Jim Morrell

What was the biggest one that you think you had to overcome?

So even though detectives on the scene did notice scratches on Tom Lally's face, they didn't bother taking pictures, instead simply accepting the boy's explanation.

Ten months later, by the time the police knew they were investigating a murder, not only had the scratches healed, Marina Calabro's house had been sold.

The kitchen remodeled.

What would the crime scene folks have done that they couldn't do by the time they got into the house?

So although Corcoran had Jim Morrell's secretly recorded tapes, she initially had little else.

When police drained the pond where Jason Weir had taken Jim Morrell, they did find the frying pan, believed to be the murder weapon.

And it was right there where Weir said it would be.

Also found, remnants of newspapers from the week of the crime and a yellow tea kettle.

Not so fast, says Jason Weir's attorney, Ed McCormick.

He thinks that after 10 months in the pond, frying pans and tea kettles are not evidence.

The state McCormick charges has been all too eager to jump to wild conclusions to make up for evidence it doesn't have.

He points to a bizarre discovery at the crime lab, which at one point said it actually had found DNA on Marina Calabro's body in seminal fluid.

The lab took DNA samples from the three suspects and even from Jim Morrell.

It didn't match Morrell, and to make matters worse for the state, it didn't match the three suspects either.

McCormick suggests Weir's damning admissions on tape are just typical adolescent swagger.

Lally's lawyer, Robert Griffin, says in his client's case, the alleged motive, greed, makes no sense.

And Anthony Calabro's lawyer, Bob Lowney, says that when Anthony wanted money... He was getting anything he wanted from her.

All he had to do was ask.

So does Anthony explain this situation in terms of, hey, she just fell down the stairs?