Handyman vs. Husband
Samira was alive when she went into the water. The medical examiner said she had died by drowning, not because of the blows to her head. A prison snitch told a lurid story of Dr. Frasch putting his wife into the cold pool to hide the time of death. In fact, Samira wasn’t dead and anyone with medical training would have known that. If he had done it, he was guilty of a single blow to the head, nothing more. The medical examiner testified that it was unlikely she would have died due to the blow or due to the impact of hitting the hard ground. No one paused to consider that it was unlikely that Dr. Frasch would go from facing a possible assault charge to risking facing a first-degree murder charge.
The person who put Samira in the water did so in a panic, thinking her injuries were more serious than they were. This profile fits the handyman, not her husband. Her husband was, according to psychologists, intelligent. He was a proficient poker player. He wouldn’t have taken the risk of trying to pass off an assault as an accident. He would have known the head injuries were inconsistent with a poolside accident.
Consider that Samira had no pruning on her fingers and toes despite the fact that it had taken first-responders some time to get her out of the water. After calling 911, Gardner had refused to go into the water and get Samira out even though the dispatcher was asking him to. He had insisted that she was dead. First responders had felt differently, attempting to revive her for 45 minutes.
Pruning starts within a half hour to an hour. Samira’s husband was three hours away. And around ten minutes had already elapsed between the 911 call and the arrival of first-responders, showing the window was even smaller. Gardner and his son were the only people present to fit the time frame for when Samira’s body went into the water.
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