1 00:00:15,034 --> 00:00:22,379 >> WHO? 2 00:00:22,379 --> 00:00:24,862 >> MY NAME IS JANE DOROTIK. 3 00:00:24,862 --> 00:00:26,862 I SPENT 20 YEARS IN PRISON FOR A 4 00:00:26,862 --> 00:00:30,724 CRIME I DID NOT COMMIT. 5 00:00:30,724 --> 00:00:32,448 I THOUGHT TRUTH AND JUSTICE WAS 6 00:00:32,448 --> 00:00:34,413 AT THE FRONT OF EVERYTHING. 7 00:00:34,413 --> 00:00:35,931 AND IT CERTAINLY HAS NOT BEEN, 8 00:00:35,931 --> 00:00:41,758 IN MY CASE. 9 00:00:41,758 --> 00:00:44,000 I WISH I JUST KNEW WHAT REALLY 10 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:44,275 HAPPENED. 11 00:00:44,275 --> 00:00:47,000 I WISH THERE WAS SOME WAY TO 12 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:48,206 PIECE IT TOGETHER. 13 00:00:48,206 --> 00:00:51,620 SOME PERSON TO COME FORWARD. 14 00:00:51,620 --> 00:00:53,551 >> JANE AND BOB DOROTIK ARE 15 00:00:53,551 --> 00:00:56,448 LIVING TOGETHER IN NORTH SAN 16 00:00:56,448 --> 00:00:56,689 DIEGO. 17 00:00:56,689 --> 00:00:58,000 >> HE SAID HE WAS GOING OUT FOR 18 00:00:58,000 --> 00:00:59,517 A JOG. 19 00:00:59,517 --> 00:01:00,103 THAT WAS IT. 20 00:01:00,103 --> 00:01:02,241 THAT WAS THE LAST I TALKED TO 21 00:01:02,241 --> 00:01:02,448 HIM. 22 00:01:02,448 --> 00:01:04,724 >> SHE REPORTS HER HUSBAND 23 00:01:04,724 --> 00:01:05,034 MISSING. 24 00:01:05,034 --> 00:01:07,275 THERE WAS A SEARCH FOR HIM AS A 25 00:01:07,275 --> 00:01:07,862 MISSING PERSON. 26 00:01:07,862 --> 00:01:10,137 THE NEXT DAY, HE WAS FOUND IN A 27 00:01:10,137 --> 00:01:12,413 LOCATION TWO OR THREE MILE AWAY 28 00:01:12,413 --> 00:01:13,517 FROM THEIR HOME. 29 00:01:13,517 --> 00:01:15,379 >> I STOP ABOUT RIGHT HERE. 30 00:01:15,379 --> 00:01:18,620 I COULD SEE THE BODY AND I AM, 31 00:01:18,620 --> 00:01:20,758 THIS IS MR. DOROTIK. 32 00:01:20,758 --> 00:01:22,241 >> HE WAS FOUND TO HAVE BLUNT 33 00:01:22,241 --> 00:01:24,103 FORCE TRAUMA TO HIS HEAD. 34 00:01:24,103 --> 00:01:26,172 HE WAS FOUND TO HAVE INJURIES 35 00:01:26,172 --> 00:01:27,827 CONSISTENT WITH STRANGULATION. 36 00:01:27,827 --> 00:01:29,137 >> IT WAS OBVIOUS TO ME THAT IT 37 00:01:29,137 --> 00:01:30,206 WAS A HOMICIDE. 38 00:01:30,206 --> 00:01:32,586 >> THEY FOUND BOB'S BLOOD IN HIS 39 00:01:32,586 --> 00:01:33,033 BEDROOM. 40 00:01:33,033 --> 00:01:35,000 THE DETECTIVES DECIDED BECAUSE 41 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:36,965 THEY SAW SOME BLOOD, THAT THEY 42 00:01:36,965 --> 00:01:38,172 WERE IN THE CRIME SCENE AND THAT 43 00:01:38,172 --> 00:01:39,862 JANE WAS THE ONLY ONE WITH 44 00:01:39,862 --> 00:01:43,517 ACCESS TO THAT BEDROOM AND TO 45 00:01:43,517 --> 00:01:43,723 BOB. 46 00:01:43,723 --> 00:01:45,310 >> THERE WAS ONLY ONE PERSON WHO 47 00:01:45,310 --> 00:01:46,413 COULD HAVE DONE THIS TO MR. 48 00:01:46,413 --> 00:01:47,896 DOROTIK AND THAT WAS HIS WIFE, 49 00:01:47,896 --> 00:01:48,723 JANE DOROTIK. 50 00:01:48,723 --> 00:01:50,275 >> HE SAID YOU'RE UNDER ARREST. 51 00:01:50,275 --> 00:01:53,344 I WAS LIKE, WHAT? 52 00:01:53,344 --> 00:01:55,000 I WOULD NEVER HURT MY HUSBAND. 53 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:56,620 >> POLICE SAY CIRCUMSTANTIAL AND 54 00:01:56,620 --> 00:01:58,000 BLOOD EVIDENCE LINKS JANE 55 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,068 DOROTIK TO HER HUSBAND'S MURDER. 56 00:02:00,068 --> 00:02:02,241 >> THE BEDROOM WAS NOT A CRIME 57 00:02:02,241 --> 00:02:02,482 SCENE. 58 00:02:02,482 --> 00:02:03,517 >> I DON'T DOUBT THAT THIS 59 00:02:03,517 --> 00:02:05,689 OCCURRED AT THE HOME AND I DON'T 60 00:02:05,689 --> 00:02:07,379 DOUBT THAT SHE'S INVOLVED. 61 00:02:07,379 --> 00:02:08,758 >> THERE WAS BLOOD ON THE 62 00:02:08,758 --> 00:02:09,033 COMFORTER. 63 00:02:09,033 --> 00:02:12,517 BLOOD ON THE PILL OVER SHAM. 64 00:02:12,517 --> 00:02:13,000 BLOOD ON THE HEAD BOARD. 65 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:14,724 >> WHEN YOU HAVE A HOME THAT'S A 66 00:02:14,724 --> 00:02:17,000 WORKING RANCH, YOU'LL FIND BLOOD 67 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:17,275 AROUND. 68 00:02:17,275 --> 00:02:19,896 >> IT IS PROBLEM ON TOP OF 69 00:02:19,896 --> 00:02:20,724 PROBLEM ON TOP OF PROBLEM. 70 00:02:20,724 --> 00:02:22,379 >> I WOULD DECLARE THIS CRIME 71 00:02:22,379 --> 00:02:23,793 SCENE VERY CONTAMINATED. 72 00:02:23,793 --> 00:02:25,172 >> THEY FOCUSED ON ONE PERSON 73 00:02:25,172 --> 00:02:27,896 AND TURNED A BLIND EYE TO ANYONE 74 00:02:27,896 --> 00:02:28,275 ELSE. 75 00:02:28,275 --> 00:02:29,896 >> JANE DOROTIK CHOSE MURDER 76 00:02:29,896 --> 00:02:30,931 OVER DIVORCE. 77 00:02:30,931 --> 00:02:37,206 >> IT FELT LIKE A FLIGHT PLAYERNIGHTMARE. 78 00:02:37,206 --> 00:02:38,206 WHEN I AM A GOING TO WAKE UP? 79 00:02:38,206 --> 00:02:40,000 >> DO YOU BELIEVE SHE GOT A FAIR 80 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:40,206 TRIAL? 81 00:02:40,206 --> 00:02:41,103 >> NO. 82 00:02:41,103 --> 00:02:43,379 >> I'M IN NO POSITION TO SAY WHO 83 00:02:43,379 --> 00:02:44,172 DID WHAT? 84 00:02:44,172 --> 00:02:45,896 I'M IN NO POSITION TO TELL YOU 85 00:02:45,896 --> 00:02:46,862 WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT MAN. 86 00:02:46,862 --> 00:02:48,517 >> WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE HAPPENED 87 00:02:48,517 --> 00:02:49,482 TO BOB? 88 00:02:49,482 --> 00:02:51,137 >> I BELIEVE BOB SOMEHOW FELL 89 00:02:51,137 --> 00:02:54,689 INTO SOME KIND OF SITUATION. 90 00:02:54,689 --> 00:02:55,206 I DON'T KNOW. 91 00:02:55,206 --> 00:02:58,413 I LOST MY HUSBAND AND THEN I 92 00:02:58,413 --> 00:03:02,413 I LOST MY HUSBAND AND THEN I LOST MY FREEDOM. 93 00:03:02,413 --> 00:03:06,793 LOST MY FREEDOM. 94 00:03:06,793 --> 00:03:18,965 LOST MY FREEDOM. ♪ 95 00:03:18,965 --> 00:03:46,724 ♪ 96 00:03:46,724 --> 00:03:48,103 >>> JANE, HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE 97 00:03:48,103 --> 00:03:49,758 WHAT THE LAST 22 YEARS HAVE BEEN 98 00:03:49,758 --> 00:03:53,344 LIKE FOR YOU? 99 00:03:53,344 --> 00:03:56,896 >> IT'S BEEN TORTUROUS IN MANY 100 00:03:56,896 --> 00:03:57,586 WAYS. 101 00:03:57,586 --> 00:03:59,172 I SUPPOSE MANY MOMENTS WHEN I 102 00:03:59,172 --> 00:04:04,586 THOUGHT, HOW DO I KEEP GOING? 103 00:04:04,586 --> 00:04:07,275 I ALWAYS USED TO SAY THIS WAS 104 00:04:07,275 --> 00:04:08,482 THE MOST PEACEFUL PLACE ON THE 105 00:04:08,482 --> 00:04:09,793 FACE OF THE EARTH. 106 00:04:09,793 --> 00:04:11,379 NOTHING FEELS PEACEFUL ANYMORE. 107 00:04:11,379 --> 00:04:13,586 >> WHEN WE FIRST MET JANE 108 00:04:13,586 --> 00:04:17,000 DOROTIK IN 2000 -- 109 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,344 >> THE STRESS ON EVERYONE HAS 110 00:04:19,344 --> 00:04:20,551 BEEN INCREDIBLE. 111 00:04:20,551 --> 00:04:22,034 >> THE LIFE SHE HAD ONCE FOUND 112 00:04:22,034 --> 00:04:24,655 SO SERENE IN THE FOOT HILLS 113 00:04:24,655 --> 00:04:26,034 OUTSIDE OF SAN DIEGO, A LAYOFF 114 00:04:26,034 --> 00:04:28,620 SHE HAD SHARED WITH HER HUSBAND 115 00:04:28,620 --> 00:04:31,793 BOB, HAD TAKEN AN UNIMAGINABLE 116 00:04:31,793 --> 00:04:32,000 TURN. 117 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:33,241 >> HOW CAN THIS BE? 118 00:04:33,241 --> 00:04:34,793 HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN? 119 00:04:34,793 --> 00:04:37,413 SURELY I'LL WAKE UP AND IT'S A 120 00:04:37,413 --> 00:04:37,655 DREAM. 121 00:04:37,655 --> 00:04:39,034 >> JANE HAD BECOME THE PRIME 122 00:04:39,034 --> 00:04:40,896 SUSPECT IN BOB'S MURDER. 123 00:04:40,896 --> 00:04:42,413 AUTHORITIES BELIEVE THAT SHE 124 00:04:42,413 --> 00:04:44,344 VICIOUSLY ATTACKED HIM IN THEIR 125 00:04:44,344 --> 00:04:44,551 HOME. 126 00:04:44,551 --> 00:04:46,517 >> I CERTAINLY DIDN'T DO THIS. 127 00:04:46,517 --> 00:04:48,655 I LOVED MAY HUSBAND. 128 00:04:48,655 --> 00:04:51,103 >> JANE, 53 YEARS OLD AT THE 129 00:04:51,103 --> 00:04:54,344 TIME, AND BOB, 55, SHARED MORE 130 00:04:54,344 --> 00:04:55,758 THAN HALF THEIR LIVES TOGETHER. 131 00:04:55,758 --> 00:04:58,379 >> I WAS 23 WHEN WE WERE 132 00:04:58,379 --> 00:04:58,655 MARRIED. 133 00:04:58,655 --> 00:05:02,586 BOB WAS A WONDERFUL, LOVING, 134 00:05:02,586 --> 00:05:04,655 CREATIVE PERSON. 135 00:05:04,655 --> 00:05:06,413 >> EVERYONE HERE, FOR THOSE WHO 136 00:05:06,413 --> 00:05:08,206 HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE -- 137 00:05:08,206 --> 00:05:10,896 >> BOB SPENT MOST OF HIS CAREER 138 00:05:10,896 --> 00:05:13,068 AS AN ENGINEER. 139 00:05:13,068 --> 00:05:14,103 JANE WORKED AS A NURSE AND LATER 140 00:05:14,103 --> 00:05:15,379 AS AN EXECUTIVE IN THE HEALTH 141 00:05:15,379 --> 00:05:16,000 CARE INDUSTRY. 142 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:17,965 THE COUPLE RAISED THREE 143 00:05:17,965 --> 00:05:20,206 CHILDREN, ALEX, CLAIRE, AND 144 00:05:20,206 --> 00:05:21,000 NICK. 145 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,413 >> THE FAMILY HAS ALWAYS BEEN 146 00:05:24,413 --> 00:05:26,413 INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT TO BOTH OF 147 00:05:26,413 --> 00:05:26,689 US. 148 00:05:26,689 --> 00:05:30,034 >> ALSO IMPORTANT TO JANE WERE 149 00:05:30,034 --> 00:05:30,862 THEIR HORSES. 150 00:05:30,862 --> 00:05:32,655 WHILE JANE'S PASSION WAS 151 00:05:32,655 --> 00:05:35,000 BREEDING AND RIDING -- 152 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:37,000 >> I'M HAVING A GOOD OLD TIME 153 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:38,000 HERE -- 154 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,172 >> BOB WAS AN AVID JOGGER, AND 155 00:05:40,172 --> 00:05:41,827 THAT SAYS JANE IS THE LAST IMAGE 156 00:05:41,827 --> 00:05:43,862 SHE HAS OF HER HUSBAND. 157 00:05:43,862 --> 00:05:45,689 >> BOB WAS SITTING ACTUALLY IN 158 00:05:45,689 --> 00:05:47,689 THIS CHAIR FACING THE THE TV. 159 00:05:47,689 --> 00:05:50,758 >> ALTHOUGH JANE WAS UNDER 160 00:05:50,758 --> 00:05:52,103 SUSPICION, SHE ALLOWED US INTO 161 00:05:52,103 --> 00:05:53,310 HER HOME. 162 00:05:53,310 --> 00:05:54,413 >> HE SAID HE WAS GOING OUT FOR 163 00:05:54,413 --> 00:05:56,000 A JOG AND HE HAD HIS JOGGING 164 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:57,000 SUIT ON. 165 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:58,206 HE WAS TYING HIS SHOES. 