The Other Door

 

With this side door that opened into the victim's back yard operational and away from the bloody crime area, the detectives and the chief of police decided it made more sense to them to take a blanket from the victim's bed, cover her body with it, and walk her children over top of her to the front door to exit the house. The man exiting the crime scene the next morning and seen by an eyewitness made the same decision. He walked right out the front door, barely six feet from the sidewalk and straight into an eyewitness. The eyewitness, his selection of a suspect and his statement were then kept from the defense by the police department and the prosecution.