebody that, you know, they weren t going to fight back. it seemed pretty clear from the evidence that only one person could have done this crime. but prosecutors had a problem. the surviving dog, bandit, obviously couldn t tell police what happened. so investigators had to dig deeper and started by looking into jeff lamb s finances. a few years earlier, jeff s former employer accused him of
cathy and jeffrey lamb didn t live in one of the palm beach mansions. jeff was a tow truck driver. cathy worked for the walgreen drugstore chain. i liked jeff. he was a good kid, good to cathy, and the main thing was she loved him. on june 15, 2004, jeff got home from work around 7:00 p.m. but when he walked inside, he found blood everywhere. what s the problem? my wife, wife, my wife s hurt and there s blood everywhere. he was hysterical on the phone. he was crying so much that i think the 911 dispatcher kept referring to him as a woman. okay, ma am, i need you to take some deep breaths, breathe in and breathe out. okay. now, are you having an asthma
while jeff admitted he had an affair with joy, he claimed their relationship was over. jeffrey s story was he had reconciled with his wife and they were going to be permanently living together again. it was contradictory for joy to come over and say, no, we re moving over to this house in jupiter. joy slidell was now a suspect too. but she had an alibi for the time of the murder. she worked as a waitress at a nearby restaurant and dozens of customers saw her. next jeff s cell phone records identified yet another suspect. on the afternoon of the murder, jeff lamb spoke with another female friend on the telephone. the first phone call that was made after we believe the murder took place was made to lisa aserbell, who turned out to be joy slidell s neighbor.
into the bedroom and closed the door. he took cathy s diamond earrings to make it look like a robbery. one of those earrings was later found in his pocket. jeff changed his shirt and shoes but not his jeans. he probably didn t see the blood on them. jeff s friend lisa called him on his cell phone just after 5:00 p.m. the call bounced off a cell tower near jeff s home, proving he wasn t at work as he had claimed. there was no evidence lisa new anything about the murder. when he returned to the tow yard, he threw the murder weapon up onto the roof thinking no one would ever find it. it was planned. he took my daughter from us, her