166 00:05:58,206 --> 00:06:00,862 THAT WAS THE LAST I TALKED TO 167 00:06:00,862 --> 00:06:01,034 HIM. 168 00:06:01,034 --> 00:06:03,137 >> IT WAS AROUND 1:00 P.M. ON 169 00:06:03,137 --> 00:06:06,241 FEBRUARY 13th, 2000, WHEN JANE 170 00:06:06,241 --> 00:06:08,000 SAYS BOB LEFT TO GO FOR THAT 171 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:08,448 RUN. 172 00:06:08,448 --> 00:06:10,482 AS HOURS PASSED WITHOUT ANY WORD 173 00:06:10,482 --> 00:06:14,758 FROM HIM, JANE SAYS SHE GREW 174 00:06:14,758 --> 00:06:15,034 CONCERNED. 175 00:06:15,034 --> 00:06:16,103 >> IT WAS BEGINNING TO GET DARK. 176 00:06:16,103 --> 00:06:18,655 I DECIDED TO GO OUT AND LOOK. 177 00:06:18,655 --> 00:06:20,896 >> THIS IS THE ROUTE JANE SAID 178 00:06:20,896 --> 00:06:22,586 SHE TOOK TO SEARCH FOR BOB, 179 00:06:22,586 --> 00:06:24,379 DRIVING UP AND DOWN THE HILL 180 00:06:24,379 --> 00:06:25,862 WHERE HE SOMETIMES RAN. 181 00:06:25,862 --> 00:06:29,689 BY 7:45 P.M., JANE'S CONCERN 182 00:06:29,689 --> 00:06:31,448 TURNED TO FEAR. 183 00:06:31,448 --> 00:06:32,379 >> I SAID ENOUGH. 184 00:06:32,379 --> 00:06:33,413 THIS IS ENOUGH. 185 00:06:33,413 --> 00:06:34,655 SOMETHING IS WRONG. 186 00:06:34,655 --> 00:06:37,931 AND THAT'S WHEN I MADE THE CALL 187 00:06:37,931 --> 00:06:38,931 TO THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT. 188 00:06:38,931 --> 00:06:40,310 >> MY FIRST THOUGHT THAT NIGHT 189 00:06:40,310 --> 00:06:42,379 WAS MAYBE THIS MAN HAD A HEART 190 00:06:42,379 --> 00:06:45,103 ATTACK AND FELL DOWN THE 191 00:06:45,103 --> 00:06:46,724 EMBANKMENT ALONG THE ROAD. 192 00:06:46,724 --> 00:06:48,310 >> AS DEPUTY JAMES BLACKMAN AND 193 00:06:48,310 --> 00:06:50,448 OTHERS FROM THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY 194 00:06:50,448 --> 00:06:51,965 SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT SEARCHED 195 00:06:51,965 --> 00:06:54,379 FOR BOB, CONCERN FRIENDS AND 196 00:06:54,379 --> 00:06:57,172 FAMILY GATHERED AT THE DOROTIK 197 00:06:57,172 --> 00:06:57,413 HOUSE. 198 00:06:57,413 --> 00:07:00,068 >> I SAW MY MOM'S FACE AND I 199 00:07:00,068 --> 00:07:01,344 KNEW RIGHT AWAY SOMETHING 200 00:07:01,344 --> 00:07:02,862 TERRIBLE HAD HAPPENED. 201 00:07:02,862 --> 00:07:05,103 >> THE DOROTIKS' DAUGHTER, 202 00:07:05,103 --> 00:07:06,551 CLAIRE, 24 AT THE TIME, HAD 203 00:07:06,551 --> 00:07:08,241 SPENT THE WEEKEND VISITING HER 204 00:07:08,241 --> 00:07:10,724 AUNT AND RETURNED HOME TO A 205 00:07:10,724 --> 00:07:12,586 DISTRAUGHT JANE. 206 00:07:12,586 --> 00:07:14,862 >> SHE WAS FREAKED OUT. 207 00:07:14,862 --> 00:07:17,793 SHE WAS SCARED, SHE WAS NERVOUS, 208 00:07:17,793 --> 00:07:20,758 SHE WAS CRYING. 209 00:07:20,758 --> 00:07:22,413 >> IT WAS A ORHORRIFYING FEELING 210 00:07:22,413 --> 00:07:23,793 THAT GOT MORE AND MORE 211 00:07:23,793 --> 00:07:25,275 HORRIFYING WHEN HE WASN'T FOUND. 212 00:07:25,275 --> 00:07:28,241 >> THEN IN THE PREDAWN HOURS OF 213 00:07:28,241 --> 00:07:30,379 FEBRUARY 14, DEPUTY BLACKMAN 214 00:07:30,379 --> 00:07:31,827 TURNED INTO THIS DRIVEWAY 215 00:07:31,827 --> 00:07:33,586 SEVERAL MILES FROM THE DOROTIK 216 00:07:33,586 --> 00:07:35,586 HOME AND NOTICED THE BODY OFF 217 00:07:35,586 --> 00:07:36,620 THE ROAD. 218 00:07:36,620 --> 00:07:38,551 >> AT THIS POINT, I COULD SEE 219 00:07:38,551 --> 00:07:42,448 THE SHIRT, THE PANTS, AND HE WAS 220 00:07:42,448 --> 00:07:43,896 LAYING ON HIS BACK. 221 00:07:43,896 --> 00:07:47,586 >> FROM JANE'S DESCRIPTION, HE 222 00:07:47,586 --> 00:07:51,482 IMMEDIATELY KNEW IT WAS BOB 223 00:07:51,482 --> 00:07:51,758 DOROTIK. 224 00:07:51,758 --> 00:07:53,448 >> I GOT THERE A LITTLE AFTER 225 00:07:53,448 --> 00:07:55,034 7:00 IN THE MORNING. 226 00:07:55,034 --> 00:07:56,793 >> SAN DIEGO COUNTY SHERIFF'S 227 00:07:56,793 --> 00:07:58,275 DETECTIVE RICK EMPSON WAS CALLED 228 00:07:58,275 --> 00:07:59,034 TO THE SCENE. 229 00:07:59,034 --> 00:08:01,000 >> THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF ANY 230 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,965 TYPE OF VEHICLE ACCIDENT. 231 00:08:03,965 --> 00:08:06,586 >> THE EVIDENCE EMPSON DID FIND 232 00:08:06,586 --> 00:08:08,620 SUGGESTED SOMETHING ELSE. 233 00:08:08,620 --> 00:08:09,758 >> I COULD SEE THAT HE HAD BLOOD 234 00:08:09,758 --> 00:08:10,896 ON HIS FACE. 235 00:08:10,896 --> 00:08:12,965 THERE WAS BLOOD NEAR THE BACK OF 236 00:08:12,965 --> 00:08:14,620 HIS HEAD, AND I COULD SEE THERE 237 00:08:14,620 --> 00:08:17,000 WAS A ROPE AROUND HIS NECK. 238 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,000 >> BOB DOROTIK HAD BEEN 239 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:21,551 BLUDGEONED AND STRANGLED. 240 00:08:21,551 --> 00:08:23,448 THE ONE TIME MISSING PERSON CASE 241 00:08:23,448 --> 00:08:27,827 HAD TURNED INTO A HOMICIDE 242 00:08:27,827 --> 00:08:28,172 INVESTIGATION. 243 00:08:28,172 --> 00:08:29,758 >> IS THERE ANYBODY YOU CAN 244 00:08:29,758 --> 00:08:31,310 THINK WHO WOULD WANT TO SEE YOUR 245 00:08:31,310 --> 00:08:32,655 HUSBAND DEAD? 246 00:08:32,655 --> 00:08:34,448 >> NOBODY, NOBODY. 247 00:08:34,448 --> 00:08:36,379 >> AS LAW ENFORCEMENT ASKED JANE 248 00:08:36,379 --> 00:08:38,688 QUESTIONS ABOUT BOB, SHE LET 249 00:08:38,688 --> 00:08:40,448 THEM INTO HER HOME. 250 00:08:40,448 --> 00:08:41,688 >> COME IN. 251 00:08:41,688 --> 00:08:42,000 SEARCH. 252 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,241 LOOK FOR ANYTHING. 253 00:08:43,241 --> 00:08:48,310 >> DETECTIVE EMPSON NOTICED A 254 00:08:48,310 --> 00:08:49,586 PIECE OF ROPE HANGING FROM THE 255 00:08:49,586 --> 00:08:51,344 PORCH THAT CAUGHT HIS ATTENTION, 256 00:08:51,344 --> 00:08:52,689 THINKING HE HAD JUST SEEN 257 00:08:52,689 --> 00:08:54,310 SOMETHING SIMILAR ON BOB 258 00:08:54,310 --> 00:08:54,586 DOROTIK. 259 00:08:54,586 --> 00:08:56,655 >> IT APPEARED TO BE THE EXACT 260 00:08:56,655 --> 00:08:59,034 SAME KIND OF ROPE THAT WAS FOUND 261 00:08:59,034 --> 00:09:00,034 AROUND HIS NECK. 262 00:09:00,034 --> 00:09:01,862 >> THE SLIDING GLASS DOOR -- 263 00:09:01,862 --> 00:09:03,241 >> WHEN INVESTIGATORS GOT TO BOB 264 00:09:03,241 --> 00:09:05,517 IN JANE'S BEDROOM, THEY FOUND 265 00:09:05,517 --> 00:09:07,482 SOMETHING MORE TROUBLING. 266 00:09:07,482 --> 00:09:08,655 THEY BELIEVE THEY WERE LOOKING 267 00:09:08,655 --> 00:09:11,862 AT BLOOD SPATTER. 268 00:09:11,862 --> 00:09:13,793 >> THERE WAS NO QUESTION IN 269 00:09:13,793 --> 00:09:15,793 THEIR MIND THAT THIS ASSAULT 270 00:09:15,793 --> 00:09:18,137 OCCURRED IN THE MASTER BEDROOM. 271 00:09:18,137 --> 00:09:20,862 >> THEY DOCUMENTED THEIR 272 00:09:20,862 --> 00:09:22,310 FINDINGS IN THIS DIAGRAM, TAKING 273 00:09:22,310 --> 00:09:24,000 PHOTOS ALONG THE WAY OF WHAT 274 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,103 THEY BELIEVE TO BE BLOOD ON 275 00:09:26,103 --> 00:09:27,724 VARIOUS ITEMS IN THE BEDROOM, 276 00:09:27,724 --> 00:09:29,931 AND OF WHAT APPEARED TO BE A 277 00:09:29,931 --> 00:09:32,137 LARGE BLOOD STAIN ON THE 278 00:09:32,137 --> 00:09:33,379 UNDERSIDE OF THE MATTRESS. 279 00:09:33,379 --> 00:09:35,896 >> I DO KNOW WHEN BOB HAD A 280 00:09:35,896 --> 00:09:36,931 NOSEBLEED, HE MADE A COMMENT 281 00:09:36,931 --> 00:09:40,206 ABOUT GETTING SOME BLOOD ON THE 282 00:09:40,206 --> 00:09:40,482 MATTRESS. 283 00:09:40,482 --> 00:09:42,965 >> JANE SAYS THERE WAS A LOGICAL 284 00:09:42,965 --> 00:09:43,758 EXPLANATION FOR SOME OF THE 285 00:09:43,758 --> 00:09:45,000 OTHER BLOOD, TOO. 286 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:46,482 THEY HAD DOGS WHO WERE INJURED 287 00:09:46,482 --> 00:09:47,793 AND HAD BLED. 288 00:09:47,793 --> 00:09:50,068 >> THIS LITTLE DOG HAD AN ABCESS 289 00:09:50,068 --> 00:09:53,000 ON HER CHEEK THAT WAS OPENLY 290 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:54,000 DRAINING AT THE TIME. 291 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:55,551 LITTLE DROPS OF BLOOD WE WOULD 292 00:09:55,551 --> 00:09:58,000 FIND AS SHE SAT ON THE COUCH. 293 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,965 THE CARPET PIECES ARE WHAT THE 294 00:10:00,965 --> 00:10:02,310 DETECTIVES REMOVED, FEELING THAT 295 00:10:02,310 --> 00:10:03,896 THERE WAS BLOOD ON THE CARPET. 296 00:10:03,896 --> 00:10:05,689 >> THE SPOTS OF BLOOD 297 00:10:05,689 --> 00:10:06,793 INVESTIGATORS SAID THEY FOUND 298 00:10:06,793 --> 00:10:10,068 ALL OVER THE BEDROOM SURPRISED 299 00:10:10,068 --> 00:10:10,275 JANE. 300 00:10:10,275 --> 00:10:11,275 >> DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER 301 00:10:11,275 --> 00:10:12,896 EXPLANATION OF HOW THAT BLOOD 302 00:10:12,896 --> 00:10:14,310 SPATTER COULD HAVE GOTTEN THERE? 303 00:10:14,310 --> 00:10:15,379 >> NOT REALLY. 304 00:10:15,379 --> 00:10:16,689 >> ON THE CEILING, ON THE 305 00:10:16,689 --> 00:10:17,758 WINDOW, ON THE WALLS? 306 00:10:17,758 --> 00:10:18,482 >> NO. 307 00:10:18,482 --> 00:10:21,241 >> ADDING TO AUTHORITIES' 308 00:10:21,241 --> 00:10:23,793 SUSPICIONS WAS THIS BLOODY 309 00:10:23,793 --> 00:10:25,551 SYRINGE FOUND IN THE BATHROOM 310 00:10:25,551 --> 00:10:25,827 GARBAGE. 311 00:10:25,827 --> 00:10:28,379 JANE TOLD US SHE USED IT TO 312 00:10:28,379 --> 00:10:29,655 MEDICATE HER HORSES. 313 00:10:29,655 --> 00:10:31,793 >> I KNOW THAT I GIVE THE HORSES 314 00:10:31,793 --> 00:10:32,689 SHOTS ALL THE TIME. 315 00:10:32,689 --> 00:10:34,862 IF YOU GO LOOK IN MY FRIG RIGHT 316 00:10:34,862 --> 00:10:38,206 NOW, YOU'LL FIND HORSE SYRINGES. 317 00:10:38,206 --> 00:10:40,172 >> INVESTIGATORS THEORIZE THAT 318 00:10:40,172 --> 00:10:41,862 JANE HIT HER HUSBAND WITH AN 319 00:10:41,862 --> 00:10:43,517 OBJECT IN THE BEDROOM AND 320 00:10:43,517 --> 00:10:44,482 STRANGLED HIM. 321 00:10:44,482 --> 00:10:46,689 SHE THEN DRESSED HIM IN HIS 322 00:10:46,689 --> 00:10:48,241 JOGGING SUIT, PUT HIM IN THEIR 323 00:10:48,241 --> 00:10:49,931 TRUCK AND DUMPED HIM ALONG THE 324 00:10:49,931 --> 00:10:51,965 SIDE OF THE ROAD WHERE HIS BODY 325 00:10:51,965 --> 00:10:53,000 WAS FOUND. 