True Crime Vault: A Killing on the Cape

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"The summer is wonderful. This is a place where people leave their doors open." 2002, Worthington Homicide Scene. "There hadn't been a murder in Tura for 30 years. These things don't happen. Okay, God." "Everyone is thinking, "Oh, my goodness. We have a murderer, monsters." "Gelsy, anger, secrets, sex, and money. That was all in this story."

"How does a glamorous fashion writer end up in kick-out, dead in a bungalow?" "There are all kinds of runes as to who'd get in." "Who did the police question every day?" "I couldn't imagine who could have thrown them." "It was January 6, 2002. I was an EMT on the Tura Rescue Squad, the pageer that I had."

"I went off and said that we had a rescue call for an unresponsive female at 50-D-Pow Road."

“"And I thought, gee, I think that's the Worthington Residence."”

"So I went in and just looked and Krista was a naked from the waist down, lying on her back. Very dead." "She was stabbed through the chest. Her cell phone was left on the kitchen counter with just the digit nine punched in, as if she might have been trying to dial 9-1-1-1." "46-year-old Krista Worthington and accomplished fashion writer was found murdered Sunday in her Tura Hall." "It was everyone's worst nightmare. A woman alone in her home would her two-year-old child in her beautiful cottage and Cape Cod overlooking the Atlantic Ocean being found dead."

"It involved a single woman who was a mother with an out-of-way lock child, fathered by a local Lothario, murdered with her baby daughter left beside her for 36 hours unattended by anyone." "Her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Eva was found unharmed near the body. She had been with her mother's body for more than 24 hours. "There's some evidence that she had taken her a sippy cup and tried to feed her mother and she's trying to wake her mother up."

“"Ava had gotten a washcloth and gone wet it somehow, gotten up on the stool, turned on the faucet, swabbed her mother's body. She had been trying to clean up her mother."”

"Alright, breaking stuff. The cape had never seen a witness in a vent like this."

"Ever." "In Tura, I'm all about about a new center-five. And it was big because it happened in Tura and these things don't happen in Tura. On Cape Cod." "The summer is wonderful. It is warm. All of the patty-page songs about Cape Cod beaches, the sunsets, all true." "If you're fond of sand dunes and salty air, Kuid little villages here and there." "For beauty, for beaches, for wonderful fishing, for shell fishing, for solitary walks."

"There's just nothing like it anywhere that I've ever been." "People like to describe the cape as like an arm. And province town is at the very end of the arm." "And Tura is sort of at the wrist." "Cabe Cod alone is bucolic, but Tura was really, they called Tura the garden of Eden of Massachusetts." "Tura is known today as the most rural town in Cape Cod. We have no town center. We have no streets. We have a post office and a general store."

"And the people that see you every day are the same people. Very much like Groundhog Day. The same trash guy, the same milk guy, the same grusher." "I mean, this is a place where people leave their doors open. This is not a place where people get killed." The Wehrthington family goes back generations here in Tura where they are rich in property. Christa inherited her mother's weather-worn cottage. It was here that she came in search of solace, but instead it was where she was savagely murdered.

"But the story I was interested in was the real story. Who was Christa Warrant?"

“"Christa was the only child. She grew up in Hangamass, which is a south of Boston, kind of Tony's suburb."”

"Father was a Harvard-educated lawyer and it was very privileged upbringing. After high school, Christa went to Bastard." "I was a bastard classmate of Christa Wördington. Christa and I were in this English thesis class." "Christa was someone you would know because she was so short, but interesting looking and pretty. She was brilliant in class."

"The first few decades of her life outside of college were high fashion, high society."

"She began a career in fashion high. She actually was a bureau chief in Paris for women's wear daily." "She wrote for all the major magazines, Cosmo, Harper's Bazaar." "New York Times, she was the Elm Magazine." "I met Christa when we were editors together at Elm Magazine, probably 1990." "The devil wears Prada, 25 years later, is more or less what the life was like at the magazine."

"I love the show."

"It was kind of an ongoing party disguised as a publication."

"She interviewed people like Eves Saint Laurent, Martha Stewart, she even dated Anderson Cooper's brother." "Christa's writing, "Oh, she could make anything just sound like magic. The most boring thing in the world was all of a sudden fresh." "And exciting." "Smooth and refined, pro style." "The head scarf."

"The head scarf reveals as it can seals." "The louder the go away message, the more audible the come hither." "Isn't that great?"

“"I remember talking with Christ about her leaving New York City."”

"There was nothing directly to predict that this could have happened to her." "The question on a lot of people's mind is how does a glamorous fashion writer end up in some small town in Cape Cod dead in a bungalow?" "There are the immediate investigation of all of the relationships that the victim has and has had as well as putting together the tracing of her movements in the last days and hours." "There was nothing to indicate who it might have been." "The house at 50 depot road is isolated. It isn't something that you happen to walk by because it sits well in on a long driveway."

"So you would have no idea of any activity going on in there." "I couldn't imagine who could have killed her. I couldn't even think of it." "There was so much talk about who did it and who had the motive and believe me, every one in this story had a motive." "The whole thing was just really bizarre." "In year '06, 2002, we're things in homicides."

"This is the first murder in this town in 30 years."

"With all the media attention surrounding this, he's going to put enormous pressure on the police department to solve this and solve it fast." "I was told by the State Police, the Tim Arnold was their number one suspect in her last living boy friend. He lived next to her. He's the one who found the body." "Why would he go there that night? Is that true that he was going to return a flashlight?" "I want a flashlight and I can say it's good so worthy that I'm sure she's dead." "When he returns, with more of a killing on the cape."

"Come the late fall, the weather turns vicious." "The lonelyness of the sense of isolation definitely builds."

“"The quiet is so thorough, so deep that I think it scares certain people."”

"Cape is not a particularly popular place in the winter because it's cold and it's isolated." "Christas are right or kept diaries." "I do feel stormbound. The cabin fever so intense, it's become part of my metabolism pumping like blood." "This crime happened in the dead of winter in January. There are even less people around in this small town. Everyone is thinking, oh my goodness, we have a murderer amongst us."

"People saw that locking their doors. Over night, it was a transformation." "Tim Arnold was the number one suspect in the first year of the investigation."

“"Tim Arnold was a former boyfriend of Christa Worthington. I think dated for a while over a year."”

"But at the time she was murdered, they were actually broken up."

"The police, they always take a close look at the people who are in the orbit. He was a boyfriend. He was an ex-lover. Sometimes that generates hard feelings, so that was one."

