Murder On The Cape

The people that live here year round is everyone pretty much knows one and other. I know one and live anywhere else.

“It's just a beautiful place to hang out at unless something really awful happens.”

Police are trying to solve the first murder in a small Cape Cod town in more than 30 years.

The victim, a local writer named Crystal Worthington, was found inside this house in Toronto on Sunday. Crystal Worthington was found stabbed once through the left chest, missing the heart, piercing the lung, and the knife made an exit wound in her back and went into the kitchen floor below her. Worthington's two-year-old daughter was also at the house on Sunday and witnessed the attack, but she was not hurt. The details that we heard about apparently Abe attempting to clean her mother's body and finding a child's broom with blood on it,

and things like that, that was really, really hard to take. The horror that came into this quiet house in the wintertime at the end of the world and just blew up these little wonderful lives. My name is Eric Williams, I'm a reporter with the Cape Cod Times, and I've covered this case from the beginning.

I'd say she had a very easy smile.

She had a wide-eyed wonderments about the world. She was a mom, she was a great mom, her whole being lit up just by being with her daughter, Ava. She was a flirt, and I could tell that there was a attraction. I'm Tony Jacket, I had an affair with Crystal Worthington, and we had a child together, Ava Worthington. It wasn't solved right away.

It is a murder mystery that continues to haunt Cape Cod. I think people were spooked.

“Who is this person that did it? Where are they? I mean, are they local?”

People around here are getting very anxious. And time went on and sort of rotating cast of potential suspects were tried it out. We got Tony Jacket, the father of Ava. It's disturbing to be a murder suspect. Tony's son-in-law, Keith Amado, was a person whose name came up.

The guy who found the body, Tim Arnold. Crystal was an easy person to love, and sometimes a difficult person to be around.

I think there was the feeling like we're never going to know.

Whether this was your next door neighbor. That arrest and the murder of Crystal Worthington. I mean, that was a shock. I was out of the blue. They arrested a guy. I mean, could you believe it? [ Music ]

This was a great mystery. [ Music ]

“How could a single mom be executed in her kitchen in January in Cape Cod?”

[ Music ] Yeah, I love it, no one in a time because it is quiet. And I like the coal weather. In the wintertime Cape Cod can feel like the end of the world. It's a real challenge being out of the water, you know.

Mentally, it physically, really, a really independent way of life. It's the only world fishing warden, Tony Jacket ever really has known. I feel fortunate and blessed that I was born to race here. Tony is like, he's like a nature boy. And that, according to reporter Eric Williams, is pretty much how everybody in the town of Toronto saw him.

I need to see, he's a great guy, a gregarious smart, you know. Really a pleasant fellow, you know, who likes the ladies, you see, though. In 1997, a new lady came to town. A glamorous, former fashion writer from New York. She had a bungalow right next to the upper mess of shit.

And this is the upper mess of shit. This pink one, that was hers. She's sitting on the porch and I'm right there. [ Music ] And Jacket married with six kids, and on the last went for her hook line and sinker.

She was someone very different from the people that I know.

Her name was Christa Worthington. A 40-year-old Vassar grad, she lived what seemed a life in the fast lane. Covering the runways of New York, London and Paris, for top fashion magazines. Scoring an interview with Vassian superstar Eve Saloron when she was just 26. [ Music ]

That was her building when she moved back from Europe. But Steve Radlauer, who dated Christa for two years in New York,

says she never felt part of the glamorous world she covered.

“I think she was feeling a little burned out after her European women's wear.”

Women's wear years. Her prominent New England family owned a slew of properties in Toronto. Owned by John Worthington Senior, including this one, where she moved a few months later. It seemed like the perfect retreat and the perfect place to have a child. She had this having a baby thing in mind, and I think she felt that this would be a good place to do that.

The complication was that she was not married, didn't have a boyfriend. She was, I think, intrigued with the local color. Local color, including you. Yeah. I could tell that there was, there was an attraction.

You know, ultimately, I ended up over a house.

“I had a cup of tea, and one thing needs to do another.”

For about a year, often on, they had an affair. I had become a slave to my ego. And for the beautiful writer who desperately wanted a child, and the local fisherman, who already had six, one thing did lead to another. So she comes to you at some point and says, "I'm pregnant."

