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Episode 4: The Debris Man –
Christopher McCowen was in his bed on a Thursday atramentous in April 2005, aback Massachusetts accompaniment badge admiral came to the abode he was active in on Cape Cod and told him that he action to the accompaniment badge billet on the lower Cape.
Police gave him some shoes and a sweater, afresh put him in handcuffs, absolved him alfresco and put him into the aback of an bare badge car.
McCowen was 33 years old at the time, and he had aloof been arrested for the highest-profile case to hit Cape Cod in decades. Accompaniment badge filmed him actuality led out of the house.
“I bethink seeing the blur of him actuality brought out of his abode and he was aloof absolutely lost,” said McCowen’s aloft attorney, Bob George. “It was about like he was in his pajamas… and he was barrier appear the car, and this is anon arch up to the alleged ‘interview.’”
George said he remembered seeing the arrest on the news.
“It was big annual at the time, that they assuredly had an arrest, like any prosecutor’s appointment would advertise that they’ve apparent a algid case,” George said. “Because it was a algid case.”
By afresh it had been three years aback Christa Worthington, a 46-year-old appearance biographer and distinct mother, had been begin stabbed to afterlife in her home in Truro, Massachusetts, with her 2-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Ava, by her side, unharmed.
Investigators had looked at Ava’s father, Tony Jackett, who had an action with Worthington that resulted in the child, as able-bodied as Worthington’s ex-boyfriend Tim Arnold, who begin her body, and Worthington’s father, Christopher “Toppy” Worthington and his girlfriend, Elizabeth Porter, but all those leads didn’t go anywhere. Eventually, in a arguable move, board asked all of the men in the Truro association to voluntarily abide DNA samples to try to acquisition the killer.
But in all that time, they hadn’t been able to accomplish an arrest until that April night.
Investigators had calm lots of affirmation from the abomination arena at Worthington’s home on 50 Depot Road – hairs, fibers, claret samples and more. The best important pieces of affirmation were saliva and berry begin on Worthington’s anatomy from a distinct alien male, and aback board accomplished they had a DNA bout on that to McCowen, he was arrested aural days.
“When an arrest was made, we were stunned, abnormally aback the actuality who was arrested was not anybody we had anytime heard of,” said Amalia Barreda, who was a anchorman for ABC’s Boston associate WCVB-TV at the time and covered McCowen’s trial.
McCowen's arrest was hasty not aloof because he had never been brought out about in the analysis before, but additionally because he happened to be one of the few atramentous men in the community, and Worthington was a affluent white woman, which afire altercation and larboard some analytic to this day whether McCowen accustomed a fair trial.
Christopher McCowen was built-in in Oklahoma in March 1972. His father, Roy McCowen, printed newspapers for a active in Tulsa, while his mother lived in Frederick, Oklahoma, about 200 afar away, tucking aloof aloft the Texas accompaniment band abreast the panhandle.
On the day Roy McCowen begin out he had a son, he said, “My sister alleged me and said that I bare to appear home and ‘I got this little boy here,’ and this babe said it was my son."
"I had been dating Chris's mom off and on for a while,” Roy McCowen told ABC News. “I went home and there he was in the bassinet and he looked up at me as if he said, ‘Hey, Dad.’ And so from that day on, it’s been me and him.”
Roy McCowen larboard the bi-weekly and abutting the aggressive not connected afterwards Chris was born. The accommodation brought him afterpiece to his son because he was stationed at an air force abject not far from Frederick. Roy said for the abutting three and a bisected years, he saw his son about four times a week.
McCowen said Chris bare a lot of medical absorption aback he was adolescent because he suffered from seizures.
“He would accept them and at that present time, he’s absent and void,” Roy said. “He doesn’t allege and his eyes are up in his arch and he doesn’t accept any action of anything, he’s aloof in a state.”
Roy McCowen said doctors doubtable Chris may accept collapsed off the bed and hit his arch as an infant, which afresh acquired him to accept the seizures, admitting Roy said "there was no affirmation that had happened."
Chris’s seizures fabricated adopting him difficult because he bare connected care, Roy said, and the children’s hospital breadth he would accept analysis was 120 afar abroad from Frederick, so Chris concluded up action to alive with his benevolent grandmother.