326 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:54,482 >> WHY DO THEY BELIEVE YOU 327 00:10:54,482 --> 00:10:56,724 KILLED YOUR HUSBAND? 328 00:10:56,724 --> 00:10:58,448 >> YOU KNOW, I GUESS I'VE BEEN 329 00:10:58,448 --> 00:11:01,827 THROUGH THAT ONE A BILLION 330 00:11:01,827 --> 00:11:02,103 TIMES. 331 00:11:02,103 --> 00:11:02,896 I DON'T KNOW. 332 00:11:02,896 --> 00:11:05,241 >> BUT INVESTIGATORS THOUGHT 333 00:11:05,241 --> 00:11:05,793 THEY KNEW. 334 00:11:05,793 --> 00:11:07,689 BELIEVING THE MOTIVE WAS MONEY 335 00:11:07,689 --> 00:11:09,827 AND ESCAPING A TROUBLED 336 00:11:09,827 --> 00:11:10,068 MARRIAGE. 337 00:11:10,068 --> 00:11:12,241 JANE WAS THE MAIN BREAD WINNER 338 00:11:12,241 --> 00:11:13,931 AND THEY LEARNED THE COUPLE HAD 339 00:11:13,931 --> 00:11:16,827 SPLIT UP FOR A YEAR IN 1997. 340 00:11:16,827 --> 00:11:18,413 >> I DON'T MAKE ANY APOLOGIES 341 00:11:18,413 --> 00:11:21,379 FOR THE FACT THAT WE HAD ROUGH 342 00:11:21,379 --> 00:11:22,689 TIMES, BUT THAT DOESN'T CHANGE 343 00:11:22,689 --> 00:11:27,310 THE FACT THAT WE LOVED EACH 344 00:11:27,310 --> 00:11:27,551 OTHER. 345 00:11:27,551 --> 00:11:29,379 >> AND THAT LOVE, SAYS JANE, IS 346 00:11:29,379 --> 00:11:31,172 WHY THEY RECONCILED. 347 00:11:31,172 --> 00:11:32,896 THEY HAD BEEN BACK LIVING WITH 348 00:11:32,896 --> 00:11:34,551 EACH OTHER FOR A YEAR AND A HALF 349 00:11:34,551 --> 00:11:35,793 BEFORE BOB WAS KILLED. 350 00:11:35,793 --> 00:11:38,689 >> I REALLY THINK THE SEPARATION 351 00:11:38,689 --> 00:11:40,689 CAUSED US TO REALLY REGROUP AND 352 00:11:40,689 --> 00:11:42,103 THINK ABOUT WHAT WAS IMPORTANT. 353 00:11:42,103 --> 00:11:43,517 >> THEY WERE GETTING ALONG 354 00:11:43,517 --> 00:11:46,068 BETTER THAN THEY EVER HAD IN THE 355 00:11:46,068 --> 00:11:46,482 PAST. 356 00:11:46,482 --> 00:11:47,137 I WAS LIVING THERE. 357 00:11:47,137 --> 00:11:48,724 I CAN TELL YOU THAT. 358 00:11:48,724 --> 00:11:50,206 >> BUT LAW ENFORCEMENT WAS 359 00:11:50,206 --> 00:11:52,137 UNMOVED, AND THREE DAYS AFTER 360 00:11:52,137 --> 00:11:55,896 BOB DOROTIK'S BODY WAS FOUND, 361 00:11:55,896 --> 00:11:58,551 JANE WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED 362 00:11:58,551 --> 00:12:00,344 WITH FIRST-DEGREE MURDER. 363 00:12:00,344 --> 00:12:02,310 >> I KNOW I DIDN'T DO THIS. 364 00:12:02,310 --> 00:12:04,586 I KNOW THERE'S A KILLER OUT 365 00:12:04,586 --> 00:12:04,793 THERE. 366 00:12:04,793 --> 00:12:07,000 BUT HOW AM I GOING TO CLEAR 367 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,034 MYSELF? 368 00:12:09,034 --> 00:12:09,689 >> SHE'S BAFFLED BECAUSE I DON'T 369 00:12:09,689 --> 00:12:10,758 KNOW SHE KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED. 370 00:12:10,758 --> 00:12:12,793 >> RELEASED ON JAIL, JANE 371 00:12:12,793 --> 00:12:16,000 STARTED PREPARING HER DEFENSE, 372 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:17,172 HIRING AN ATTORNEY. 373 00:12:17,172 --> 00:12:18,862 >> SHE KNOWS SHE'S PLACED AS THE 374 00:12:18,862 --> 00:12:21,137 KILLER AND SHE'S NOT THE KILLER. 375 00:12:21,137 --> 00:12:23,758 >> AND THE TRIAL JANE'S ATTORNEY 376 00:12:23,758 --> 00:12:25,586 WOULD PRESENT A SURPRISE SUSPECT 377 00:12:25,586 --> 00:12:28,137 WHO HE FELT WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR 378 00:12:28,137 --> 00:12:48,103 BOB DOROTIK'S MURDER. 379 00:12:48,103 --> 00:12:49,000 I DON'T HAVE ANY MORE FAITH IN 380 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,931 THE LEGAL SYSTEM. 381 00:12:51,931 --> 00:12:53,482 I BELIEVE I COULD BE CONVICTED 382 00:12:53,482 --> 00:12:55,000 FOR SOMETHING I DIDN'T DO AND 383 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:56,586 THAT'S VERY SCARY. 384 00:12:56,586 --> 00:12:58,655 >> WHILE JANE WORRIED ABOUT HER 385 00:12:58,655 --> 00:13:00,931 OUTCOME AT TRIAL, CLAIRE DOROTIK 386 00:13:00,931 --> 00:13:03,034 WAS MUCH MORE CONFIDENT ABOUT 387 00:13:03,034 --> 00:13:05,827 HER MOTHER'S CHANCES. 388 00:13:05,827 --> 00:13:07,103 >> MY MOM COULD NOT HAVE DONE 389 00:13:07,103 --> 00:13:07,793 THIS CRIME. 390 00:13:07,793 --> 00:13:09,448 SHE DIDN'T HAVE THE MOTIVE AND 391 00:13:09,448 --> 00:13:11,103 SHE DIDN'T HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY. 392 00:13:11,103 --> 00:13:13,586 >> WHEN THE CASE WENT TO TRIAL 393 00:13:13,586 --> 00:13:16,413 IN 2001, A YEAR AFTER THE 394 00:13:16,413 --> 00:13:19,000 MURDER, PROSECUTOR BONNIE 395 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:20,689 HOWARD-REGAN DESCRIBED THE 396 00:13:20,689 --> 00:13:22,000 DOROTIKS' MARRIAGE AS SERIOUSLY 397 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,551 TROUBLED AND TOLD JURORS THAT 398 00:13:25,551 --> 00:13:27,034 JANE DIDN'T WANT TO PAY BOB 399 00:13:27,034 --> 00:13:28,413 ALIMONY IN A DIVORCE. 400 00:13:28,413 --> 00:13:30,137 >> BOB DOROTIK NEVER WENT 401 00:13:30,137 --> 00:13:33,068 JOGGING AND HE NEVER LEFT THAT 402 00:13:33,068 --> 00:13:34,862 RESIDENCE ALIVE. 403 00:13:34,862 --> 00:13:36,586 >> ACCORDING TO THE STATE, BOB 404 00:13:36,586 --> 00:13:37,896 HAD ACTUALLY BEEN KILLED 405 00:13:37,896 --> 00:13:39,827 SATURDAY NIGHT, NEARLY A DAY 406 00:13:39,827 --> 00:13:42,517 BEFORE JANE REPORTED HIM 407 00:13:42,517 --> 00:13:42,758 MISSING. 408 00:13:42,758 --> 00:13:45,724 THE AUTOPSY PERFORMED BY DR. 409 00:13:45,724 --> 00:13:48,724 CHRISTOPHER SWALWELL SHOWED 410 00:13:48,724 --> 00:13:50,137 UNDIGESTED FOOD CONSISTENT WITH 411 00:13:50,137 --> 00:13:51,517 WHAT JANE SAID THEY HAD FOR 412 00:13:51,517 --> 00:13:52,413 DINNER THAT NIGHT. 413 00:13:52,413 --> 00:13:54,896 >> ARE YOU ABLE TO GIVE US AN 414 00:13:54,896 --> 00:13:58,172 ESTIMATE OF HOW LONG AFTER MR. 415 00:13:58,172 --> 00:13:59,620 DOROTIK ATE, HOW LONG AFTER 416 00:13:59,620 --> 00:14:01,586 THAT, HE WAS KILLED? 417 00:14:01,586 --> 00:14:03,896 >> YES, IT WAS VERY SHORTLY 418 00:14:03,896 --> 00:14:05,724 AFTER HE ATE. 419 00:14:05,724 --> 00:14:06,344 I WOULD SAY IT WAS PROBABLY 420 00:14:06,344 --> 00:14:08,793 WITHIN A COUPLE OF HOURS. 421 00:14:08,793 --> 00:14:10,344 >> AND HE WASN'T KILLED ON THE 422 00:14:10,344 --> 00:14:13,172 SIDE OF THE ROAD, THE PROSECUTOR 423 00:14:13,172 --> 00:14:13,689 SAID. 424 00:14:13,689 --> 00:14:16,068 THERE WASN'T ENOUGH BLOOD THERE. 425 00:14:16,068 --> 00:14:17,862 INSTEAD, SHE SAID BOB'S BLOOD 426 00:14:17,862 --> 00:14:21,689 WAS ALL OVER THE BEDROOM. 427 00:14:21,689 --> 00:14:23,862 LEAD DETECTIVE RICK EMPSON 428 00:14:23,862 --> 00:14:25,413 TESTIFIED HE HAD ASKED JANE TO 429 00:14:25,413 --> 00:14:26,724 EXPLAIN THAT. 430 00:14:26,724 --> 00:14:28,586 >> SHE INDICATED INITIALLY THAT 431 00:14:28,586 --> 00:14:31,206 SHE HAD A DOG THAT HAD BEEN 432 00:14:31,206 --> 00:14:32,103 BLEEDING, AND THEN INDICATED 433 00:14:32,103 --> 00:14:33,655 THAT APPROXIMATELY A WEEK 434 00:14:33,655 --> 00:14:36,551 PRAYER, BOB HAD A BLOODY NOSE 435 00:14:36,551 --> 00:14:38,206 OVER IN THE CORNER BY THE STOVE. 436 00:14:38,206 --> 00:14:40,655 THAT BOB HAD CLEANED IT UP. 437 00:14:40,655 --> 00:14:41,931 >> THERE WAS EVIDENCE SOMEONE 438 00:14:41,931 --> 00:14:43,344 CLEANED THE BEDROOM. 439 00:14:43,344 --> 00:14:45,517 THE CARPET NEXT TO THE POT BELLY 440 00:14:45,517 --> 00:14:48,344 STOVE AND TIME FLOOR WAS WET AND 441 00:14:48,344 --> 00:14:50,379 HAD BLOOD STAINS UNDERNEATH. 442 00:14:50,379 --> 00:14:53,482 >> DID ANY OF THE BLOOD FROM HIS 443 00:14:53,482 --> 00:14:54,896 NOSEBLEED GO ON THE CARPET? 444 00:14:54,896 --> 00:14:55,758 >> UH-HUH. 445 00:14:55,758 --> 00:14:56,689 >> DO YOU KNOW WHERE? 446 00:14:56,689 --> 00:14:57,965 >> UH-HUH. 447 00:14:57,965 --> 00:14:59,517 RIGHT NEXT TO THE TIME. 448 00:14:59,517 --> 00:15:01,448 I'M THE ONE WHO HELPED HIM CLEAN 449 00:15:01,448 --> 00:15:01,724 IT. 450 00:15:01,724 --> 00:15:04,931 >> AUTHORITIES DISMISSED JANE'S 451 00:15:04,931 --> 00:15:05,275 EXPLANATIONS. 452 00:15:05,275 --> 00:15:07,379 THEIR THEORY WAS THAT JANE HIT 453 00:15:07,379 --> 00:15:09,482 BOB IN THE HEAD IN THEIR BEDROOM 454 00:15:09,482 --> 00:15:11,448 WITH AN OBJECT WHILE HE WAS 455 00:15:11,448 --> 00:15:13,689 LYING IN BED, ALTHOUGH THEY 456 00:15:13,689 --> 00:15:17,344 NEVER IDENTIFIED OR FOUND ANY 457 00:15:17,344 --> 00:15:17,586 WEAPON. 458 00:15:17,586 --> 00:15:19,137 CHARLES MERRITT, A CRIMINALIST 459 00:15:19,137 --> 00:15:21,758 AND BLOOD STAIN PATTERN ANALYST 460 00:15:21,758 --> 00:15:22,931 FOR THE SAN DIEGO COUNTY 461 00:15:22,931 --> 00:15:25,655 SHERIFF'S CRIME LAB RECOUNTED 20 462 00:15:25,655 --> 00:15:27,620 LOCATIONS WHERE HE SAW BLOOD 463 00:15:27,620 --> 00:15:27,862 STAINS. 464 00:15:27,862 --> 00:15:32,517 >> ON ONE OF THE PILLOWS, ON A 465 00:15:32,517 --> 00:15:34,379 LAMP, THIS PARTICULAR NIGHT 466 00:15:34,379 --> 00:15:36,448 STAND, ON THE POT BELLY STOVE. 467 00:15:36,448 --> 00:15:38,000 IT WAS ON THE CEILING ITSELF. 468 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:39,896 THEN ON THE UNDERSIDE OF THE 469 00:15:39,896 --> 00:15:40,172 MATTRESS. 470 00:15:40,172 --> 00:15:42,448 >> THE JURY WAS ALSO SHOWN THIS 471 00:15:42,448 --> 00:15:44,241 EVIDENCE OF TIRE TRACKS FOUND 472 00:15:44,241 --> 00:15:45,793 NEAR BOB'S BODY. 473 00:15:45,793 --> 00:15:49,379 THE STATE'S EXPERT, ANTHONY 474 00:15:49,379 --> 00:15:51,758 DEMARIA SAID HE MAXED THE THREE 475 00:15:51,758 --> 00:15:53,758 DIFFERENT TYPES OF TIRES ON 476 00:15:53,758 --> 00:15:54,551 DOROTIK'S TRUCK. 477 00:15:54,551 --> 00:15:56,413 >> ARE YOU SAYING THE 478 00:15:56,413 --> 00:15:57,758 MEASUREMENTS TAKEN AT THE SCENE 479 00:15:57,758 --> 00:16:00,379 WERE EQUAL TO THE MEASUREMENTS 480 00:16:00,379 --> 00:16:01,724 TAKEN OFF THE ACTUAL VEHICLE? 