Right. This is a surprise. This is a total surprise. A surprise he didn't share with his wife of 26 years. When Christopher gave birth to a daughter, Eva, in May of 1999.

Today she got pregnant, she was excited. I was dumbfounded.

“Friends insist Christopher had been told she couldn't have a baby, but Jacket always has felt she set him up.”

How do I explain this? I'm, like, all of a sudden, I realized that I'm, indeed. In fact, she had gone on the Lisa show the year before to talk about women who choose to be single parents. Trying to figure out how to be the best parent to your child given that there is no father. She was very real. She was exactly who she was.

Eva became the center of Christ's unerurps, says Linda Schlechter, who babysat a few times a week.

A very devoted mother, and she would always have Eva on her lap, and they would always be playing a laughing.

Now, I'm just still in a lot of disbelief about what's happened. It seems so unreal. Unreal indeed. I walked into the news room here on Cape Cod, and we had just gotten word from the police that there had been a murder. The first homicide intro in 30 years sent reporter Eric Williams into high gear.

Finding sources, working the phones. It was Sunday, January 6th, 2002. Surprisingly, I knew the guy who found the body, and, you know, next thing I know, I'm calling him and talking to him about it. He was calling Tim Arnold, another former boyfriend of Christus, who lived just through the woods from her house.

Arnold's story was that he had simply dropped by the house at 430 that afternoon to return a flashlight. And instead got the shock of his life. He's a Christian lying on the floor in a kitchen hallway area, and he sees Eva near her mother's body. Arnold later told police, little Eva was trying to nurse. He said he scooped her up and ran outside. He called 911. Christian Worthington was dead lying in a hallway off the kitchen.

She was bruised up. It looked like there had been some kind of altercation that she had been in. She was half naked and stabbed once through the left lung. The blade went through the body and into the kitchen floor beneath her body.

Some socks were found outside, maybe a barat to pair of reading glasses. The disarray continued inside. Shocked EMT's carelessly grabbed a blanket from the house to cover Christus' body. Soon, all of Churro knew what had happened. We could have just a phone call that Christu got murdered.

“What was your reaction when you got this phone call?”

Just disbelief. It seemed so senseless. With all the elements of a classic mystery, sensational reports of the murder on Cape Cod topped the news around the country. It was a murder that rocked the world of high fashion. Leaving Christus' nervous neighbors with no reason to suspect that it would take police literally years to solve this crime.

Not that they didn't have plenty of suspects. It became some kind of awful parlor game, you know, in living rooms on the outer cape. And maybe even beyond, as you'd sit around and once again go through it and try to figure out, "Could it have been Tim? Could it have been Tim? How did it go down?"

By the spring of 2005, towns people were starting to think police never would.

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We'll see you next time. Christu Worthington's savage murder in January of 2002, left two-year-old Ava without a mother. And it left the townspeople of Toro, edgy, nervous, and silently wondering if the killer might be one of them.

“Who else would come down to the end of the world in January and do this?”

You think it's got to be someone who is here because no one comes here in January. The best potential lead to the murderers' identity, DNA, found on Christu's body. It's DNA of an unknown male that's consistent with a someone having had sexual relations with the victim. And it's that DNA that we seek to match.

So, says District Attorney Michael O'Keeve, investigators first zeroed in on her immediate circle,

especially past boyfriend. You've looked at the people who are in the immediate orbit of the victim's life. While they waited for the crime lab to find a DNA match, they took a hard look. First, there was the neighbor and former boyfriend, Tim Arnold. Not only had he found the body, but his seamen would turn up on the blanket thrown over Christu.

Then again, they'd live together for a time in the house. Tim Arnold was one of the few men under the age of 70 in Toro year round. Christu's friend Steve Radlauer says her relationship with Arnold at times contentious, apparently, was over. I don't think that she ever entertained the idea that this was going to develop into a long-term relationship that they were going to get married or anything like that.

But he may have. He may have. From what I understand, he was more serious about that as a long-term possibility than she was. Arnold emphatically denied to police that he had anything to do with the crime. Have some good questions about what your memories of Christu are?

Otherwise, he refused to discuss Christu Worthington. These days Arnold struggles with health problems, mainly affecting his vision.

But he says memories of what happened in 2002 never are far from his thoughts.

I think about it a long. I think about it just about every day.

The Christu I knew was a person of contradictions.