"Two, he found the body. Always take a close look at the person who found the body." "It was a Sunday afternoon. It was a important Patriots football game going on." "Tim Arnold says he was watching the game with his father and his father suggested that he return a flashlight to Christa." "His father drove him to Christa's house." "He's heading to the home, spots two unopened newspapers."

"Meatly makes him wonder, why are papers on him?" "And he looked through the kitchen door window and saw Christa lying on the floor." "She was totally still. She wasn't even moving." "We pushed his way into the house and he found Eva next to her mother and he leaned over and he touched Christa and she was cold." "He picked up Eva and she knew him. She responded to him."

"He takes her in her arms and he takes the child out to his father."

"And he turns to his father as Christa is D-E-A-D."

"Doesn't want to say it out loud." "I'm the one who's going to record it. What is your emergency?" "We send them into 50 D-Co-Roads." "Okay, what's the problem?" "It's Christa with him."

"I don't know what happened." "I think he's so down at the end." "I'm sure she said." "Okay, if there's somebody there?" "I just am a friend and I just was returning a flashlight during that time."

"It's all my lunch."

"Three old daughters were doing their thing on her body."

"Okay, I'll set her way over." The police took Tim Arnold back to the station to question him that night. They spent some time with him and then they drove him home. And he walked into the house and his father was in front of the TV and I was very shocked when Tim told me that his father said to Tim, "Tim, did you do it?"

His own father asked him that. From that moment on, the whole town was asking questions like that. Did Tim do it? It's clear that Tim Arnold and Christa had a tumultuous relationship. They had an intense relationship.

He lived with her for a while. Eva started to call him Tim mom, so he wasn't just Tim, he was Tim mom. He's very sensitive, artistic, educated, well-spoken, gentle person.

“I think one reason Christa connected with Tim Arnold is that he was literary.”

He wrote a couple books, he wrote this book, "The Winter Mittens," which is a children's book. But it's a very strange little children's book. It's very dark. When she pulled on the right mitten to take it off, it would not move. She pulled frantically at them with her teeth, but the winter mittens held fast to her hands,

as if with the life of their own. Tim Arnold and Christa would fight. Tim said that she criticized everything. She would criticize him for humming, and she would say she didn't want Eva to become a hummer. So he couldn't even hum.

They had broken up, but he still seemed to have affection for Christa. Now he lived nearby with his father, only a hundred yards away. Tim told the police that he was out running one day, and he stopped by Christa's house, and knocked on the door, didn't get an answer. So he walks around and he looks in a window.

And she apparently got extremely upset with him. Christa had voicemails, left on her answering machine. They were left by Tim, and they seemed to show that he was upset with their relationship.

“Well, I think you've made it very clear where you stand on the issue of friendship.”

So at this point, does it take me to breathe around? Hi, Christa, just to clarify. If you wanted to call to try to arrange for a run, time for me to see Eva that would be fine. I'll see what I can do. But I don't really think that we should see each other even briefly.

Bye. There was a way in which she talked about Tim Arnold that maybe he snapped. And when per se, it seemed like he had a motive because she pushed him away. They kept painting Tim Arnold as the jilted lover who wanted her so badly that he would take her life

It affected him a lot. It was devastating.

“To be under suspicion is a terrible thing.”

He told me that the state police came over once and really grills him. You know, you get a jab from one side and then a right hook from the other. Well, you know, more than once he would say something like that. I had not killed Christa and he said, "They would come right back and say, "Oh, yes, you did." Tim was a logical personal look at, but there was just nothing to support that he killed her.

And so they moved on to other suspects. Trero is a small town and Christa wasn't really a small town girl. She had a very complicated love life. Tim Arnold wasn't the only person who Christa had been involved with, relatively recently, and most importantly, Tim Arnold was not the father of her child.

They have to look at the father of Christa's baby, the local shellfish constable, Tony Jacket. She knew that she was getting herself a snared in a big angry hornet snack as she didn't care. Definitely, Tony had a motive. The initial thought was, has to be that sky. He has everything to lose. Sam and his life isn't worth living.

But the examined life will make you want to die.

The first step in trying to solve a crime is to understand, get to know the victim.

“What's going on in their life? What is their personality?”

And you look at their life in New York. What went on in those relationships? When I first met Christa, she reminded me of kind of an old soul. There were some things sort of a theory about her. Maybe a little wistful and mysterious. The paradox of Christa Worlington was that she presented as somebody who was really on top of things

who was elegant and refined. There was a way in which emotionally she was disorganized, disorderly, undisciplined. She was no mild mannered, timid soul. She was an obsessive personality. She obsessed about books. She obsessed about money. She obsessed about sex. Christa's love life was a mess. There was no other way to describe it.

The people that she was with became stranger and weirder. She was involved with a guy named Thomas Churchwell, who was a magician. During the time that I was with Christa, I was known as the Amazing Target. I would go to a bar called the Barfly on 23rd Street. She would go and sit with her girlfriends and watch the perform. There was something deeply helpless and vulnerable about her.

She had both eyes that would melt you. She brought out the protective feelings in France, especially male friends. Probably had melted every man that she was with. Christa was somebody who was consumed with regret.

There was always this regret elf sitting on her shoulder whispering in her ear.

Christa began to regret that she hadn't had a child. And so she began the process of trying to get herself pregnant. I'd later found out that we were having a sexual relationship for Christa to have a child. So we just broke away from each other. Christa went public about her desire as a single woman to have a baby.

This was the 1990s at a time when women didn't really talk about these types of things.

“Through an article in Harper's Bazaar, and it was am I selfish to try to have a child in vitro at age 40?”

There is at the moment no father for a child of mine, no husband for me, and what if there never is? I have to stare the scenario in the face. And to my surprise, it hasn't killed me. It was a defiant side of her. I was very surprised that she'd gone so public with this. She went on a national TV show, the Lisa show.

Trying to figure out how to be the best parent to your child given that there is no father. And then Christa received a devastating diagnosis.

She was told that she was in early menopause and likely would never be able to have a child.

The worst has happened, the thing I dreaded and never really believed would happen, and yet always knew would. It seems she wanted to change in her life. Christa decides to leave New York City to go to Cape Carb.

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Three decades ago, a young woman named Angie Dodge is found brutally murdered in her bedroom in Idaho Falls. It was the probably worst case I've ever seen. She's the one that sticks with me. Please, zero in on a suspect and put a man behind bars. I don't know what the hell you guys want.

“Do you think we'd be wasted in our time and wasted in your time if we didn't think you're involved?”

But as the years pass, doubts emerge. About whether the real killer was ever caught. That's when Angie's own mother embarks on a decades-long mission to uncover the truth. Twenty-three years I've been trying to put this puzzle together, and this center's missing.