481 00:16:01,724 --> 00:16:03,000 >> YES. 482 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:04,655 >> THE MOST TELLING EVIDENCE 483 00:16:04,655 --> 00:16:06,689 CONNECTING JANE TO THE MURDER, 484 00:16:06,689 --> 00:16:09,448 ACCORDING TO THE PROSECUTOR, WAS 485 00:16:09,448 --> 00:16:11,241 THAT SYRINGE FOUND IN THE 486 00:16:11,241 --> 00:16:11,517 BATHROOM. 487 00:16:11,517 --> 00:16:14,206 IT HAD TRACES OF A HORSE 488 00:16:14,206 --> 00:16:15,034 TRANQUILLIZER INSIDE. 489 00:16:15,034 --> 00:16:16,862 AND EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS NO 490 00:16:16,862 --> 00:16:19,103 EVIDENCE THAT BOB HAD BEEN 491 00:16:19,103 --> 00:16:21,310 INJECTED WITH ANYTHING, IT HAD 492 00:16:21,310 --> 00:16:24,379 BOB'S BLOOD AND A BLOODY 493 00:16:24,379 --> 00:16:25,034 FINGERPRINT ON IT. 494 00:16:25,034 --> 00:16:27,896 >> THE EVIDENCE WILL SLOW THE 495 00:16:27,896 --> 00:16:29,793 FINGERPRINT ON THIS SYRINGE WAS 496 00:16:29,793 --> 00:16:31,034 JANE DOROTIK'S. 497 00:16:31,034 --> 00:16:32,655 >> CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT? 498 00:16:32,655 --> 00:16:33,965 >> I CAN'T REALLY EXPLAIN IT 499 00:16:33,965 --> 00:16:35,655 OTHER THAN I KNOW THAT I HELPED 500 00:16:35,655 --> 00:16:39,000 BOB CLEAN UP A NOSEBLEED. 501 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:40,689 IF THAT'S THE SAME TIME THAT I 502 00:16:40,689 --> 00:16:42,137 TOOK THE SYRINGES AND THREW THEM 503 00:16:42,137 --> 00:16:43,379 IN THE TRASH AND THERE WAS SOME 504 00:16:43,379 --> 00:16:44,827 BLOOD ON MY HAND, THAT COULD 505 00:16:44,827 --> 00:16:46,931 HAVE MADE THAT HAPPEN. 506 00:16:46,931 --> 00:16:49,482 >> BUT PERHAPS THE MOST POWERFUL 507 00:16:49,482 --> 00:16:52,241 WITNESSES WERE THE DOROTIKS' TWO 508 00:16:52,241 --> 00:16:54,655 SONS, NICK AND ALEX. 509 00:16:54,655 --> 00:16:56,896 THEY BOTH TESTIFIED AGAINST 510 00:16:56,896 --> 00:16:59,827 THEIR MOTHER. 511 00:16:59,827 --> 00:17:00,965 >> DID YOU SAY ANYTHING 512 00:17:00,965 --> 00:17:02,034 SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE SYRINGE? 513 00:17:02,034 --> 00:17:03,862 >> I ASKED HER HOW IT GOT THERE 514 00:17:03,862 --> 00:17:05,448 AND WHAT IT WAS DOING THERE. 515 00:17:05,448 --> 00:17:06,827 >> WHAT WAS YOUR MOTHER'S 516 00:17:06,827 --> 00:17:07,241 RESPONSE? 517 00:17:07,241 --> 00:17:08,689 >> SHE SAID THAT HER BIGGEST 518 00:17:08,689 --> 00:17:11,619 FEAR IN ALL OF THIS WAS THAT US 519 00:17:11,619 --> 00:17:13,034 FAMILY MEMBERS WOULD START 520 00:17:13,034 --> 00:17:14,550 QUESTIONING HER. 521 00:17:14,550 --> 00:17:15,862 >> YOUR MOTHER ALWAYS SETTLED 522 00:17:15,862 --> 00:17:17,068 THINGS LOGICALLY? 523 00:17:17,068 --> 00:17:17,964 TRIED TO? 524 00:17:17,964 --> 00:17:19,241 >> NO. 525 00:17:19,241 --> 00:17:20,931 >> YOU WOULDN'T AGREE WITH THAT 526 00:17:20,931 --> 00:17:21,172 STATEMENT? 527 00:17:21,172 --> 00:17:23,241 >> NOME. 528 00:17:23,241 --> 00:17:25,137 IT WOULD BE MY MOM SAYING THIS 529 00:17:25,137 --> 00:17:27,205 IS WHAT YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT AND 530 00:17:27,205 --> 00:17:29,827 THEN MY DAD WOULD EITHER ACCEPT 531 00:17:29,827 --> 00:17:31,241 IT OR THERE WOULD BE THREATS OF 532 00:17:31,241 --> 00:17:32,413 DIVORCE OR SOMETHING. 533 00:17:32,413 --> 00:17:35,000 THAT'S WHAT I REMEMBER FROM 534 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,965 GROWING UP. 535 00:17:37,965 --> 00:17:39,827 >> JANE'S ATTORNEYS ADMITTED IT 536 00:17:39,827 --> 00:17:41,482 WAS A BIG BLOW. 537 00:17:41,482 --> 00:17:43,000 >> WOULD YOU SAY THAT HAS BEEN 538 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:45,206 THE MOST DAMAGING TESTIMONY? 539 00:17:45,206 --> 00:17:46,206 >> YEAH. 540 00:17:46,206 --> 00:17:47,172 IT'S NOT WHAT THEY SAID. 541 00:17:47,172 --> 00:17:49,689 IT'S THE FACT THAT THEY WERE 542 00:17:49,689 --> 00:17:50,896 THERE TESTIFYING FOR THE 543 00:17:50,896 --> 00:17:51,206 PROSECUTION. 544 00:17:51,206 --> 00:17:53,413 >> WHEN IT CAME TIME FOR THE 545 00:17:53,413 --> 00:17:56,103 DEFENSE TO PRESENT ITS CASE, 546 00:17:56,103 --> 00:17:57,482 STEIGERWALD ACTUALLY AGREED WITH 547 00:17:57,482 --> 00:17:59,344 THE PROSECUTION ON A MAJOR 548 00:17:59,344 --> 00:17:59,724 POINT. 549 00:17:59,724 --> 00:18:01,448 THAT THE MURDER TOOK PLACE IN 550 00:18:01,448 --> 00:18:03,172 THE BEDROOM. 551 00:18:03,172 --> 00:18:06,482 BUT HE HAD A JAW-DRAWING 552 00:18:06,482 --> 00:18:08,310 ALTERNATIVE SUSPECT. 553 00:18:08,310 --> 00:18:09,068 CLAIRE DOROTIK. 554 00:18:09,068 --> 00:18:11,482 >> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, CLAIRE 555 00:18:11,482 --> 00:18:12,965 HATED HER FATHER. 556 00:18:12,965 --> 00:18:15,655 >> HE CLAIMED CLAIRE, AN AVID 557 00:18:15,655 --> 00:18:17,310 HORSE WOMAN, HATED HER FATHER 558 00:18:17,310 --> 00:18:19,586 BECAUSE HE THREATENED TO SELL 559 00:18:19,586 --> 00:18:21,310 THE ANIMALS SHE LOVED AND 560 00:18:21,310 --> 00:18:23,793 SUGGESTED THAT SHE WAS CAPABLE 561 00:18:23,793 --> 00:18:26,137 OF MURDER. 562 00:18:26,137 --> 00:18:27,724 >> THAT'S WHAT CLAIRE IS. 563 00:18:27,724 --> 00:18:30,827 HOT TEMPERED, EXPLOSIVE 564 00:18:30,827 --> 00:18:31,103 INDIVIDUAL. 565 00:18:31,103 --> 00:18:33,241 >> IT WAS A RISKY STRATEGY THAT 566 00:18:33,241 --> 00:18:36,206 JANE RELUCTANTLY AGREED TO. 567 00:18:36,206 --> 00:18:39,862 >> ALL I CAN DO IS TRUST WHAT 568 00:18:39,862 --> 00:18:41,379 KERRY SAYS IS THE BEST WAY TO 569 00:18:41,379 --> 00:18:42,000 GO. 570 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,206 >> ARE YOU AT ALL CONCERNED THAT 571 00:18:43,206 --> 00:18:44,793 THE JURY WILL WONDER ABOUT A 572 00:18:44,793 --> 00:18:46,206 WOMAN WHO WOULD ALLOW HERSELF TO 573 00:18:46,206 --> 00:18:48,172 BE DEFENDED BY POINTING THE 574 00:18:48,172 --> 00:18:49,379 FINGER AT HER DAUGHTER? 575 00:18:49,379 --> 00:18:50,862 COULD THAT WORK AGAINST THE TWO 576 00:18:50,862 --> 00:18:51,620 OF YOU? 577 00:18:51,620 --> 00:18:53,931 >> IT MAY. 578 00:18:53,931 --> 00:18:54,379 I DON'T KNOW. 579 00:18:54,379 --> 00:18:56,862 I THINK IT IS THE MOST VIABLE 580 00:18:56,862 --> 00:18:58,551 DEFENSE AND I THINK IT IS 581 00:18:58,551 --> 00:19:01,068 SUPPORTED BY THE BEST EVIDENCE. 582 00:19:01,068 --> 00:19:03,000 >> STEIGERWALD INSISTED JANE 583 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:04,413 WASN'T PHYSICALLY ABLE TO COMMIT 584 00:19:04,413 --> 00:19:07,379 THE MURDER, BUT CLAIRE WAS. 585 00:19:07,379 --> 00:19:10,000 >> SHE RUNS MARATHONS AND SHE'S 586 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,758 A PERSONAL TRAINER. 587 00:19:12,758 --> 00:19:15,379 SHE IS AS FIT A WOMAN AS YOU 588 00:19:15,379 --> 00:19:18,241 WILL SEE AT THE AGE OF 24. 589 00:19:18,241 --> 00:19:21,241 >> BUT REMEMBER, CLAIRE AND HER 590 00:19:21,241 --> 00:19:23,103 AUNT SAID THEY WERE TOGETHER TWO 591 00:19:23,103 --> 00:19:24,758 HOURS AWAY. 592 00:19:24,758 --> 00:19:26,206 >> WE CALLED THE AUNT. 593 00:19:26,206 --> 00:19:28,206 THAT'S THE EXTENT OF THE 594 00:19:28,206 --> 00:19:31,862 INVESTIGATION INTO THE ALIBI OF 595 00:19:31,862 --> 00:19:32,896 CLAIRE DOROTIK. 596 00:19:32,896 --> 00:19:34,379 >> WILL YOU PLEASE STEP FORWARD? 597 00:19:34,379 --> 00:19:36,103 >> THAT ALIBI IS NONSENSE. 598 00:19:36,103 --> 00:19:38,103 >> YOU ARE GOING TO ASSERT YOUR 599 00:19:38,103 --> 00:19:39,000 FIFTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS? 600 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,172 >> THE JURORS NEVER HEARD FROM 601 00:19:41,172 --> 00:19:43,517 CLAIRE OR JANE WHO CHOSE NOT TO 602 00:19:43,517 --> 00:19:43,862 TESTIFY. 603 00:19:43,862 --> 00:19:46,275 BUT THEY DID HEAR FROM A WOMAN 604 00:19:46,275 --> 00:19:48,206 WHO SAID SHE THOUGHT SHE SAW BOB 605 00:19:48,206 --> 00:19:50,206 THE DAY HE DISAPPEARED, SITTING 606 00:19:50,206 --> 00:19:53,344 BETWEEN TWO MEN IN A BLACK 607 00:19:53,344 --> 00:19:55,172 PICKUP TRUCK NOT FAR FROM WHERE 608 00:19:55,172 --> 00:19:56,379 HIS BODY WAS FOUND. 609 00:19:56,379 --> 00:19:58,862 >> WHO KILLED ROBERT DOROTIK? 610 00:19:58,862 --> 00:20:01,206 WAS IT CLAIRE DOROTIK? 611 00:20:01,206 --> 00:20:03,379 >> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WAS IT 612 00:20:03,379 --> 00:20:04,310 SOMEONE ELSE? 613 00:20:04,310 --> 00:20:08,310 >> IN HIS CLOSING ARGUMENTS, 614 00:20:08,310 --> 00:20:09,137 STEIGERWALD ACCUSED 615 00:20:09,137 --> 00:20:11,137 INVESTIGATORS OF DISMISSING 616 00:20:11,137 --> 00:20:13,275 WITNESSES LIKE THAT WOMAN AND 617 00:20:13,275 --> 00:20:15,275 FOCUSING ONLY ON JANE. 618 00:20:15,275 --> 00:20:16,517 >> THE PROSECUTION FOCUSED ON 619 00:20:16,517 --> 00:20:18,689 ONE PERSON AND THAT'S NOT THE 620 00:20:18,689 --> 00:20:20,517 WAY TO CONDUCT AN INVESTIGATION. 621 00:20:20,517 --> 00:20:22,758 IT'S NOT THE WAY TO RUN A CASE. 622 00:20:22,758 --> 00:20:24,241 >> JANE DOROTIK AND BOB DOROTIK 623 00:20:24,241 --> 00:20:26,068 WERE THE ONLY TWO PEOPLE IN THAT 624 00:20:26,068 --> 00:20:27,310 HOME THAT WEEKEND. 625 00:20:27,310 --> 00:20:30,310 >> BONNIE HOWARD-REGAN SAID 626 00:20:30,310 --> 00:20:31,517 THERE'S NO NEED TO INVESTIGATE 627 00:20:31,517 --> 00:20:33,068 FURTHER WHEN YOU HAVE SUFFICIENT 628 00:20:33,068 --> 00:20:33,344 EVIDENCE. 629 00:20:33,344 --> 00:20:34,793 >> THEY SEARCHED THAT BEDROOM 630 00:20:34,793 --> 00:20:36,551 AND THEY SAW ALL THE BLOOD AND 631 00:20:36,551 --> 00:20:38,448 THEY KNEW THAT WAS THE CRIME 632 00:20:38,448 --> 00:20:38,655 SCENE. 633 00:20:38,655 --> 00:20:40,862 WHAT MORE INVESTIGATION DO THEY 634 00:20:40,862 --> 00:20:41,620 NEED TO DO? 635 00:20:41,620 --> 00:20:44,379 >> IT TOOK THE JURY FOUR DAYS TO 636 00:20:44,379 --> 00:20:45,655 RETURN A VERDICT. 637 00:20:45,655 --> 00:20:48,034 >> WE THE JURY IN THE 638 00:20:48,034 --> 00:20:49,793 ABOVE-ENTITLED CAUSE FIND THE 639 00:20:49,793 --> 00:20:51,241 DEFENDANT JANE MARGUERITE 640 00:20:51,241 --> 00:20:55,172 DOROTIK GUILTY OF THE CRIME OF 641 00:20:55,172 --> 00:20:57,172 MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE. 642 00:20:57,172 --> 00:21:00,137 >> DID JANE DOROTIK GET A FAIR 643 00:21:00,137 --> 00:21:01,827 TRIAL? 