“She was by turns bright, talented, and ambitious.”

And then a home body who wanted nothing more than to spend time with her child. While Tim Arnold may have been at the top of the suspect list, I was interviewed a lot. Early on, Eva's father, Tony Jacket, wasn't far behind. You can certainly understand why the police would think that you had a motive to kill her.

Why, I didn't know motive was a motive. Eva? Wow.

According to Christu's friends, Jacket had little time for the baby at first,

and eventually, Christa demanded that he at least pay child support. She also demanded that he tell his wife, Susan. You didn't have a clue. No. He said, "I had an affair."

And he said, "There's a child." And I said, "You're kidding."

“Then, to Tony's total shock, she forgave him.”

People walk on the beach. It's been too many years, and he's a nice man. People make mistakes, he's only human. Look at it, isn't it lovely? I don't want this anger in me.

I just want to make this all work. And by the time of the murder, the Jacket's claim, it was more or less working. The three of them had a relationship of sorts with Eva at its center. Tony, they say, had no reason to kill Christa.

We had her over for dinner, and it was a little uncomfortable the first time.

But the more I got to know her, I liked her. I thought she was a nice person. Susan says, Tony was at home with her. When Christa was killed. But police refused to rule anyone out.

“And the suspect list was expanding to Agatha Christie's eyes proportions.”

At times, even including Tony's then son-in-law, Keith Amato, who taken an outside shower to at Christa's house near the beach. Even Christa's elderly father was drawn into the investigation. Through his 29-year-old girlfriend. "I love taking pictures of me, don't you?"

A former hero and addict, upon whom Christa thought he was spending far too much money. Meanwhile, the state crime lab was hopelessly backed up. Months passed with no word on the DNA taken from Christa's body. The police went to the FBI for a profile of the killer, but nobody seemed a fit.

Then finally, a year after the murder, the crime lab at last produced results.

Disappointing results. Because the DNA from Christa didn't match Tony, Jacket, or Tim Arnold, or any other suspect the police had. You have this ever widening circle, if you will, of investigation going on.

First group of people are looked at very, very intensely. Nothing is developing, you widen that circle. The widened circle brought in DNA from repairmen, trashmen, deliverymen, with pressure mounting, D-A-O-Keefe took an unprecedented step.

Asking for DNA from every single man in Turoro. State police investigators were actually introro today asking men outside the post office outside coffee shops for saliva samples. At that point, like, what do you crazy? I mean, this is such a needle in a haystack.

How many people have been tested so far? I'm not going to say specifically, but dozens of people, dozens and dozens. These guys are throwing darts at an elephant. You know, I mean, they got no chance. It's just crazy. But chance is a strange thing.

In the three years police were searching for Christa Worthington's killer, an uneasy piece settled over Cape Cod. That's somebody that knows that. No arrest in this case. No one's been ruled out either.

As the investigation dragged on, it just makes you think, you know. Only the random DNA round-up got much public attention. It did seem to smack of some desperation. Meanwhile, whole books were being written about this unsolved murder.

Investigators under intense pressure still would rule no one out, including Tony Jacket. I'm left in limbo if they don't solve it, and it's not right.

was sent to live with a friend, Amira Chase,

“whom Christa had named Ava's guardian in her will.”

Jacket was allowed to see his daughter only one afternoon a week. Who loves you? That's right. He loves you, he is.

You know, that's my daughter. You know, the chase is enough into this little girl. He fought for custody. We're thinking Jacket matters, 0-2-W-0-0-0-6. Long rise.

But lost to Christa's friend, and Tony thinks he knows why. While being a suspect, it definitely cost me custody. More than anything else.

A custody of my daughter.

By 2005, Jacket was getting used to another reality. It was just kind of the level of the fact that the perception of my being a suspect is going to stay. But then, on April 7th, investigators caught a stunning break.

The crime lab had a hit. We have a brief statement to make.

“A match for DNA found outside and inside Christa's body.”

It was just a bombshell, a huge bombshell, because we were just like electrified. Couldn't believe that they'd come up with a match. Suddenly, a match, a suspect, and an arrest. All announced to the world by DA Michael O'Keefe,

three and a half years after the crime. Last night at approximately 7.15 p.m.

Detectors from the Massachusetts State Police arrested Christa for eight.

