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ransd. in the storage area, some bins were toppled over, but the emts might have done that as ey rano sist barb geor a orge as she lay on tloor. george as $400 wasn her pocket and the good jewry wasn't taken. latethe medical examiner wld determine it the shop owner had en shot from above, incating she'd berohing.another bullet had been fired first,olice liedit missed and went thrgh a swimsuitaldaon the wall and into the emp shop the her de of e eet rock. ifa roy tomic booke,t was an unusu e. just aft 8 detective kmanasold that t huand of the victim had arrived. >> he identifiedimselfnd he said what's going ? weaiwell, e's been an incident here d we'rsorry to ll, buyoife has en inred. >>, not . we ne >> we never toldim what happenedo her. >> he doesn't know whahappened

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superstar...new supersta l'okeesparis. barb barbara orge had been shot to death in thstorage room of the coc book shop showne with her husband michael. six hours after murder miaegeorge had returned from thhospital to show the chief detective sergeant steman around what was now a crim scene. scen the room where barba shotashere a bbery mu he happed. he niced t impnt wte boxee. as soalin ba rhe sd there we two rdboxes fu of ve expensivmic books missing. >> so he'sayinhad expensive stf. >> two boxes of comic books and they're ne. >> michael george made a lt ofstolenomics and estimated their value at $,600 and he

sper-meen nt ironman. to namjust aew. >> he's talkg ouhis robbery. >>is who scerio was had to be robbery. >> micel grge told the dective he hado idea wt happenedo hi 'd lasener little after 4:00 wheshrelieved h hind t cnt. hehe took eir tw over to er to his mom's and remained there nappg onerouchntil 8:00 when he returned to t comic bostore. detective steckmanskim quesons thp ulen feas murdered. >> we e girl no. were you having any affairs? no. anproblems with your marriage? no. everythi was fine. t funaylater mashhe grid ar brher brother uldn't make out wh he feeling becses we conceedin, rknglaes. like somhi a blind pern

or you'd s or you'd see stevie wonder wear. >> and mary sensed that michl was acting strange, only increased after a visit tohe trailer park home where michael george and barbara had lived. she and joe,arb's brhed go over ge michael me suppt duri tough ds. hmes nder vuuis sittinthere and gra the vacu a embces the vacuum like he shed more emion th is vacm than he did thole ti >> what'heinto the vacuum?thisas barvaum and oh, my gosh, she's never going to usehivacu ainnde would goo a blenr and she's ner gointo be in the kitch again. >> areou thinking what's up withs i ainat h lscw .here you are griing over t vacuum and the appliances, ere was no tears in hisyes in itas a an >> the polic meahile, re aswnrerd inrapoesoo for ads onhe speeding ca tman in the greekisherm's thecalledeaedady d whether thou have been a botched robbery afr

comics. unhappily for them, the case detectives hadn't founthe gun anhopefoforensics like a bloody print just weren't there, buthe investigats re gettg cas on q.t. out miael georgebe having a giie. when you learabt a shopssistant neden >>hawaater. staed receivinghone calls om peopladvisingth w might wa to lookt his relationip with hipl d renee. a le .k ut y was barb george o frnd ren t tir chchght r or t bostor renee had fi cren neededhe money heoundinrriage h ended in dorce just three weeks bere barb's murder. not ng after ty ried barbara, mary sho remeers droppi in unexpectedly ath

boyfrienjoe and the pair got a shockeroo. eyaw thecaling >> tirre cross o toach r wh youos me your life and you look around at t world like wh'soing o whdoes the wld keevi en just lost someoneo imrtant anre this man and he'ss happy as a clam. you wouldn't think that head any care in e worlthe way he was rryi on th h. >> mhael and reneeould set up a newome gether with the help of $13000 lifsuranc payout on rb tt receive aseficiary. >> is he becinat copll pers ointest >> yes. at that pot as at that point he h to be. >> he talked to the police casual at the store that night and then in a mo fl interview with the pice n six da laterbut therwod now-ups rding detecveckn,mil geord ou hi an atrney laerp.e'd stopalki. exactly. s is a bunsoed cas

t n can't -yocan take t law into yr n handut what's goi to ppen wh at? >> did you ever talk aut it? >>t it. was mei felt, u knthatd do some, u know olic. i couldn't le wi it. >> in the comi, superhoes are ageless, b theomic are ageless,uthe comic book shop in the inton strip mall wasn't. it clodoin 199 michael george, e shop own and his n w nehad moved fromn. theyettled se 375 miles southeast detroit i ndrg, papolation 4,000. an old cl ming town. on the main dr there, the geors had ened theirew shop, comicsld. >> with his two kids and renee's fiveeing rsed togeer in their spacious nome th fofriendong thother

or teams. michael coached the st's daughter in bastball. he never missed a game. >> tremendous mily man. respected business person in the community. >> jeff hathelectric supply shop three bloc dn omomics rld. >> his lifwe the kids d uld have tsay his life was for renee. he treated her like go.y aredves a whfamilies wenback genetions by rsing money for the make a wischarity an vingtoheli liary. sis go, he w jt pln. >> thes d a on his fa and alsoking anybody enjoyebeg ar him.>>e had all, but severed ties with the murded wife's family. uncles and aunts rarely saw barbaro rls. mehe year 2000, was michael george eveawe that the

without solving the nagging case t cic boo.>> eveon ttown was awarof that crimnd prly myselmore so cause my dad was the cef of police at that me. >> chiefmith'soneric smith. >> i had drin that stora thsa tes with my old manjubout everyimwedre byhere tre was - thers meing he said. >> still gnawing at >> there was no question about it >>ouyears after his father's ath er death eric sth waslected chf prutor imacomb counmichig. he became responsible for l the criminal cases iinto wnsh i can't telhoma people came up to me and said th a family member of theirs been murdered and be edothingn ne and yould e erir fe theyat em hsed em by, and i ought i'm goingo be t chieenforcement r ofthis county i can't let people out the thinthat wdot care so we std a co casunit

