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Chapter 1: What happened in the murder case of Natalie Antonetti?
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There's always a search for the truth. There's a search for justice. This is, without a doubt, the most challenging case I have ever handled. A beautiful young woman who was murdered while she lay sleeping.
That's my mom, Natalie Antonetti. beautiful, vibrant, excited to be alive. She was an amazing mom. She always tried to have a good time with everything.
My mom was a young mom.
She was into, you know, rock and roll.
Music was always playing. By all accounts, just one of those people that you just, you meet and you never forget.
I jumped down the stairs and there she was, just covered in blood, her neck was bleeding pretty bad. It was absolutely awful. who did this, who could have done this. That was also really scary, you know? Like, who would have had this out for this wonderful woman that never, you know, really did anything to anyone?
Well, it's 25 years ago, and it's like the one thing I've tried to get out of my memory, and I can't. We had no DNA, no fingerprints, really no physical evidence of any kind. This was a cold case. I never thought that it would be solved. I thought it was just over. The initial phone call was anonymous. An angry wife called the police to tell on her husband. It just blew the case wide open.
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Chapter 2: How did the anonymous tip change the investigation?
No.
No, not at all.
I didn't see him that way.
I saw him just really quiet and reserved. I never thought of him as someone that had the capacity really to hurt another person.
Johnny knew Dennis too, because Dennis had dated his mom. And he was good to Johnny.
He just had this amazing studio. He had like the best studio in town. And I was like the only 16-year-old kid that could go by there any time. I thought he was a nice guy.
Dennis Davis was not an obvious suspect. For one thing, he had what sounded like a solid alibi. He said he was with a girlfriend at his house on the night of the murder. Dennis told police he got a phone call from a friend and rushed to the crime scene just in time to see Natalie being loaded into an ambulance.
17 years after Natalie's murder, it was Dennis Davis's wife who made that call to police. Becky Davis had a feeling for years that her husband may have murdered Natalie, but never said anything until now. She was in therapy because her and her husband were going through a divorce, and the therapist said, you need to call the police.
It was a tantalizing lead, but not nearly enough to make an arrest. So Walsh hit the road. and tracked down this woman, Amparo Garcia Crow, who was Dennis Davis' alibi. Amparo, come on in.
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Chapter 3: What role did Johnny Gowdy play in the case?
He knew me. I didn't do this horrible crime. The Second World War is the largest event in human history. A 20-part series with Tom Hanks. No part of the globe was untouched. No life unchanged. Experience the ultimate account of World War II. Every single person had a story. These are the stories that make us who we are.
Listen to World War II with Tom Hanks on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Everybody wants to get on this train. It's a cold case. Everybody wants to solve this case. Wade Russell is a Texas attorney. He's been a lawyer for 30 years and riding motorcycles more than 40. And he began working for Dennis Davis when he was arrested in 2009.
The investigator wants to solve this case. Everybody wants to be a hero.
The problem is, Wade says, there just isn't enough evidence against Dennis to convict. His client, he says, is an innocent man.
The detective in this case knew that the neighbor identified someone who didn't look like Dennis Davis.
And that neighbor is the only eyewitness, the man who called minutes after Natalie's attack to report a prowler carrying a baseball bat.
This neighbor identified a person, a tall, blonde man. My client's about 5'6", 5'7", slight build, curly, dark hair. He is not the person the neighbor identified.
So if Dennis Davis didn't kill Natalie, who did? I think it's very possible that Marty Odom committed the offense. That's Marty Odom, the rapist, who was living near Natalie at the time of her murder, the man cops once thought was their best suspect. He claimed to know the victim in this case, and we also know he's very violent. He was violent with his girlfriend. He was violent with his ex-wife.
He took a polygraph, and he flunked the polygraph. The polygraph operator said, I'm 100% sure he committed the offense. The guy who ran the lie detector test said he was 100% sure That Marty Odom killed Natalie?
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Chapter 4: Who were the primary suspects in Natalie Antonetti's murder?
I could have told you what happened. He not once... Got mad at me. Sometime after she made that fateful phone call, Becky reconciled with Dennis. Now they're back together, and she says she can't live without him. I can't do things. I can't pay my bills. I can't lift anything. I can't operate without him. I don't know what I'm going to do now. The judge was not persuaded.
Defendant would please rise.
This time the court assesses your punishment at a term of 36 years.
After court, Wade Russell says the defense was gutted. They weren't allowed to present evidence of Marty Odom as an alternative suspect. We had a strong, very strong circumstantial case against Marty Odom. Marty Odom is the rapist who seemed to match the eyewitness description. Thank you very much. But Wade never got to tell that story in court.
You had this other guy that you think killed Natalie, but you couldn't tell the jury? I was not allowed to tell the jury that. It's like trying a case with your hand behind your back. The jury, in essence, heard half a case. They didn't get the whole case. Does that sound like a fair trial to you? It does not to me.
If you have a guy at the scene who says he saw somebody with a baseball bat, that's a pretty strong witness. At face value, it is. But he changed the description of the guy that he'd seen. First of all, he said he was six feet tall. And then we had a month later that same witness picking out somebody who's Dennis Davis's size.
And there was never any evidence that Marty Odom actually knew Natalie. To Mark Pryor, Dennis Davis all but convicted himself. It occurred to me very early on that we had a defendant who, in many ways, always wanted to confess to this. He gave an alibi that could have easily been broken.
We had him making admissions to his wife, Becky Davis, and then basically a flat-out confession to Galinda Mudgett. The guilty conscience needs to confess, and I think that's what we had here. Even after the verdict, Dennis Davis says he's innocent of this crime, and he can't believe he ended up here in a Texas state prison for the next 36 years. I was shocked. I was completely shocked.
Let's go back to how this all started. How do you feel about Becky calling police back in 2006? I couldn't understand why she would do something like that. She told me that, um... I scared her one night. In 2006, Dennis and Becky had a huge fight in their backyard. I was swinging a swage that I used to chop wood.
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