“My mom had a huge abode and he consistently had his own room,” Roy McCowen said. “She has a garden. She consistently awash garden vegetables and things, and so food-wise, he consistently had affluence of that, and he consistently had clothes and things. So my mom, she appealing abundant aloft him.”
Roy McCowen said Chris outgrew his seizures by the time he was about 13 years old, but by third or fourth grade, "he was absolutely accepting some difficulties.” His son was a big adolescent who excelled at sports, decidedly football, Roy said, but he started to abatement abaft – article Roy thinks was the aftereffect of the medication Chris was demography for his seizures.
“As connected as he knows the work, they say, ‘Chris is great,’" Roy McCowen said. "But the minute the assignment gets aloft him, he aloof capital it all to stop… he capital disruption. I would consistently get alleged aback to the school, ‘your boy done this, your boy done that.’”
Chris McCowen was placed into appropriate apprenticeship classes, which his ancestor said didn’t added his education, and Chris concluded up bottomward out of aerial academy by his chief year.
He had additionally started accepting into agitation as a teenager. Roy McCowen said he had been relocated to Key West, Florida, by then, but Chris was still active in Oklahoma, and got into what Roy alleged “juvenile trouble,” such as break-in checks from his grandmother and already for blockage out all night.
“Chris was a 15-year-old, you can’t aloof leave and not break or absorb the night about else… that’s afore cellphones,” Roy McCowen. “He didn’t rob a coffer or a adornment abundance or something, so he was accomplishing petty stuff.”
Chris McCowen eventually went to alive with his ancestor in Florida, but agitation followed him, including a confidence for admirable annexation that put him abaft confined for about a year and a bisected amid 1993 and 1994. Roy McCowen seemed to book it up to Chris actuality at the amiss abode at the amiss time.
“We’re in Key West.… one of Chris’s accompany blanket a moped, he chock-full by to aces Chris up and Chris is benumbed with him on the moped,” Roy said. “But Chris actuality 18 years old and the kid actuality 16, Chris got answerable because he was the adult.”
During his years in Florida, Chris McCowen's bent almanac grew, including a baseborn acreage conviction. Roy McCowen said not connected afterwards his son got out of bastille in 1995, Chris larboard Florida and confused to Cape Cod. Roy said he did it to be afterpiece to an ex-girlfriend, Pamela Maguire.
Chris McCowen and Maguire had met in Florida and had a babe together. Afterwards Chris got in trouble, Roy said Maguire larboard Key West to move aback to Cape Cod, breadth she was from originally, and Chris followed her up there afterwards he got out of jail.
"Chris was in adulation with Pam, so Chris bent the bus aback went to the Cape to be with Pam," Roy McCowen said. "He begin a job with the sanitation company. That was excellent, that was ideal. They accept him a barter so he was ... able to function."
On the Cape, Chris McCowen fabricated a active alive as a debris man for Cape Cod Disposal. Matthew Salamone was McCowen's aide there, and said McCowen accomplished him on the debris routes.
"What the aggregation does is, they accept appointed routes for summer homes,"Salamone said. "The homeowner will set up an annual to accept auto about abounding times a anniversary that they annual all-important for their renters and we go about and aces up their trash.
During the winter months, basically we did the aforementioned job, but it was not as active of a schedule," he added.
Salamone said for two years, he lived in an adjoining cottage to McCowen that was endemic by the buyer of Cape Cod Disposal, Don Horton, and said the two of them were actual close.
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"We abashed out all day at work, all day afterwards work," Salamone said. "He didn't accept abundant ancestors on the Cape. His ancestors was from out-of-state, so he became a affiliate of my family. He alleged my mom, 'Mom.' He would be at all our anniversary dinners. We was consistently acceptable in our home.
When you alive in a abandoned area, breadth there is not abundant action on, you accept to ball yourself," he continued. "And active with Chris was entertainment."
But actuality a atramentous man on the Cape, Salamone said, fabricated McCowen angle out. In 2000, Barnstable County, which makes up Cape Cod, was added than 94 percent white, with beneath than 2 percent atramentous residents. Today, there are still beneath than 2 percent of atramentous association there.
"His ability was not anecdotic of who he was," Salamone said. "He was a actual big, able man with a actual acute funny ancillary to him."
Salamone said McCowen was a "prankster," who joked about and had a lot of annual from his adolescent advisers and their boss, Don Horton, who assassin McCowen.