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Crystal grew up going to the Cape in the summer. Toro was a safe haven for her. The wording can family was true royalty. They went way back in time. This is wording to the deal.

You know, the wording to some houses all around there. As they have for two generations. In the Cape, Crystal seemed to access the Toro version of herself. Throw the Irma's and the Giovanni Sheet to the back of the closet, and just relax. She was living in a little tiny cottage right on the harbor

that had belonged to her grandmother.

That was the first time she noticed Tony Jacket.

I got the Nora a little bit.

“I think there was a time when she asked me to do something up at her house.”

And that was how when I got to be more friendly with her. His title was shellfish constable. He really was sort of the police of the fish in the area. He's a toy bag that's taken up. Twenty bags today.

He was good looking and dashing. People talk about his thick black curly hair. Tony was the kind of guy that women wanted and men wanted to be. Before we know it, he was going over to her house for tea. I remember if he could go home, go home and I would turn it right.

Go right up to drive away. And then, of course, it became a little deeper. I think I got caught up in the idea of a romance that was just exciting. The thing that makes the relationship with Tony kind of tricky is that he'd been married for 27 years and had six kids.

If there was a sweeter person on earth between the hours of eight and nine and 15, I would not believe it. Tony became tender and we were made new, spellbound. I love him. It's a small town.

You're nervous, or at least aware that you could be seen. The thrill of ordering pizza in public, that is adultery. When ordering pizza becomes a thing of beauty. This was no secret, you know, gossip, gossip, gossip. Everybody knew.

“She's tells me that I think you should sit down.”

I have something to tell you. That I'm pregnant. So I'm thinking, I'm going to be so dumb. She had been told that she couldn't have babies. She became pregnant at 42.

Now I'm at my desk looking at three sonograms of the baby. Tony's baby. Once she gets pregnant, they decide to end the relationship. And Christa initially says that she's going to have the baby but not telling anyone. It's going to be their secret.

From her diaries, it's clear that as her pregnancy progresses, she's becoming more frustrated with Tony's lack of involvement.

I wonder if it will always be like this.

The emptiness around me, miles and miles of it while my lover lies with his wife. I feel abandoned. He will do anything to tread water to stay afloat on a way that makes no waves. That is what he's doing now. What I actually most remember is receiving the birthcard of Ava.

I would babysit a Monday to Friday, 9 to 4. She was just very, very sweet to Ava.

I've never heard her raise her voice to Ava.

Very lovely mother. Christa dored being a mom. Finally, there had been something in her life that she didn't regret. When Ava is about a year and a half years old, she decides that she does want Tony to tell his wife Susan that they have a child together.

She decides I want even to know her father and telling your wife that you are a problem that you are a job. I know he is preparing his denials every which way. I feel like ruining the joyful Christmas with a little letter on my birthday. Why should he get off so lightly? Christa wrote a letter addressed to Susan.

She details the affair that she was having with her husband. The first day we slept together, we were in Ben from 11am to 7pm. This was a letter written by one woman to another meant to hurt to injure.

“The letter would definitely be important for police.”

Only her all kinds of rumours. All kinds of rumours as to who did it. Tony was it his wife. I suspected him as a suspect. The first suspect.

And then her as the second. My darling daughter, I am interested only in your welfare. Only in you. In her diary, Christa talks about her adoration and her love for her baby Ava. We took you to the ocean today.

It was the waves. They were so brave and zoomed straight for the water. Fearless and joyful. She also feels tremendous resentment towards Ava's father, Tony Jacket. She feels abandoned by him.

“I get so upset that that creep is her father.”

How he has let me down. They decided that they would tell no one about the baby. But when Ava is about a year and a half years old, Christa demands that Tony tell his wife Susan. Baby got to an age when she started the talk and was able to start asking questions.

Like where's dad? It's when she wanted me to tell my wife. I was totally devastated. I was so shocked. I never wanted to leave.

He was never unhappy. He was just a naughty boy. Susan got bless her. Welcome to Christa and Ava into their lives. Tony and Susan and Christa.

“What have Sunday dinners together and the theme of this was let's give Ava a home.”

She wanted to develop a relationship with Little Ava, knowing this is her husband's daughter. The last time Christa has seen a lie for certain is in a surveillance video from a stop in shop Friday afternoon. We see her with her daughter Ava pushing a cart.

It's always eerie to see a video of a victim in the last moments of the person's life.

Little did she know that within a day she would be dead. Christa Worthington found stabbed to death in her troll home. Her then two and a half year old daughter clinging to her lifeless mother. George Maloy was one of the first medical personnel EMT to arrive at the scene. Most importantly, he's the one who has to comfort Ava.

I just sat down and tried to communicate with this little girl. I didn't know whether she had witnessed her mother's death or what had gone on. I was asking her when was the last time you had changed. When was the last time you had anything to eat? There was no response really.

Different people started to show up. Tony's wife and Tony showed up. And Jackets' wife said to me, "Don't listen to anything this little girl has to say. She's a s**t liar. And I'm thinking of myself, "What s**t?"

Susan says she never called Ava a life.

That she was just making a light-hearted comment about her thibbing and that that's been taken completely out of context. At this point, you've got a dead woman who he's had an affair with. He got his wife in front of me telling her that the two-year-old is a liar. I suspected him as a suspect, the first suspect.

And then her as the second. Then the investigators find a letter that Christopher wrote to Susan about the affair.

"When you thought Tony was taking your son to the bus station, he was s**t me."

This was a letter written by one woman to another meant to hurt to injure. From September to the day your mother-in-law died. I was sleeping with your husband. I just thought you should know.

“The letter would definitely be important for police.”

Because they're going to be wondering if Christopher was so angry at Susan, but Susan was so angry at Kristen. They asked Susan to take a polygraph test. And she agreed, and she passed. As the investigation turns towards Tony Jacket,

the investigators realize that there may have been a lot of pressure on Tony Jacket.

She wanted him to help her bring up this child,

putting her on his health insurance and providing financial support. She got herself a lawyer, and said, "You're going to support this kid, or I'm going to sue you." Maybe, you know, Tony wanted to get Kristen out of the picture, so he could just take Ava and raise her himself. Why would I want to kill her?

But they're getting information that says otherwise. That Christopher wanted money that Christopher was going to go to court.

“At the same time, the murder investigation begins.”

Tony has a custody battle. A myra chase was Christopher, with a very good friend.

Kristen had a will, and in it, she named a myra guardian of Little Ava.

She's like a lightning. Our family. She's a beautiful little girl. And we love her. The DA was saying he had gotten up to speak and still looking up.

We can't rule Mr. Jacket in her out, as far as being someone that could have committed this crime. He didn't want to put his family through even more pressure, so he stepped back and a myra stepped forward. The decision was, is that myra was going to get custody.