>>ne of prosecutor smith first acts in office w to send out a lett to all of the police departments ihis county asking police chiefs and detectives tok at eir old unsolvedwith fresh eyes.>> i did it with mel george md. ere s no qstion in my mi that at the me i was hopin would pick this case up. >> and maybe resolve one for the old man. that'it. th w tatas unsolved folman, fory dad. >> just hd hoped, the clinton township p.d. re-opened e dusty comic ok murder ca anwhat a surprise the detectives finthere, seone did haveital piece of information abouthnighof the murder, but his ory had slipped through the cracks. w could polie ss i all thos all those years? a phonca tthe coc bookshop that seemed to come at

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> the the mic book murr files came out of the archesand e leadetective blong off the dust was lieutant crg keith. keh. he'd beeonhe clinton towniporceong enough to remember the killingf the stp mall and he took it peonly that someone out there had ttenwawith murder. the lieutenant had identifd with t victim. >> ias approximaly the s drhee age and maybat was something that just stuck me. tgh o to pick uptack. >> yeah. i knew thaing in, but i alwaysperate underhe theory

d i owed it to myself, because it was something iad td myself, t i owed it to barb, too. >> the dettive need help, go, old-faioneshoeeaer copso make the calls and kno onoors. so he recruiteveran deteives jim haland nn ri. e twofm nt io old boxes, readingnd re-readi ylongolice rert, but s a reason cres go in theold ca file a staunso, a la ofvidenc the three ndered if they h onof tse he. >> is th edoable and finally encame tthe conclusi conclusion that it's doable,e ne to noti the family and that'shen the fami ctacted them. >> theold case detectives were painfully awe giving bb gege's family falshos after 17 years, but ely 07 t 2007 the dettives id out at they fi wartsnd allor ara's brothejoe and other family memrs.

we don'tnow how succsful we're going to bhere. >> stillafr thateeting withheves, bar familyriends allow themselvesbe optimisc. >> iolmyisr when waed out of that pole stio i saisothing will come out o. >> joe and hisirlfrid back tn br uafter baa'muer, theymained c remained cse over the ars. >> mdad was theostal at the time and he was dying of canc td my dha was inon, coubaly en lke li right up and he said, good. good. god's in god's going to g him. >> the detectis started eir stigion ashougit were july 13, 1990. e 911 ad just co in.thofhem ews sn't goingo n epis "csi" forensic sence savg the day. >>weapno bod sars -- >> in terms of what opre used to seng nowadaywith dna, we dn't hit.

rview people. >> they sawithout prncd ries they as down thold leadain, the speeding car, the the d greek fierman's cap and the bearded lady ande-examined the d ear a pricey, collble comic book? >>hank you, r. >> the cold case detective interviewed over a huned people and of all those fresh 2007 intviews, the one ty did wi this man tued o to beheame changer. his names ke ren a girl's softball coach, now nfined to whee a wheelchair after 23. in 1990, he was a cgeenior and a spiderman fanatic. on jy 13, the night of the murder, tectives learned he had ac a call to comics world st

5:30 or so abo 30 mites before t murde the av the av colctor wanted to had zoom in value. a voice he knew veryell answer the phone, it w michael george, thshop owner. phone. >>id he say i'm bu, ther arpelen e opi have to go. >>o, just short. ussomethincould ar in hisce. e wod b.s. a lite bit and there was no time for b.s. >> t cold case copad struck go. mike's storyas thesi puzzle piece the dective his l for y.ifenaud's accot e,t nhi lesanemh 's alibi that was naing at his mother's naud's reud'sall angeorge w lying and heas ctaine talk to thcoorowr at the sp and athat brief convsation mt had taken place a w nubefo barwalled>> thembarrassing t out

mike hadold the very same ory tole in990, the daafr e rder. what looked like a case brker in 2007 in 2007 had sily s through the crac back then. they'd h iin the case file all along. in clear handwriting, there it was. a rerd of renaud's july 14, mr. renaud stated he called comiwoaround:30 and talkedthe ownemichael george. >> tt's the one piece that w ing.>> eit tt still had flaws as edenc re no existing phone logs to gs tcorrobore reud ale story or to pin down the exact ti he said he placed the call. to ts y,ormer detective that note from renaud went a stra but he said he was unawe of the cic book collector's sty about taing to the owner of the shop minutes >>ow did y not see it? welli nevew it. ife haent weould not beitng here day.

arrest and indictment in 1991.>> no doubt about it. >> now the invesgative l just one w, towa the husband. >> it just kt coming back to mikend it was a funn efft. wetarted off looking at a lot of this and a t ofeople and it just narrowedown st li aunnel. >> it was ti for the cold case deiveske aip to penylvania. a tripcross miles inime. eyere gointoak surpse visit to l geor omicworl was th hba collectibl colle? afr 17ears a conrsation a

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the two detectives waitefor customers to leave, checked eiwatcheand saunterein. >> w about ainute behi thher deteives a he wa lking reneehis a heays no, ere's no he and headis bk us as he walked to the doornd he turn around and he said they're here and he got off the phone and he oked pretty sickt th in >> detve halitedn the tape recorder he'd conceal in hisacket. >> iroduced ourselves. ke wasretty much unemotional and he said hey, come on in. have a seat and started talking to him. >> this is some of tt convertion. we ve f queions f you. want ttalk to you about it. what did what did the police ll y

ginning. >> dide say this is eat ne i've wondered r yrs. and d you've solved it. didn't get t typical rese, u found sody wha ort av >> notng. he just starstarin 17 years on, michaegeorge aimea flickeriemory for . events. >> ion't remember. >> he became sweaty, twitc, anhing? he was w very pale di't make eye ntact. most of interview ad walooking down tards the tae. >> in 19 hise-ni conversation with the lead detective at the store after the murder, michael george h speculated that barb was killed

ter valuabic bos. bos. >>hat was tan? >> volbook >> he co'tememr exacy many comics were taken or the amnt the amou >> although he was sketchy detas had no problem coming up with an answer on why barbara of all peoplhad been md, en amichael's theory switches from robbto ree. >> i think bb was therong place athe wrong tim i thk somebody wted et at me i don't knho it was. i should have be there >> this was a vendetta and that, what?barbara tookheulle was t for him. exactly. that different from ate told the police back i1990. >>s that as interestg anything else you heard?

