Dr. Timothy Stryker

When I saw her in the backseat of the car, literally tucked in, in a very tightly wedged space, I said, nobody can do that to themselves.

You can't even move your arms.

The location of the car, so far away from the hospital entrance, told investigators something as well.

There was no apparent sign of sexual assault.

Lynn's purse and its contents were still in the car.

Kessler also thought it was odd that Lynn's shoes were so neatly placed on the floor by the front seat, and she was barefoot.

The foot was clean, and it had rained.

It was grease and dirt.

What do you think it proves?

The official cause of death has been ruled homicide by means of manual strangulation.

And when Dr. Kessler did the autopsy, he discovered it was a particularly violent homicide.

I think she was grabbed by the net like this and strangled, suffocated.

The attack on Lynn was so brutal that Dr. Kessler found injuries at 24 separate places on her body.

How much do you think Dr. Gowdy suffered?

You know, when she died was, initially I was stunned, but then after that, for me, it was just sadness.

He may have been stunned, he may have been sad, but police were still eager to talk to Dr. Tim Stryker immediately after they discovered the body of his girlfriend, Dr. Lynn Gowdy.

I was actually called in to speak with the detective right there on the spot, and they asked me, you know, who do you think could have killed her?

Of course, it didn't take long at all for police to start focusing on the man they thought did it, the usual suspect, the boyfriend, Dr. Stryker himself.

District Attorney Jerry Leone says detectives quickly learned about the problems Lynn and Stryker were having, even that argument witnesses reported about the scuba trip.

The relationship had been described as sometimes rocky, sometimes volatile.