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"I miss you, or who you were. As much as Carmin died that day, you died, too."
—Ross' sister Heather Bowman told Murray during his sentencing.
"The most important thing is that it gives us our granddaughter to raise as Carmin would have wanted. The worst part about all of it is that you folks don't know how wonderful our daughter was."
—Danny Ross, father of Carmin D. Ross, after Murray was found guilty of murdering his daughter.
"We thank you so much for bringing tremendous relief to our family."
—Danny Ross, father of Carmin D. Ross, to the jurors, after Murray was found guilty of murder.
"I feel sorry for him. I don't know that I even want to talk about him, really."
—Juror Ted Kihm, on his thoughts about Murray.
"I've never had a strong sense that duration of deliberations is a reliable predictor of an outcome."
—Defense attorney Bob Eye on the full-day wait for a verdict, March 16, 2005.
"There is only one thing that explains all the evidence."
—Assistant Dist. Atty. Angela Wilson in her closing arguments, March 15, 2005.
"There's no evidence of Tom Murray having destroyed anything."
—Defense attorney Bob Eye, March 15, 2005, pointing out the lack of physical evidence linking Murray to the killing.
"You don't have any certification in the area of blood-stain pattern analysis, do you?"
—Assistant Dist. Atty. Angela Wilson at trial, March 11, 2005.
"No, I do not."
—Robert Tressel, a Georgia-based forensic investigator for Murray's defense team, March 11, 2005, in response.
"I felt very comfortable about his chances, and I told him so."
—Attorney Sue Jacobson on Thomas E. Murray's chances of winning the child-custody battle with his ex-wife.
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"I'm increasingly coming to feel like an animal being backed into a corner, and it's not a good feeling, believe me."
—Text from an e-mail message found on Thomas E. Murray's computer.
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"You don't see anything wrong ... with a citizen retaining counsel when he or she is being made the suspect on a first degree murder case based on suspicion, a hunch, an intuition, do you?"
—Defense attorney Pedro Irigonegaray cross-examining Sheriff's Detective Pat Pollock on Thomas Murray's refusal to speak to police after his initial statement.
"Neither of those two shoe prints match anything, to your knowledge, belonging to Mr. Murray?"
—Defense attorney Pedro Irigonegaray at trial, March 4, 2005.
"That's correct."
—Mike Van Stratton, lab director for the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, March 4, 2005, in response.
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"Within a reasonable degree of scientific certainty, you cannot conclude that the sample that was pulled from that baseboard was Tom Murray's blood, can you?"
—Defense attorney Bob Eye at trial, March 3, 2005.
"No. I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that this blood belongs to him.... This blood could belong to him."
—DNA expert Sudhir Sinha, March 3, 2005, in response.
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"There's an unidentified footprint in that entryway, isn't that right?"
—Defense attorney Bob Eye, at trial, March 1, 2005.
"Yes, one could assume that"
—Lawrence Police Detective Zach Thomas, March 1, 2005, in response.
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"You could also say that it was presumptive for horseradish, correct?"
—Defense attorney Pedro Irigonegaray, at trial, Feb. 26, 2005.
"I do not know if Luminol reacts with horseradish" —Lawrence Police Sgt. Dan Ward, at trial, Feb. 26, 2005, in response.
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"In your review of these records, have you found one bit of conclusive proof that Mr. Murray was at Carmin Ross' house on the 13th of November 2003?"
—Defense attorney Pedro Irigonegaray, at trial, Feb. 24, 2005.
"I'm not aware of any."
—Douglas County Sheriff's Detective Pat Pollock, at trial, Feb. 24, 2005, in response.
"how to murder someone and not get caught"—Internet search phrase found by detectives on Thomas Murray's computer.
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"It occurs to me that in me you have not just a likely suspect but a convenient one.... If this scenario falls apart, you're very well back to square one."
—Professor Thomas E. Murray, Nov. 14, 2003.
"If I were you, I'd be looking at me. I think you should."
—Professor Thomas E. Murray, Nov. 14, 2003.
"Who among us hasn't had something show up on their hand? A nick or a cut or something?"
—Defense attorney Bob Eye, Feb. 17, 2005.
"His own words will help to show you that he is the one responsible."
—Assistant Dist. Atty. Angela Wilson, Feb. 17, 2005.
"All they had was a hunch, and a hunch is all they have today."
—Defense attorney Bob Eye, Feb. 17, 2005.
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