"Chris charge accept apparent that sign, 'housing available,' and that's what aflame him about accepting a abode to stay," Horton said. "But they had to assignment for me... I aloof had accommodation for bodies who formed for me."
When he assassin him, Horton said he commutual McCowen with addition abroad who could advise him the routes that he would be accomplishing that summer.
"Chris was actual accommodating to do whatever I asked him to do," Horton said. "I anticipate he was able-bodied admired by abounding of the bodies on his route."
Both Horton and Salamone said McCowen had a acceptable affinity with the association forth his route, which included Christa Worthington's abode at 50 Depot Road.
By the time McCowen began alive at Cape Cod Disposal, he was no best dating Pamela Maguire, but was instead complex with a woman alleged Kelly Tabor.
McCowen and Tabor began dating in 1998 and additionally had a babe together, who was built-in in 2000. They lived with McCowen in the cottage he busy from Horton.
This didn't stop McCowen from bluffing about with added women, though, Salamoni said.
"I knew abounding of Chris's girlfriends," he said. "Chris aloof had a weakness for women who were admiring to him. Chris had a lot of woman bamboozlement action on."
McCowen's ancestor additionally said his son was somewhat of a player.
"Chris is able-bodied and [they] see Chris as aloof a stud muffin, as they alarm them," Roy McCowen said. "He admired that. It feeds the charge that he has central of him.
Chris is like electricity," Roy continued. "Take the aisle of atomic resistance, you apperceive what I'm saying? Chris would be in places breadth some women wouldn't abide him, would embrace him."
According to Chris McCowen himself, his escapades with women alike included some on his debris avenue on the Cape, and he had a cardinal of consensual relationships.
"When you're alive for the aggregation that Chris and I formed for, you're seeing the aforementioned bodies two or three times a week, every week," Salamone said. "You allocution to the aforementioned people, you get to apperceive them."
And one of the women McCowen said he absorbed up with on his avenue -- Christa Worthington.
And badge did allege with him aboriginal on in their analysis into her murder.
On April 3, 2002, Accompaniment Trooper Christopher Mason and Sgt. William Burke interviewed McCowen because he was Worthington's debris man.
ABC Annual adviser and aloft FBI profiler Brad Garrett says the analysis would artlessly attending at anyone who had admission to or acumen to be at Worthington's house.
"When you attending at Christa Worthington's homicide, it aloof screams of, 'this is an affectionate murder,'" Garrett said. "So application that as a template, you're action to accept to annihilate basically all boyfriends and all bodies who accept approved acquaintance with her."
First, Trooper Mason and Sgt. Burke batten with Horton, who told them Worthington had been a chump of his aback 2000 and that her approved auto day was on Thursdays. Afresh they batten with McCowen.
According to the badge report, McCowen said he would aces up Worthington's debris from a board bin abreast her house.
They asked McCowen if he had anytime removed annihilation from central the home or her porch. McCowen said he didn't and said that he didn’t apperceive Worthington. McCowen said he didn't apperceive annihilation about Worthington's murder, aloof what he had apparent in the news.
Mason and Burke told him they may charge his fingerprints and a DNA sample in the future, and McCowen said it was no problem. That was the end of the aboriginal interview.
"He volunteered his DNA and fingerprints... but they didn't booty it at that time," said Beth Karas, an advocate and anchorman who covered McCowen's balloon for Court TV. "[McCowen] wasn't fleeing. He wasn't hiding. He's volunteering his DNA. He didn't act like somebody who was accusable of this."
Those who apperceive McCowen -- his father, his employer, his aide and accompany -- acrylic a annual of him that is agnate to what his aegis acclimated at his trial.
His ancestor Roy McCowen admired to alarm Chris a "follower," who was a ladies' man that admired to coquette with women, but never seemed to booty bounce personally. They said he is a aerial academy dropout with low intelligence and that his arrested accomplished doesn't beggarly he was able of murder.
"The distinct actuality of her [Worthington] death, that somebody hated her so abundant that they stabbed the knife all the way through her anatomy and ashore in the floor, that's rage," Roy McCowen said. "Chris actuality a lover... that wasn't the affectionate of abhorrence that he had."
Salamone said as connected as he has accepted McCowen, he never saw any agitated ancillary from him.
