Henry C. Lee

And to make it very clear, and this is one of the best quotes that I've ever heard about a crime scene.

It was directly from Dr. Henry Lee.

I was out in California.

We were breaking down the crime scene for OJ and Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

As with many unresolved cases, investigators have turned to forensic science to discover more information about the murders.

In 1996, five years after JJ and Stella's deaths, evidence taken from the scene was brought to a pioneering yet controversial figure in the field, Dr. Henry Lee.

A renowned criminal investigator, Dr. Lee helped develop forensic techniques like DNA and trace evidence analysis, bloodstain detection, and crime scene reconstruction.

He also brought these disciplines into the mainstream and would go on to work high-profile cases like the murder of JonBenet Ramsey, the O.J. Simpson trial, and the D.C. sniper shootings.

Um, beyond that-

Was it Dr. Henry Lee?

Johnnie Cochran was a hell of a lawyer.

Was it Henry Lee who was explaining DNA to everybody?

I think so, yeah.

Yeah, so they talked-

Yeah.

Where it was Dr. Henry Lee-

Yeah

... spitting ketchup at a...

And he had a local police report that backed that up.

However, experts, including Dr. Henry Lee, who was involved in the Staircase case, the OJ case, the Lacey Peterson case, the JonBenet case, big bloodstain guy, later argued that there was, quote, too much blood for a simple nosebleed.

The blood spatter pattern also indicated that it had been sprayed there through force in the areas that it was found rather than by dripping there as Cal had implied.

So Cal also had a story to argue this one.

It was on December 25th, 1986, when Richard Crafts and his three children were away in Florida for Christmas and investigators arrived at his home on 5 Newfield Lane.

The search there involved Connecticut State Police investigators and forensic personnel, including Dr. Henry Lee.

He then was the director of the Connecticut State Police Forensic Science Laboratory.

With the search warrant in hand, investigators entered the house through the rear window and began documenting everything they found.

They believed Hela was killed inside 5 Newfield Lane sometime after she returned home from Frankfurt on the evening of November 18, 1986, and before Don Marie Thomas woke up the following morning.

The strongest evidence placing violence inside the home came from the master bedroom.

Dr. Henry Lee's examination had revealed five tiny spots of human O-type positive blood on the mattress.

Their size and pattern led him to classify them as medium-velocity impact spatter, consistent with blood projected during a blunt force assault.

So on Christmas Day, December 25th, 1986, investigators arrived at 5 Newfield Lane with a search warrant in hand.

And among the people accompanying them was one of Connecticut's leading forensic scientists, Dr. Henry Lee.

This time with his help, they would be able to examine the bedroom for themselves.

And that's where we're going to end part one.