[Lieutenant Joe Kenda] This is Alpena, Michigan
on Thunder Bay, Lake Huron.
There's a myth associated with small towns
that nothing ever happens there.
Well, that's not exactly tru
because there are humans in small towns.
And where there are humans,
there can be serious trouble.
[Sara Rembisz] Yeah.
[Kenda] When you have someon
who is 13 years old and is emotional,
you begin with one question only.
What do you wanna tell me?
Besides the cops and now, I have never told this story to anybody.
You have a 13 year old child described to you the depravity of men...
...is savage.
I spent my career closing murder cases.
But I'm not the only one
who answered the call.
It takes a rare breed to solve the unsolvable,
to catch a ruthless killer,
to find justice for the dead
That's what it takes
to be an American detective
Today, is April the 6th of 2008
in Alpena, Michigan.
And a fisherman is casting his rod.
And he sees an object in the water.
And it doesn't look right to him at all.
He calls the police.
They discover to their horror...
...it is a human torso.
A male from the waste up,
no hips, no legs,
badly decomposed.
obviously been in the water a long time.
Dispatch, put a page Lieutenant Thomson, get him down here,
immediately.
My name is Larry Thomson.
I was a police officer
in Alpena, Michigan for 35 years.
As a detective, I always felt that I was speaking
for those victims who were no longer able to speak for themselves.
April 6th, 2008...
...was a very defining day for me.
Thomson.
[Thomson] I was at home with my family.
It was a weekend when the phone rang,
and it was central dispatch.
And the dispatcher said a body's been located in the river.
My mind started racing immediately.
What do we have?
When I first arrived, there was a significant presence.
Police officers were there, firefighters were there.
It became apparent very quickly that this was gonna be
a major investigation that I would be taking the lead on.
This was unlike anything I'd ever seen.
And you have to think about where we are.
Murders don't happen in this town.
They've had one in the past 35 years.
So Thomson is looking at this thing thinking,
"Could this be somebody who was drunk and fell off a boat
and got cut in two by a propeller from a ship."
What are you thinking?
I think it's too soon to tell.
Hold on a second.
I immediately contacted the owners of the dam
and asked that the dam be shutdown.
Officers were tasked with searching the shoreline.
Diver's here.
They asked for a dive team to search for the remainder of this body.
Where are the legs? Where are the feet?
Where are the hips?
They searched thoroughly...
...in the pool near the dam
and the surrounding area.
And they find nothing.
So what we have is a torso only,
as mostly likely all we're ever going to have.
I went to the morgue...
...met with the coroner, and viewed the body.
You don't see this every day.
Water does terrible things to human bodies.
And the longer the body's in the water,
the more damage occurs
to where it looks like something out of a horror film.
There is no way to determine if there's any poisons, or any alcohol, or any drugs.
There is no blood.
The major organs have turned into a jelly.
What Dr. Ronnie was able to determine
was the lower portion of the body had been severed from the upper portion
by some sort of what he called mechanical means.
How did they come to be severed in two?
A passing boat,
the action of the dam itsel that the body passed through
We don't know.
But he also found puncture wounds in the chest area.
So with the discovery of these wounds...
...this is no longer a wonderment
of accidental death or drowning.
This is a homicide.
Somebody kills this person
by stabbing them with a shafted weapon,
and then cuts him up and throws him away.
Oh, my.
That's a serious murder.
I had a lot more questions than I had answers.
We had no idea who the person was.
So you look for identifying marks or scars.
[Thomson] And on the right bicep of the victim
was a tattoo that was still clearly visible.
[Kenda] It says "Lori,"
L-O-R-I.
A woman's name.
That obviously became crucial
in the the identification of the victim.
Any change in getting prints on that?
Dr. Ronnie was very quick to say that the fingerprints
were probably going to be a very limited value
simply because the body was so deteriorated.
You stay in the water too long the skin wrinkles...
...the same as when a body' been in the water for a long time.
The skin is wrinkled.
So one of the techniques used by the coroner
is to inject those fingertip with saline solution
to get a rolled print off the finger.
Call me when you find something.
Sure.
Alpena, like any small town, is driven by the rumor mill.
It didn't take long somebody's calling me up and say,
"Hey, did you hear? They discovered this body
floating in the Thunder Bay river."
But where did they come from?
And any number of things could be a possibility.