>> meale, thosecutor in michigan, thson t one-time policchf wadeep cuous out w the swoopdown interview was going. >> we yosurised toea that he talked to them ahan'lawyered up oraid m getting onhe pho to attorney right now? >> very surprised. i think he was so shocked the fact tha're still looking at hi scked that heidn't know what to do a that'why we didn't call him.that's wdidn't givhia u s e intervw contue michael george as headn't in 1990 now owned up to his ,, ilde anderi. e inhe 90-minute interview thconversati circled back to thrlier theme, robbery, the suppos tht ofalble comics.

ewhat he kept the good stu inhe back storage om. that's when things got testynd listen ageorge's preously ivne beces mdirect anconf confrontnal. i am tryingoo to -- to find out how the individual would kn thewere there, less it was inside job. surance fraud. >>o you're saying i'm lying? >> i'm saying that's ssibility. you ha tlo at all optis. >> now yousayi i lied abouthbooks being gone so now whayou'ayis i tt get aye we didn s tt. eah,id you justaid one t poibilities. >> that is a possibili. >> okay. if you're goin show tomorrow, let me know, get a wyer. this is bullshow. >> next day, in ct, would a lawye a crimalefense lawyer.

pennsylvania state police arrested arrested him at his workplac the comic book store. as he waleaway aer a ler court appearance he loudly proclaimed that police had nabbed therong man. >> tre's no wa no, i di no, i didn do this. >> the cold case hadned red hot. michael george was returning michiganould snd trial for the rst-degree murdeof his wife. a case prosecutors knew would hao ove in the a of csi and sh-mnsic ence, that bse the none. sot would come down a single witness and his collection oa tary phone call he said he de oa friday the 13 th131990. a twist in court few would have predicted. >> initially, never crsed the line.

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new thisalti's, kay d le. >> all ris >> allise. >> ia michigan courtroomot far from his old comicoo store michael geor was standing trial, charged wi the first-degree murr his then wife barbara. >> he was e husband from hell. >> in earl >> in early 20 the man who intended to put george away wa stevkaplan, then the trial prosecutor forhe county's cold case unit. >> it's true, we didn've forensicvidence pportiur case. >> he kn getting the comic ok man with nothing, but circumstantial evidence, no weapon, witness, no dna thi was a tough one to, something he never let on the ry, of course.

muer there only one pe in thiwod o d a reason to kill is wderful person and that and that'sichael georg >> for kaplan,roving it all boiled down to a ce of d you trust? woulthe jury belve janet george, miael's mother e id h son w sleepg on her ucat the time of t murder or would the jury accept thword of the mic bo collector mi renau heaid the defendant wa the store arnd that time ansri s ph wwered the phone? micha grg >>ow lg d you tao th feant t lthanivminute >>hame did youl th defendant? anywhere betw5:15 and 5:45. >> do you remember how he seemed to you >> he seemedike he wn a rry. how importa is he to your >>hout mauwe cannot win this ca because wioumichael renaud we cannot place the defendant physically

of barra's shooting. >> an came routine moment twe'valseen i courtroom dramas on tv. the prosecutor ithis case, ste kaplan, rose and told the jue. judge. >> your honor, the people rest. >>nd t defense responsin this michigacourtroom as predictably wato tryo get the ca throwout. not enough evidence. thstate hadn't met itsurden arguedarl marlga and asked for the judge for at's called a directederdict. >> when yojuon't k haveo -- y he to pull the plug. you tsath's i a tit got rlly range. and yosay, youhor, the ate hanot pred its ce. we ask that you smiss it right now and thatgo tthe jury itappens allf the time >>igand almost alws you're rebuffed. >> that's right. and almo alwayu're rebuffed within abt 10 to 15 s.

>>hiti theudgeisted inteor 20 mis as chl oref law argued that there was noay the precutiohad proved beyond a reasonab doubt that the defendant was in the comic defendant was in the com book sh with a gun inis hin >>herial judge iobligated to makcallo say ether or nothere was sufficient evence to ify is. >> procutor kaplan knew that by law the jud has to regard all evidence in a light most favorato the prosecution. he tk just 30 seconds and queried with a briefitation of ca law arguinghy the case should go to t jury. >> the evidepresented to is crt begs the question facto the w michael george is the murderer and t moon should beenied. >> and then the judge retired to his chambers to ponder this motiono dismiss and ponder he did,taying out for hou. >> eric smith, the county's chieprosecutor. >> whawas going on? well, -call you what w going on in the

we were fit to be tied. we've all tried hundredscases, and these motns for dicted verdicts are dismissed almost immedia. >> did you expect it was possible thahe would ce t and say this case is dismissed, jurs, you'reismissed. we don'tave a case here. well, inially, it never crossed ind. after a couple of urs it never crossemy mind. after fi hours you start to worry. >> carl marlingaas feeling better b bett by the hour. >> i rember walking ide with my client and saying this is obvioly good news. i cannot lie to you. judges don't takthis long to decide these motio. >> after hoursf watching the clock go rnd, the fendant, out on $1 million bond prayi e ofrids and family in the hallway, the judge at last rernedo the benc >> t court bn reviewing is mat this matter for approximately

extraordinary length otime to view any motion directedverdict.>> he started, washe case to bmade for the defen's position. >> aeit, it cod argued that tevidces mainal. then he seemed to point out the metse prosecion. >> thiis in manyays th classimurder case. if the evidee is believed by the jury tn the jury could reach a nding ofuilt. >> on the one hand, and the other. ere was the judge going? sohe court, at this poin caot subituts judgment for th of the jury. he decided fothe prosecution. there was enough evidence to go ard. forward. >> the directed verdt was denied. the defense had st a five-hour ngigh-stakes ge and apntly by the closest margins. >> that's probably the toughest moment i evehaas a lawyer. >> you thought you might have it.

