Matt Murphy

A forensic pathologist said it appeared that she'd been in the salt water for three to six months, that the limbs had been separated by either surgical precision or they had been weighted and then the weights separated them.

And then that she also had three broken ribs.

Well, she talked to her mom the night before, you know, on the 23rd and she didn't say anything about broken ribs.

And Lacey probably would have told somebody if she had broken ribs.

And so that also fits with Scott kneeling on top of her.

you know, suffocating her or strangling her.

And of course, the way the limbs were separated supports that there were weighted devices, anchors, concrete anchors on each one of the four extremities and maybe around the neck.

Well, it seemed like it to us.

I mean, again, it's all circumstantial, but, you know, there's a lot of murder cases are circumstantial.

You know, that's kind of the way we put them together if you don't have an eyewitness or a videotape.

And it's it was compelling to us.

And apparently it was compelling to the jury the first time around.

You know, I I wouldn't have any doubts that we would get another good verdict on a second trial.

I'm confident in the prosecutors that we have beer getting Dave.

And then, of course, they bring somebody else in because Rick is now a judge.

But.

You know, you can bring things up all these years later.

I believe we had a good case.

If you get a good jury, I think you get a good verdict.

And if somebody gets on the jury that, you know, maybe the jury is always a crapshoot.