island? from the start, ashley macarthur's defense team, father and son barry and john beroset had a strategyo connect her to it. narrator: the defense reasoned, with no dna at the crime scene, no blood evidence, no murder weapon, no proof even of where taylor was killed, the jury could easily find reasonable doubt. we told the jury, look, you may not like ashley. you may think she's a liar. maybe you think she stole money. but you know, in this trial, she wasn't on charge for theft. narrator: john and barry beroset took turns chipping away at the state's case. every law enforcement officer who searched the crime scene for evidence admitted the turning up nothing that pointed to ashley. and it wasn't just the farm. the defense called the crime scene supervisor who helped search ashley's house and three vehicles. man 2: are you aware of any evidence that was collected that established that ms. macarthur killed taylor wright? no. narrator: on top of that, they argued that ashley wasn't physically capable of pulling off the crime, of carrying taylor's dead body over a fence to the adjacent prope