644 00:21:01,827 --> 00:21:03,655 >> NO. 645 00:21:03,655 --> 00:21:04,172 NO. 646 00:21:04,172 --> 00:21:05,448 BECAUSE FAIRNESS MEANS THAT 647 00:21:05,448 --> 00:21:07,586 YOU'RE PRESENTING THINGS 648 00:21:07,586 --> 00:21:09,379 ACCURATELY AND IT APPEARS LIKE 649 00:21:09,379 --> 00:21:11,965 IT WAS NOT DONE ACCURATELY. 650 00:21:11,965 --> 00:21:14,413 >> JUROR NUMBER 8? 651 00:21:14,413 --> 00:21:15,655 JUROR NUMBER 9? 652 00:21:15,655 --> 00:21:16,206 >> YES. 653 00:21:16,206 --> 00:21:17,862 >> JUROR NUMBER 10? 654 00:21:17,862 --> 00:21:18,551 >> YES. 655 00:21:18,551 --> 00:21:26,620 >> YES. >> GO BEHIND THE 656 00:21:26,620 --> 00:21:34,344 >> GO BEHIND THE 657 00:21:34,344 --> 00:21:35,965 >>> IT ALMOST DIDN'T REGISTER 658 00:21:35,965 --> 00:21:37,551 FOR A MINUTE. 659 00:21:37,551 --> 00:21:41,482 IT'S LIKE, NO, THIS CAN'T BE. 660 00:21:41,482 --> 00:21:42,655 I WAS SO CERTAIN THAT I WAS 661 00:21:42,655 --> 00:21:43,379 WALKING OUT. 662 00:21:43,379 --> 00:21:46,586 I THOUGHT THEY WOULD SEE THE 663 00:21:46,586 --> 00:21:46,793 TRUTH. 664 00:21:46,793 --> 00:21:49,344 >> JANE DOROTIK NEVER IMAGINED 665 00:21:49,344 --> 00:21:50,793 SHE WOULD BE FOUND GUILTY. 666 00:21:50,793 --> 00:21:52,862 >> IT'S HARD TO KEEP GOING. 667 00:21:52,862 --> 00:21:54,793 >> AT THE TIME OF HER CONVICTION 668 00:21:54,793 --> 00:21:57,068 FOR THE MURDER OF HER HUSBAND, 669 00:21:57,068 --> 00:22:00,344 SHE WAS 54 YEARS OLD AND 670 00:22:00,344 --> 00:22:02,931 SENTENCED TO 25 YEARS TO LIFE. 671 00:22:02,931 --> 00:22:05,551 >> I MEAN, I JUST, YOU CAN'T SEE 672 00:22:05,551 --> 00:22:07,724 MY WAY TO A LIFE IN PRISON. 673 00:22:07,724 --> 00:22:08,862 I JUST CAN'T SEE IT. 674 00:22:08,862 --> 00:22:10,620 >> DETERMINED TO PROVE THE JURY 675 00:22:10,620 --> 00:22:13,000 GOT IT WRONG, JANE BECAME HER 676 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,068 OWN ADVOCATE, WORKING ON HER 677 00:22:15,068 --> 00:22:16,413 CASE FOR MANY YEARS. 678 00:22:16,413 --> 00:22:19,103 WE SPOKE WITH JANE AGAIN TWO 679 00:22:19,103 --> 00:22:21,137 DECADES LATER ABOUT HER EFFORTS. 680 00:22:21,137 --> 00:22:23,137 >> ALL THROUGH THE PRISON, MY 681 00:22:23,137 --> 00:22:26,034 PRISON JOURNEY, I CONTINUED TO 682 00:22:26,034 --> 00:22:27,448 WRITE ALL INNOCENCE PROJECTS I 683 00:22:27,448 --> 00:22:30,482 COULD THINK OF ASKING FOR HELP. 684 00:22:30,482 --> 00:22:31,620 AT THE SAME TIME REALIZED I HAD 685 00:22:31,620 --> 00:22:33,482 TO FIGHT FOR MYSELF. 686 00:22:33,482 --> 00:22:34,758 >> JANE FILED MOTIONS FROM 687 00:22:34,758 --> 00:22:38,103 PRISON CITING SUCH ISSUES AS 688 00:22:38,103 --> 00:22:40,000 INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE AND 689 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:41,620 INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF 690 00:22:41,620 --> 00:22:41,862 COUNSEL. 691 00:22:41,862 --> 00:22:44,241 >> I WOULD DESCRIBE MY DEFENSE 692 00:22:44,241 --> 00:22:46,827 AS LIMITED AND INADEQUATE. 693 00:22:46,827 --> 00:22:49,103 >> IN HER FILINGS, JANE 694 00:22:49,103 --> 00:22:50,862 INDICATED SHE WANTED TO TESTIFY 695 00:22:50,862 --> 00:22:53,206 AT HER TRIAL BUT HAD LEFT THAT 696 00:22:53,206 --> 00:22:55,551 DECISION UP TO HER ATTORNEY, AND 697 00:22:55,551 --> 00:22:58,103 THAT HAD SHE TESTIFIED, SHE 698 00:22:58,103 --> 00:23:01,241 COULD HAVE EXPLAINED BOB'S 699 00:23:01,241 --> 00:23:02,827 STOMACH CONTENTS, STATING THAT 700 00:23:02,827 --> 00:23:04,517 HE SOMETIMES ATE LEFTOVERS FROM 701 00:23:04,517 --> 00:23:05,965 THE PREVIOUS NIGHT. 702 00:23:05,965 --> 00:23:07,758 SHE ALSO DESCRIBED HER 703 00:23:07,758 --> 00:23:08,793 ATTORNEY'S ALTERNATE SUSPECT 704 00:23:08,793 --> 00:23:10,413 THEORY, POINTING TO HER DAUGHTER 705 00:23:10,413 --> 00:23:14,241 CLAIRE AS THE KILLER AS ABSURD. 706 00:23:14,241 --> 00:23:15,655 >> DO YOU BELIEVE THAT YOUR 707 00:23:15,655 --> 00:23:17,448 DAUGHTER CLAIRE HAD ANYTHING TO 708 00:23:17,448 --> 00:23:18,758 DO WITH THE DEATH -- 709 00:23:18,758 --> 00:23:23,172 >> ABSOLUTELY UNEQUIVOCALLY NOT. 710 00:23:23,172 --> 00:23:24,517 AND MY DEFENSE ATTORNEY, 711 00:23:24,517 --> 00:23:26,655 EVERYBODY KNEW SHE WAS AWAY FOR 712 00:23:26,655 --> 00:23:27,586 THAT WEEKEND. 713 00:23:27,586 --> 00:23:29,931 >> IN REGARD TO THAT DEFENSE 714 00:23:29,931 --> 00:23:31,517 STRATEGY, CLAIRE LATER WROTE IN 715 00:23:31,517 --> 00:23:33,896 A BOOK, HOW COULD I BE ANGRY AT 716 00:23:33,896 --> 00:23:35,862 MY MOTHER WHEN ALL I DID WAS 717 00:23:35,862 --> 00:23:37,344 WORRY ABOUT HER? 718 00:23:37,344 --> 00:23:39,206 JANE'S LAWYER, WHOM WE 719 00:23:39,206 --> 00:23:40,517 INTERVIEWED AT THE TIME OF HER 720 00:23:40,517 --> 00:23:42,862 TRIAL, DID NOT SPEAK WITH US 721 00:23:42,862 --> 00:23:43,034 AGAIN. 722 00:23:43,034 --> 00:23:46,758 >> THAT WAS THE WORST STRATEGY 723 00:23:46,758 --> 00:23:48,827 OF MY LIFE EVER. 724 00:23:48,827 --> 00:23:50,241 I SAID TO MY ATTORNEY, IF 725 00:23:50,241 --> 00:23:51,862 ANYTHING HAPPENS TO CLAIRE, I'M 726 00:23:51,862 --> 00:23:54,275 GOING TO STAND UP AND SAY I DID 727 00:23:54,275 --> 00:23:54,448 IT. 728 00:23:54,448 --> 00:23:56,413 >> IN HER FILINGS, JANE ALSO 729 00:23:56,413 --> 00:23:59,103 QUESTIONED WHY HER DEFENSE 730 00:23:59,103 --> 00:24:00,931 ATTORNEY ACCEPTED THE BAD 731 00:24:00,931 --> 00:24:02,482 FORENSICS POINTING TO THE 732 00:24:02,482 --> 00:24:04,310 BEDROOM AS THE MURDER SCENE 733 00:24:04,310 --> 00:24:06,517 RATHER THAN PRESENTING OTHER 734 00:24:06,517 --> 00:24:09,000 SCENARIOS AS TO WHERE AND HOW 735 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,000 BOB DOROTIK COULD HAVE BEEN 736 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:13,241 MURDERED. 737 00:24:13,241 --> 00:24:14,827 >> DID THE DEFENSE TOO EASILY 738 00:24:14,827 --> 00:24:16,758 ACCEPT THE BEDROOM AS A CRIME 739 00:24:16,758 --> 00:24:16,965 SCENE? 740 00:24:16,965 --> 00:24:20,517 >> THAT IS A VERY LEGITIMATE 741 00:24:20,517 --> 00:24:20,827 ARGUMENT. 742 00:24:20,827 --> 00:24:25,172 >> CBS NEWS CONSULTANT MATTHEW 743 00:24:25,172 --> 00:24:27,448 TRIANO, A FORMER PROSECUTOR AND 744 00:24:27,448 --> 00:24:29,206 CURRENT DEFENSE ATTORNEY, WASN'T 745 00:24:29,206 --> 00:24:31,103 INVOLVED IN THE DOROTIK CASE BUT 746 00:24:31,103 --> 00:24:32,655 HE REVIEWED SOME OF THE COURT 747 00:24:32,655 --> 00:24:34,172 DOCUMENTS AT HER REQUEST. 748 00:24:34,172 --> 00:24:36,517 >> THE DEFENSE MADE A STRATEGIC 749 00:24:36,517 --> 00:24:37,275 DECISION. 750 00:24:37,275 --> 00:24:39,689 ARE WE GOING TO DISPUTE THAT A 751 00:24:39,689 --> 00:24:41,310 CRIME HAPPENED IN THIS LOCATION 752 00:24:41,310 --> 00:24:43,793 OR ARE WE ESSENTIALLY GOING TO 753 00:24:43,793 --> 00:24:45,206 CONCEDE THAT IT HAPPENED THERE 754 00:24:45,206 --> 00:24:47,137 AND THEN COME ONE A DIFFERENT 755 00:24:47,137 --> 00:24:48,965 NARRATIVE OF HOW IT HAPPENED 756 00:24:48,965 --> 00:24:50,827 THERE, AND THEY CHOSE THE 757 00:24:50,827 --> 00:24:51,034 LATTER. 758 00:24:51,034 --> 00:24:53,172 >> THAT DECISION, HE SAYS, 759 00:24:53,172 --> 00:24:54,275 LIKELY LED THE DEFENSE TO POINT 760 00:24:54,275 --> 00:24:58,482 THE FINGER AT CLAIRE FOR THE 761 00:24:58,482 --> 00:24:58,724 MURDER. 762 00:24:58,724 --> 00:25:00,137 >> THEY HAD TO BLAME SOMEBODY 763 00:25:00,137 --> 00:25:01,413 ELSE FOR SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED 764 00:25:01,413 --> 00:25:03,689 IN A SPECIFIC LOCATION. 765 00:25:03,689 --> 00:25:06,310 AND THEY, AT LEAST AS IT RELATES 766 00:25:06,310 --> 00:25:07,896 TO THE DAUGHTER, WENT BACK TO 767 00:25:07,896 --> 00:25:09,344 HER HAVING SOME DISAGREEMENT 768 00:25:09,344 --> 00:25:12,551 WITH HER FATHER ABOUT SOMETHING 769 00:25:12,551 --> 00:25:14,206 AND IT WAS A RISK. 770 00:25:14,206 --> 00:25:15,275 >> HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THAT KIND 771 00:25:15,275 --> 00:25:16,172 OF DEFENSE? 772 00:25:16,172 --> 00:25:18,344 >> YOU DON'T SEE IT. 773 00:25:18,344 --> 00:25:20,000 IT COULD HAPPEN WHEN THERE ARE 774 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:21,275 CLEAR FACTS AND EVIDENCE TO 775 00:25:21,275 --> 00:25:23,344 SUPPORT IT. 776 00:25:23,344 --> 00:25:26,000 BUT WHEN THERE ARE NONE, YOU 777 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:27,275 KNOW, THAT IS A SHOW STOPPER. 778 00:25:27,275 --> 00:25:29,689 >> IN FACT, CLAIRE WAS NEVER 779 00:25:29,689 --> 00:25:31,655 CHARGED WITH ANY WRONGDOING IN 780 00:25:31,655 --> 00:25:34,758 CONNECTION TO HER FATHER'S 781 00:25:34,758 --> 00:25:35,000 MURDER. 782 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:36,620 THE DEFENSE, ACCEPTING THE 783 00:25:36,620 --> 00:25:39,275 BEDROOM AS THE MURDER SCENE, IS 784 00:25:39,275 --> 00:25:42,517 ESPECIALLY PUZZLING TO TRIANO AS 785 00:25:42,517 --> 00:25:43,655 THERE WERE REPORTS FROM SEVERAL 786 00:25:43,655 --> 00:25:45,103 EYEWITNESSES WHO SAID THEY SAW A 787 00:25:45,103 --> 00:25:47,655 MAN JOGGING THAT DAY. 788 00:25:47,655 --> 00:25:49,931 ACCOUNTS CONSISTENT WITH JANE'S 789 00:25:49,931 --> 00:25:51,827 DEPICTION OF EVENTS. 790 00:25:51,827 --> 00:25:53,620 NOT THE PROSECUTION'S. 791 00:25:53,620 --> 00:25:55,379 >> THAT'S CRITICAL, CRITICAL 792 00:25:55,379 --> 00:25:55,655 EVIDENCE. 793 00:25:55,655 --> 00:25:57,793 >> AND ALL OF THAT WAS REALLY 794 00:25:57,793 --> 00:26:01,000 NOT PURSUED AND I DIDN'T KNOW OF 795 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,172 ALL THE WITNESSES, HAD THERE 796 00:26:02,172 --> 00:26:04,137 BEEN A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION 797 00:26:04,137 --> 00:26:06,172 INITIALLY, ALL OF THAT, WOULD 798 00:26:06,172 --> 00:26:09,103 HAVE COME OUT. 799 00:26:09,103 --> 00:26:10,655 >> THROUGH THE YEARS AND 800 00:26:10,655 --> 00:26:12,482 VIOLENCE, JANE RAISED PROBLEMS 801 00:26:12,482 --> 00:26:14,793 WITH THE ENTIRE CASE AGAINST HER 802 00:26:14,793 --> 00:26:15,931 ARGUING THAT AUTHORITIES FOCUSED 803 00:26:15,931 --> 00:26:18,931 ON HER FROM THE VERY BEGINNING 804 00:26:18,931 --> 00:26:20,862 OF THE INVESTIGATION AND FAILED 805 00:26:20,862 --> 00:26:23,413 TO FOLLOW OTHER INVESTIGATIVE 806 00:26:23,413 --> 00:26:23,689 LEADS. 