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So that s why. on the stand clay starbuck patiently followed his lawyer s lead, no gaffes, no slipups. did you kill chanin starbuck? no, i did not. thank you, no further questions. when it was over clay and his defense team felt so confident they encouraged him to talk with us about the case and some things that did not come out in court. in an exclusive interview, clay starbuck explains why he believes he s about to go free. there s been many statements in this that have not been true from a law enforcement standpoint. the case has been botched, in your view? i would say botched is fair game. there s some smart people who have made elementary mistakes. there s some smart people who have made elementary mistakes. -[ slurping ] ....
Suspicious, said the detective, was when clay, told he was free to go, didn t. then i couldn t get rid of him. he would not leave me alone. kept wanting to talk. he kept wanting to talk. what he kept telling me was the same thing over again. look on her phone, look on her computer, that will tell you everything you need to know. it s suspicious to you but it s not really evidence. no, not necessarily. it s suspicious, circumstantial, but suspicious to me. which meant that right there on day one clay needed to be checked out but good, and they began with his alibi for that december morning. his day started with car trouble and his text to chanin. asking her to take the kids to school. he said he spent much of december 1st walking between his home and the spot the car broke down, about a mile away. he told me that he had to go back and forth to his residence four times that day to work on his car and get tools, to eat, to take a nap. but detectives couldn t find anyone al ....
Besides, he said, he was in alaska on at least one of those strange disturbances supposedly happened. at first i was like, no way, i didn t do that. then the date hits me. and i m like, well, for sure, i didn t do that. i wasn t even here. in fact, he said, he and chanin got along better than most divorced couples. chanin and i made things work. we would text or say, hey, i ll get the kids. i know next weekend is my weekend, but can you take them that weekend? but now that chanin was dead, detectives had to rethink her suspicions as related to them by summer. and she wasn t the only person who viewed chanin and clay s relationship through something other than rose-tinted glasses. chanin s siblings, for example, who said chanin accused clay of cheating on her, claimed that was the reason for both divorces. and the last breakup was so nasty they said that in the months before chanin died clay stopped paying child support. ....
Remembered seeing clay. and another odd thing, his cell phone was off for several hours, no pings to trace. but in the area clay said he walked, a little shoe leather produced a stroke of luck attached to a house. there was a camera on the side of the house. a home surveillance camera pointed in the very direction they remembered clay telling them he walked. and no sign of clay as far as they could tell. i mean, there s no indication that he ever passed by there that day. what did you think when you saw that? i thought that he was lying. one statement that looked like a lie, one dead cell phone, a complaint about overdue child support and a bunch of tales about alleged threatening behaviors, which, try as they might, they couldn t verify. the detectives didn t have enough for an arrest let alone a murder charge. they needed something more, something to tie clay directly to the crime scene. and? enter the dna. ....
One of the couple s friends testified that clay seemed unnaturally obsessed with his ex-wife s personal life. he basically gave me a litany of things about chanin, about what she was doing and how she was seeing lots of other men. and one of the kids teachers testified that she heard clay predict something that sounded to her quite chilling. he said, i wouldn t be surprised if we found her dead, i wouldn t be surprised if we found her with her throat slit open. then the view from the detectives who testified how it seemed to them clay was just a little too eager to direct their suspicions away from himself. and towards some anonymous online lover. i don t very often have people pushing at me a piece so much that it pushes everything else, all the other information out. just constantly pushing that at ....