The investigation seemed stalled.

“So what you do is you make the circle bigger.”

The state police drove down the New York TC Church 12, the magician. They said, "Well, we feel that you did this." And I'm like, "Why?" And he said, "Well, because it's something that a magician could do, he could create this mystery."

And I said, "Just because you can't figure it out, it's not me and that it was a magician, that did it." There were so many different possible suspects. This case almost becomes like a game of clue. Even Christopher's father and his girlfriend were potential suspects in this case.

Christopher's copy-worthington 72-year-old, Harvard-educated lawyer turns out had a 29-year-old girlfriend who was a former prostitute and paranoid. Toppy was taking money and supporting Elizabeth Porter. The names on apartment number four are Worthington as in Christopher

and Porter as in Elizabeth. On top of the sort of social embarrassment having her dignified, elderly dad, converting around, was the fact that she was watching her future share of the steak away. She wanted this stopped.

The Elizabeth Porter kept her hood up and her head down today. State police questioned her in the investigation into the stabbing death of fashion writer Christopher Worthington this month. Perhaps the girlfriend walked Christa as a way of continuing the gravy train. Interestingly enough, Toppy and Elizabeth did not pass their polygraph tests.

Unfortunately for the police, they had no evidence to link either one of them to Chris's murder. So now they keep looking. The police and the district attorney were desperate. They found no evidence that any of the people they had been investigating were involved in Christa's murder.

Every one of the initial set of possible suspects denied having any role in Christa's death. The pressure was mounting to bring someone in. No one elects prosecutors to have crimes remain unsolved. They turned to what many people call a forensic hail Mary. Investigators took the controversial step of launching what's called a DNA drag net.

It's like, are you kidding me? 2002. Worthington homicides in Tural Massachusetts. Crime scenes are extremely important and figuring out,

Where did it start?

“Where did it end and what occurred in between?”

Christa's house is just a mess.

There's things stacked. It's an disorganized things that are put away. If you don't know her and know how she lived, you would think that the bad guy has rifled through her stop. She lived in a disorder that is almost impossible for you to understand.

Her emotional life mimicked the way the house looked. I mean, it was topsy-turvy. There's nothing about this case that looks like this was a breaking into her house to steal things. This was all about her death. So here's this murder scene and Cheerios and a sippy cup

and little footprints that they've as through the blood on the floor. Christa's vehicle is in the driveway. Her keys are outside and some other personal items. There appears to be some sort of tussle or drag marks up to the door. The door was damaged, like potentially somebody kicked it.

It tells you that there was a fight outside and that she ended up on the ground. So there's a disagreement. It's very difficult without any eyewitnesses.

“So what you have to turn to in a case like this is the body itself.”

You're looking for some sort of evidence from beyond the grave. She's got some defensive wounds on her hands and other places suggestion she did put up a fight. She was stabbed through the chest, through the trapezius muscle, to where the blade nicked the floor.

The murder weapon has never been found,

but there is a strong suggestion that the murder weapon was from her butcher block in her kitchen. What you try to do is sort of follow what you think the bad guy did. Where did he go, what did he do, what did he touch? They have problems here because this crime scene was managed very poorly. People made all sorts of accusations about the crime scene.

Police interviews, forensic tests, crime scene analysis, all that stuff. Peter Manzo wrote about the investigation in his book "Reasonable Down." The police here have not had to deal with a murder.

“And maybe a generation, two gen, three gen, who knows?”

These people are not trained to handle a murder scene. The blanket was thrown over the victim that contaminated the body. I could tell you that one of the rules of protocol is not to take a piece of evidence from a crime scene and cut to the body with it even for decency's purposes. People were moving things around and touching things.

The floor wasn't taped off for safe ways to walk on the crime scene. There are so many fingerprints from everybody touching everything. There's just a huge difference between, between CSI and Cape God CSI. District Attorney Michael O'Keeve told us first responders have to "assess the threat" and treat the injured. No crime scene is pristine. This one was better than many.

While the crime scene was not pristine, they found critical evidence.

DNA, sperm and saliva. We believe that Christa Worthington was involved in an intimate relationship with a person prior to or relatively contemporaneous with her down. Investigators and Worthington's families say they hope the $25,000 reward they are now offering will help establish the identity of that person. Presumably the last to see her about that mystery man that District Attorney will only say he is not necessarily Worthington's killer. We would like his resolution and some closure for Christa and for her daughter Eva.

The police and the District Attorney were desperate. They had not solved this case. So they decided to do a very unusual thing. Investigators took the controversial step of launching what's called a DNA Dragnet. They asked all of Churro's roughly 800 male residents to voluntarily give DNA samples. Who did the police question everybody?

And they did so indiscriminately for literally hundreds of people, myself included. The post office, the filling station coffee shop and the Highland Grill are all locations in Churro where police asked men this morning to use this kit and voluntarily give saliva samples containing their DNA.

Men only.

Almost everyone in town was a suspect.

“I mean have you ever heard anything so ridiculous in all of your life?”

I mean it's like are you kidding me? The reaction was swift. This DNA sweep is what catapulted the case to a national profile. A national debate invigorated. Police tried to find the killer by asking every man in a small town to submit DNA.

Civil libertarians were outraged. And it wasn't so much to get the DNA. It was to find out who's reluctant to give it. The District Attorney says investigators will look more closely at those who do not co-operate. I would just say to any member of the public that they should have no trepidation about cooperating with the police.

This is big brother. This is 1984 type stuff.

After three years of investigation, the police finally get this DNA break and they make an arrest.

But they arrest someone that no one would have expected. We were stunned. Especially since the person who was arrested was not anybody we had ever heard of. It's like he came out of nowhere. You know when you locked in, focus and fearless. Welcome to the WNBA.

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“How does a glamorous fashion writer end up in some small town in Cape Cod dead in a bungalow?”

It was everyone's worst nightmare. A woman alone in her home or two-year-old child. She had been with her mother's body for more than 24 hours. Secret sex and money that was all in the story. There were so many different possible suspects.

This case almost becomes like a game of clue. Who did the police question everybody? They arrest someone that no one would have expected. It was like he came out of nowhere. I think there is so much mystery that still is surround this case.

(music) Last night at approximately 7-15 p.m. detectors from the Massachusetts State Police arrested Christopher A. McAllen, aged 33, for the murder of Christopher A. Worthington. Christopher McAllen was Christ's trash collector. I remember seeing the film of him being brought out of his house.

And he was just completely lost. He's been arrested for murder of the most high profile case in Cape Cod in half a century. We have imagined the DNA from the crime scene to this person. So it turns out that the DNA dragged that did not find them in killer. DNA got a hit on.

