Bill Nettles
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I felt like we really needed to make sure that we had all the evidence before we went in.
I was a criminal defense lawyer before I took this job, and I knew that if we were to charge him and the forensic evidence wasn't back, that that would make a cross-examination about us rushing to judgment.
I wasn't that worried about that because, you know, he really thought he was smarter than everybody else.
When you've got a murder for hire, a part of the killing is how you're going to get away with it.
That's part of the point.
And believe you can get away with it.
Because if you didn't believe you could get away with it, you wouldn't do it.
We interviewed numerous co-workers of Chris Latham and Wendy Moore who said without a doubt that they did in fact have printers located in their respective offices.
And we conducted a search warrant on their offices, at the residence that they shared in common, and we did not recover those printers.
Printer log showing him from his computer and printer printing out maps of Nancy Latham's residence that were in the hit package, as well as the photograph that we recovered from Chris Latham's phone of Nancy Latham's residence and her vehicle, which was also located in the hit package.
That was a very long day.
Shortly after we had gotten Chris in the car and were heading back to Charleston, we received a phone call from his attorney.
And he advised us not to talk to him, not to ask him anything about the case.
So we honored that request, and we only told him, if you need something to eat, if you need to use the bathroom, let us know and we'll oblige.