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michael orge was on trial for nning down his wife in back of theicomic book shop. fired upy the fa the jud almost disssed the case, the defense counted out the crial phone call that placedhe defendant at the scene. >>ichael could not havbeen heto at the story committing this rder e sa iwas impossible to in two places at once. he callethe alibi witness to

13 >> said >> said he was tired. >> wn you got back, did you observe michael at all? >> yh. >> whe was h >> on the couch eepi. now it was up to the jurors toecide if they lieve his ther or thtns at said michael george awered s phone call cision day march 17th, 2008. michael ge michael george prayed quietly to himself. his frdo his family, the life he'd enjoyed in pennsylvania we at risk forer. a rder conviction meant mandory life, no possi of parole. >> all rise thjury, plea. >> t jy of eight wom a four men filed in neously as e juror explaine >> my hands re sweing, and took a look at michael george, and saw his fami, and s numb and scared at the same time. >>y brother turns toe and says is your hrteating ft? yeah, it is.

>> the foran read the verdt. >> count number e, first-degree murder. we find the dendant guilty. >> glty of first-degree murder. michael george slumped and soed in s attorney'srms. please be at. ba's sisr and two brothers seemed to share a gasp of reef. >> he took awamy oldt sist. she didn get to se get married. she didn'teto see being born. she'll never g to see him do anything. i an, he took a part of me away. >>crosthe room the convicted man's younger daughter, one of barb's two children, collapsed into her stepmother, renee. michael george wld go on weeping for a ll two min. >> i did >> i didn't dohis! >> but lieutenant craig ith, the co case detective who rediscovered therucial

tears. >> mike ow no emotion ck in 1990 and now heries and m impression of that is mi is cryior himse. t was devastatin it just vasting. barely able to stan george was lp to the podium to face the judge. the same judge who had apparently been a heartbeat away from dismissinthe case altogeth. heury has found you guilty ofll crges. at this time remanding you to the custodyf the macomb county sheriff's department. >> the comook man was now t. >>y.>> p your hands behind your ba. georg >> iid >> iidn't do thi his hands were cfed and deputies led him away. >> i had no doubt th the

>> the jur his returned to their deliration room. they said they could hear orge sobbing, but that didn't shake thr confidence in their verdict. th said it had come down t thtestony thean who saide called aut a sper-man comic. >> i think i hear yoall saying he wasripped up by answering that phone call fr michael reud. >> yes. he should t have been there when mike renaud called. >> the colcasenit starteby prosecutor ec smith with this case in mind had won a convicon. >> i really thoughhe was finally going to face thju punishment he deserves. >> and smith had notched one up for his dad, the late police chie >> my next thought went right tomy old man. i wish he was here to share this with, but i know he's smiling. >> the ling fenslawyer voed the kinds of mments you'd pect to hear. >> i thinkhe jurgoit wrong. i believe we have a strong shot with this jue to g eithe not ght reversala ne trial. >>ut that wasn't bve bluster.

fense attorneyas being prophetic. six mont later the defense ied agai a motion for aew trial before the same jge. one of theroun for theappeas prosecutorial miscduct >> this isot a rbery. not a robbery. it's a mder. >> what ppenedas in his closg gu the psecutor a splafor the jury. >>is timetable is -- andut the judge's eye shot began sembling piece a pho like a jigsaw puzz. e punchline when you put t picture gether, rors, there's your kler. maybe clever or maybe cornll but either way the prosetor may have oversteppedis bounds. the image the finished puzzle was a mush of miael george that w never iroduced in evidce a according to defense lawyers shed him in a gh prejudicial err the defense arguedrikene.

evidence in the case files possiblyorable to th defense. judge nat had had enough. >> a judge rul micel george ld get a new trialn the 1990 cic bookstore murder case. >> biernat threw out the murr verdict and is n giving michael orge anoer chance to win his freedom. >> it was just elati. it w, like, ok. the grea the greatest iusticehat had evereen sociated wh as a er h just been corrected. we areoing get newrial. >> cl marlin and joe alws lieved in their nt's innocence and nothey won another chance tprove it >> micha was devastateby t verdict. verdict. >> i didn't do thi suddey he's g new life. suddenly he has faith again in e system. >> i think he had two things working. he had new evidence and unfairness ithe clos argume on top of this real hearelt feeling by judge

be concted. >> county precutor e ith sn'tuying any of i >> the judge smed to have dicted tt there be a new trial because ofrosecutori misconduct. heung hihat on a lot of thgs and that was one of them. e the case begappeared was not comfortle witthis se and what he did was set aside a mueronviction which was unhed of. >> smith was bide himself ev though the controversial decision was backed by miigan's hhe courts. you wai18 years for justice, and you finally get juice only to havet the caet pulled out fromnder you. after t 2008 guilty verdict, barb's brother had gone to her grave site to share the good news. >> we finally got him,ou kw? he dn't get awayith it, and, yo, you can rest n. >> but now there was the judge's blocuster sion. >> it tore a hole in our heart it w somhing that here we thought was over.

go through the painful ordea all over again and wh even more unctaintihis time around. he jury had founmichael george guiy. the judge clearly had seris doubts a new ju a new jury cou go either w. especily sce the dense now had new evidence, moreossibl alternate killers and just dug up dirt on the procution's star witss. but two completely new prosecutors we revved up for the comi courtom battle. steve x. d bill cataldo teaming uto make michaeorge face the sic one mo time. thial of the comick murd v murder volum2 was no hand. a diffent ry, different precuts. >> michael george fell prey to the two issues most known to co man, sex and mo

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sept september 2011, in t nearly three years since the last cic bk muer trial michael gege h been locked up in e county jail where he said inadequatca caud tamib- diciey that crippled him. he was n confined a whlchair ahis second trial got under way before a new jue, mary chinsk but if e defendant'disability me hiappear feeand more sympathetic to y a js, thnew prosecn w work har work hard to demonizhim. ichael george fell prey to the two issues most own to common man, sex d >> what was your theory for the jury? >> i thi >> ihink mote is important anit was easy. $130,000 in surance ocds, and the facthat he really didnant to be ied. he didn't like his wife.