They had had for maybe over a year.

It had been sent to the DNA lab and it has taken that long to finally get it processed.

“I think some of the town wondered why didn't it take so long for the police to look at this person”

who picked up Christ's trash every week? They did talk to him. They talked. He'll have not that long after the murder. It would be standard that you're going to look at people who logically hit an interaction with her.

One time, three months after Christ has killed another time two years. In both cases, he basically says he hardly knew her. He was cooperating with them. He wasn't fleeing. He wasn't hiding. He's volunteering his DNA. You didn't act like somebody who was guilty of this.

When the trash collector of her home has twice denied, even knowing, really, Christ awarding to them.

Prosecutors police are going to be thinking, "We've got our guy."

Who was Christopher McAllen? My wife knew him. It wouldn't be just quite sometimes after the arrest that we really learned who Christopher McAllen was. He was just seemed like a quiet, low-key kind guy, little-known person.

He had previously worked for a moving company on the cave. Christopher McAllen was 33, had three kids with three mothers, and had moved to the cave from Florida. The family wasn't on the cave, but that's the first place you go to the family.

“For a reaction, what do you think about your son being arrested for murder?”

As Chris, see him? He's seven years over. He's one of the friends with everybody. I'm Roy McAllen, I'm the father of Chris McAllen. I'm saying to myself, Christopher McAllen is a player. He's not a murderer. And then when I read about the night, and the woman's chest stuck at the hallway where it was stuck to the floor,

I said, "No, in the world, that Chris."

Christopher loves his job. He always wanted to move up when he got his own truck,

and he wanted to like partner with his balls. So I thought that was great. I met with Chris McAllen. In my mind, he was not a person capable of this type of crime. There was no motive. It's a guy who was a father who loved children.

Chris's daughter was the same age as the Ava. The same age as the Ava. This is not a cold deliberate calculating person. This is not a person who had a reason to do harm to another. There are a number of people who don't believe the Christopher McAllen could ever would have done this,

and that includes his boss. They've got the wrong person. This person just would not do that when he would get in an argument with another driver over some silly thing. And Chris would just walk away from it. He would not fight. His appearance was outside the norm for our key presidents.

Over six feet, dark skinned, muscular, automatic thought I think was that Chris would be a scary, intimidating man.

“But when you have to know him, he was so much the opposite.”

As far as I'm concerned, Chris has no violence in him. Do you feel Christopher? Do you have any comments? 33-year-old Christopher McAllen had no comment. As he arrived at Orlene's district court this morning for his arrangement on charges of raping and murdering 46-year-old Christopher.

Christopher McAllen is charged with murder, but he's also charged with rape. And that turns out to be a very controversial, charging decision. Between the time of the murder and the arrest of Chris McAllen, three years later, there was not a word about rape, not one word about rape.

They were never looking for a rapist here.

They wanted to know who her boyfriends were because they knew there was a seaman in her. The sperm sample that they found, it was degraded that the sperm had no tails, so it might have been a couple days old.

“It might have been from not on the night of the murder, but from prior to the murder.”

It was a rush to judgment. You had a black garbage man. The cape is not very heterogeneous. Naturally, black people make up 13 and a half percent of the population. Cape College, you're the home of Jack Kennedy.

The figure is 1.2%. There was no question that there was a DNA match, but there was, in a lot of people's minds, a question of whether there could have been a consensual relationship. McAllen says that he had a number of consensual relationships with women who were on his route when he was collecting garbage.

Chris was quite the ladies man. He was very charismatic. He had many many girlfriends. He was pretty much of a stud. The question is, would Chris the Worthington have a consensual sexual relationship with the African American trash collector?

Some say, well, why not? Chris does need for love and affirmation was so great that it wouldn't surprise me, and at least if she had slept with him. Despite McAllen being well-white, when police did a background check, they found some information that was disturbing.

McAllen had a criminal history for grand theft and burglary, and had served time. Most importantly, for this case, he had five restraining orders out against him, from women who he knew. The allegations ranging from grabbing someone's neck,

restraining orders, I think, when the general public looked at him, he did want. They have to look at the nature of this homicide. I mean, stabbing somebody, you got a little bit of being right on top of them. Does he have the capacity to do that?

There's nothing in his history that would suggest that. I mean, typically people who commit these types of homicides, they've used knives before. He doesn't really sort of fit a person that would commit this type of homicide. 33-year-old Christopher McAllen was a reign this morning in Barnstable Superior course.

We in the record show that the defendant's Christian McAllen is in the courtroom,

and the tribe is in the defendant's murder, first degree.

How do you feel for your night guilty? Not guilty. Not only did Christopher McAllen say he did not murder Christopher Worthington, but he points the finger directly at someone else. But after the incident, a nice loud voice can tell us your name for the record.

“Jeremy Frager, can you kill Christopher Worthington?”

Detectives unit arrested Christopher Hay. Cowen, a 33-year-old garbage man. Cowen's arrest brings much-needed relief for tomorrow's resident. For Cape Cod, this was the trial of the century. This is a small town in Massachusetts that hadn't had a first-degree murder case.

In 30 years. The parking lot is chocolate block full, satellite TV trucks. Report is all over the place with cell phones, computers. The courtroom and the barnstable courthouse, it's this sort of antique space. And hanging from the ceiling is this beautiful, silver codfish.

As if everything that goes on here has this cod God above it. 33-year-old Christopher Macauan was a reign this morning in Barnstable Superior Court. A prosecution claiming Macauan's DNA links him to the violent stabbing of fashion writer Christopher Worthington. Robert Wolves is the lead prosecutor and he's going to make an argument that they can prove beyond a reasonable doubt. That Chris Macauan raped and murdered Christopher Worthington.

The first witness is Tim Arnold.

He was the ex-boyfriend. He's the one who found her body. There was blood around her head. Her knee was up in the air. He was the legs together with his brother.

Someone's front-up arm. It's not just that she was stabbed to death. She was also horribly beaten. And their bruises all over her body. The photos were very graphic.

“I think those photos helped us to get the reality of the crime scene,”

to get the reality of a murder was committed. The defendant was completely indifferent to her suffer. And that's based on the statement that you'll hear that he made. A major component of this case was Christopher Macauan's statement given to the police during a very long interrogation. The prosecution relied upon it.

Christopher Mason, the lead detective from the Massachusetts State Police, was a professional police officer who presented very well and he was credible. And did you have a patient to interview a Christopher Macauan? Yes, I did. The first two times that me gowns questioned by the authorities.

