Safarik mentioned that ironing boards are items that are not very stable and would easily be overturned in a struggle. If there was a major struggle in the dining room, there is no evidence of it. In this photo you can also see part of the living room and the stairs up to the upper kitchen and dining room levels.īelow is a photo of the ironing board in the undisturbed dining room. From the crime scene, we know the attack continued in the entrance way/foyer, where several blood smears and stains were found. In the defense theory, that Sherri interrupted a burglary, Sherri and her attacker would have had to have stepped over this equipment at the bottom of the stairs. This was evidenced by the bullet holes in the kitchen patio sliding doors, and the trajectory of one of the bullets back to a wall in the dining room. According to the prosecution’s theory of the crime, the attack on Sherri started in the upper level, in the dining room. It’s believed this equipment was placed there after Sherri was killed. On the chair next to the table is the blanket/garment with the bullet holes and indicating the barrel cylinder GSR residue.Īnother element that Safarik believed was evidence of staging was the two pieces of video/stereo equipment stacked in front of the stairway in the entrance foyer. Although it is difficult to see on this image, there is evidence that the drawer was not riffled through, to look for valuables because a box of sewing pins is still in place, altogether. It’s also a location where one would not expect to see valuables. It was the only drawer in the house that was pulled out and it was pulled all the way out of the table and up-ended. Unit 205 was set deep inside the complex and not on an end or near the street.īelow is a layout of the grounds of the town home complex with Unit 205 marked.Īnother important element of the staging in the living room was the pulled out drawer from a small table between two chairs. The front entrance, you needed either a key or to be “buzzed” inside. The driveway gates needed a remote sensor to open them. The complex was surrounded by walls and gated entrances. Safarik testified that Sherri’s town home was not in an ideal location for a burglary. One of the prosecution’s key witnesses was Mark Safarik, a former FBI profiler, the people's crime scene analyst. No other room in the town home was disturbed. The only evidence of a "robbery" was in the living room. What does that mean? It means the killer (or killers) manipulated the scene to direct attention away from the real perpetrators. One of the main points of the prosecution’s case against Lazarus was the theory that the crime scene was staged. One of the things that bothered me the most about the first Spector trial (that was televised) were the images of Lana Clarkson’s body that hit the Internet and how painful that must have been for her loved ones. I felt these images would be too painful for both the victim’s and defendant’s families to have out there on the web. I had decided early on that I would not publish photos of Sherri or any photos that had blood smears in them. Unfortunately, Judge Perry did not release any items of evidence until the case was settled. UPDATED May 3rd, 2012 for spelling, clarity.Įarly on in the trial, I inquired about obtaining a few of the exhibits.
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