unattracve. >> he wanted a new life. >> in his openg argument, prosecutorteve fox that in 1990ichael george was ng torrid affair th renee, now his cond wife. >> he waed to gerid ofis overweight wifand move on to mee better. >> before the murder the husband wa'tothering to hide h disdain for his wife barra according to this precution witness. witness.>> she testified she and h son wentcomic world e saturd before the murder. theresa, they were in the e when theresa walked in. >> iad remarked how beautiful his girls were. >> what he say? >> if it wasn't for his daughts that he woulnot be with his wife and that he found her unattracti and heavy and if iwas up to him heou ke the girls and move to florida. >> what was your reaction to that response?>> i couldn't lieve he had id something like that to me

store. >> and tt same customer was shocked agn dayser wn michl de what she thout wapass ar duriis own wife's viewing at the nera home. >> hgave ma very inappropriate hug. it would have been hug that i would only have given my husban 's a v it's a very intimate hug. a little cree, but the following saturday as was thr custom teresand her so oppeby cs wod. michael slipped r a note. would you read that note fo the ju. >> you look very, very, very pretty today. thanks foroming . sincerely, micel. >> pubclscornful of his wi, hitting on oer women and now a longtime friend of barbara's was testifying that hefriends and family were all well are well awareith of cital t, trble, in rriage. kathy got a call weeks before e murder. >> sheas cryin very upset. mike wanted a divorce. >>nd did she convey to you

>> oh, she did not wt a divorce. >> prosecutothen ask the tness out ng the defendant at barb's funeral. >> i orheardike saying to his mother yelling out, mom, did you ca you call the insurance company? it jt didn't soundood cause of the phone conversation had with barb and en nower death. >> michael geoe, one-time surance salesman himself received $130,000 tax-free from his wife's life insurance policies, nod y 199 a wieswho worked with michael in the insurce business was asked about the money. >>hadoes the document say? is alaimtateme for payment the peds. >> whoignecl michael george, >> on >> on what day? >> 7/18 of '90 jy 18, 1990. >> yes, sir.

george was buried on july 16, 90. >> woman wanizerscnd the prosecution ssected character anrefeed thim as the only possible killer. >> our concentration was tshow thate wathe only guy, th he was the one who had to have done it because no one else on rth would ve >> speakoudl your first namim? >> prosecutors called this witneswho worked at a nail salon in the same strip ma as comicsorld. >> i would say i witnessed 30 to 35 arguments. >> she testified shield he many arguments between michael and barbara r, but the one she heard fray the 13th sound uglier. >> it was mu louder. heas mucgrier se much mor much more violent. >> thathe ones ithe past? >> yes. >> lesthan fr hours later, barbara georgeoulde discedcusters on the oor theack coms world. yeinhipublic place of a strip mall, custcoming and

one rembered seeing anne lee the store and no witness saw michael george at the store until he until drove up at 8:00 for party. by then poli were all er the scene. >> he to us who he was, identified himself and wanteto know what happed ie store. >> lead detective dona steckman, then of inton wnship p.d. testifd that chael sa hisifwas inat comics rl aised him tread been an incident at t store and his wife had bn injured. >>id he ask about her ndition? >>o. >> did he ask you abouhow it happened? >>o. >>teckman told the husband thathen lieutenant dond brook woulbe driving ho the hospital w he coulfi out about his wife. >> the former litenant testifiethat micel started atti witho prompti.

thought was teworthy. >> what was that statement? >> sething must haveell or dropd her in the back room. >> why is that statent interestg to you bause i neverold him that mrs. george s in the bacroom of the the store. >> tse are things should have known. >> he knows evidence that only the ooter would know not realizing how unique that information is >> later that night acrding police, michael george told investigats the two white boxes of expensiveomics were missinand that poor barbara must have stumbled into robbery gone bad. rejected. ts ws not and we know was wortht ast $20. therwa$700 in the register.iv expensive comiehind the glass were untouched. e , touched. storage storage room where michael med thmissing bos of comi hadeen.

maednd ty dn say pensivcomic okhere. >> missing comics were never found, but procurs believe eyere never sten, eith, even though michael recovered a 2,60insurancclm th. >>ere a red unmarked whitboxeinharothe only way to ow which os to grabould be it was an inde job. >> the only inside job accordi to the prosecutors was the muer itsf. theeason it's ainside job isausef the acceabily to that door. >> that or was cen to thprutor'sheof muer. chael george, theyaid, sneakein the back door and coealed mself until his wife was alone in thetore. when she came into the back room their belief was he fired o shots. the first one hitting a swimsuit calendar in the wall, the second string barb the top of her head as she waducking away. >> the murder took placend where went fromhereur

sight seenbut fo doing ly what he could do. he le >> he left through the back do. do. locking that lock. doub locked. >> indeed, the door cked from the outsidehen police arrived. something prosutors claid only michael george d do. >>ou'dave to havboth k out the den had keys to keys to the back door, prosutormaintained, and th added any supped robber would have frough thbusy front doornd would have been otd. >> there were many witnees at srted walkingn a nute to t minut of that gotne saw anyone aving th boxes of comic books. no one saw anyone runnout the front door >> what aboupeople spotted by wiesses mis befo and ter murder? the guy inhe greek sherman'cap, t susous characteo seed tbe

the so-cled beardelady. police made a sketch of the bed la, but ecutors say newoul suspec ever amounted to anythingxcept in the case of the d lady prosecutors theozehat th person m havbe micha orge'sccomplice. now the prosecutors would offe up their star tness, the sole rson w with d say the husbd was inde in the store as theinutes were counng down to murder comicollector mike renau but is time the defense was ready with new evie to chalnge not only renaud's cribility, but also his mery. in 1990 u used marijuana a