Basically denied knowing. But then they hand them the DNA report. And everything changes. And I informed them that the report from the State Police Crime Lab concluded that it was his DNA on the body of Christopher. And after you showed them that report,

“I was let it across the table for what did he do that.”

This is Macauan then stated. It could have been me. It could have been me. So Macauan is saying it could have been me who had sex with Christopher because it was his DNA. Some of the strongest evidence against Christopher Macauan is his statement.

I mean, he denies knowing her. And then his statement is inside her. I mean, hello. And then his statement gets more and more incriminating. In his statement to police,

Chris Macauan first says that Christopher asked him to help dispose of a Christmas tree. Mr. Macauan explained to me that he had a discussion with Christopher. That even in that house about getting rid of the Christmas tree. That a Friday night is a correct, that's correct. Macauan's statement to the police progressed to the point where he had admitted that he had sex

with Chris de Worthington on the living room floor. His response was, "I don't know." Is that a direct quote, sir? Yes, it is. He changes the story and introduces another person, a friend of his, that he would socialize with.

He always goes down to say, "I wasn't the only one there.

Jeremy Frazier becomes a player in this case.

He's young.

“Under 21, nose, Chris Macauan, because they apparently hang out and run in the same circles.”

"I've got to give it up to my name, Frazier." Jeremy Frazier admits that he was with Chris Macauan earlier in the night. The night that Chris de Worthington was killed. "I'm going to kick you, yeah." And there's video in this bar where you can see them.

"For all of you, for all of you, for all of you, for all of you." In his statement to police, Macauan says that he and Frazier leave the juice bar and go to Chris's house. Mr. Macauan stated that he gave Jeremy Frazier directions and that Jeremy Frazier drove him a drop down to Chris de Worthington's residence. Macauan claims that he asked Jeremy to drive him to Chris's so he can have sex.

He didn't want to drive himself who's afraid of getting busted for drunk driving.

He was wasted. He then indicated to me that that Chris de Worthington was, quote, "starled to see us." He stated that he probably said something like "I tipsy, I just wanted to get some work work."

“Mr. Macauan informed me, quote, "She was cool in it."”

Macauan's account was that he went up there and he and Chris de got it on. Jeremy, meanwhile, was taking her possessions. He indicated that following the sex, Chris de Worthington confronted Jeremy Frazier about about what he was saying. He and Jeremy Frazier then left the residence and that Chris de Worthington followed him out. At which point, again, this is the Macauan account.

Chris de comes barreling out of the house and starts screaming at Frazier. "You f***ing with you thief, I want my stuff back." What did he say, sir? He stated that Jeremy lost it and I just followed suit. It was pandemonium.

They get into a fight in the driveway. He stated that Jeremy Deeter would keep either. He said we put the boots to her.

“He said I still can hear her hit the ground.”

She hit the ground hard. He stated that Jeremy dragged her under the arms and brought her into the house. Macauan says that Frazier was beating on her and he punched her in the face and in the chest. And he said that it was Frazier who took a knife and stabbed Chris de through the chest. It asked Macauan what would he say, the troopers intro and I determined that Jeremy Frazier was somewhere other than intro on that evening.

And what was his response to that, please, sir? His response was then it's all on me if Jeremy can account for his time. That was the final version that emerged from the six hour interview. You have all of those versions which was from, it did have sex with her to be in a round but wasn't involved in the homicide. The homicide to literally sounds like being in the same room when the homicide occurred.

He changes the version but he never puts a knife in his hand.

He never vacilated from the fact that he never killed Chris de Worth a time. The defense and that Christopher Macauan's statement to the police cannot be trusted. The statement is not worth the paper it's written on. Macauan's mental and emotional condition elected self to false confession. He was putty in their hand.

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The final season of FX is the bear. The restaurant is flooded. Everything's either going to be okay. No, no, no. Or not.

We are outgunned and we are outmans, but we have each other. FX is the bear. The final season. All episodes now streaming on Who? At the courthouse is actually a sculpture of Lamule Shaw. It was Lemule Shaw who formulated more than anyone else, the doctor and the reasonable doubt.

If these jurors think it is reasonable to believe that someone else killed Christopher Washington, that's reasonable doubt. And that's an acquittal for Chris McGowan. The defense and that Christopher McAllen's statement to the police could not be trusted.

McConnell was spoken to for about six and a half hours. That interrogation was reduced to a 27-page report by State Schuper, Chris Mason. The interview was about six hours, is that right? That's correct. I took notes.

Now, six hours of talk translates more to three to four hundred pages. They should have recorded him at a minimum audio recorded him,

preferably video recorded him, because it was too crucial a statement.

“Mr. McCowan indicated I'd claim to have my interview, which honestly recorded.”

Apparently under Massachusetts law, someone being interrogated can refuse to have it recorded. And indicated to Mr. McCowan that the courts prefer that the interview be recorded to ensure accuracy that it was his decision to make. Chris of McGowan says that he did not say the things, that the investigators say he said, and he says that he was under the influence of percussive cocaine and marijuana.

He doesn't even really remember giving the statement. He was completely wasted when he was taken into that police station. I know he wasn't comprehended what was going on. There was testimony about his IQ being in '76, '78, '80 just above mental retardation. Having an IQ of '78 and being subjected to that kind of stressful prolonged interview

makes it also very susceptible to manipulation.

He has a personality as a lot of children do, where they want to please their interviewer.

They want to please the adult in the room. Bob George wasn't just saying he didn't do it, and they can't prove their case. He was saying that there are a lot of other, much more credible suspects out there. And McAllen's attorney is raising other issues about the evidence in the case. There is no forensic evidence.

Time, Christopher McAllen, to the scene, except the degraded semen in Crystal Worthington's body. And skin cells on her breast. The summonal flu could have been on her body for three to five days. The physical evidence does not match up to their version of events. There were no fingerprints, there were no footprints.

They had conference that were unidentified, and they had unknown male DNA from three individuals under her fingernails. From the prosecution perspective, the key is not what other evidence they could have found or might have found. It's the evidence that they did find. It's his DNA.

At a scene, he had initially said he'd never been at.

The most important evidence in the case that was ignored was there were blue and white fibers. He found in her vaginal area, which came from clothing.

“Did you conduct any testing whatsoever trace material coming from Crystal Worthington's pubic areas?”

Yes. From the pubic area, they were various colored fibers, most of the blue and white. Chris McAllen was not alleged to have been wearing anything that was blue and white on the evening of the homicide. But he was with somebody who was wearing a blue and white sweater. And that was Jeremy Craig.

Jeremy Fraser took the stand as a witness for the prosecution. Are you the member of any gang of women? No. The defense is trying to portray Jeremy Fraser as this dark, shady gang affiliated young man who would be the type of person to come. To commit a horrific crime.