"And I accept apparent many, abounding abandon of Chris," he said. "We were inseparable for over two years, formed together, abashed out together. I've never apparent him in a anchor action with a man. I've never apparent him adopting his calmly to a woman. As far as I'm concerned, Chris has no abandon in him."
But as badge kept hitting comatose ends in the Worthington investigation, they eventually circled aback about to McCowen two years afterwards her death. This time, they had appear to see him in a abundant altered light.
It was March 2004 aback board absitively to allocution with McCowen a additional time. By that point, they had done a added all-encompassing accomplishments analysis on him and it aloft red flags. They knew about some of McCowen's accomplished convictions, but they additionally saw a cardinal of abstinent orders that had been filed adjoin him in calm disputes.
The aboriginal abstinent adjustment was filed in 1998 by Pamela Maguire. In her affidavit, Maguire said she was abashed of McCowen because of what had happened in the past. She claimed McCowen had pushed her adjoin the refrigerator, abashed her, had befuddled at TV alien at her and befuddled the coffee table.
A year later, in 1999, an ex-girlfriend alleged Amy filed a abstinent adjustment adjoin McCowen, claiming he burst the window of her car.
A woman alleged Laurie Mayhood additionally filed a abstinent adjustment adjoin McCowen in 1999, which she said stemmed from the night aback her then-16-year-old babe Katie ran abroad from home.
"She was at a point in her action breadth she did not appetite to be home. She capital her freedom," Mayhood told ABC News. "She had friends, she capital to be on her own."
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Mayhood said Katie had become affable with McCowen, who was 26 years old at the time, afterwards the two met at a bounded Dunkin Donuts, breadth she worked.
One night, Mayhood said Katie ran abroad from home and concluded up spending the night at McCowen's house, which abashed her so she alleged the police, who went analytic for her.
"They came aback and told me that she had been best up hitchhiking by a vehicle," Mayhood said. "They begin her the abutting day in Christopher's apartment."
After the badge brought Katie home, Mayhood said they brash her to booty Katie to the hospital to accept her advised and accept a abduction kit activated to see if there had been any animal action amid them.
"When we got the after-effects back, they were negative, so we knew there were not any of that action on," Mayhood said. "So I went aback to the police, and I said, 'Where do I go from here?' And he said, 'You charge to go get a abstinent adjustment adjoin this guy to accumulate him abroad from your daughter.'"
Katie claims the night she backward with McCowen was an innocent evening, and that all they did was watch movies until 2 a.m.
"And I fell comatose and got up and went aback home the abutting morning," she said.
Katie said McCowen was actual affectionate to her and was "100 percent" a "gentleman." She said her aboriginal consequence of him was that he was "caring, actual generous, actual polite, never seemed beggarly or rude."
"Christopher never already disrespected me in any way, never already has he anytime fabricated an exceptionable canyon at me," Katie said.
Mayhood says the abstinent adjustment was a apparatus to accumulate her babe abroad from McCowen, but she said she didn't anticipate McCowen was agitated nor able of murder.
"I bare the abstinent adjustment in adjustment to accomplish my babe not to go aback to that place," Mayhood said.
Mayhood alike said she now believes McCowen let her babe break with him to accumulate her safe the night she ran away, because contrarily he knew she would accept been out hitchhiking.
"She bare to be in safe abode and his abode was a safe place," Mayhood said. "He did not blow her. He did not accept sex with her. He artlessly best her up and took her to his hosue for the night and kept her off the streets for the night."
When she heard McCowen was arrested for Worthington's murder, Mayhood said her actual acknowledgment was that he didn't do it.
"He was too mild-mannered, he was gentle, he was friendly, he was outgoing," she said. "There was no acumen to anticipate this man was a murderer."
But in January 2004, two months afore board came to allocution to McCowen a additional time about Worthington's death, McCowen had addition abstinent adjustment filed adjoin him.
This one was from Kelly Tabor, his aloft girlfriend, the one he was dating at the time of Worthington's afterlife and the mother of one of his two daughters.
In her affidavit, Tabor claimed she and McCowen got into a action one atramentous and that he threatened her, saying, "If you say one added word, I will breeze your neck." She alleged the badge and McCowen was taken to jail. He was eventually bedevilled to acquittal for authoritative calm violence-related threats.
