AB 9/11/18
1. 100’s of strands of hair found in truck.
2. A precise timeline can’t be determined
3. In cold weather hair banding process is slow, in hot weather process is much faster.
4. If there was warm weather hair bands may have occurred.
5. Might be able to determine how close together murders occurred.
6. Three pieces of a hair are differential. There’s the ares above bands. The band is found at scalp level. Root is under skin. Hair close to skin is alive, when body dies blood stops flowing. At root you find enzyme breakdown that causes color of band.
7. They can tell if hair was pulled out in struggle.
8. Contents of stomach.
9. CW claims SW killed children after 2am. If children were killed hours before, TOD can be determined by stomach contents. We know they are at birthday party.
10. There are text messages and search histories that have not been deleted.
11. The bed in Master bedroom had bedding that had been stripped off the bed.
12. Officers checked for signs of foul play.
13. If this was a crime of passion you wouldn’t take those steps to remove bedding. If the wife killed kids, you wouldn’t try to get rid of evidence that would prove she did it.
Viewers Questions
1. Do they run blood tests on inmates when they are arrested, Steroids? Roidrage? No, not unless inmate agrees. Defense could ask for it.
2. Might he have had an accomplice? AP is not suspect. None other known at this time.
3. Did CW have scratches or bruises? Is it possible to strangle someone and come away scratch free? Can’t imagine that. Survival instinct would kick in, if CW was aware she would fight tooth and nail. There may be skin under her nails. Maybe there were screatches on CW we don’t know about.
4. What do we know about CW’s family? CW’s childhood. He seemed like a friendly guy. No red flags. We know CW spoke with father.
5. Where will they find jurors who have not heard of case? They’ve found them in other high profile cases. Sometimes it’s okay to use jurors who have heard about case.