James Bacon (Police Chief)

I think in a period of about a week, we interviewed about 50 different people.

My gosh, man. Do you not remember smashing the back of her head in? I didn't do it. Yes, you did. I didn't do it.

He meticulously articulated everything to the nth degree so that he could come back and say, anything that you find is accountable because I went in and grabbed the body and now look at me. Cross-contamination.

Her wounds are consistent with homicides of passion. My name is James Bacon, and I'm the former police chief for the city of Russellville, Arkansas.

He comes into the apartment, probably having a simple conversation. He finds the condom wrapper.

Very.

Very.

I wanted to.

Not very good.

Not a bit. We went through a series of people and everything kept coming back to Kevin.

He was not what I would have anticipated to be a distraught boyfriend that just discovered his girlfriend brutally murdered.

And it breaks. The natural instinct is to try to grab it. And that scramble to try to grab it is when the blood print is deposited to the bulb.

Yes.

They take him to the station. They left him in the room at one point. He does have a temper. This anger was isolated. That's something that we pay attention to.

It's just an observation. It was the best way that I knew how to explain it. Five days later when I looked at it, it had the same appearance.

The crime lab told us you had a choice, because if we do fingerprints, we potentially are going to destroy DNA. If we do DNA, we're going to potentially destroy the fingerprint.

That we had no idea what we were doing.

I walked in and saw a large pool of blood around the head, several abrasions to the neck and the shoulder.

When I got to the apartment, he was standing just inside the door. He stuck his hand out like he wanted to shake hands and then said, oh, I can't. Then did his hands like this to show me they were covered in blood.

Well, it tells me that he does have the capability of striking somebody or striking something, which he did at that point.

In the face. The medical examiner reports indicate that there are blows to the face, above the eye and in the cheek. That are hard? That are consistent with like a palm heel slap.

There are hesitation marks on the neck, across the front of the neck.

But I just can't bring myself to do it. And again, that's consistent with crime of passion because that's a difficult thing for some people to do.

The floor lamp is slammed into the back of the head and is now the fatal blow.