[phone rings]
[actor Thomson] Thomson. One second.
We had the media involved in not only what had been found...
We had divers. They didn't find anything.
...but also what we were looking for.
And as a result of that,
we had tips coming in about missing persons.
What about the tattoos?
Thomson has the name Lori.
My fellow officers and I were checking
computer programs looking for possible missing persons
with tattoos to rule them out.
Wait. What was that?
[Kenda] He finds one particular report
of a middle aged guy who is missing,
and he has a tattoo.
So Thomson gets a little excited.
Rose tattoo on right arm.
We need Lori, not roses.
I'm gonna call the harbor,
get a list of all the boat rentals for the past few months.
[phone rings]
[Kenda] However, Thomson get very lucky indeed...
Yeah.
...with the fingerprints.
You're kidding.
They identified this person Jerry Holmes,
and he's 47 years old.
The positive identification of the victim from the lab
was the biggest piece of news that we had.
And that really then put our investigation in high gear.
Who are you, Jerry Holmes?
When were you last seen?
Who were you with?
Where are you supposed to be?
'Cause you're certainly not there now
You're in the morgue,
at least part of you is.
The police in Alpena, Michigan
find a torso
that has been stabbed with something.
a long time ago.
Gerald Holmes.
We had started looking into his background,
and people that he might've been associated with.
Wife's name Lori Holmes.
There's an address.
It's an ugly part of the job, but it has to be done.
I'm Lieutenant Thomson, Alpena PD.
I have some bad news to tell you, ma'am.
We found your husband dead.
[crying] No.
She became very emotional, crying.
It takes over an hour to settle her down...
...to where he's finally abl to talk to her
about his victim,
Jerry Holmes.
Tell me a little about Jerry.
[Kenda] Lori proceeds to sa
that they've been married for nine years,
that Jerry had been married before.
That he had had children with other women.
I'm Jerry's second oldest daughter.
I was around like 9, 10 when my parents divorced.
My dad, he was a big guy.
Hunting, fishing, outdoors,
he lived in it. He was just a nice guy.
I remember the laughter when things were good.
[Julie Caolliflower] He loved being a dad.
He was willing to help anybody.
He loved to tell stories.
He was a people person.
The day that my mom told me that my dad's body was found
I was at work.
[sniffles] Um...
...hands down one of the worst days of my life.
Jerry's always known how to make me feel special.
And he's a great father to the kids.
[Kenda] Lori says she has four children by another marriage.
But Jerry is the father figure to those children.
So Jerry came into my life when I was five or six.
I remember being in their wedding.
He was a very big father figure.
Lori explained that Jerry had had a somewhat difficult life.
I learned that he, as a teenager,
had been involved in a serious industrial accident.
[Holmes] He was working at a factory.
It unbolted something on a furnace.
And the furnace fell and pinned him.
He suffered horrible injuries to his bottom half.
The doctors tried everything to save it
and finally had to amputate the leg.
[Caolliflower] After it was amputated,
I think he still fought the demons of the pain.
It changed him.
[Holmes] That's when he first started turning to drugs, alcohol.
My dad went to A.A., and my mom went to Al-Anon.
So as a family, we always worked towards my dad's sobriety.
But the substance abuse led to their divorce.
[Caolliflower] After he divorced,
he was having a lot of issues with addiction.
He'd gotten in a car accident.
He was court ordered to a treatment facility in Alpena, Michigan.
And that's where he met Lori.
I remember my mom and Jerry's relationship being very good in the beginning.
We went to church all the time.
And my mom really liked that about Jerry,
that for once he was a good man.
There was a period in his life
when he was clean,
and he was sober for several years.
And he was very, very, very proud of it
But he wasn't able to overcome it.
And he turned to drugs again.
I do remember a lot of times them arguing
over substance abuse.
Jerry has problems with substance abuse
as a result of physical injury.
Lori and he became more distant.
There marriage was not going well.
I wanted to find out why there'd not been a report of Jerry being missing.
They got into frequent fight
And, ultimately, he had left the home.
She had not seen him since late 2007.
[Kenda] But now, someone has taken that life.
And Thomson's mission is to find out who that is.
Was there somebody else?
There's this girl Hannah.
Lori says the last time she saw Jerry
he was with a girl named Hannah Hoffman,
who she describes as a friend of his,
who also suffered some issues with drugs.
