Dr. Timothy Stryker
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And this time it wasn't civil court.
Leone says Stryker made up the story and recruited Pisano through a middleman, one of his patients, named Richard Chambers.
Chambers was also arrested, and at a pretrial hearing, Leone laid out the details of an elaborate scheme.
And in return, Pisano and Chambers get what?
Leone charges Pisano and Chambers also got prescription pain pills and antidepressants in return for their help.
Stryker says the DA threatened Pisano with a lengthy prison sentence to get him to change his story.
Leone denies that and says Pisano volunteered to tell him what prosecutors now believe is the truth.
How do you know when the guy's lying?
But Pisano never took the stand.
On April 16, 2009, Timothy Stryker pleaded guilty to multiple counts of perjury and was sentenced to four years in prison.
For the Rafuse family, justice for Lynn's death could now be within reach.
We are hopeful that Dr. Stryker will spend the rest of his life in jail, not just four years, and that an indictment for homicide will be forthcoming sometime in the future.
Whatever happens to him, Stryker will face the future without the one person who stood by him and believed in him, his wife of 14 years, Mikhail.
Jerry Leone made a promise to Lynn Gowdy's family 16 years ago when he was the young assistant district attorney.
He promised he would get the person who killed her, and he still stands by that promise.