McAllen, for the 2002 murder of Christa A. were the two. Which had a lot of people in town asking, "Christa, for who?" They would have figured it would have been the garbage man.

That's right, Christa from McAllen had been Christa Worthington's garbage man. Troy was astonished and relieved. It seemed like a done deal. The results were...

They were in the quadrilions. So you're talking about his absolute as one class of death. Well, you know, pretty much. Police picked up a docile McAllen at his rooming house lying on the bed, watching cartoons.

Marijuana and an open bottle of prescription painkillers were on the table nearby. Incredibly, he'd been right under their noses from the start. Did you kill Christa? Interviewed twice both times he had denied knowing

Christa Worthington. He'd given police as DNA, voluntarily, more than a year earlier. The laboratory could not get you results. As quickly as we would have liked them. Well, a year.

Right, right. When detectives took him in for questioning, McAllen waved his right to a lawyer. They say he again denied knowing Christa. And then he's presented with what I would suggest

as a relatively strong piece of evidence that he's lying. DNA. Correct. Police say that's when his story changed. He admits that yes, he went there on Friday night.

Yes, he had sex with her. And yes, he beat her. But he doesn't want to bring himself to admit that he killed her. So he blames the worst part of it on someone else. The somebody else was McAllen's friend Jeremy Frazier, who been with him

the night of the murder. But Frazier's DNA wasn't found anywhere on Christa's body. Was there an operating assumption that the last person who had sex with Christa Worthington had killed her? Yes.

From the beginning. Yes. And you believe that to be the case? Yes. Christa from McAllen's interview at the police barracks

lasted about six hours. And for whatever reason, he declined to have it recorded.

“So the only record of this crucial interview is a report”

some 20 pages long that the detectives wrote from their notes about a week later. Init McAllen is sometimes confused and comes up with at least half a dozen different versions of what really happened, the night police say Christa Worthington died.

Christ McAllen didn't commit this crime into police knowing. Attorney Bob George took McAllen's case after the police interrogation and says they jumped to conclusions from the start. Noting that the DA's website listed this murder as solved almost from the moment of McAllen's arrest.

A person of Christ McAllen's race, class, and limited to passities was an easy target. And especially easy target, he says,

to defend himself.

“This is a person with a 76 to a 78 IQ on his best day,”

meaning on a day where he's not using drugs and alcohol.

Not under pressure. Under pressure and under the influence. He was using percussive that day, he was using marijuana that day. George says his client was putty in the hands of the police. This is a false confession, and I don't accept it.

I don't know how much of it is actually coming from Christ McAllen's mouth or how much of it is coming from the police investigation. I don't know. As for the DNA, the lynch pin of the prosecutions case, the significance of that, George says, is all in how you look at this crime.

But now in session, they be seated.

“And the police, he's about to tell the jury,”

are looking at it all wrong. The forensics in the case could very well set Christ McAllen free. That person, who killed Christ Orbitan, was white. They had footprints that were identified. They had conference that were unidentified, and they had unknown male DNA

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[Music] Down the Cape today, the infamous Christo Worthington murder case has gone from a who-done-it to a courtroom drama. All right, come up all to Massachusetts versus the Christopher Ender Cowan. Prosecutors go into Christopher McAllen's trial confidant

that the jury will accept their simple theory of Christo Worthington's murder. That he went to this location for the purpose of having sex with this person. That that was denied to him and in a rage he raped her and killed her. [Music] The case against Christo's alleged killer, District Attorney Michael O'Keefe,

concedes, depends on two vital pieces of evidence. The DNA and the statement together were the two major pillars of the case. First, the DNA who performed the DNA analysis on 23 samples. The state's expert says it proves beyond doubt that McAllen had sex with Christo Worthington. Christopher McAllen matched the major profile in the mixture.

Then the statement. Can you tell us your name for the record, please? My name is Christopher Mason. With Christo's father and other family members looking on, Paul, it is a trooper with a Massachusetts statement. Trooper Christopher Mason tells the court that although McAllen didn't actually confess, he did admit to police

that he beat Christo and watched her die.

Mr. McAllen stated, "I never meant for that way that to get killed.

It's a nightmare after nightmare and not a day goes by, but I don't think about it." He went up there looking for sex. Christo Worthington confronted him and it got very ugly. In the prosecution scenario, McAllen was drinking heavily that night. He joined friends at a local club.