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>>once again, michael gege's guilt or iocenceld lely come dn to the man who said he made an innocent phone call abt ider-man comicoo >> we would call mike renaud. >>thfirst trial, the juro bought his account of speango thsh over the phone pareinut before the murr. the judg hower, haseem skeptical. but now 12 new people would deciding the ce. so so pon d wyers had to start ufresh with the all-iorta star wiess. the stakes couldn't higher. >> michael renaud,hout him would you have a case? >> no. he's the only one that puts the defendant at the scene. he's the only one that alone can deroy deroy thdefendans alibi. >> without him we don't even issue a warrant. >> they kn their client's eedom depend on them chlenging naud'storynd refointhe ans alibi.>>t's wiwir the

wt hopedo direct the juo focus was spific that alibi. >>efda's 10 sty waat he'lefton ship shop somee afr 4:00 p.mto go to hisher's hous e lived azel parout a halfour away. it was miceoe's althate waat his mother' use house from 4:30 :30.ttle a le after he rive th said he tooher grandchildren the pand he was ee on e couch some th got back some te after 6:00. ba w murred a little 6:00. if micha geoe'account is true, he was at his mother'st that timand therefe could not be theiller. t according to prosecutors chael georgeast napping on e couch at all.th con th contended he'd turned to micsorld and sneaked io the store with a gun when ba left to order pizza for his birthday party and about what time was that? >>etwe 5:00 and 5:30. that'the timeame when

it was locked and she had waitor bb toeturn from the pizza place. >> if she was not in the store at 5:30,he couldn't have anered t p if somne answethe phone it uld hao be seone oth aner? >> correct. >> prose >> psecutors questioned the one witness who coulidentify who answered the phone. >> michael renaud. >> yes, sir. >> mike renaud. in 1990 a ca before his disaing acnt renauwas mad anhad a young daughter and was hog downwo jobs.>> were you alttendi school? >> y. was going to wne ste. h well did you do in wayne state? >> i graduatedum lau. the prosecution wanted to regard renaud aknowleeable and a comic book collector. >> before july 1990 how frequently would you go to the store? >> at least once a week. >> thef thmuere stop comics world befo workbut rena's critical story with t jy hato d

later in theay tthe shop. he had a collector's question aboua sper-man comic he owned. >> he called because he was excithat some book had jumpedrom $8 to $40. >> did y contact anyone to discuss the asons it gng in vae? >> yh, i called mike. >> hew the voice. he knew thtimehat would tre and that's the whole case. >>ell mebout the demeanor of michael gege, and thswers were very short and seeme be in a hurry to get off the one. >> you might wonder as many people did if michael gege was lying in wait to murder his wi in just moments, why woulde be so d trig phone t store? >> hpiit up for one of two onher as a bussma it'nd est wa to lose biness or mb two, it's hisccomice from the outside lettingim know what'going on>> coun't investigors sily ll t pne logs d vefy

time the records showed the ll coming in. not 22 years ago. e compy dn't keep those kinds ofon l calls,ut remember, renaud's story had fall through the investigative cracks altogether unl a case cop craig ith came upon it in 2007 in that re-discoverefile was a statement saying that a guy nad reudad called the poce dartment the day after the murder. he wanted the detectives to know georgen the comic shop at 6:00 after u hung up with t departmentdid u inabout it fur? >> yes. >>hy? >> i did not want get mike in troue.ble. if i was wrong omy time. >> and ading to those wl discoved police record naud had called thpolice e mee'd spoken to michl george.>> what did you advise police this te when you cled back

>> there were multiple calls t lice. we saw that as a strenh rather an a weakness. >> he's trying the michael george and he's yi to tell the police don'tet him in trouble becae of m 's establishing that hs not thibecause he has some ill will against the defenda or 's minit up for 15 minutes of fame. that's not w the fense team saw renaud. they thought he was basking in the limelight of theigurr trial. we ink he's just exrating his ownmptance in his mind. he saw a way to become important inomicide investion. >> wn thdefense hait ack atenaud on cross-amination,t wanted the jury to question h motives, memo and cdibility. >> first of all, this guy mike renaud mak himself sound like he's a goobuddy of micel george he talks to him all the time. chael george doesn't rememr him at. >> renaus multiple calls to e police changing his times indicated thathis witness didn hava good handle on his recoections and was therefore,

>> he calls back seval times beg uncertain the twhen w makinthe call >> if the call to michael george ed at all and thdefee disputes that it did, defense attorney marlinga believed it muste beenlaced beforehe shop owner lt for his th's house. was morthann ho befoher. >>you're sayrenaud is not justistaken with his times, that he is -- e's a person of mischief. >> we think wanted to -- to beme a h >> in factsince the last trial reud had tried to bolster his story by adding new cts according tefense. naud revled for the first township police department days after the murder to make a port irson. marlingaough oss-examinatiooughout that renaud's memory of that pocenterview was at best, hazy >> the pson that you met with in the face-to-face coersation. do you know the name of that person? >> i dno >> how about the gder? male or female? >> it wa >> it was a male. >> old oyoung?

>> this was person in a uniform or in a it, ort coat or a suit >> i cannoy. do you remember seeing a dg >> i cannosay. >> did you ever see a police report that was generated as a result of thatntervi? >> no, s. >> the is, in fact, no police report of that interview. was it another example in the defense's theme of inept police work or a gment of renaud's imagination? >> either the police department lost a very important police report or the lackf li notes is a fact because the teiew never haened. >> isn't it truesir, that you invented that you made up this conversation? >> i did noto at. >> butow the defense w moving on,elling the jury there may be a rean wh renaud's memory is so hazy. back in those days, e laers asserted, he was oftn a haze of pot smoke. >> can youven remember the times th you were hi? >> oecon. guativ

nuclear one renaud? >> wou iouldn't say nuclea we regard it just brinout the facts. and yok cohol on the weekends, did u not? >> i was in collegd that would not surprise me. >> the hicide that we're talking about occued on friday friday july 13thyour two initial calls into the clion township police occurred on satu saturday, ly 14th of 1990. we are agreed that friday and saturday arekend days, rrect? >> correct >> when questied whether he got high on e only weekend that mattered, july 13th and 14th, 90, renaud hado admit he just didn't remember. >> you could have usedt, or you could not have used it. you do not remember? >> correct. >> the goal was to raise reasonaboubt about renaud's call and credibity. >>arijuana c cause a time distortion so we're taing to a

