Daniel Pelletier

Daniel Pelletier was the lead detective in the case.

The first two officers arrived found Mrs. Smart outside.

She was yelling and screaming that her husband had been hurt.

We later determined through the medical examiner that it was a gunshot wound.

The wound was actually at the top left of his skull, entered in through there.

It was apparent that two people were involved because of the way that things were set up and the amount of things that were disturbed.

The stereo had been removed from the stereo rack and it was pulled out.

There were speakers piled up by the rear door where it looked like they had exited.

There was jewelry boxes overturned.

But the burglary gone bad theory had some problems.

That didn't really make a lot of sense because the time of day and nighttime burglary in a neighborhood like that, there were a lot of residents there.

We had limited the information that was going to Pamela Smart because she had the propensity to talk to the media.

She enjoyed talking to the media.

She said, hello, and I said, hello, and she said, what's up?

And I told her, well, we have good news and we have bad news.

The good news is we solved the murder of your husband.

The bad news is you're under arrest for murder.

Stand up, turn around, and put your hands behind your back.

Camera crews at that point were running wild.

We had our own client chased into the woman's lavatory.