She did not believe that Jerry was romantically involved with Hannah Hoffman.
How could I find Hannah?
I can tell you a few places,
and maybe you could look for her.
[actor Thomson] Please.
So that gives Thomson a place to go.
Thomson runs the check on Hannah Hoffman's name.
And he finds something that's rather alarming.
She has a criminal record.
Yes, she does.
How's it coming along with those bank accounts?
Bank accounts are coming along.
And further it appears that she's the signature
on Jerry Holmes's bank accounts.
Her name is on every one of these accounts.
[Kenda] Jerry wasn't able to work,
but he received payments for workmen's compensation.
So he does have a source of income.
So she has a criminal record
and she access to his money,
be it a small amount of money.
But the amount doesn't matter.
Jerry spent six months in the water,
and somebody cut him in half for God's sake.
Million dollar motives don't exist, except in the movies.
People will kill over $0.50
if they need it.
Detective Larry Thomson now knows that Hannah Hoffman...
...is the signature on Jerry Holmes's bank account.
So she has a criminal record
and she has access to his money.
[man] I think we've had a lot of breakthroughs.
I think we just pick this up next week.
[Kenda] Maybe she wanted all of it.
-[actor Thomson] Miss Hoffman. -Yeah.
And the way to get all of it has to get rid of Jerry.
Please sit down.
How do you know Jerry?
We both got pretty bad into the pain killers and alcohol.
[Kenda] Hannah and Jerry Holmes
often band together to try to help each other.
She said he slept on her couch for a short period of time.
He did not wanna go back to Lori's home.
And she actually went to help him get a place for Jerry to stay.
This apartment, do you know how he paid for it?
Yeah, he paid with cash.
I took him to the bank myself.
Is that when your name was placed on his account?
And Thomson also discovered
that Jerry himself requested
the bank to put Hannah on his account
in case he was unable to make a withdrawal
that she could do so on his behalf.
[Kenda] Hannah produces a receipt.
Thank you.
[Kenda] The last time she to money out of that account was six months prior,
and it's for $52
to pay that he owed
'cause he was unable to go to the bank.
After speaking with Hannah, checking bank records, etc.,
we had pretty much ruled out any possible motive there.
Everything Hannah has to say makes her come across
as a friend and a caretaker of Jerry Holmes
and not a potential killer.
Do you know the address of this apartment?
Yeah, I can write it down for you.
Please.
Thomson now has an apartment to search.
Now, that's significant.
What might be in there...
...that might lead him to someone responsible for this death?
I contacted the owner of the apartment.
[Kenda] Landlords can be good witnesses
because they pay attention to people.
What kind of person are they renting to?
This is the apartment that Jerry Holmes rented from you.
Yeah, this's the apartment.
The landlord said Jerry Holmes actually never moved in.
It's apparent that nobody ever lived there.
Have you tried Sunrise Mission yet?
He told me Jerry frequented the Sunrise Mission,
which basically provides a service
allowing for individuals to stay temporarily,
helps them look for work, etc.
[Kenda] The landlord suggest to Thomson
Jerry was there a lot.
Thomson responds to that shelter.
And he starts asking around
Either of you know this man?
Everybody does know Jerry.
Everybody liked Jerry.
You should talk to Ben.
A resident of the shelter says there's a guy named Ben Haze.
Ben had been a resident for a period of time.
You should ask him about that ring he wears.
He has seen Ben Haze wear a ring
that belongs to Jerry Holmes
Well, now, you have some explaining to do, Mr. Haze.
You have a ring that belongs to a dead guy.
You happen to know how he got that ring?
I see Jerry's wife, but I know somethin' about it.
It became apparent that there was some sort of a relationship
between Ben and Lori
during the time that she and Jerry were together.
So that kinda peaked our interest.
We gotta a guy wearing his ring around and is tapping his wife.
Yeah, I need to put out an APB on Ben Haze.
Well, that just might add up to murder.
They run his record, and he is wanted on a warrant,
which means there is a God.
You don't have to play a game to get this guy to come in.
Ben when he realizes how much trouble he could be in
is the picture of cooperatio
How long have you known Lori and Jerry?
I don't know, man, a couple years, maybe.
[Kenda] He explains that he knows Jerry Holmes.
He knows that Lori is his wife.
But he also knows that Lori and Jerry are estranged.
