Why do you think there was so much blood?
There was a lot of blood.
Oh, it was awful, awful.
And what was even worse was when I saw the autopsy pictures
of her skull and the lacerations, they were terrible.
And I thought what, what, what?
There's been a lot of speculation,
but I think all of that was answered by Dr. Henry Lee,
who was/is probably the foremost forensic scientist
in the world, and he explained why there was so much blood.
There was so much blood because she hit her head here,
she stood up, she slipped, she hit her head again,
and bled out, so the blood is...
It killed her, the loss of blood.
And then he explained that there was so much more blood
on the wall because she had head bleeds
and that her hair was so sopping with blood,
she shook her head and drops are going everywhere.
And he also explained that she had
some blood in her throat and she coughed it out.
And that was the explanation,
that was the scientific explanation for this.
Do you believe she just fell down the stairs?
I think I do, and I may be one of the last people,
but it has a lot to do with Henry lee.
Well, I have to tell you, I'm a bit biased about Henry Lee
because I think he is a consummate professional,
so I go in leaning into Henry Lee
because I think he's really good at what he does.
Yes, he is.
I know you've seen this a million times
so you have to be desensitized to them,
but when you look at these patterns of the pictures
that were taken, I have never seen that much blood
from somebody fallin' down the stairs.
I've never seen anything close to that
from somebody fallin' down the stairs.
And I need to say in the same breath, I am not even almost
a blood splatter expert Right.
or anything of the sort.
I'm just saying anecdotally, when I first saw that,
I thought something's happened here.
I assume that you went over there, grabbed the body
and turned her, tried to do what you could CPR wise
and slung blood everywhere.
I certainly didn't jump to the conclusion
that you beat your wife to death
at the bottom of the stairs.
But I couldn't explain, I don't know why
there's so much blood all over the walls.
And they say you had blood inside your shorts.
There was one drop of blood--
That to me, I had no trouble
understanding that whatsoever.
Because you're over there with the body,
she's still breathing when you get there.
She can cough, death rattle,
anything can spray blood anywhere.
That to me was what you do about nothing.
Did you move the body during CPR at all?
No, I didn't not do CPR at all.
Whatever, I mean--
No, no, I definitely, I picked her up, I held her,
I put her back down and got the phone, came back.
There was definite movement and he's showing,
look, her head was there, then she falls,
then she shakes her head, then she stands up again.
He went into great detail of why that happened,
but you're still confronted with, look at that picture.
That's too much blood, and everybody would agree.
I can't deny that, and then this is a metal railing.
She fell on that, her head hit that.
So there's no getting around it
and I don't think there's any question
that that was just appalling for the jury.
And David brought them over, the jury,
to see that and they saw all that blood.
And he's saying, but look, there's no cast off.
There's no way in the world anybody hit her,
the blood's all there, but it's still there
and it was just an overwhelming thing for the jury to see.
Unfortunately, Dr. Lee, he's Chinese
and has a rather thick accent and they made fun of that.
In LA and New York, that's fine, but because he was,
as Fred Black, the assistant district attorney said,
a foreigner, actually he's an immigrant,
they couldn't understand him and when he said
there's too much blood for a beating
because there's no castoff, when you sit somebody,
the castoff, there was none.
And he said, there's too much blood,
and that just wrecked it for the jury
because they had Duane Deaver to come in and explain it
from his point of view what happened.
And so the jury totally discounted
everything that Henry Lee said.