807 00:26:23,689 --> 00:26:26,310 BUT MOTION AFTER MOTION WAS 808 00:26:26,310 --> 00:26:28,793 DENIED AND REGARDING JANE'S 809 00:26:28,793 --> 00:26:31,206 INEFFECTIVE COUNSEL CLAIM? 810 00:26:31,206 --> 00:26:33,482 THE JUDGE REJECTED THEM ALL, 811 00:26:33,482 --> 00:26:35,482 RULING THAT HER ATTORNEY'S 812 00:26:35,482 --> 00:26:37,862 PERFORMANCE WAS NOT DEFICIENT, 813 00:26:37,862 --> 00:26:39,517 AND THAT HIS ACTIONS HAD NOT 814 00:26:39,517 --> 00:26:42,379 AFFECTED THE OUTCOME OF THE 815 00:26:42,379 --> 00:26:43,034 CASE. 816 00:26:43,034 --> 00:26:44,758 >> THERE WERE MANY MOMENTS WHERE 817 00:26:44,758 --> 00:26:46,965 I DOUBTED WHEN IS THIS EVER 818 00:26:46,965 --> 00:26:48,862 GOING TO TURN AROUND? 819 00:26:48,862 --> 00:26:50,103 MANY, MANY MOMENTS. 820 00:26:50,103 --> 00:26:52,000 >> STILL, JANE DIDN'T GIVE UP. 821 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,551 SHE CONTINUED LOOKING FOR NEW 822 00:26:54,551 --> 00:26:55,965 EVIDENCE TO CLEAR HER. 823 00:26:55,965 --> 00:26:57,965 ESPECIALLY AS DNA TESTING BECAME 824 00:26:57,965 --> 00:26:59,827 MORE ADVANCED. 825 00:26:59,827 --> 00:27:02,068 IN 2012, SHE FILED A PETITION 826 00:27:02,068 --> 00:27:04,758 FOR DNA TESTING OF THAT ROPE 827 00:27:04,758 --> 00:27:06,758 FOUND AROUND BOB'S NECK, AND 828 00:27:06,758 --> 00:27:09,034 OTHER ITEMS, LIKE BOB'S 829 00:27:09,034 --> 00:27:10,827 FINGERNAIL CLIPPINGS WHICH HAD 830 00:27:10,827 --> 00:27:13,862 BEEN SAVED BUT NEVER TESTED. 831 00:27:13,862 --> 00:27:18,551 IN 2015, THE MOTION WAS GRANTED. 832 00:27:18,551 --> 00:27:20,862 >> IS THA UNUSUAL THAT SHE 833 00:27:20,862 --> 00:27:24,206 FINALLY EVEN GOT TESTING BASED 834 00:27:24,206 --> 00:27:27,413 ON HER FILING MOTIONS ON HER 835 00:27:27,413 --> 00:27:27,586 OWN? 836 00:27:27,586 --> 00:27:28,827 >> YES. 837 00:27:28,827 --> 00:27:30,862 IT'S VERY ATYPICAL. 838 00:27:30,862 --> 00:27:32,551 >> IT WAS AT THIS TIME THAT JANE 839 00:27:32,551 --> 00:27:34,517 FINALLY GOT THE ATTENTION OF A 840 00:27:34,517 --> 00:27:36,551 WRONGFUL CONVICTION GROUP. 841 00:27:36,551 --> 00:27:38,103 LOYOLA LAW SCHOOL'S PROJECT FOR 842 00:27:38,103 --> 00:27:38,965 THE INNOCENT. 843 00:27:38,965 --> 00:27:40,206 >> I GET THIS WONDERFUL LETTER 844 00:27:40,206 --> 00:27:41,517 FROM LOYOLA SAYING YOU'VE 845 00:27:41,517 --> 00:27:43,448 CONTACTED US AND WE'RE 846 00:27:43,448 --> 00:27:44,793 INTERESTED IN YOUR CASE, AND 847 00:27:44,793 --> 00:27:47,206 AFTER THAT, LOYOLA TOOK OVER, 848 00:27:47,206 --> 00:27:48,448 GOT THE TESTING DONE. 849 00:27:48,448 --> 00:27:51,137 >> WHAT THAT TESTING REVEALED, 850 00:27:51,137 --> 00:27:53,379 AS WELL AS A FRESH EXAMINATION 851 00:27:53,379 --> 00:27:55,413 OF OTHER EVIDENCE WOULD CHANGE 852 00:27:55,413 --> 00:27:57,034 THE COURSE OF THE CASE. 853 00:27:57,034 --> 00:27:59,655 >> THAT IS REALLY WHAT FLIPS THE 854 00:27:59,655 --> 00:28:00,931 SCRIPT, TO SAY THAT THERE IS 855 00:28:00,931 --> 00:28:02,275 MORE HERE. 856 00:28:02,275 --> 00:28:05,275 THIS IS MORE THAN JUST AN 857 00:28:05,275 --> 00:28:06,689 INADEQUATE INVESTIGATION. 858 00:28:06,689 --> 00:28:07,689 THERE IS A DIFFERNT NARRATIVE 859 00:28:07,689 --> 00:28:10,448 THAT IS RUNNING THROUGH THESE 860 00:28:10,448 --> 00:28:12,172 TEST RESULTS. 861 00:28:12,172 --> 00:28:14,034 THERE IS PHYSICAL EVIDENCE THAT 862 00:28:14,034 --> 00:28:14,620 ANOTHER PERSON COULD BE 863 00:28:14,620 --> 00:28:16,758 ANOTHER PERSON COULD BE INVOLVED. 864 00:28:16,758 --> 00:28:27,827 INVOLVED. 865 00:28:27,827 --> 00:28:29,241 >>> WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE 866 00:28:29,241 --> 00:28:30,896 EVIDENCE IN THIS CASE, THE 867 00:28:30,896 --> 00:28:32,448 SUBSEQUENT TESTING REVEAL YOU 868 00:28:32,448 --> 00:28:33,724 MIGHT HAVE A DIFFERENT 869 00:28:33,724 --> 00:28:34,724 EXPLANATION FOR THINGS THAT 870 00:28:34,724 --> 00:28:36,275 REALLY SHED LIGHT ON WHAT MAY 871 00:28:36,275 --> 00:28:38,068 HAVE HAPPENED HERE. 872 00:28:38,068 --> 00:28:40,000 >> JANE DOROTIK SPENT YEARS 873 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,827 BEHIND BARS ASKING FOR A NEW 874 00:28:42,827 --> 00:28:45,551 EXAMINATION OF THE EVIDENCE USED 875 00:28:45,551 --> 00:28:47,068 TO CONVICT HER OF HER HUSBAND 876 00:28:47,068 --> 00:28:47,724 BOB'S MURDER. 877 00:28:47,724 --> 00:28:49,517 NOW WORKING WITH A TEAM FROM 878 00:28:49,517 --> 00:28:51,000 LOYOLA PROJECT FOR THE INNOCENT, 879 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:52,827 THE COURT ALLOWED THEM TO HAVE 880 00:28:52,827 --> 00:28:55,965 NEW DNA TESTING ON ITEMS SUCH AS 881 00:28:55,965 --> 00:28:58,068 A ROPE FOUND AROUND BOB 882 00:28:58,068 --> 00:29:01,034 DOROTIK'S NECK, HIS FINGERNAIL 883 00:29:01,034 --> 00:29:03,551 AND CLOTHING. 884 00:29:03,551 --> 00:29:05,655 IT FOUND THAT FOREIGN MALE DNA 885 00:29:05,655 --> 00:29:07,896 WAS FOUND ON SEVERAL ITEMS. 886 00:29:07,896 --> 00:29:10,206 >> THE RESULTS OF THAT, NONE OF 887 00:29:10,206 --> 00:29:13,482 MY DNA ANYWHERE. 888 00:29:13,482 --> 00:29:14,620 >> THERE IS PHYSICAL EVIDENCE 889 00:29:14,620 --> 00:29:16,620 FROM FINGERNAIL CLIPPINGS, FROM 890 00:29:16,620 --> 00:29:19,551 A ROPE, FROM HIS CLOTHING, THAT 891 00:29:19,551 --> 00:29:21,827 IS FOREIGN TO JANE. 892 00:29:21,827 --> 00:29:25,000 >> THE TEAM FROM LOYOLA PROJECT 893 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,689 FOR THE INNOCENT DECLINED TO BE 894 00:29:27,689 --> 00:29:28,000 INTERVIEWED. 895 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,620 WE ASKED NATHAN, A PROFESSOR OF 896 00:29:31,620 --> 00:29:33,275 BIOLOGY AT JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF 897 00:29:33,275 --> 00:29:35,000 CRIMINAL JUSTICE WHO WAS NOT 898 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,137 INVOLVED IN THE CASE TO REVIEW 899 00:29:37,137 --> 00:29:39,482 COURT DOCUMENTS ABOUT NEW 900 00:29:39,482 --> 00:29:41,655 EVIDENCE, SUCH AS THE DNA ON THE 901 00:29:41,655 --> 00:29:41,862 ROPE. 902 00:29:41,862 --> 00:29:43,172 >> WHILE THEY DIDN'T GET A 903 00:29:43,172 --> 00:29:44,241 PROFILE THAT WOULD BE GOOD 904 00:29:44,241 --> 00:29:47,000 ENOUGH TO SEARCH A DATABASE OR 905 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,068 EVEN MATCH TO A SUSPECT, THEY 906 00:29:49,068 --> 00:29:52,172 DID GET ENOUGH DNA THAT IS NOT 907 00:29:52,172 --> 00:29:53,724 ATTRIBUTABLE TO BOB OR TO JANE. 908 00:29:53,724 --> 00:29:57,000 >> WHILE JANE AND HER TEAM 909 00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:57,655 BELIEVE THE RESULTS POINTED TO 910 00:29:57,655 --> 00:29:59,517 HER INNOCENCE, THE STATE CAME TO 911 00:29:59,517 --> 00:30:02,896 A DIFFERENT CONCLUSION. 912 00:30:02,896 --> 00:30:05,620 STATING IN FILINGS, THE DNA 913 00:30:05,620 --> 00:30:07,034 OBTAINED WAS TOO LOW LEVEL TO 914 00:30:07,034 --> 00:30:10,482 MAKE ANY RELIABLE 915 00:30:10,482 --> 00:30:10,862 INTERPRETATION. 916 00:30:10,862 --> 00:30:12,827 HE AGREES THE DNA LEVELS WERE 917 00:30:12,827 --> 00:30:14,586 LOW BUT HE BELIEVES IT WAS 918 00:30:14,586 --> 00:30:17,068 ENOUGH TO EXCLUDE JANE AND THAT 919 00:30:17,068 --> 00:30:19,862 THE ABSENCE OF JANE'S DNA ON THE 920 00:30:19,862 --> 00:30:21,896 ROPE AS WELL AS UNDER BOB'S 921 00:30:21,896 --> 00:30:24,896 FINGER NAILS OR ON HIS CLOTHIG 922 00:30:24,896 --> 00:30:26,275 IS SIGNIFICANT. 923 00:30:26,275 --> 00:30:28,379 >> WITH THE THEORY OF CRIME THEY 924 00:30:28,379 --> 00:30:29,379 PRESENTED, WOULD YOU EXPECT A 925 00:30:29,379 --> 00:30:31,482 LOT OF JANE'S DNA ON BOB. 926 00:30:31,482 --> 00:30:33,034 AND IF SHE HAD MOVED HIS BODY, 927 00:30:33,034 --> 00:30:35,103 THERE IS A LOT OF DNA TRANSFER 928 00:30:35,103 --> 00:30:36,620 THAT MAY HAVE TAKEN PLACE THERE. 929 00:30:36,620 --> 00:30:37,724 THAT WASN'T FOUND. 930 00:30:37,724 --> 00:30:40,000 >> THE APPELLATE TEAM ALSO 931 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:41,482 REVIEWED THE BEDROOM BLOOD 932 00:30:41,482 --> 00:30:42,896 EVIDENCE THE PROSECUTOR TOLD THE 933 00:30:42,896 --> 00:30:46,241 JURY WAS FULLY TESTED AND WAS 934 00:30:46,241 --> 00:30:46,482 BOB'S. 935 00:30:46,482 --> 00:30:48,034 >> NOW, THE EVIDENCE WILL SHOW 936 00:30:48,034 --> 00:30:50,965 THAT ALL THIS BLOOD HAS BEEN 937 00:30:50,965 --> 00:30:52,206 DESCRIBED TO YOU, THE 938 00:30:52,206 --> 00:30:53,379 OBSERVATIONS MADE IN THIS 939 00:30:53,379 --> 00:30:54,827 BEDROOM, THAT IT WAS ALL SENT 940 00:30:54,827 --> 00:30:57,344 OUT FOR DNA ANALYSIS AND IT ALL 941 00:30:57,344 --> 00:31:01,068 CAME BACK DONE DOROTIK'S BLOOD. 942 00:31:01,068 --> 00:31:04,931 >> ACCORDING TO THE APPEAL, NOT 943 00:31:04,931 --> 00:31:06,172 EVERY SINGLE SPOT BELIEVED TO BE 944 00:31:06,172 --> 00:31:09,344 BLOOD WAS TESTED. 945 00:31:09,344 --> 00:31:09,862 INSTEAD 946 00:31:09,862 --> 00:31:10,517 INSTEAD, REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLES 947 00:31:10,517 --> 00:31:12,068 WERE TESTED. 948 00:31:12,068 --> 00:31:13,620 >> THERE WERE CASES WHERE SIMPLY 949 00:31:13,620 --> 00:31:15,275 ONE SWAB WITH THE CONTROL WAS 950 00:31:15,275 --> 00:31:16,793 TAKEN AND IT WAS REPRESENTATIVE 951 00:31:16,793 --> 00:31:19,172 OF A VARIETY OF SPOTS. 952 00:31:19,172 --> 00:31:20,241 THAT'S NOT GOOD PRACTICE. 953 00:31:20,241 --> 00:31:23,586 IT JUST INVITS 954 00:31:23,586 --> 00:31:24,000 MISINTERPRETATIONS. 955 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:25,310 WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT BLOOD 956 00:31:25,310 --> 00:31:26,965 SPATTER AND YOU'RE TRYING TO 957 00:31:26,965 --> 00:31:28,344 ANALYZE HOW IT GOT THERE, YOU 958 00:31:28,344 --> 00:31:30,482 NEED TO DO A FAIRLY 959 00:31:30,482 --> 00:31:31,689 COMPREHENSIVE TEST TO BE ABLE TO 960 00:31:31,689 --> 00:31:33,758 DRAW THE CONCLUSION THAT YOU'RE 961 00:31:33,758 --> 00:31:34,000 DRAWING. 