Ultimately, Ben ended up with some of Jerry's property.
He had a ring that Lori had given him.
He further says
it is one of Jerry's old rin
that he doesn't want anymore.
I felt kinda weird wearing it.
And Ben said he gave it back to Lori.
What he told us was believable.
He'd spoke very highly of Jerry.
Um, so there was nothing that would indicate
that he would have any involvement
in this suspicious death.
Thomson loses interest in him as a suspect.
This investigation was stalled.
For the Alpena area, this was huge.
We had people asking questio
multiple times a day,
wanting to know, "Where ya at?"
I can be honest with you.
Some days it seemed overwhelming.
I wanted to know exactly what happened.
But, more importantly, his family needed to know.
I just remember it seemed like it was helter-skelter.
And you just wanna know.
They was fixated on the mark that was on Jerry's body.
It just always came back to it didn't make sense.
Everyone is tortured in a murder case,
beginning with the victim
and then all the survivors.
The families have to suffer through not knowing.
In this case, that can't even have a proper funeral.
They can't bury all of their loved one.
It's just a terrible situation.
And every day they ask you, "What have you done today?"
[knocking at door]
-Lieutenant? I'm sorry to bother you. -Come on in.
It was not uncommon for Lori to call or even come in to see me, asking questions,
"Hey, where are you at? What have you found?"
In the community, people were saying, "Is this ever going to be solved?"
And I think Lori was feeling that.
You'll be the first person we call when we do find something.
That's one of the hardest things for police officers is
how do you accept the fact that it is the best that you can do?
There were sometimes very long days,
heart-wrenching, gut-wrenching.
On the morning of August 24, 2009,
over a year since Jerry Holm was pulled out of the water near the dam.
[cell phone ringing]
Thomson.
[dispatcher] Lieutenant Thomson?
Thomson gets a phone call that's gonna break this case wide open.
You're kidding me.
I received a phone call from dispatch.
I'm on my way.
And I was told that Sara, Lori's daughter, wanted to talk to me.
I had been waiting a long time for something to happen.
I didn't know what it was going to be.
But, when I got this phone call, I thought in the back of my mind, "Is this it?"
Where is she?
She's down here waiting for you in Room 2.
Is her mom with her?
No.
Sara at that time was 13 years old, a child.
She had some troubles of her own and as a result,
Sara was physically separated from her mother at that moment.
And actually, she spoke to me with the consent of her foster mother at that time.
Sara had shared with me, during that conversation,
this was something that she had thought
previously that she could take to her grave.
But she had come to the realization that she had to tell someone.
But now she's willing to say because she's probably always known.
I told the detectives that I knew who killed Jerry.
Well, my, my, my.
Besides the cops and now,
I have never told this story to anybody.
Honestly, I think I decided to do this interview because
Jerry's story needs to be told.
Jerry deserved justice and my story needs to be told.
I think we all deserve some closure,
and I'm really hoping that that's what this gives me.
[Kenda] Sara is a 13-year-old kid,
can what she says be relied upon?
Well, let's find out what she has to say first.
But it certainly sounds very promising.
At the time, I was in foster care.
And I got really close to what was my foster mom.
And it wasn't until one day I finally asked her
if I told her something,
that she had to promise me that she would never tell,
or I would kill myself.
And she told me that she wouldn't.
And all that I had told her at the time
was that I knew who killed Jerry.
[Kenda] When you have someone who is 13 years old and is emotional,
you have to approach them as an understanding person.
Sara shared with me very openly
Lori had actually awakened her in the middle of the night.
Sara, Sara, Sara!
You gotta listen! You gotta get up!
I had to stop her because I could barely understand her as I was just waking up.
And I really didn't know what she was talking about.
She had asked me to come with her to the basement.
[screaming] Oh, my God! Jerry!
And that is when I see that Jerry was laying on the floor.
[crying] Oh, my God!
And I knew that he was dead.
Lori told her that she had stabbed Jerry.
So Thomson is recalling all the times Lori called him
to see what's happening with the case.
Lori wants to know, are they getting close to her.
She wants to know if they'v figured out if it's her.
All part of the sociopathy that she feels.
No!
[Kenda] Smells trigger memories.
Smells will never be forgotten
when they are traumatic.
You smell death for the first time, you'll always know what it is.