But like Laurie Mayhood and her babe Katie, Tabor too now says she abjure accepting a abstinent adjustment adjoin McCowen. Tabor beneath ABC News' requests for a academic interview, but said she did not accept McCowen was agitated nor able of murder.
Pamela Maguire additionally told ABC Annual that she regretted accepting one adjoin him.
"People booty out abstinent orders adjoin cogent others because they're mad," said aloft FBI profiler Brad Garrett. "They're mad they didn't get adolescent support, there's article about the accord that they're aloof affronted about, and so they use the badge and the amends arrangement to go afterwards somebody.
That's not to advance that bodies shouldn't go get abstinent orders," Garrett continued. "I'm abandoned suggesting that if you're investigating a case that's a homicide, for example, and bodies accept fabricated all these allegations about concrete altercations, you've got to amount out exactly, 'Well, what does that mean?'...and you annual them."
But at the time board were analytic for a doubtable in the Worthington case, McCowen's arrest history and the abstinent orders from women he acclimated to be romantically complex with didn't attending good. Garrett said McCowen's arrest history would accept fabricated McCowen angle out adjoin the added plumbers, electricians and added accepted visitors who would accept appear to Worthington's home, in allotment because it showed he was able of accepting physical.
When board went to re-interview McCowen in 2004, he was no best alive at Cape Cod Disposal. They concluded up speaking with him on March 18, 2004, during a affair he was accepting with his acquittal officer.
A badge address from McCowen's additional annual said board advised what he had told them afore and it was added of the aforementioned -- that he didn't apperceive Worthington, and had on apparent her about her house. He said he had never been central her home.
Investigators told him that agent had been recovered from Worthington's body, so they asked afresh if he was accommodating to abide a DNA sample. Aloof like before, McCowen said he was accommodating to and badge took a besom of his mouth.
Detectives didn't apperceive it at the time, but they had aloof calm a bout for their best important allotment of argumentative evidence. But it would be addition 13 months afore they arrested him.
After accession McCowen's DNA, the sample was amid the abounding that sat cat-and-mouse for testing as the Massachusetts accompaniment abomination lab that faced a backlog. In fact, McCowen's sample was taken 10 months afore badge captivated their arguable DNA dragnet, breadth they asked all of the men in the association to voluntarily abide DNA samples, bringing addition 150 to 200 samples.
But on April 7, 2005, three years into the investigation, the accompaniment abomination lab told Trooper Mason they had gotten a bout on the DNA begin on Worthington's body.
The official lab after-effects came in six canicule later. Trooper Mason and Sgt. Burke arrested McCowen the abutting day on April 14, 2005, at a abode McCowen was active at the time in Hyannis, a boondocks on the southern end of the Cape.
District Advocate Michael O'Keefe appear the arrest on the 15th, authoritative civic annual and cartoon questions about the delay. O'Keefe told reporters they weren't able to action McCowen's sample added bound because of the excess at the abomination lab.
The detectives abandoned McCowen and brought him to accompaniment badge billet in South Yarmouth, about 20 annual away.
Seated in a appointment room, badge apprehend McCowen his Miranda rights, and told McCowen he had the advantage to abandon these rights. He agreed and active a abandonment form. According to Mason's report, they additionally asked McCowen for accord to almanac their conversation, which Mason's address says McCowen declined.
What happened abutting was a six-hour annual that, forth with the DNA evidence, would comedy a key role adjoin McCowen at trial.
There are no audio recordings or claiming tapes of McCowen's annual with badge afterwards his arrest. The almost six hours badge spent with him were instead abbreviated in a 27-page address accounting by Mason.
According to Mason's report, McCowen's adventure – as it was told to badge -- began as their added interviews had, with McCowen cogent them he didn't apperceive Worthington. Board asked him what blazon of actuality he anticipation could accept committed the crime. McCowen said he didn't know, but that the guy who did it charge accept been "drunk or stupid." Aback asked why, the address said McCowen told board that badge in Florida had alleged him a acute criminal, and that if he had asleep Worthington, he would accept fabricated abiding that she was abandoned and that her adolescent didn't see anything.
Then the address says detectives told McCowen they had DNA affirmation from Worthington's body, article McCowen said is addition affair that showed the guy who did it was stupid. Afresh detectives handed him the address from the accompaniment abomination lab that showed the bout was to his DNA.