His demeanor, his presence, he was arrogant. Did you kill Crystal Worthington? Oh, I did. Jeremy Fraser is getting on the stand and saying, I wasn't. Crystal Worthington's house.

And did the police ask you where he would be in that day? Yes. Did you remember? No. It was very clear that he claimed that he would remember anything.

He couldn't recall anything. In fact, you didn't even remember where he would be in that case.

“I think it's just part of the first time he got here, right?”

Yeah. Until they fed me pieces of information where I was that night. And we see feeding you pieces of information. What's feeding you pieces of information? Just take place.

Jeremy Fraser is a prosecution witness who is now saying that the state police were feeding him information. Jeremy Fraser's testimony was like an early Christmas present for the defense. In all of the trials that I have covered, I don't remember a prosecution witness ever sending up red flags like Jeremy Fraser did. Jeremy Fraser admits that he was with Chris McCown earlier in the night. But he says that everybody split up.

Chris won one way. He won another. And he stayed at Sean Mulvie's house. A friend of theirs. You can see Jeremy Fraser, Sean Mulvie, Chris McCown, together at that juice bar on the video.

Jeremy was probably the most intoxicated out everybody. So I told him to come with me. And Jeremy remained in your house. The whole night, yes, he did. It was an initial meeting with the police.

“We told him he basically didn't remember anything exactly.”

Yeah, that was the first time the advisor from my father.

So was there a lot? In the first statement, yes. And then he changed his story. He then suddenly provided an alibi for Jeremy Fraser on the night off. That doesn't take sure a lot of poems to figure out that there's something shaky about that alibi.

But the police and prosecution were satisfied with Jeremy Fraser's alibi. The DNA at the crime scene does not match Jeremy Fraser. They believe that the only person at the crime scene, at Chris does hold that night. He's Chris McCown.

Adding to the mystery was an incident that occurred the day before Chris's body was found. The car was coming down here, didn't even put on brakes.

Chris's neighbor, the guy named George Smith, says he saw a black vehicle,

speeding out of Chris's driveway.

“Going right out through here and kept on going.”

It was clearly somebody that was trying to desperately get away from Chris's house. But why? Gerard Smith was a very well-respected member of the community in Toronto. He was taking his morning constitution on Deepo Road. It was Saturday the day before Chris's body was found.

And Smith saw a car tearing out of her driveway. The car was coming down here, didn't even put on brakes. It went right out through here and kept on going. This went like that.

That was why through my attention, I turned around to see who was driving the car. According to Gerard Smith, the driver of that car was a white man, not a black man. And Gerard Smith was a compelling witness.

Could I describe the person? He was a Caucasian. He was a little dark, but he was not black there. It wasn't really given great weight by the commonwealth, because it didn't fit the scenario that they went to trial on.

It's like, "Well, then who could that have been?" One thing is clear. That person, who killed Chris to orbit him, had something to do with killing Chris to orbit him, was white. And he wasn't Chris McCown.

At trial, Bob George presented a different scenario for what happened the night, Chris to Warthington, was murdered.

He says Chris McCown never went to Warthington's house

after the juice farm, that Friday night. But he was there in the day before, on Thursday, that was garbage pick-up day. He says he was on his route on a Thursday, Chris the call to him into her home

because she wanted him to remove her Christmas tree. He says that one thing leads to another and they do have this encounter, but that it's consensual. He did it, Rapeer, because there's no evidence of Rapeer.

Chris says he didn't tell the police because she wanted it to be kept private. He says she wanted it to be a secret. It's absolutely possible that he had sex with her on Thursday was not there on Friday,

somebody else killed her, and then that's your bad guy, not him. There's nothing to suggest on her body that she was violently sexually assaulted. The autopsy did not use the word rape.

There is no bruising, there is no caring. There's no evidence of any viral sexual contact

“with the victim in this case in the form of injury, is there?”

There's no report of injury, right? Let's go. He says she came on to him, and that was just too much for some people to believe that Chris the Worthington, this vassar, educated woman, would have sex with a garbage collector.

So as soon as they see the black garbage, man, it's rape. Truth is, he went up there looking for sex. Chris the Worthington confronted him and it got very ugly. I went into closing argument believing I had to at the very least a case reasonable doubt.

The 12 members of the jury sat in this box. There was only one African-American woman on the jury. So it wasn't really considered to be much of a jury of his peers. The government's case is based on assumptions that are true,

Mr. George has tried to play the racecard during this trial

“and said that the police couldn't accept”

the idea of consensual sex between the black garbage man and Chris the Worthington. It's just he, it's defendant will be facing the same evidence in the same trial with the same jury, if he will wait. The jury in this case reported themselves deadlocked

they deliberated for eight days before coming to a verdict. After many days the verdict comes in. It's a stampede up here to the courtroom. We had the jury announced to return the following verdict. The guilty of first degree guilty of murder in the first degree

in the extreme atrocity of cruelty and also felony murder. McCown of course was devastated and he started to cry. I watched the verdict come in and having been a prosecutor.

I always look at the defendant for a reaction.

This reaction was completely unusual. He shook his head vehemently and cried.

“I feel it's hard for him to be his family,”

our daughter, and her. And they're a witness. You know, all this time I'm going to do this. The court came by essentially being prisoned for the judge and the term of your natural life without the possibility of parole.

Three life terms. Holy moly, you know. Three jurors submitted affidavits, charging they were coerced into their guilty verdicts by other racist jurors. Soon after the trial Bob George heard from a few jurors who had

information that was potentially a game changer.

I immediately filed a motion to set aside a verdict as a result of a racial bias in the jury room. It is incredibly unusual to have a hearing, to look back at how a jury reached the verdict that it did. It almost never happens. According to these jurors to other jurors repeatedly describe McCown as big and black.

The black man this and the black man that and he's so big and he scares me when he looks at me. Peter Manza attended the entire trial. But he really aligned himself with the defense. This is part of the files for my book.

In researching his book, reasonable doubt, he recorded an interview with the sole black juror who, in her affidavit, claimed racism was it played during deliberations for some of the jurors. They all are attacking me every day anyway. All of it.

Like, I'm the only one in that room who gave this man a benefit of the doubt that, you know, suggested maybe he's innocent. I don't know if he did it. But I know I had many problems with me. That's all I know.

You show me the evidence. Race did not play a part at all in deciding Christopher McAllen's guilt or innocence. It had no effect on the verdict. There's just no way around the DNA.

The judge found that the words "big and black" were just descriptors. The judge concluded that the verdict would stand.