Training tells us that that's one of the things,
if people talk about smells,
that usually means there's some level of truth to what they're telling.
[crying]
My mom, she asked for help.
She needed help, she didn't know
how she was going to take care of it,
how she was going to lift it.
I didn't know what was going on, I was shaking.
I just had no idea how to take all of it in.
There is such a thing as dead weight.
Jerry Holmes is not a big man, but he's dead.
She cannot pick him up and get him back up the stairs. Can't do it.
What kind of psychotic mind would ask for aid
in moving a dead person
from their 13-year-old daughter who believes
that dead person is her father figure?
How much of a sociopath do you have to be
to disregard the feelings of others?
I need something from you.
I don't care about you.
You have to help me.
You're my daughter.
My mom did threaten me that if I told anybody
that the same would happen to me.
Everybody was afraid of my mom.
[Kenda] Is Lori capable of that?
Without question she's capable of that.
She would kill every kid in that house if it meant saving her own hide.
That's what it means to be a sociopath.
[crying]
[Sara] So I got up the stairs...
[chainsaw starting]
[sawing]
Sara hides under the covers upstairs as any kid would do.
[sawing]
Mommy dearest has decided if she cuts this guy into two pieces,
she can handle the pieces.
[sawing]
[Thomson] Dr. Ronnie had verified that the body had been cut in half
with some sort of mechanism.
Would a saw be mechanism? It certainly would.
My mom had went and bought a lot of chemicals.
Bleach and Pine-Sol were the main things I remember.
And she was down there for hours, if not days.
Just cleaning...
Mopping, every single room down there.
I was having difficulty keeping my emotions in check during the conversation
simply because of what I was hearing.
For a 13-year-old telling me what happened,
Sara did a great job of explaining things.
This conversation I was having with Sara was very emotional for me.
They had to go back later and review the videotape
just to be sure I heard what I heard.
This girl is brave enough to come forward and tell someone
that her mother was a monster and a killer.
It is a terrible thing to have a 13-year-old child
describe to you the inhumanity of her own mother.
Your heart goes out to that kid.
She's been exposed suddenly to what a homicide detectiv gets exposed to every day.
The depravity of man or woman is limitless.
Humans would embarrass a great white shark in how they kill.
Savage.
[Thomson] But obviously, we' talking about close to a yea after the body had been foun
The home where Lori had lived had changed hands.
The basement had been cleaned out.
They look, they find nothing.
Everyone is in consternation.
Thomson decides, well, she didn't take this body and leave it here.
She had to remove it from the house.
Well, there's a truck that Lori drives.
They have a warrant seeking physical evidence of murder.
That includes the truck.
They take it back to the police laboratory.
And another of those "A-ha!" moments.
The seat of the truck had been cleaned quite extensively.
They find nothing in it, until a sharp-eyed forensic investigator says
"What's this?"
Detective!
There was blood on the seatbelt on the passenger side.
She almost cleaned the truck.
But almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
One drop of blood.
You say, "Well, isn't that remarkable?" Yeah, it is remarkable.
Is one drop of blood enough?
Yeah, it is.
The seatbelt was actually fully extended when the blood got on it.
So, in other words, the onl way that blood would have gotten there,
would have been if the seatbelt was extended and connected to the buckle,
around somebody.
Jerry doesn't drive 'cause he has an artificial leg.
Lori drives and Jerry sits in the passenger side of the truck.
What if they're together and Lori attacks him with something
and stabs him to death with it, in the truck?
The difficulty is they don't have blood from Jerry Holmes.
Water destroyed the blood.
But what we do have
is Jerry Holmes has children
Well, now.
They needed a source of my dad's DNA.
We were willing to help however we could.
[Kenda] So Thomson submits it to the lab,
and waits for the phone to ring.
That test is gonna tell him if everything Sara said was the truth,
and Lori is the killer in this case.
We have a case that's gone on for a year.
Now we're waiting for the one key piece of evidence,
the blood found in Lori's truck,
to determine, whether or not, Jerry died in that truck.
[phone ringing]
Thomson.
I see.
Thomson gets the magic phone call that the cheek swab from the daughter
shows that the drop of blood found in the pickup truck
belongs to Jerry Holmes and to no one else on this planet.
Game, set, and match.
Thank you very much for the call.
[Thomson] With this new scientific evidence,
we felt that there was enough to charge Lori.
