Mark Keel

The Foley testimony happened in two stages. The first was a hearing where my only audience was a judge. And what I was armed with was scientific studies and metaphors and translating for the judge that the science predicted exactly what we found.

Yes.

Correct. And so now the jury was 12 interested students as opposed to one.

Mathematically, based on our studies, no.

The chance of it not being him was so small based on the match statistic that it was not feasible.

It was very emotional. And I can remember seeing our agents and other law enforcement personnel as well, but specifically some of our agents, that were standing in the back hallway at a courthouse and were just sobbing. And they were agents that had been to the scene when the car was pulled out of the water. And I know that there were some that said, you know, I wish I had not been there.

I mean, I saw emotions from agents that had been working homicide cases for years and years that, you know, you never saw emotion out of. You know, tough, tough guys. But you saw a lot of emotion that day.

Someone with a lot of rage in them had to do that.

He was distraught.

Mike told me that the patterns of harassment had increased and that he feared for he and Karen's lives.

Yeah. It was sick. Very, very bizarre.

It's a roller coaster, yeah. Definitely a roller coaster.

Phone harassment, rapid fire phone calls, stalking, showing up.

What was bizarre for me was I was getting a drink of water when she came to cross-examine me. And I hear this. And she's trying to put on this persona that we're old friends.

Are you feeling good? Yeah, I felt very confident.

Yeah, he really loved her. And she's a very interesting person, beautiful, athletic, outgoing, had lots of friends.

They were.

The week before the murder, I talked to Mike, and he was asking me where's a good place to go on a honeymoon in the Caribbean. I said, you know, St. Thomas is great. Lots of really good places to go, and he was real happy about it.

You can get as low as you want to get. We were generally flying, you know, 300 foot above ground, up to 1,000. Were there moments where you did spot something, where you did see something? No, I mean, we spotted cars that, you know, were the same color and, you know, that were similar, but not what we were looking for.

There was a lot of Suspicion, I would say, as to what happened, especially after days that we had searched and looked. Chief Keel, who'd been searching for clues by helicopter, says too much of it didn't make sense. Carjackings take place often, but generally you end up finding the vehicle. So as days went by and we didn't find anything, the suspicion continued to grow.

Some of our agents were just sobbing when the car was pulled out of the water.

Everybody in the state of South Carolina knew about it as soon as it happened.

And we were up flying the next morning and looking for that, searching for that vehicle.

Where are you looking? We started from where she was carjacked, and we were flying every route that you can imagine.