Juju Chang
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Podcast Appearances
You know, little snippets like that.
And then really it came down to looking at the forensics of the autopsy because she died from injuries to her neck as if she had been strangled.
Not smoke inhalation, not injuries from a car accident.
And those footprints in the snow were a key indicator because when the first person came up and dialed 911, they took some iPhone photos thinking, oh, I'm going to document this.
And you don't realize what you're looking at initially, but what they saw were footprints in the snow away from the car crash, meaning somebody else was in that driver's seat.
And that is what really lit the investigation.
They brought the entire wreckage
you know the it completely into this um science lab so that they could examine every part of it and not disturb any of it and yet we also know in these investigations it is the combination of the forensics and the circumstantial evidence that allows you to take something to court right because it's the surveillance camera and the lack of his appearance there it's the fact that that you know he had a zipper lighter it's the fact that this that and the other
And they also understood that there was some motivation in that, A, he bought life insurance against her.
And he also, you know, was very upset, apparently, about a brief affair that Ashley had had a year before the murder.
And that even though they were trying to reconcile, even though they were...
trying to repair the damage, it was something that left an impression on him.
And the other part of the surveillance cameras is part of his plot was to pre-position his car.
He may have even been wearing, according to investigators, one of those firefighter suits to be fire resistance in case.
He then is seen in another surveillance camera running away from the scene with a backpack on, running.
And they're like, who is that figure?
And then they see his car driving away from the pre-positioned location.
And it's, again, all of these circumstantial pieces of evidence.