Matt Murphy

Much easier to carry out a suffocation or strangulation inside the residence itself, underneath a pillow or a blanket or whatever you would choose to use.

And hopefully that, along with the walls of the house, would blank out the noise if there was any.

Well, I don't totally agree with that.

I mean, Mark's got his take and I know what side he's on and I respect him.

He's, you know, he's walked the courtroom many, many times.

So I get that.

But I see it a little bit differently.

There was a whole ton of evidence there.

Now, if you take a look at this case and you think in terms of what if Scott didn't know Lacey?

And we went and processed the house as a crime scene.

We would have found a multitude of evidence that would have linked him to the victim.

We would have found hair.

We would have found fibers from clothes.

We would have found maybe lipstick on a glass, all sorts of things, fingerprints all over the house.

And one of the things that we did, just so that everybody wouldn't think that we were one sided on this, is when we did process the house for evidence of a stranger abduction or intrusion.

And there was no forced entry.

Of course, we had the FBI come down from Sacramento with their evidence response team and had them independent of the SNPD.

They processed the house.

And when they did that, of course, you know, I think there was a saying that you attorneys use evidence of absence is absence of evidence.

And there was no evidence that anybody else had come in that house.