Matt Murphy

The concern also, of course, you know, you put an innocent man to death.

I wouldn't want to ever see that.

And in this case, you know, you don't have a confession, you don't have an eyewitness, and you don't have a videotape.

So...

You know, there's always that.

Well, it probably would be.

But again, I have confidence in the prosecutors from Stanislaus County District Attorney's Office.

They've got some incredibly bright trial attorneys there.

And so I don't know who they would assign to it the second time around.

With it going to trial again, hopefully not.

The big thing for me is the torture for the family.

For Sharon and the rest of the family, for them to have to go through this again, and even for this to come up for resentencing here in December.

What a great time of the year to do that, to just open that wound again.

Now, granted, every Christmas is going to be different from before Lacey went missing to now.

And I get that.

But then they have to add, you know, salt to the wound by having this thing happen.

Now, why couldn't they have done this in February anyway?

put it off a little bit longer but you know that that is what it is and this is what we're dealing with um as far as i'm concerned uh i i'm close to the case along with craig and and and al we were in it from the start and you know it is what it is it was a team effort yeah i appreciate you referring to me as the one who solved it i didn't solve it we worked it together from you know

Those of us who were on the core unit investigating it from the beginning to the other detectives that came and helped with us, the other agencies, the sheriff's departments, detectives from other agencies, the FBI that helped us out on our crime analysis, did a wonderful job putting things together.

And the evidence clerks, the evidence technicians and everybody that joined in on it.