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After Carol Kennedy was found dead in her home, her ex husband Steve DeMocker became the prime suspect when his alibi could not be verified. He said he was on a long bike ride, and his phone just happened to be dead for that entire time and no one saw him. But did the police zero in on their suspect far too soon?
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*This case is solved but disputed*
Case Timeline: Carol Kennedy Part 2
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0:00.0 | After Carol Kennedy was found dead in her home, her husband Steve DeMocker became the prime suspect when his alibi could not be verified. |
0:18.0 | He said he was on a long bike ride and his phone just happened to be dead for that entire time and no one saw him. But did the police zero in |
0:26.1 | on their suspect far too soon? I'm Charlie and welcome to crime lines. |
0:37.0 | If this is your first episode, back up a week because this is part two of the case. |
0:45.8 | In the first part we talked about Carol Kennedy's marriage to and divorce from Steve |
0:51.2 | Demacher and the events that led up to her being murdered in her own home. |
0:57.1 | The police were looking at the ex-husband Steve as a suspect from day one. |
1:03.0 | As we talked about last week, they were able to raise enough probable cause for |
1:06.8 | warrants for Steve's condo garage and car. |
1:10.8 | A search of Steve's condo and garage only yielded one clue. |
1:15.0 | The cover to a Callaway Number 7 Big Bertha 3 golf club, |
1:20.0 | which was a club they could prove that Steve had once bought and he still had the cover for, but the club was nowhere to be found. |
1:30.0 | The cover was seen in the garage in photos from the search, but when they went back to get it, it was also gone. |
1:37.0 | The relevance of the club is that the Emmy ruled that the injuries to Carol's head were likely caused by an object like a golf club. |
1:48.0 | For the police, this golf club cover and its disappearance was just more evidence against Steve. |
1:55.4 | But there were two people who never doubted Steve's innocence, and they were Steve and |
2:00.3 | Carol's two daughters, Katie and Charlotte. |
2:04.0 | Katie was overseas at the time of her mother's death and flew back to the US as soon as she could. |
2:10.0 | She sat down with the investigators to talk on July 7th. They asked her about a couple of things, |
2:16.8 | including a man named Jim Knapp. He was the man who rented out the guest house on Carol's property. |
2:25.0 | He had been telling pretty much anyone who would listen |
2:29.4 | that Steve was the one who killed Carol. |
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