Trooper Mason afterwards testified at McCowen's balloon about the moment he gave him that abomination lab report.
"Mr. McCowen afresh stated, 'It could accept been me,'" Mason testified.
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Mason said he asked McCowen what he meant by that, and said McCowen declared that he said he could accept had sex with Worthington, but didn't bethink because he was so drunk.
McCowen told detectives that Fridays and Saturdays were his affair nights, and that the weekend Worthington was killed, he was with his friend, Jeremy Frazier, on Friday of that weekend, Jan. 4, 2002, at a bounded atom alleged The Juice Bar, an underaged club.
On that Friday night, two canicule afore Worthington's anatomy was begin by her ex-boyfriend Tim Arnold at her home, The Juice Bar captivated a rap contest. Video footage from that night shows McCowen and Frazier were there.
In the video, McCowen is mostly off to the ancillary cutting a red and atramentous sports jersey and captivation a drink. Fraizer, who participates in the rap contest, is apparent cutting a dejected and white Nautica sweater and a dejected baseball cap.
At the time, Frazier went by a few altered nicknames. In the video, addition calls him "Blaze" at one point, but he was best acclaimed as "Wu" in annual of the '90s rap group, Wu Tang Clan.
According to Mason's report, McCowen told board that he was "already lit," bubbler heavily, and that's all he remembers from that night. He said he didn't bethink accepting sex with Worthington and woke up the abutting morning at home.
Mason apprenticed him to try and remember, though, and at one point McCowen said, "Honestly, I don't know. How do you appetite to bethink anything?"
The address afresh said that McCowen afresh declared he blacked out at The Juice Bar. But as Mason apprenticed him to bethink more, Mason wrote in his address that McCowen angled his arch and said that he had, in fact, had sex with Worthington. Again, he declared that he didn't bethink aggregate and denied killing her.
The detectives told McCowen to go aback over what happened that Friday night again, and then, according to the report, McCowen said he had Frazier drive him over to Worthington's so he could accept sex with her, and that he didn't appetite to drive himself because he was abashed of get bankrupt for bashed driving.
The detectives asked McCowen afresh to go over that night. McCowen afresh said he was at Worthington's abode with Frazier and that he, McCowen, was accepting sex with her. They asked McCowen if he argued with her at all, and he told them he hadn't and that if addition tells him they're not absorbed in sex, afresh he was "fine with that."
They asked McCowen why he went to Worthington's abode in the aboriginal abode and McCowen said it was apparently his abstraction and that he told Frazier he knew a woman in Truro he can accept sex with.
They asked McCowen breadth he and Worthington had sex. He said in the alley by the kitchen -- which is abreast breadth her anatomy was begin -- but he additionally said it could accept been in her active room. McCowen afresh told detectives that afterwards he and Worthington had sex, aggregate was "cool" and that he went home.
But afresh as badge asked McCowen what time he got to Worthington's, McCowen told them it was amid 1:15 and 1:45 a.m., and that aggregate was accomplished until, according to the report, Frazier started rummaging through Worthington's things.
During McCowen's trial, Mason testified that McCowen told him, "Following the sex, Christa Worthington confronted Jeremy Frazier about what he was accomplishing in her office. He [McCowen] and Jeremy Frazier afresh larboard the abode and that Christa Worthington followed them out."
At which point, according to the report, McCowen told detectives that Worthington came out of the house, agreeable at Frazier that she capital her actuality back. He said Worthington ran aback into the abode and he could see she had the buzz to her ear, and he told Frazier that he anticipation she was action to alarm the police. According to Mason’s report, McCowen told badge Frazier afresh went afterwards Worthington, kicked in the aperture and went inside. McCowen said Frazier afresh came aback out and told McCowen he had baffled up Worthington.
Trooper Mason and Sgt. Burke afresh asked McCowen to go aback and adduce it again. This time, McCowen said Worthington followed them out of the abode and she was arguing with Frazier and that Frazier hit her alert in the face. McCowen said that's aback Worthington ran aback central the house, but this time, McCowen said Frazier went afterwards her saying, "I'm aloof action to do her."
McCowen said he waited alfresco and Frazier came out afterwards 10 minutes, but afresh angry aback and kicked in the aperture because, McCowen said, he anticipation "he was action to accomplish it attending like a burglary."
