when, the was - a woman who you all loved! it was a total shock. they do not understand if they knew him, they would see how wrong and impossible this was even worse, prosecutors filed for the death penalty. any chance for bail for steve, given the charge, was remote still, the whole famil gathered in court for th hearing. which, coincidence, had been scheduled for christmas eve, 2008 and then, it was delayed it was this crushing blow to see the wheels turn painfully slowly in this process. so we left and we are standing out in the corridor. then they were just starting t bring steve out. and we were like, let s just sing a christmas carol
email with the same substanc that i had copied down, believe. in the hopes that it would b investigated further what did that mean to you did you believe it i did i believed that that was wha he had been told by someone in the jail and, you know, it was very emotional for me, i wante i want today to be investigated how did you get the information out? i sent an anonymous email anonymous so that it coul not be traced back to her or her father her older sister katie was not aware of the email coming from charlotte but she was at the center of the story about life insurance, steve had signed disclaimer stinky would no benefit from the proceeds of carols life insurance. but katie was forced to testify, that wasn t true
penalty off the table. even though the attorney tol the jury the case was no les condemning i will ask you to find th defendant guilty on the firs degree premeditated murder first, he said, steve had motives and not just that 6000 a month in alamo knee. no, carol said the prosecuto was worth a lot of money then - the evidence will show that at the time of her death, that steve democker was the owner and beneficiary of two lif insurance policies the total value of those life insuranc fuzz was $750,000. steven carroll s daughter were in court sitting behind and supporting their father. defense investigator ric roberts. to have your father accused of killing your mother, and fo them to not believe it, yo can t imagine what that must have done to how they view
prosecution, for now missing left-handed club so here at last was the states theory about how steve kille his ex-wife. days before the murder, said the state, he dropped off that club at carols house supposedl for her to sell in an upcoming garage sale, but left the gulf sock in his garage and then, the night of the murder, he sneaked into he house and use that club to kil her. though, such a club was neve found, the golf stop was evidence it existed said the prosecution and the shape of carols wounds confirmed it then, they both turned an alib as his ex girlfriend ren gerard testified for the prosecution, steve allowed his cell phone battery to die, something he never normall did. in general, there was usually a battery in his phone and an extra battery eithe charged or being charged did you ever know him to be
share is more than anyone coul picture. that no one will understand th bond that they have, and how close they are to each other he referred to her, to som people, as his girlfriend, but she never had any romantic interest in him. and he had tremendous romantic interest in her very much so. thus, in your mind, a reaso to be angry one night? certainly was it possible carro rebuffed him, and he got angry the detectives didn t ask thos questions, said steve s family and soon, it was too late. six months after carrol murder, a 9-1-1 call from condo, where jim went to liv after carole was killed. we came for a welfare check of a friend of mine. the door is open, it looks lik a gunshot hole in the window and there is a shell casin inside the bedroom doors closed who are you doing a welfare check on jim knapp jim knapp was dead. gunshot wound. the medical examiner ruled it suicide. i was stunned