They were videotaped by an onlooker while taking part in a rap contest. This person wanted the company of a woman after partying and drinking all night. So, O'Keef continues at around 13 AM McAllen drove to Christo's house in Truro, where he killed her and he was alone. And he didn't have any prior relationship with her.

Other than his familiarity with who she was, where she lived and the fact that she lived alone. That is where McAllen's attorney Bob George insists prosecutors have it all wrong. Now, when he filed the DNA for 39 months, you will hear. They were looking to speak to Christo's last love. He wants to convince the jury, there is reasonable doubt about everything in this case. Suddenly, Christo's last lover was outrageous.

Starter's George claims his client and Christo may have been involved.

And then later, someone else came along and killed her.

You don't have McAllen's fingerprints at that scene. You don't have McAllen's hair at that scene. You have McAllen's DNA at that scene. Yeah. Concentral sexual episode on Thursday. But George says, getting the jury to believe that could be a problem.

Because his client is being tried in Lily White Cape Cod. If you had the same body of evidence in Johnny Whitebred was home for the holidays. It was from some affluent family on the Cape. The same body of evidence he wouldn't have been charged.

But miles away in New York, Christo Worthington's former boyfriend, Steve Radlauer, says,

"Race has nothing at all to do with his doubts."

“Let's hear about that consensual relationship. How long had that been going on?”

I saw Christo two weeks before she was murdered roughly. I wasn't going on then because we would have heard about it. That would have been her top story. The top of the Christo News would have been, "I'm having an affair with my local trashman." You want the top story? Back in court, the defense also must deal with its other big problem.

That statement. And would he walked into that police station on April 14, 2005? The police had to get a statement out of him. So they intimidated him, George argues, in a six-hour interrogation. Much as they'd done with other suspects, like Tim Arnold.

And when you told them that you did not kill Christo Worthington, what was said to you? That, oh yes, I had. It was like getting worked over. Like physically getting beaten up. Another one-time suspect, Keith Amado, described a similar experience. Trooper Maun slammed his hand down on the table and said, "This is the murder investigation."

And if we so choose, we will turn your life inside out. They did exactly the same thing to them that they did to Macauin, except that they were smart enough. And they had the wear with all in the background. To know when to say stop, cut it out. I'm not doing this anymore. I want to lawyer.

“As far as I could, what is the score for someone who's mentally retired?”

George's witness, forensic psychologist Eric Brown, claims that with an IQ of about 76, Christopher Macauin simply couldn't understand the police's questions. In 69, he's mentally retired? Yes. In the 76 and his best day. Yes. Robert says the prosecution, Macauin seems smart enough when Brown gave him an intelligence test.

For relativity, he indicated Einstein, and for Gandhi, he wrote spiritual leader of India. And for co-ran, he wrote Muslim Bible. That's correct. And he was clever enough, the state argues, to concoct a story, blaming someone else. His friend, Jeremy Frazier, who appeared uncomfortable the moment he took the stand.

Did you drive up Christopher Lincoln's house with Christopher Macauin? Did you have anything at all to do with her deaths? Well, I didn't. But Bob George, once the jury to believe, Frazier could have. What would you drink?

“I'm a bear at the party. Do you tell the police it was like six Crores?”

I don't recall. Certainly, Frazier and Macauin were together that night. The video taped rap contest shows Frazier listing to music with Macauin nearby. But Frazier supplied an alabai. He later was seen at another party, then slept at a friend's house. And his DNA doesn't show up anywhere at the crime scene.

He was a convenient patsy for the defendant to blame us. Nothing to do with this murder. No. Bob George also argues that police bungled the whole investigation.

There were fibers, cares, DNA that never made it to alab and a crime scene contaminated by careless EMT.

They had all kinds of evidence at that scene that was either misheemble, ignored or thrown away. Christopher Macauin never testifies, betting that his attorney has created enough doubt in this case to set him free. It's based on an assumption, a false assumption that a master educated, wealthy terrorist, could not possibly have had consensual sex with a black, uneducated, troubled garbage.

While the jury and the crystal-worthington murder trial deliberates,

The case is still being tried in the court of public opinion. "It would have been following the trial, and everyone in town's got an opinion."

“"I think the preponderance of evidence indicates that he's guilty."”

