In 1985, Charles and Julie McCrory were having marital trouble and seeing a counselor

while amicably sharing both the care of their three-year-old boy Chad and occasionally

the same bed.

On May 30, 1985, Charles left Julie's house around 10-15 pm and made a phone call.

In the pre-cell phone era, this corroborated that he had arrived at his apartment.

The following morning, Charles' parents were expecting Julie to drop off Chad and began

to worry when she did not show.

After several unanswered calls from Charles and his parents, Charles' father was the first

to discover Julie's body just inside her front door.

It was determined that she had died of blunt force head trauma sometime in the early hours

of the morning.

A red bandana was found in the body and a clump of hair was found in her hand that did

not belong to her or Charles.

Besides conflicting and dubious reports of a car that looked like Charles' at Julie's

house that morning, no evidence connected him to the crime.

Despite a similar incident within a month committed by a man known to wear red bandanas,

the police maintained their focus on Charles.

Since the district attorney was reluctant to charge Charles, Julie's family hired a private

prosecutor team who sought the help of notorious junk science dentist Dick Suvoron.

Suvoron testified that some of Julie's wounds were not only bite marks but that they were

made by Charles at the time of death, effectively sealing his fate.

Suvoron has since recanted that testimony, including the assertion that the wounds were

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