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mich michael george had been married h second wife renee for almost 2years. through thick and thin, they stl se still se vmuchn love. >> ts ca wilshow you -- buthis 2011 trihe defense acknledged right up ont that during s first marriage michael would never have won an award for husbanof the ye. >> this is not a matter of suspicion, innuendo, discued with person for having affairs. this is a matter of evidence. >> so lead defense attney carl mainga reminded rors the

murder. >> an adulterer is a person at does evithings but that does not necessarily make him a rderer >> the victim's shoe could be seen. >> as for any hard evidethat michael george killed his wife in colblood, the dense maintained it just didn't exist. and you havno weapon, no witnesses. >> no. no forensics. >> not. >> nothing. da, thing that ties him to the crime. >> t jury,ouhonor, the peoplees ust as ithe first trial came that moment when the prosecution restednd the defensfilea moonayg, your honor, they haven't proved their case. >> there is physil evidence which links michael george to the crime. >> but this time there was n five-hour retreat to chambers for e judge to think about it. her ruling came econds. >>he cs finding that the proseciohaprte sutaiaeviden. thfeant teared up.

judge decl, to go rward. >>he conclusn, gentlemenis thathe motion is dend. so with that setback, not unexcted, the defee began its ree-prond linef attack. at onali wor in tthwas ence, me of it new, th meonse cmitted the murder andhirdly, that michael georgead a sonalibi. we decided that our strongest evidence was the alibi, and that wod normally be sufficient to win, but knowing that we are dealing withel's history and e affairs that could make him an unlikable charact, e and i realized that we rlly >> michael george to police that he'd left the storeith his daughters a little after 4: p.m. that friy. they went to his mother janes housout 30 minut ay. said he wasonis mother's couch when, tragically, his wife was shot. janet george, the moer had testified in the first tri and

the couch stor >> on the coh. >> defense attorneys altered thr strategy for tri number o. >> ma'am, do y swear that you will read word for word everythinghat's in that transcript? >> m dn't teify person this time around. thdefens the fense had a and-ead earead janet or's 2008 teimony to t record, in a time that michl arrived ter 5:00 p.m. that day she said hwas tired while took her gnddaughterto a near p nearby playgrod. >> wheyou got back, d you observe michael at all? >> yeah. >> where was he? >> he was onhe couch sleing. >>they belved the story, michaegeorge couldn'possibly have been is shop at 5:30 anering the phone. that's when the star prosecution witness mike renaud said he talked to him. >> janet george was the alibi. why didn't you puter on e stand?

we agonid about it. the problem with janet grge is that she loves her s, but she's a wild card. her --eremory is fading. >> t lawrsere confidt about their decision not to ll the mother because they had a strongitness to substantiate parts of her story. >> okay. peggy was janet george's next-doonehbor. on that friday the 13th, like mostayeggy said she got home from r job betw5:45 and 6:00. >> as you got close to your house did you e anybody? >> i actuay saw janet and e two gis in the school aygroundt the enof our street. >> when you saw them there, what, if anything, didhey ? >> we just wed. >>s you pued io your house what, if anything,id you see in front of janet'house? >> thereas a v parked front of the house. >> okay.

>> i assumed it waone of michael'vansyes. >>n the osecution's theory of theime line, ere s a missing linkf logistics. hodid michael t from his th's placend back to the store in time to kill barbara? >> theeighbor's siting o his vaoutside s mom's could plant the se of reasonable dot. >> she has no dog he fight. she'noa cle, cosom ddy lifelg personal friend of janet and michael' she's a nehbor. why wouldn't you believeer? >> when yotake the combined testimony of janet geoe d ggyou have solid evidence that he was at somplace else. >>nd thaneighbor was a rs the dense team had fod on its own. the police h nev knoed on ortoorrobote michael's alibi of beingt his mother's evidence in itself, thdefense argued of shoddy police work. even the former police lieutent admitted on cross-examination that aect of the investigation could ha been better.

charf this case, would you have conducted a canvassf his moth's neighrhood to seef pele could haved him the or about the time of the micide? >> yes, sir. >> thaliork was the defee thry for instance, the poli never testedicel geoe r nshot residue the night of the murder. in the rearnt dr. >> and alsfailed to dust the prosecution's critical bacdoor for possible fingerint. >> if thd guy touched the hale to get outhat wayhe would ve left some prints, b wel never know that because the police didn't dust that. >> there wersome plastic storage bins. >> and pole phos inside the comistoreroowhere barbara s founwas clutter blocking the backoor. how coulmichael george he gotten in or out with all of that. >> does that look like the room. >> the fmer detecte d not owju apparently in the way. >> was that leaning up against

>> i can't tele perspectiv it's hard tell. >> the defense felt it raised eh reasonable doubt to secure a not guilty verdi and even though they in no w hato t lawyers wand to offer the jury other possible murder suspects coidered in a scariof a robbery gone bad. >>he defense calr. thomas clinton. >> the d >> the defense put owitness who story abt being withwo frien outside a coc booksh in int, mhigan, se 50 m away fm michl ge's sho sinister-lking guy was peddling hot comics. >> a man approached us ithe parking lot and ked us to taokolcomics that he wanted to sell his new defense witness said came forward after watcng the rst mic okcase on "dateline." he tesfied tt the then teagers didn't tst ller at buy anythi from him >> the vibe thgentleman was giving us told us no way. the witness said th