[sirens wailing]
She was arrested for murder.
So she basically shut us down.
Everybody was preparing for a trial.
And I was scared to face her.
I couldn't wait for the trial.
I wanted to see everything thrown at her.
Any murder case, it takes one to two years
and sometimes more to get into a courtroom.
In the case of Lori, she decides
it's probably in her interest to plead guilty and she does.
She pleads guilty to murder.
When Lori showed up in court, I drove 250 miles to be there
because I felt that that was some closure for me.
[gavel banging]
Please approach the bench here, Ms. Holmes.
I remember Lori in the courtroom...
And she was built like a monster is what I've always said.
I can't even explain the feelings I had sitting there, watching her demeanor.
Stone-faced, like she didn't care.
There was no remorse.
Lori's explanation was that...
I went to find Jerry, where he was staying.
[Thomson] Lori had gone to the apartment where Jerry was staying
and had wanted him to come back home.
I promise you it's gonna be so different now.
-Everything is going to be different-- -No! Damn it, Lori.
You gotta quit this.
Jerry had been resistant to that.
Get in the car and come home. Please.
[Kenda] She says, "Please, get in the truck.
"Let's talk about this."
She finally convinces him to get into the truck.
They drive away.
They stop somewhere.
[rock music playing on radio]
-You can come home. -You're wasting your time, Lori.
[Thomson] She wanted to have a relationship with Jerry,
but Jerry was done with her,
and Lori didn't like that.
So what does this spark in this case?
Well, you gotta consider who the players are.
Lori is psychotic.
Lori is sociopathic, she's all those things.
Lori if she doesn't get what she wants,
she will do whatever she needs to, to get that.
There's no point. It never works out.
[Kenda] Jerry finally decides he's had enough.
Lori's approach is no one leaves me.
I am in control of the plane
I put the world on automatic pilot when I go to sleep at night.
This isn't getting us anywhere.
-I gotta go. -Jerry!
Lori takes a screwdriver out from under the seat where she keeps it.
[screaming]
[Jerry] No!
And proceeds to stab Jerry in the abdomen multiple times.
Thus your shafted weapon.
[screaming]
Reason goes out the window,
and what is left is nothing but violence.
[screaming]
A relatively helpless guy can be easily attacked by a woman.
Particularly by a banshee like Lori.
Who is absolutely out of control.
And out of her anger toward him, she ended up taking his life.
[Kenda] She takes him home.
The panic sets in.
We know the rest of it.
[chainsaw starting]
[sawing]
[Thomson] She basically admitted to stabbing him,
but never admitted that she had dismembered the body,
how she had disposed of the body or anything,
so we, to this day, don't know exactly other than what she told Sara.
Lori ended up pleading guilty...
To second degree murder.
Which in the state of Michigan has a typical punishment of life in prison.
I think that the work that the department did was great.
Having to be faced with this, day after day after day,
it's like a brass ring that you're trying to grab,
but it's just elusive.
The levels of frustration probably ran very high at times.
Then, it's one tiny speck of blood that just turns everything around.
Did it weigh on me? Every day it weighed on me.
But everybody worked intimately together to get the end result
which was bringing closure for the family,
and giving Jerry a voice since he no longer was with us.
I don't think that I'm ever going to forgive her for what she did.
Because she destroyed me at such a young age.
And it's not like I can just look at someone
and talk to them, like they've been through what I have.
I actually posted a status not that long ago
because I'm not just a story.
I'm a human being and I have feelings.
And I got through this.
That's more than I could ever be thankful for
because I never thought I was going to be able to get through it.
I hope that Sara is able to break the chain of her family's tragedies.
What Sara did at such a young age
was probably the bravest thing I've ever heard or seen anybody do.
Like, my heart breaks for everything she went through.
And I'm just so thankful for her.
I think of him often and I miss him.
I think he'd be proud of what his children have done.
Jerry would be very proud of all of his kids.
This has just absolutely wrecked my family.
My dad was just a nice person.
Too nice, clearly.
And just somebody that suffered from a lot of trauma himself,
but no matter how bad my dad was doing,
we always loved him.
Um, he was our dad.
It's just really hard knowing that someone else took that all away from us.
[Kenda] Lori believed she destroyed the evidence.
She did. A great deal of it
Just not all of it.
One drop of blood put her inside a steel box
which is where she belonged.