"Thank you, deserves every benefit we moved out if it's there." "It wouldn't be surprise if the guy gets off." Days go by, the clock ticks on without a verdict.

"It's always good when they're out of one time."

Christopher Macauin's lawyer Bob George is taking an optimistic view, insisting that time and the evidence are on his side. "If you can't trust what you find at the crime scene, because the scene has been corrupted. If you can't trust the statement, because it's unreliable.

And if the DNA doesn't mean anything because the defendant could've been involved in a consensual relationship with the victim, then what happened? For five agonizing days, the jury, including two African-Americans, debates that very question. "They said they were hopelessly deadlocked." "Then on day six, a shocker."

“The judge announces he is throwing one juror off the panel.”

A white woman whose boyfriend was arrested in an unrelated crime. In a phone call with him, she was taped criticizing the police. And there's concern about bias. "You're going to be discharged from the school." "We're begins circulating around 11.30 this morning

that this jury had finally come to an end."

"Now it's action, please be seated." "Two days after a new jury is seated." "I'm ready to do the jury." "The log jam breaks." "Once say you missed a form."

"Christopher McCowan learns his fate." "We've injured the following verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree." "He was devastated by the verdict." "Anyone with eyes could see that he was terribly hurt by what happened." "Hour is later before he sentenced."

"He addresses the court for the first time."

"This case here is a very limited case. I feel it's hard for the defendant's family or daughter." "And her." "And there were witnesses." "But he still claims he had nothing to do with Christoph Worthington's death."

"But you want all I could say is that on the innocent man in this case." "And that's all I got to say." "The court doesn't buy it." "The court and Aby send you to be in prison at the Massachusetts Courtesal Institution at Cedar Junction." "For and during the term of your natural life, without the possibility of parole."

"I'd like to number zero five, dash one on nine, dash zero two." "The jury has found you guilty." "Did I want to not guilty? Of course I wanted to not guilty." "You know, my belief in Macauin's innocence is what drove me." "I believed he was innocent and still believed he's innocent."

"Well, believe he's not guilty until a day I die." "Do you want me to stand at the podium?" "Even after the verdict, Bob George refuses to give up." "He's a little suspicious about what really happened to get that jury removed." "She got a jury receiving phone calls on her cell phone from someone who's incarcerated in the deliberating deadlock jury in a major murder case from the jail."

"You don't have to be all over what the home is to figure out there's something strange about that." "We'll find out what happened."

“"I think there's a lot of conspiracy theory types that, you know, will never be satisfied."”

Eric Williams, who's covered the case from day one, says while replacing the juror confused things in the end, he has confidence in the jury's decision. "There was enough evidence. It seemed to push them to unanimously agree." "And I think for most Cape Caughters, that's good enough." "Well, this case changed my life. It's erratically. It's not something that you ever imagined you're going to have to deal with."

"It's kind of like we did at a dock time, I wonder if you'll ever see it like again." "You could have at this point you all over." "Now, officially cleared as a suspect in Christa's murder, Tony Jacket is relieved at the verdict." "The jury deliberated and carefully looked at all the evidence." "Although remarkably, he isn't sure the jury got it right."

"I felt there was a reasonable doubt all over the place." "I think about the trial. I think about what it did to me."

Tim Arnold, too, is happy. It's finally over. "But to this day, he is haunted by what happened." "Sometimes the weight of evidence forces you to look back and what do you want to or not."

"It's just something that's always there."

"These happen to be a few snapshots I took of Eva and Christa. When they were here, only a couple of weeks before she was killed." Eva lives still with her legal guardians, and by all accounts, she is doing well. "One pretty little girl." "Yeah, she was really sweet." "When you look at this today, what goes through your mind?"

“"Well, you know, I mean, basically I think she was really happy. She was a great person. We miss her a lot."”

Eva never will remember those happy times.

But Christa's friends are determined that one day she will know how much her mother loved her. "How would you want to tell her about the past?" "A little bit at a time." "Yeah, that's not good." "Ava won't have her."

"That's..."

"This is the enduring tragedy of the whole thing."

“Christa from accountants, defense continues to explore legal options.”

He has filed four motions for a new trial since his conviction. All have been denied. "Sahamma, you're doing it all the time." "I just want to tell you the truth." "I just want to tell you the truth." "No, not at all."

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