1990signifantly, the day after barbara george's murder, t his fries, called the prosecution contdicted him andsaid it actually happened weeks earlier. >> we re walking tards the builng >> the defse wasn't out of alternative suspects one of the store customers who had initially come upon barbara orge, thomas warseeing a suscious man lurking about when he got comics world a little aer 6:00 p.m. >> iapar that th individual was looking, trying to gaze into the store quite focused, in a quite focused fashio >>arn id he rememberhe man becae of his disncve hat. had greek fishean's cap, blaccap. >> a cap like this. >> let mshowou defense exhibit 105. >> yeah. >> and still another new witness testied that in 1990 she iefly datea guy who wore a shorbrimmed hat like that.

upo no good anwas up to no good with e comic book stores. >> i reazed that he was stealing these comic books. >> the were alpossible spects the defenselaimed, t on the tf the list of curiosities was someone who beca known athe beded lady. wiess witness joe gr, a ie o e georges came to e stor befo:00 to drop off supplies for ael's birthday party gray was with a friend who had goen a gander of something strange. >> he id it looked like a woman in a fe beard, aeally thin guy with womanly hips or something. >> gray and his friendere so concerned about this weird beard lady o fnt they warn barbaraeorge to be on the lookout. it didn't feel right. >> why wou somebody wearing a fa beard? maybe meone would me te party a je orbe ty we trying rob the place. it joeraiend who helped police make the sketch of thso-cd beardedy. >> believe theson with t beard andustache he kill

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21 years iall,ndnce again, michael george hadn't teified as was his right. his wyhad put him through a mock cross-examinati tt sprang leaks. they said his me w faulty after alth time. >> i put together a pattern of cross-examination questions where he had to say don't remember about 20 times in aow and we have two solid alibi witnesses. it's almost malpracticto put him on the stand. >> but t prosecutors belie s reluctance to testify was more about him not bngblto stand upo the grilng he uld have faced in a real cross-examinion. >> my wife w murded, ts the most important dayf my life and i forgot what happened at day? it's becse maybe i talked myself out of wanting to rember. >> i wand hear at he had toay >> these jurors sa t entir panewadisappointedhat it didn't hear the story from michael geor'swn mouth. >> i think you can s aot out a personhen they talk about themselves. >> "dateline" talkedo 10 of

the first vote realed a split. seven guilties, five not. >> a your not guilties, what? eded to be psuad? >> it was e robby. the cfication. >>s claricatioand a co had an ea that mayb bbery did happen. >> the central questn foch juror wawhich story to believe, the comic book collector o said he talk o the onto micel george in the shop just bere the murder or the defendant's mother, h alibi wi alibi witns that he was pping oner cou across town at t same hour. >> to me, ultimately, it came down to chael renaud's teimony and the oncall that he made that aced michael george at the scene ofhe crime. >> so did e defense damage mike r keenaud's edibily ckg atcking hi aarijna smokin beer-guzzng college kid? not to this ror. >> i think they were trying to personally attack him get u to believe that he cldn't remember anything because he was

relleconevts. >>'m n saying shwould lie for hi but, i mean, would you >> the jurors talked it through r three days and finally took a vote. >> all right, gentmen. we have a veict. their jowas done. >> all rise for a ju. >> michael geoe criequietly. his wife ree, remain stoic. on t benches aoss the court, barb's brother hop f justice from a second jury >> it's people. you don't know what they're thinking. >> the foreperson read the verdicts. first degree premeditated murder of barbara george gutyfirst degrremeditated murder. guil, murder in the first degree and guilt oat other counts, as well. felony firearmnd insurance fraud. michael geor didt break down th tim closed s es and smed to ta t behind h his wife nee buried her he. barb's brotheronin his j out of respect for hisieces who lost their mother and now their father.

realization that their fher's a murderer. >> the prosecutors quietly coratulateeach other on the conviction. >> it was a huge rief that nally the family wasetting at they deserv, the stice ey deserve ichael george was leout of the courtrootoin the rest of his life in pso no possibility of parole. a terrlenjustice as his stauncdefense attorney s it. >> i was left th this ca for four years and i'tee any evidence that he was tre itti committing these crimes. killers, this man wat >> i don kw why god haput us through this. i do belie hlous. >> s weeksfter the verdi, michael george did final spe out, but as a convicted rderer his p at his pro forma sentencing hearing. >> the catastrophe oputting peopleway that are innent has not started with me and will not d wi me. accuseof any crime, nor

i ha no poce ridiculous, no problem with drinking or drugs. i caonlye and pray that the lives that are destroyed by people b people being overzealousn the police com will find mercy god above. >> barb's brother joe cted nothing and said he got it. >> once ain,o apoly. he thinks he's better an anybody else ae thought was gog get away wit. >> as barb's familsaw it since 1990 he did get away with murder untier smith's cold case itinly made m pay. >> do u still talk to barba? >> y >> did you talk to her in th courtrooay? >>. >> what did yosa >> that i love her. that we ss her and that we nally gohiand lly she rest iace and can move o n the ent tasuperheroeet a convictn in the c bk se. the stsomeing better

dedicated cold-case cop who like superman, believed in trut soouch superman believed in trut justice a themerican way. as some as some of you may recall, i stood he in this very spot five days o to address the growntroversy over the dismissal of eight federal prutors. at that timei detailed my position on the matter. i made it very clear that anor l white house officials would be available for questioning as long a--nde is where i thought i waquitclear -- as

coucted private wit taking any oath, and thereould beo transcripts. light lahter ] if tt'not unprecedted accessth i jusdot know atheord "uredented" means. [ light laughter ] and i . big me [ laughter ] ter explaini my positioni ma thenfortunate mistake of tang qstions from the press. m presently conferring with my legal counsel about ssibly not doing th ever ain. [ laughter ] i believe i have the executive authority to not answe qutions. i only wish i had knowthat a ng timago. [ lahter ] thfallt from all this mess seems to be an even eater demand for me to rove my attorneyeneral, alberto nzalez. it's not gonna happen. alberto, come on out here. [ laughter ] right. alberto isy. as i aeady said, il not lem become part of some partisan fishing expedition aimed at honorable public rvants.