Blaine Alexander

Maybe it was a lover's quarrel that went really sideways.

A crime of passion supported by the fact that Tara's killer didn't arrive armed with a murder weapon.

The knife came from a knife block in the kitchen.

Disorganized is how we classified it.

What does that tell you about the type of person who could have done this?

What it told me is that we weren't dealing with a criminal mastermind.

Griffith reexamined Chris's alibi in a new round of interviews.

The police interviewed Chris Melton's parents.

His parents see him go to bed in his bed at their house.

His father gets up at 5.30 in the morning and sees Chris's truck out in the driveway, so believes he's at home.

Chris's assistant told police he picked Chris up for work at 7.15 a.m.

So he has a pretty good alibi.

He's got a pretty good alibi.

And the best piece of his alibi is at the 9 a.m.

hour, he's caught on camera making a withdrawal at a bank over by his parents' house.

At that point, he's an hour away from the crime scene.

Notes in the file indicated police saw the video of him making that withdrawal.

They're allowed to view the video, but the bank employees won't give them the videotape and ask them to go through Wachovia's legal department to get a copy of the security footage.

Did they follow up?

Evidently, there was no follow up because there's no mention of that videotape after that in the case file.