A lot of people open their homes during the Christmas holidays.

Invite friends and neighbors over for some nog and a gnaw and a gnaw and maybe a glass of wine and a slice of cheese and a cracker.

Everybody's in good spirits on nights like that, smiling and sociable.

But the kind of open house the Russellville police were hosting at the Englewood Apartments

10 days before Christmas 2005, that had a far different vibe.

For one thing, there was a dead woman laying on the living room floor,

her once angelic face beaten and bloody.

For another, no one who entered apartment 12 that night was smiling.

It was a crime scene crawling with cops and firemen, EMTs, ambulance crews.

17 law enforcement people were logged in to the crime scene that night.

Some wore gloves. Some did not, and some touched things.

So the crumb sign was contaminated.

At some point, things were moved.

A lampshade was removed from the floor and placed on the dead girl's foot.

And a cell phone that had been lying on the kitchen floor with its battery removed had been picked up and placed on a table.

The cell phone?

Yeah, the cell phone was found on the floor.

He seen it on the floor.

Left it overnight.

He come in and the next day and it was moved and so they discarded it as evidence.

That wasn't all.

Fingerprints found on the base of a floor lamp, believed to be the murder weapon, did not match those of the primary suspect. So whose prints were they? And we don't know who. Maybe it was a policeman who picked up the...

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