962 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,172 >> BUT I THINK THE PROSECUTION 963 00:31:36,172 --> 00:31:38,724 COULD ARGUE, YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO 964 00:31:38,724 --> 00:31:39,620 TEST, CAN YOU? 965 00:31:39,620 --> 00:31:40,758 EVERY SINGLE DROP THAT LOOKS 966 00:31:40,758 --> 00:31:42,448 LIKE BLOOD? 967 00:31:42,448 --> 00:31:42,965 >> RIGHT? 968 00:31:42,965 --> 00:31:44,827 BUT WHEN YOU SAY WE DID 969 00:31:44,827 --> 00:31:46,137 EVERYTHING, AND THAT'S NOT 970 00:31:46,137 --> 00:31:48,241 ACCURATE, THAT'S WHERE THE 971 00:31:48,241 --> 00:31:49,034 PROBLEM LIES. 972 00:31:49,034 --> 00:31:52,000 >> IN FACT, THE APPELLATE TEAM 973 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:53,931 SAYS THAT SEVERAL BLOOD-LIKE 974 00:31:53,931 --> 00:31:57,620 STAINS ON ITEMS INCLUDING A 975 00:31:57,620 --> 00:32:00,724 PILLOW SHAM, A LAMP STAND, A 976 00:32:00,724 --> 00:32:02,448 LIGHTSHADE, TURNED OUT NOT TO BE 977 00:32:02,448 --> 00:32:03,068 BLOOD. 978 00:32:03,068 --> 00:32:06,344 AND THERE WERE THE STAINS ON THE 979 00:32:06,344 --> 00:32:07,517 BEDSPREAD WHICH CRIMINALIST 980 00:32:07,517 --> 00:32:09,103 CHARGE MERRITT POINTED TO AT 981 00:32:09,103 --> 00:32:11,344 TRIAL AND DESCRIBED AS BOB'S 982 00:32:11,344 --> 00:32:11,586 BLOOD. 983 00:32:11,586 --> 00:32:14,206 >> TWO OF THE ACTUAL STAINS 984 00:32:14,206 --> 00:32:17,758 CIRCLED BY A LITTLE RED DOT -- 985 00:32:17,758 --> 00:32:19,551 >> JANE'S LAWYERS LEARNED THOSE 986 00:32:19,551 --> 00:32:21,310 PARTICULAR SPOTS WERE NEVER 987 00:32:21,310 --> 00:32:22,310 TESTED AT ALL. 988 00:32:22,310 --> 00:32:25,482 AND DUE TO IMPROPER STORAGE, THE 989 00:32:25,482 --> 00:32:28,000 BEDSPREAD COULD NOT BE TESTED 990 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:28,241 AGAIN. 991 00:32:28,241 --> 00:32:30,000 >> SO WE DON'T KNOW THAT IT WAS 992 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:30,689 BLOOD AT ALL. 993 00:32:30,689 --> 00:32:32,310 >> THE HANDLING OF THE EVIDENCE 994 00:32:32,310 --> 00:32:35,034 OVER THE COURSE OF THE ENTIRE 995 00:32:35,034 --> 00:32:37,344 INVESTIGATION WAS ALSO RAISED ON 996 00:32:37,344 --> 00:32:37,586 APPEAL. 997 00:32:37,586 --> 00:32:39,655 >> THIS ONE IS HARD TO EVEN LOOK 998 00:32:39,655 --> 00:32:40,206 AT. 999 00:32:40,206 --> 00:32:41,862 YOU HAVE AN INVESTIGATOR WHO 1000 00:32:41,862 --> 00:32:44,000 DEFINITELY SHOULD KNOW BETTER. 1001 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:45,896 HANDLING MURDER EVIDENCE WITH 1002 00:32:45,896 --> 00:32:48,931 HIS BARE HANDS, IN ADDITION TO 1003 00:32:48,931 --> 00:32:49,896 OBVIOUSLY DEPOSITING HIS OWN DNA 1004 00:32:49,896 --> 00:32:51,517 AROUND THE CRIME SCENE, HE'S 1005 00:32:51,517 --> 00:32:53,827 ALSO RISKING TRANSFERRING 1006 00:32:53,827 --> 00:32:55,344 EVIDENCE FROM AMONG THE VARIOUS 1007 00:32:55,344 --> 00:32:56,586 SPOT THAT HE'S COLLECTING. 1008 00:32:56,586 --> 00:32:58,482 >> AND THERE IS THAT SYRINGE 1009 00:32:58,482 --> 00:33:00,344 WITH BOB AND JANE'S FINGERPRINT 1010 00:33:00,344 --> 00:33:03,172 FOUND IN THE BATHROOM GARBAGE. 1011 00:33:03,172 --> 00:33:05,068 SOMETHING THE APPELLATE TEAM 1012 00:33:05,068 --> 00:33:06,068 THOUGHT COULD BE EXPLAINED. 1013 00:33:06,068 --> 00:33:07,620 >> IF YOU THROW THAT SYRINGE IN 1014 00:33:07,620 --> 00:33:09,965 THE GARBAGE CAN, BOB THROWS A 1015 00:33:09,965 --> 00:33:12,103 BLOODY KLEENEX IN THAT GARBAGE 1016 00:33:12,103 --> 00:33:13,793 CAN, THEY CAN TRANSFER. 1017 00:33:13,793 --> 00:33:15,448 TRANSFER OF DNA FROM ONE OBJECT 1018 00:33:15,448 --> 00:33:17,931 TO ANOTHER IN A TRASH CAN IS NOT 1019 00:33:17,931 --> 00:33:18,206 UNEXPECTED. 1020 00:33:18,206 --> 00:33:19,448 >> Reporter: HE FEELS THE FACT 1021 00:33:19,448 --> 00:33:22,137 THAT THE SYRINGE WAS EVEN FOUND 1022 00:33:22,137 --> 00:33:23,827 IN THE GARBAGE POINTS FINGERS 1023 00:33:23,827 --> 00:33:24,724 AWAY FROM JANE. 1024 00:33:24,724 --> 00:33:27,103 >> IF YOU'RE CLEANING UP AFTER A 1025 00:33:27,103 --> 00:33:29,448 MURDER, YOU WON'T BELIEVE A 1026 00:33:29,448 --> 00:33:32,000 BLOODY SYRINGE IN THE WASTE 1027 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:32,241 BASKET. 1028 00:33:32,241 --> 00:33:34,103 >> Reporter: BUT THE STATE STOOD 1029 00:33:34,103 --> 00:33:36,344 BY ITS ORIGINAL INVESTIGATION 1030 00:33:36,344 --> 00:33:38,310 MAINTAINING THE BEDROOM WAS THE 1031 00:33:38,310 --> 00:33:40,344 MURDER SCENE, STATING THAT THE 1032 00:33:40,344 --> 00:33:41,862 EVIDENCE STILL POINTS TO JANE 1033 00:33:41,862 --> 00:33:43,931 DOROTIK AS THE KILLER. 1034 00:33:43,931 --> 00:33:45,586 AND THAT THE DEFENSE ARGUMENTS 1035 00:33:45,586 --> 00:33:49,172 ARE LARGELY DERIVE FROM 1036 00:33:49,172 --> 00:33:51,689 SPECULATION AND MISSTATEMENTS OF 1037 00:33:51,689 --> 00:33:52,172 FACT. 1038 00:33:52,172 --> 00:33:53,827 JANE'S APPELLATE TEAM, THOUGH, 1039 00:33:53,827 --> 00:33:55,068 MAINTAINS THE BEDROOM DID NOT 1040 00:33:55,068 --> 00:33:59,448 EVEN LOOK LIKE A CRIME SCENE. 1041 00:33:59,448 --> 00:34:00,655 SOMETHING HE ALSO BELIEVES. 1042 00:34:00,655 --> 00:34:03,413 >> THERE IS NOT A CONSISTENT 1043 00:34:03,413 --> 00:34:04,931 PATTERN TO THE EVIDENCE THAT 1044 00:34:04,931 --> 00:34:06,793 INDICATES A VIOLENT BLUDGEONING 1045 00:34:06,793 --> 00:34:08,862 THAT TOOK PLACE IN THAT BEDROOM. 1046 00:34:08,862 --> 00:34:11,000 IF BOB WERE ALIVE TODAY, AND 1047 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:12,447 INVESTIGATORS HAD WALKED IN HIS 1048 00:34:12,447 --> 00:34:14,862 ROOM, NO ONE WOULD SAY THIS 1049 00:34:14,862 --> 00:34:16,379 LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE WAS MURDERED 1050 00:34:16,379 --> 00:34:16,793 HERE. 1051 00:34:16,793 --> 00:34:19,034 >> IF YOU JUST LOOK AT ALL THE 1052 00:34:19,034 --> 00:34:22,620 PIECES OF EVIDENCE THAT LOYOLA 1053 00:34:22,620 --> 00:34:25,585 WAS ABLE TO ACTUALLY TAKE APART, 1054 00:34:25,585 --> 00:34:27,000 AND YET WE KNOW WHAT WAS TOLD TO 1055 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,620 THE JURY IN THE ORIGINAL 1056 00:34:29,620 --> 00:34:29,965 CONVICTION. 1057 00:34:29,965 --> 00:34:32,516 SO HOW CAN THAT HAPPEN? 1058 00:34:32,516 --> 00:34:35,551 >> AS THEIR ATTORNEYS REVIEWED 1059 00:34:35,551 --> 00:34:42,034 EVIDENCE, JANE DOROTIK AND IN 1060 00:34:42,034 --> 00:34:44,482 2020 WAS LET OUT OF PRISON DUE 1061 00:34:44,482 --> 00:34:45,516 TO COVID HEALTH CONCERNS. 1062 00:34:45,516 --> 00:34:47,585 THE QUESTION NOW BECAME, WAS THE 1063 00:34:47,585 --> 00:34:49,137 NEW EVIDENCE HER LAWYERS WERE 1064 00:34:49,137 --> 00:34:51,379 FINDING ENOUGH TO MAKE HER 1065 00:34:51,379 --> 00:34:54,757 RELEASE PERMANENT? 1066 00:34:54,757 --> 00:34:57,000 >> WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE 1067 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:07,137 NEW DNA TEST 1068 00:35:07,137 --> 00:35:09,758 >>> IN THE SUMMER OF 2020, JANE 1069 00:35:09,758 --> 00:35:12,413 DOROTIK AND HER TEAM HOPED A 1070 00:35:12,413 --> 00:35:15,482 COURT WOULD OVERTURN THE JURY'S 1071 00:35:15,482 --> 00:35:17,724 VERDICT, TURNING HER TEMPORARY 1072 00:35:17,724 --> 00:35:22,068 RELEASE FROM PRISON INTO LASTING 1073 00:35:22,068 --> 00:35:22,413 FREEDOM. 1074 00:35:22,413 --> 00:35:23,896 WHAT WERE THEIR MAJOR POINTS? 1075 00:35:23,896 --> 00:35:26,379 >> THE TESTING THAT WAS DONE 1076 00:35:26,379 --> 00:35:27,620 INITIALLY WAS INSUFFICIENT. 1077 00:35:27,620 --> 00:35:29,827 THE WAY THAT TESTING WAS 1078 00:35:29,827 --> 00:35:32,034 PRESENTED TO THE JURY WAS 1079 00:35:32,034 --> 00:35:32,379 INACCURATE. 1080 00:35:32,379 --> 00:35:34,482 THERE WERE A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT 1081 00:35:34,482 --> 00:35:36,275 ARGUMENTS THAT THEY MADE. 1082 00:35:36,275 --> 00:35:38,275 >> A HEARING WAS SCHEDULED, BUT 1083 00:35:38,275 --> 00:35:39,931 THEN SUDDENLY THE STATE 1084 00:35:39,931 --> 00:35:42,620 REQUESTED AN UNPLANNED VIRTUAL 1085 00:35:42,620 --> 00:35:42,896 HEARING. 1086 00:35:42,896 --> 00:35:45,103 >> THE PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO 1087 00:35:45,103 --> 00:35:46,793 CONCEDE THE NEW EVIDENCE CLAIM. 1088 00:35:46,793 --> 00:35:49,551 >> THE PROSECUTION ADMITTED WHAT 1089 00:35:49,551 --> 00:35:51,689 JANE'S LAWYERS HAD ARGUED ALL 1090 00:35:51,689 --> 00:35:51,931 ALONG. 1091 00:35:51,931 --> 00:35:53,655 >> THE DNA EVIDENCE AS IT EXISTS 1092 00:35:53,655 --> 00:35:58,724 NOW IN 2020 IS MUCH DIFFERENT IN 1093 00:35:58,724 --> 00:36:01,896 QUALITY AND QUANTITY THAN 1094 00:36:01,896 --> 00:36:02,827 PRESENTED AT TRIAL IN 2001. 1095 00:36:02,827 --> 00:36:04,931 >> THE NEW DNA TEST RESULTS AS 1096 00:36:04,931 --> 00:36:07,068 WELL AS ISSUES WITH HOW THE 1097 00:36:07,068 --> 00:36:09,379 SHERIFF'S CRIME LAB HANDLED 1098 00:36:09,379 --> 00:36:10,793 EVIDENCE CAST DOUBT ON THE 1099 00:36:10,793 --> 00:36:11,034 VERDICT. 1100 00:36:11,034 --> 00:36:13,931 WHAT CAME NEXT WAS EVEN MORE 1101 00:36:13,931 --> 00:36:14,517 UNEXPECTED. 1102 00:36:14,517 --> 00:36:16,620 THE STATE REQUESTED THAT JANE'S 1103 00:36:16,620 --> 00:36:20,482 MURDER CONVICTION BE OVERTURNED. 1104 00:36:20,482 --> 00:36:22,448 AND THE JUDGE AGREED. 1105 00:36:22,448 --> 00:36:27,275 >> I'M GOING TO GRANT THE MOTION 1106 00:36:27,275 --> 00:36:28,310 FOR THE WRIT. 1107 00:36:28,310 --> 00:36:29,275 >> THANK YOU, YOUR HONOR. 