a special prosecutor, stan levco, was appointed to represent the state. >> here you're going to starthow did you appraise your case when it became yours? >> when i first got it, it was just overwhelming. i've tried a lot of cases over the years, a lot of death penalty cases, murder cases. i've never tried anything like this. i've never seen anything this complicated. >> with no philandering husband, no molesting father what remained was the theory of the crime that david left the basketball game, killed his family, then went back to play some more. once again, the prosecutor argued that the scene in the garage was staged to look like a sex crime. >> and her pants have been removed. >> correct. >> removed after she'd been killed. what's more, the positioning of kim's body, he argued, was not what you'd expect of a person who'd been shot and fallen. >> her feet are under the car about, i think roughly ten, 12 inches under the car. her legs were at an angle which seemed unusual. >> unusual how? >> well, they weren't straight. they were at an angle. you just wouldn't expect 'em to be that