Chris has never spoken before, but at this point, Chris wants to get his story out

there. Listen down. Global talent could be called from Chris McAllen. And in May then, I managed to choose its correctional institution. Hi Chris.

So, great. So, you had sex with her on the Thursday. And then she ends up dead on a Friday.

“Can you understand why people think that that's odd?”

Christopher McAllen has been in prison for 11 years now. He's maintained his innocence the entire time. Chris didn't testify. So, you've never really heard from Chris as to what he said actually happened. At this point, Chris wants to get his story out there.

Chris wants to explain, Chris regrets not testifying. We're sitting in a hot room instead of in a prison interviewing your client. In person, why is that? The Department of Corrections wouldn't allow an interview on camera with Chris. Listen down.

Global talent could be called from Chris McAllen. Hi Chris. Let's go back to how this all started, okay? Ben, the garbage man, you know. I get to go right here by thousands.

You know, get to talk to them briefly. Yes, me to come in the house. And I'll take a look at a Christmas tree. Were you attracted to her? Yes, something will happen.

And in that close enough, consenting were heard.

What do you mean one thing led to another?

It was just right. It was just a usual thing between two people. We started kissing and we wanted up and up and up and up. So how many times were you intimate with Chris? That's one time.

You had sex with her on a Thursday. And then she ends up dead on a Friday.

“Can you understand why people think that that's odd that you must have killed her?”

It's a lot of speculation on this timeline. It was she was killed. But I did not have that to do with this. You've told your defense that the police manipulated you. What do you mean by that?

Because they kept on switching everything up. I was so intoxicated.

I was all done with drugs.

That I really did. Oh, what the hell is going on? Were you at Chris's house on the night of Friday, January 4, 2002? No. No.

After the juice bar, where did you go? We went on out there. Where did you do after that? That was very helpful. Do you remember going to Chris's house with Jeremy?

No. But you also named Jeremy as Chris's killer.

“That's what they said that I did do that.”

So you don't remember telling the police that Jeremy stabbed Chris to? The district attorney Michael O'Keefe made a statement to ABC News, which said, "The evidence against Christopher McAllen and only Christopher McAllen for the rape and murder of Chris to Worthington was overwhelming. The jury unanimously convicted the defendant, the Supreme Judicial Court

that exhaustively reviewed the case and upheld the conviction."

The defense has always believed there's more evidence, which could lead to a new trial

for Chris McAllen. This is the state police phone record exhibit number 7. You see that, right? Yes. A trial that defense tried to suggest that Jeremy Fraser was very close, cozy almost,

with the state police. The defense believed that Jeremy Fraser got some special treatment from the police and that they bought into his alibi a little too easily. You see all of the phone numbers at the police one over with you on that day? On the night of the murder, Jeremy Fraser got a call from the state police barracks.

Now it's said that you received a phone call from someone to state police barracks here at South Yonareth at 1203. You see that, don't you? Yes. Why would somebody from the Massachusetts state police be calling Jeremy Fraser on a Friday night

when he's out partying?

“And if you believe the defense probably on his way to TURRO at that moment?”

Yes. Any memory whatsoever of talking to a state police driver? I don't know. You think that you're supposed to be calling Chris to work? No, I did not talk to state police officers.

He said, I don't talk to the police, but the phone records don't lie. Much was made about this mysterious phone call to Jeremy. The defense wants you to believe that Jeremy Fraser was some informant, and that he somehow getting a pass on a murder charge because he gives information on marijuana or drug cases.

That's just to reject that. What's interesting, in looking at the telephone records of Jeremy Fraser, he keeps calling a 9/7/8 exchange repeatedly on January 4th, including around the time of the murder. He's highlighting phone calls to repeat a page.

Yes. Jeremy Fraser says it was actually him calling his own pageure because he'd lost it and he was trying to find it. You see the pageure there that says 9/7/8, can you pause the picture?

Can you talk to the police staff when he talked to you? That's my picture. We suspect that that is not the case. And if that's not his pageure number, there certainly raises a lot of questions.

In jeopardizing these numbers, I find out who was carrying that pageure. I don't believe that his opinion was done for that pageure number. They didn't consider him a possible suspect, and so his phone records to them weren't that relevant. I've asked for subpoenas to show a couple of things to show

a cell phone tower to see where he was that particular evening, but also to see the identity of the person who's number that traces back to. This is really a last ditch and long shot effort by McCowen's attorney to try to find some sort of new evidence that might get him a new trial.

Are you optimistic about your attorney's new motion for a new trial? I don't deserve to be here so I guess. Now, when you were questioned by the police, you told them you didn't know her. Why did you lie to the police? And I don't believe I didn't tell them about us.

We had this on the day because he asked me not to say anything because he don't want people to know about her personal business.

that you had had sex with her?

“I didn't have nothing to hide. If they were to ask me if I had any kind of end,”

of course with her, I would have told them, yeah.

But they never asked me that question.

What do you think happened to Christa? Christa, good question. I'm always done to him. Whether or not you believe that Christa from McGowan is an innocent man or a convicted killer. The tragedy here is that Eva Worthington

was deprived of a relationship with a mother and clearly adored her. One of the images about this trial that sticks with people

is a little torn half-year-old Eva by her mother's body.

What happened to Little Eva? Where is she? How is she today?

“I think there is so much mystery that still is surround this case.”

This case still has fog around it that needs to be cleared. We often say cases as they get older did not get better. Memories fade and more importantly, evidence disappears. McCowan's attorney has been told that now, this many years after the fact, Jeremy Frazier's phone records have been destroyed. They don't exist anymore.

That is a significant blow to this defense and this motion for a new trial. Since the trial, Jeremy Frazier's got himself in a lot of trouble. Jeremy Frazier's been charged with rape of a child with force. Of course, that's going to be of interest to McCowan's defense team. This tells us that Jeremy Frazier may be a horrible person.

But it doesn't tell us that he killed Kristen Warden.

“In the 15 years since her death, I think about her regularly.”

If I were to tell Kristen's daughter who Kristen was, I would say that she was a person of great loyalty and intelligence. And generosity and humor. Ava's little was a bunch of girls here. Kristen was still alive when that picture was taken.

That little girl who was two and a half at the time is now 18. She's a college freshman. She was raised by one of Kristen's friends. She did get to see Tony Jacket and Susan and her brothers and sisters growing up. She's very popular and she seems to be well adjusted. We're very happy for that.

She's fun. She's very affectionate, very smart. And she's just very well rounded, wonderful girl. A mirror did a wonderful job raising her. It's unfortunate that Kristen didn't have the opportunity to watch her grow until young, lovely woman.

True, unfortunate will forever be marked by the fact of her death.

Ultimately, I don't know that we will ever really know what really happened

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