1108 00:36:29,275 --> 00:36:30,724 >> I ALWAYS BELIEVED AT SOME 1109 00:36:30,724 --> 00:36:32,793 POINT THE TRUTH WOULD COME OUT. 1110 00:36:32,793 --> 00:36:35,103 >> BUT JANE'S ORDEAL WASN'T 1111 00:36:35,103 --> 00:36:35,379 OVER. 1112 00:36:35,379 --> 00:36:37,241 THREE MONTHS LATER, IN ANOTHER 1113 00:36:37,241 --> 00:36:40,034 SHOCKING MOVE, THE D.A.'S OFFICE 1114 00:36:40,034 --> 00:36:41,620 DECIDED TO RETRY HER. 1115 00:36:41,620 --> 00:36:44,137 >> I DON'T THINK ANY OF US 1116 00:36:44,137 --> 00:36:44,965 THOUGHT THAT SAN DIEGO COUNTY 1117 00:36:44,965 --> 00:36:46,965 WOULD ATTEMPT TO RETRY ME. 1118 00:36:46,965 --> 00:36:49,000 BUT THEY DID. 1119 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:50,413 >> THE STATE BELIEVES THAT SHE 1120 00:36:50,413 --> 00:36:52,758 DID THIS AND THEY WANT TO PURSUE 1121 00:36:52,758 --> 00:36:53,034 IT. 1122 00:36:53,034 --> 00:36:55,896 >> BUT IN ORDER TO RETRY HER, 1123 00:36:55,896 --> 00:36:57,862 THE PROSECUTION FIRST HAD TO 1124 00:36:57,862 --> 00:36:59,517 DEMONSTRATE TO THE JUDGE THAT 1125 00:36:59,517 --> 00:37:01,551 THERE WAS STILL ENOUGH EVIDENCE 1126 00:37:01,551 --> 00:37:03,137 TO PROVE JANE KILLED BOB, 1127 00:37:03,137 --> 00:37:05,275 DESPITE THE NEW DNA RESULTS AND 1128 00:37:05,275 --> 00:37:09,206 THE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE INITIAL 1129 00:37:09,206 --> 00:37:09,482 TESTING. 1130 00:37:09,482 --> 00:37:11,172 >> BACK ON THE RECORD. 1131 00:37:11,172 --> 00:37:13,241 >> YOU HAVE THIS BATTLE IN COURT 1132 00:37:13,241 --> 00:37:15,275 IF YOU'RE CONCEDING THAT THERE 1133 00:37:15,275 --> 00:37:16,827 WERE PROBLEMS, HOW ARE YOU GOING 1134 00:37:16,827 --> 00:37:18,758 TO DO IT AGAIN, ESSENTIALLY, 1135 00:37:18,758 --> 00:37:20,000 WITH THE SAME EVIDENCE? 1136 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,758 >> IT WAS ASTOUNDING TO SIT IN 1137 00:37:22,758 --> 00:37:24,517 THAT COURTROOM AND SEE WHAT THEY 1138 00:37:24,517 --> 00:37:27,551 TRY AND PUT FORWARD AS ACTUAL 1139 00:37:27,551 --> 00:37:29,379 EVIDENCE, AND THEN ALSO 1140 00:37:29,379 --> 00:37:33,551 THRILLING TO SEE MY TEAM TAKE IT 1141 00:37:33,551 --> 00:37:33,896 APART. 1142 00:37:33,896 --> 00:37:35,310 >> JANE'S ATTORNEYS QUESTIONED 1143 00:37:35,310 --> 00:37:37,103 THE CREDIBILITY OF SEVERAL OF 1144 00:37:37,103 --> 00:37:40,413 THE STATE'S EXPERTS, INCLUDING 1145 00:37:40,413 --> 00:37:42,379 CHARLES MERRITT OF THE SHERIFF'S 1146 00:37:42,379 --> 00:37:43,000 CRIME LAB. 1147 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,068 THE JUDGE ULTIMATELY RULED THE 1148 00:37:45,068 --> 00:37:47,827 NEW TRIAL COULD GO AHEAD BUT 1149 00:37:47,827 --> 00:37:49,724 THAT SOME KEY EVIDENCE PRESENTED 1150 00:37:49,724 --> 00:37:52,000 IN HER ORIGINAL TRIAL WOULD NOT 1151 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,793 BE ADMISSIBLE, INCLUDING THOSE 1152 00:37:54,793 --> 00:37:57,103 TIRE TRACKS NEAR WHERE BOB'S 1153 00:37:57,103 --> 00:37:58,793 BODY WAS FOUND THAT WERE LINKED 1154 00:37:58,793 --> 00:38:00,586 TO JANE'S TRUCK. 1155 00:38:00,586 --> 00:38:01,758 >> YOU HAVE A NUMBER OF 1156 00:38:01,758 --> 00:38:05,206 DIFFERENT TRUCKS THAT COULD BE 1157 00:38:05,206 --> 00:38:07,517 CONSISTENT WITH THOSE TIRE 1158 00:38:07,517 --> 00:38:09,482 TRACKS. 1159 00:38:09,482 --> 00:38:11,000 IT'S IN ESSENCE JUNK SCIENCE. 1160 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,689 >> Reporter: IN MAY 2022, AS 1161 00:38:12,689 --> 00:38:15,310 JURY SELECTION WAS ABOUT TO 1162 00:38:15,310 --> 00:38:17,137 BEGIN, THE PROSECUTION SURPRISED 1163 00:38:17,137 --> 00:38:19,379 EVERYONE YET AGAIN. 1164 00:38:19,379 --> 00:38:22,068 >> REMAIN SEATED AND COME TO 1165 00:38:22,068 --> 00:38:22,275 ORDER. 1166 00:38:22,275 --> 00:38:24,655 THE COURTROOM IS NOW IN KEGS. 1167 00:38:24,655 --> 00:38:26,379 >> WE GO IN AS THE JURY IS READY 1168 00:38:26,379 --> 00:38:28,068 TO COME INTO THE COURTROOM 1169 00:38:28,068 --> 00:38:29,793 MONDAY MORNING AND EVERYTHING 1170 00:38:29,793 --> 00:38:30,482 HAS CHANGED. 1171 00:38:30,482 --> 00:38:32,724 >> WE NO LONGER FEEL THE 1172 00:38:32,724 --> 00:38:34,172 EVIDENCE IS SUFFICIENT TO SHOW 1173 00:38:34,172 --> 00:38:35,620 PROOF BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT 1174 00:38:35,620 --> 00:38:37,551 AND CONVINCE 12 MEMBERS. 1175 00:38:37,551 --> 00:38:37,758 JURY. 1176 00:38:37,758 --> 00:38:39,586 WE ARE REQUESTING THE COURT 1177 00:38:39,586 --> 00:38:41,965 DISMISS THE CHARGES AT THIS 1178 00:38:41,965 --> 00:38:43,172 TIME. 1179 00:38:43,172 --> 00:38:45,620 THANK YOU. 1180 00:38:45,620 --> 00:38:48,931 >> YOU ARE FREE TO GO. 1181 00:38:48,931 --> 00:38:51,206 GOOD LUCK TO YOU. 1182 00:38:51,206 --> 00:38:53,793 >> IT IS OVERWHELMING TO REALIZE 1183 00:38:53,793 --> 00:38:55,862 NOW I CAN DETERMINE MY OWN 1184 00:38:55,862 --> 00:38:56,103 FUTURE. 1185 00:38:56,103 --> 00:38:57,896 SOMETHING I'VE PRAYED FOR AND 1186 00:38:57,896 --> 00:38:58,482 HOPED FOR. 1187 00:38:58,482 --> 00:39:01,241 >> AFTER THE HEARING, JANE'S 1188 00:39:01,241 --> 00:39:03,241 ATTORNEYS SPOKE ABOUT HER 1189 00:39:03,241 --> 00:39:04,034 DECADES-LONG FIGHT. 1190 00:39:04,034 --> 00:39:06,241 >> JANE'S DIG IN IT IN STANDING 1191 00:39:06,241 --> 00:39:09,068 UP AND STOICALLY FIGHTING FOR 1192 00:39:09,068 --> 00:39:11,000 HER INNOCENCE AGAINST EVERY RISK 1193 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:12,000 AND EVERY THREAT. 1194 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,103 THAT'S WHY THIS CASE GOT 1195 00:39:14,103 --> 00:39:15,172 DISMISSED TODAY AND AS FAR AS 1196 00:39:15,172 --> 00:39:17,551 WE'RE CONCERNED, WE'RE MOVING 1197 00:39:17,551 --> 00:39:17,724 ON. 1198 00:39:17,724 --> 00:39:20,034 >> THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S 1199 00:39:20,034 --> 00:39:21,068 OFFICE AND SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT 1200 00:39:21,068 --> 00:39:24,241 DECLINED TO SPEAK WITH "48 1201 00:39:24,241 --> 00:39:24,724 HOURS." 1202 00:39:24,724 --> 00:39:26,310 THE CASE AGAINST JANE DOROTIK 1203 00:39:26,310 --> 00:39:30,103 WAS DISMISSED WITHOUT PREJUDICE, 1204 00:39:30,103 --> 00:39:33,034 WHICH MEANS IF NEW EVIDENCE 1205 00:39:33,034 --> 00:39:34,931 SURFACES, CHARGES COULD BE 1206 00:39:34,931 --> 00:39:36,931 BROUGHT AGAIN SOMEDAY. 1207 00:39:36,931 --> 00:39:38,448 BUT THEN DOESN'T THAT LEAVE 1208 00:39:38,448 --> 00:39:40,551 STILL A SHADOW OVER JANE 1209 00:39:40,551 --> 00:39:40,793 DOROTIK? 1210 00:39:40,793 --> 00:39:42,586 >> OH, SURE, IT DOES. 1211 00:39:42,586 --> 00:39:44,724 THERE'S TO QUESTION ABOUT IT 1212 00:39:44,724 --> 00:39:47,413 FROM A PRACTICAL PERSPECTIVE, DO 1213 00:39:47,413 --> 00:39:49,758 I THINK IT'S OVER? 1214 00:39:49,758 --> 00:39:49,965 YEAH. 1215 00:39:49,965 --> 00:39:51,965 FROM A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE, NO. 1216 00:39:51,965 --> 00:39:53,827 >> JANE DOROTIK IS WORKING TO 1217 00:39:53,827 --> 00:39:56,275 REBUILD HER LIFE AFTER SPENDING 1218 00:39:56,275 --> 00:39:59,551 NEARLY TWO DECADES IN PRISON. 1219 00:39:59,551 --> 00:40:01,896 >> MY ENTIRE FAMILY HAS BEEN 1220 00:40:01,896 --> 00:40:05,206 BLOWN APART BY THIS HURRICANE OF 1221 00:40:05,206 --> 00:40:05,758 EVENTS. 1222 00:40:05,758 --> 00:40:07,620 IT'S BEEN HEARTBREAKING ON SO 1223 00:40:07,620 --> 00:40:08,896 MANY LEVELS. 1224 00:40:08,896 --> 00:40:09,965 >> CLAIRE DOROTIK DID NOT 1225 00:40:09,965 --> 00:40:11,793 RESPOND TO OUR REQUEST FOR 1226 00:40:11,793 --> 00:40:14,000 COMMENT, BUT JANE SAYS THEY ARE 1227 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:15,034 STILL CLOSE. 1228 00:40:15,034 --> 00:40:19,344 HER SON NICK DIED IN 2023. 1229 00:40:19,344 --> 00:40:21,793 ALEX DOROTIK DID NOT PROVIDE A 1230 00:40:21,793 --> 00:40:23,655 COMMENT TO "48 HOURS," BUT 1231 00:40:23,655 --> 00:40:25,344 ACCORDING TO FILINGS BY THE 1232 00:40:25,344 --> 00:40:27,655 STATE, HE REMAINS CONVINCED HIS 1233 00:40:27,655 --> 00:40:31,241 MOTHER KILLED HIS FATHER. 1234 00:40:31,241 --> 00:40:33,172 DO YOU HAVE HOPE THAT YOUR 1235 00:40:33,172 --> 00:40:34,517 FAMILY WILL COME TOGETHER AT 1236 00:40:34,517 --> 00:40:35,586 SOME POINT? 1237 00:40:35,586 --> 00:40:37,482 >> OF COURSE I DO. 1238 00:40:37,482 --> 00:40:40,241 OF COURSE I HAVE HOPE. 1239 00:40:40,241 --> 00:40:41,689 >> JANE ALSO HAS HOPE THAT SHE 1240 00:40:41,689 --> 00:40:43,482 CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN OTHER 1241 00:40:43,482 --> 00:40:45,000 PEOPLE'S LIVES, AS SHE WORKS 1242 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,896 WITH ADVOCACY GROUPS THAT HELP 1243 00:40:47,896 --> 00:40:48,551 INCARCERATED WOMEN. 1244 00:40:48,551 --> 00:40:52,068 >> TO ME, IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT MY 1245 00:40:52,068 --> 00:40:52,482 STORY. 1246 00:40:52,482 --> 00:40:54,965 AND YES, WE CAN ALL SIT HERE AND 1247 00:40:54,965 --> 00:40:57,000 SAY, THIS IS SO HORRENDOUS AND 1248 00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:00,000 HOW DID THIS HAPPEN TO THIS 1249 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:00,517 WOMAN? 1250 00:41:00,517 --> 00:41:02,068 UNLESS WE LOOK SYSTEMICALLY, 1251 00:41:02,068 --> 00:41:03,551 HOWL OTHERS WILL WE FIND? 1252 00:41:03,551 --> 00:41:09,103 TO ME, THAT'S CRITICALLY 1253 00:41:09,103 --> 00:41:09,413 IMPORTANT. 1254 00:41:09,413 --> 00:41:12,034 >> MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS 1255 00:41:12,034 --> 00:41:15,344 ABOUT THIS CASE REMAIN, 1256 00:41:15,344 --> 00:41:17,896 INCLUDING PERHAPS THE MOST 1257 00:41:17,896 --> 00:41:19,034 IMPORTANT ONE. 1258 00:41:19,034 --> 00:41:21,034 >> WHAT HAPPENED HERE? 1259 00:41:21,034 --> 00:41:24,655 WE DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO 1260 00:41:24,655 --> 00:41:26,275 BOB DOROTIK. 1261 00:41:26,275 --> 00:41:27,827 WHERE'S JUSTICE FOR BOB? 1262 00:41:27,827 --> 00:41:28,724 WHERE'S JUSTICE FOR ROBERT 1263 00:41:28,724 --> 00:41:30,448 WHERE'S JUSTICE FOR ROBERT DOROTIK? 1264 00:41:30,448 --> 00:41:46,103 DOROTIK? 1265 00:41:46,103 --> 00:41:47,758 >>> NEED MORE TIME WITH "48 1266 00:41:47,758 --> 00:41:49,206 HOURS," GO DEEP WITH EVERY 1267 00:41:49,206 --> 00:41:51,034 EPISODE WITH FIRSTHAND ACCOUNTS 1268 00:41:51,034 --> 00:41:52,448 FROM "48 HOURS" INVESTIGATIONS. 1269 00:41:52,448 --> 00:41:54,068 >> WERE YOU AT ALL PREPARED FOR 1270 00:41:54,068 --> 00:41:55,034 WHAT HAPPENED IN THIS CASE? 1271 00:41:55,034 --> 00:41:56,482 >> SHOCK IS THE WORD THAT COMES 1272 00:41:56,482 --> 00:41:57,655 TO MIND. 1273 00:41:57,655 --> 00:41:59,482 >> GET INSIDE THE TWISTS AND 1274 00:41:59,482 --> 00:42:00,482 TURNS AND GET IN ON THE