Wood chips found in the families washing machine appeared to link anne to the crime, but the defense was about to attack the very foundation of the prosecution s case. here s josh mankiewicz with the conclusion of the house. charged with her husband s murder, anne allen pleaded not guilty and waited in jail for her trial to begin. her friend, rita, was stunned. i was like, you ve got to be kidding. there is no way that anne would do something so heinous. there is no way. anne s defense attorney, andrea jessica, she s in jail and she just couldn t conceive that anybody could think that this lifelong nurse would harm anyone. jessica says he looked at the states case and saw no real evidence.
after anne s arrest, the crime lab gave police some welcome news. some wood chips found in the family washing machine head scott s dna on them. it linked the house and the person in the house, which was ann allen to the murder even with the new evidence, prosecutors were worried that the case against ann allen was threatening to fall apart before they even got started. coming up! there is no way that anne would do something so heinous. there is no way. from the moments that detective henderson arrived on the scene. anne was the one and only suspect. you can see it when you watch the first interaction with him in the kitchen. listen, listen. if you know anything about that. all i know the detectives rush to judgment. and did the jury hear enough to make a judgment?
We were in the hallway, where i had been sleeping, and an argument arose. my dad said that i deserved to have my bedroom back, and my mom got so angry. out of nowhere, kelly says, anne pulled a handgun from underneath her bathrobe and pointed it at scott. she said, we made an agreement, you said i am taking care of the credits and if you get in my way there s gonna be a problem. his whole demeanor changed. he was more like, okay, we re just going to take a step back. and you leave the house with him. yeah. what did he say? if you ever see her gun again, call 9-1-1. you never saw the gun again? no. kelly says that happened about five years before the murder. she says the fighting escalated in the years that followed. it was bad. it got to the point where there were locks on everyone s doors, on the outside and inside. both spouses padlocked their
there was a lot of emotion involved and the way that scott was assaulted. because whoever murdered him, shot him. he falls to the ground, they could ve shot him again. but instead, they choose to beat him to death. that is correct. which sounds like anger. it is. as an fbi agent for 23 years, scott had come into contact with plenty of bad guys. many of whom, might have carried a grudge about scott putting his hands where his cuffs on them. so they looked at scott s cases. and found a whole lot of nothing. there had never been any threats in his past that i am aware of. there had never been anything like that that i would get to curse you. and even though that does happen. it does. but that did not seem to apply with him? that is correct it did not
He says common sense, she told him there was no way anne could ve pulled off such a brutal beating. since she walked with a cane or a crutch. the scene itself is so important and the manner of the killing his forehead was demolished by whatever was hitting him, presumably a piece of wood. anne just didn t have that strength. i m guessing the state responded to that by saying that people who were furious enough at other people can do superhuman things. they can say that, right? but then again, there needs to be evidence of it. not long after anne was arrested, the state s case seemed to fray. after first arresting jason, prosecutors decided not to move forward and dropped all charges we got to the point where we are to present evidence to the grand jury to make a decision there wasn t enough. search warrants were executed for jason s home, his