Mason and Burke pushed McCowen, adage he had added to acquaint them, Then, according to Mason’s report, McCowen said that afterwards Frazier hit Worthington afresh he, McCowen, hit her too.
In call McCowen's statements at his trial, Burke said that McCowen told them, "She confronted Jeremy, that Jeremy exhausted her, he exhausted her. He said, 'We put the boots to her.' He said, 'I still can apprehend her hit the ground. She hit the arena hard.'"
According to Mason’s report, McCowen said Frazier pulled a knife from the boner block and he watched while Frazier stabbed Worthington in the anteroom by the kitchen. He said they larboard Worthington’s abode and aback they got in the car, Frazier had a purse, a buzz and the knife captivated in a atramentous shirt. McCowen said he never talked to Frazier about what happened to those items.
The accomplished annual is a meandering annual that inches advanced with added capacity arising anniversary time Trooper Mason and Sgt. Burke asked McCowen to go aback and alpha his adventure from the top. According to Mason’s report, they asked McCowen why would Frazier annihilate Worthington, and he said it was apparently because she was calling the police.
Burke and Mason concluded the annual a little afterwards 1:30 a.m. on the night of McCowen's arrest. During the absolute six hours, McCowen never accepted to killing Worthington, but at one point he said, "Yeah, I had sex with her, yeah I exhausted her ---, but it was Jeremy that stabbed her."
"You accept all of those versions," aloft FBI profiler Brad Garrett said. "He changes the version, but he never put a knife in his hand."
Read Trooper Mason's 27-page address here:
During that interview, Burke told McCowen that abounding of the things McCowen declared akin what they believed happened at Worthington's abode the night she was killed. But Burke told him that he believed McCowen was abandoned the accomplished time and Frazier had never been there. McCowen afresh said, "Then it's all on me if Jeremy can annual for his time."
Unbeknownst to McCowen, badge had best up Frazier and were interviewing him at the aforementioned time they were interviewing McCowen -- but Frazier had an alibi.
Frazier told badge he had gone with his friend, Shawn Mulvey, who had additionally been at The Juice Bar that Friday night, to Mulvey's father's abode and he had slept on the couch. Mulvey's ancestor had been out of boondocks that night. Mulvey additionally took allotment in the rap challenge and appears in the video that additionally shows Frazier and McCowen.
According to badge reports, Frazier told board that he and his accompany larboard The Juice Bar that night and went to a party, and McCowen was there. Afresh there was a action and anybody was kicked out.
But instead of abrogation the affair and action to Worthington's, as McCowen claimed he and Frazier had, Frazier told badge that he larboard the affair with Mulvey and comatose with him.
When badge interviewed Mulvey the aboriginal time, he told them he didn't bethink annihilation about that Friday night and hardly remembered Frazier. But aback they talked to him a additional time a few months later, Mulvey said he originally didn't appetite to get complex but was now abetment up Frazier's account, that Frazier had been with him at his father's abode that night.
Frazier denied accepting any captivation with Worthington’s afterlife and denied action to her abode with McCowen on the night in question. And badge believed him.
Armed with a account that put McCowen at the arena of Worthington's murder, DNA affirmation that affiliated him to the body, and an annual for the man McCowen accused of actuality the killer, McCowen was appointed and answerable with the annihilation of Christa Worthington.
But as McCowen went to trial, his aegis started to advance aback on anniversary of the state's pieces of evidence, they would accession questions about aloof how reliable his account to badge was aback it wasn't recorded and McCowen has a low IQ.
"He was the blazon of actuality who could be calmly addled and led bottomward the primrose aisle by a assertive blazon of interrogators or a assertive blazon of questioning, because he aimed to please," said his aloft advocate Bob George.
As for the DNA affirmation that affiliated McCowen to the scene, McCowen told board he had consensual sex with Worthington, and his aegis would present a accomplished new accessible book as to how that could accept happened.
What if, his aegis would propose, McCowen hadn't been at Worthington's abode at all that Friday night.
"What Christopher McCowen said was that they had sex on that Thursday, on the night afore the murder," said Gary Pelletier, McCowen's accepted attorney. "That he and Christa Worthington had consensual sex and she asked him no to allocution about it, not to allege about it, and he admired her wishes."
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