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♪

It was brutal.

And for a man who's 87,

that makes it even sadder.

There's kind of an old adage in crime scenes that

you only get one chance,

and you don't want to screw it up.

Most likely the killer knew the victim.

We go back and more closely examine the bedding.

[Thudding impact]

[Narrator] When homicide investigators

collect evidence from a crime scene,

they hold the pieces of a puzzle.

Only by connecting those pieces back together...

can they catch the killer.

♪

♪

Bremerton is the largest city in Kitsap County.

We're directly west of Seattle

and across Puget Sound.

The best thing about Bremerton is the views.

You have the skyline of Seattle, Mount Rainier,

along with the Cascades.

Also, the Olympic mountains.

MARTY: There's a nice mix of young families

and working-class folks.

Also, a lot of people find this is a good place to

retire after they're done working.

♪

On November 7th, 2015,

at 4:44 in the evening,

our 911 dispatch centre received a call.

[Phone ringing]

MARTY: The caller identifies himself as Craig Miller,

a neighbour of the occupant of the apartment,

an 87-year-old man named Floyd Zumwalt.

Police are dispatched to the scene.

[Sirens]

MARTY: Office Switzer was a brand-new officer for us,

had just come from the police academy,

and he was riding alone.

Craig steps out of the house itself,

out onto the front porch while he's waiting for

the police to arrive.

[Sirens]

The neighbourhood that Floyd lived had

kind of fallen on harder times.

♪

BEAU: When Officer Switzer arrived,

Craig Miller told him he had made

a roast for his buddy,

and he had set a timer...

and was just coming to take it out of the oven.

He said that when he got to the door,

he noticed the door was unlocked,

and he knew that he locked the door when he left.

So he found that odd.

MARTY: Officer Switzer told Craig to wait there.

♪

♪

And then he steps into the apartment...

He enters the bedroom.

BEAU: He sees Floyd laying on his side

with his head in a trash can,

obviously deceased.

We have a baseball bat that is

within arm's reach of Floyd's body.

It appears...

that that bat was used

to bludgeon Floyd with.

MARTY: Officer Switzer calls for additional officers

and additional help to the scene.

While homicide detectives and CSI techs

make their way to the crime scene,

Officer Switzer rejoins Craig Miller

outside Floyd Zumwalt's apartment.

♪

MARTY: It's rainy out that night,

and Craig wants to return to his apartment,

which is just across the parking lot.

But before he does so, Officer Switzer

snaps five photographs of Craig.

Overall photo of the front, an overall photo of the back,

just documenting what he's wearing.

And then closeups of tops and bottoms

of both hands.

Craig doesn't appear to have any blood on him.

He doesn't look like...

his clothes are a mess,

or he's been in a fight, or anything like that.

It was agreed that Craig would wait at his apartment

across the parking lot to be contacted by the police.

♪

I arrived at the apartment complex,

and as I walk into the bedroom inside the apartment,

it was a shocking scene.

Floyd is in what could be described as

a semi-foetal position.

BEAU: He's got a large laceration on his elbow.

His head is opened up.

There's blood around him, pooled.

His hair is mangled in blood.

MARTY: It was shocking to see the amount of violence

that was taken out on Floyd.

An 87-year-old man.

He's lived a long life.

And this is, you know, how he meets his demise.

It's terrible.

♪

Crime scene technicians now begin to photograph

the crime scene and collect evidence.

[Camera shutter clicking]

BEAU: He's laying on his right side.

So, you see his left ribs.

His shirt is kind of pulled up a little.

MARTY: The baseball bat, it's later identified as

belonging to Floyd himself and one that

he kept beside his bed for protection.

It's covered in blood.

There was also a lot of castoff on the walls.

♪

The first time that you hit somebody with something,

it doesn't cause that cast off.

It's only once that weapon has been applied to

wet blood, and then it's lifted up again,

and then it comes off as a motion of centrifugal force

where it's cast off onto the walls and ceilings.

And so, we knew from that that whoever had done this

had hit Floyd many times, over and over.

♪

[Thudding impact]

BEAU: It is an obvious assault.

A vicious assault.

So, that bat is a very important item to us.

MARTY: It's the one thing that we know

our killer has touched.

So it becomes our primary focus for DNA.

We don't do any swabbing at scene.

We just try to preserve the bat exactly like it is,

and have it transported directly to the

crime lab for analysis.

Once that was done,

then it was a matter of collecting all the

other evidence that we could use

to document the case.

We collected blood off of the walls

and off of the comforter,

as well as the other bedding at the location.

We collected everything from his pockets at the scene,

but you leave the clothes in place.

He had over $1,000 in cash in his back pocket.

It was unusual that, if it was a robbery,

all that cash was left in his pocket.

But, then we don't know if some other

large amount of cash is missing.

Some of the items that were in the kitchen area

were collected as well.

[Camera shutter clicking]

And we also collected his cell phone.

BEAU: Investigators found a bank statement

that had a very low balance.

There was a bicycle, a child's bicycle

that was found inside the apartment.

There was also a small baggie

with a crystalline substance inside,

and that was sent to the lab.

♪

MARTY: The door was examined and found

not to have any forced entry.

So, the person was either let in, or had a key,

or came in some other way.

♪

BEAU: When Floyd's body was lifted off the floor,

there is a broken knife blade that had been under him.

♪

It's a butcher knife.

I'd say it's approximately 8 to 10 inches long by...

maybe two, two and a half inches, blade-wise, tall.

So, it's a large blade.

MARTY: It's really surprising.

We didn't even realise that Floyd had suffered

any sharp force injuries.

So, at that point, we take a closer look

at Floyd's condition.

BEAU: He had been stabbed at least six times.

♪

MARTY: We more closely examine the bedding

that was on his bed, and we're able to...

find that there's actually a slice

through the comforter on his bed,

indicating that...

he was in bed and covered up with his bedding,

presumably asleep at the time that he is attacked,

so it was what would be considered a surprise attack.

♪

It appears that once he...

was surprised with that,

his natural reaction was to roll away from it,

and that's most likely what broke

the handle on the knife.

And when the killer realises

that this knife has now broken,

he's got just an empty handle in his hands,

he has to switch to something else,

and spots that bat that's sitting beside Floyd's bed

and uses it as a weapon of opportunity.

And used that to beat Floyd to death.

[Thudding impact]

We searched all throughout the apartment,

and the handle was never found.

♪

RESHMI: After collecting all the evidence

at Floyd Zumwalt's apartment,

police now have the pieces of a puzzle.

Their next step is to start putting the pieces together

to deduce who killed Floyd Zumwalt.

And so far, the fact there are two murder weapons,

a bat and a knife,

makes it clear that whoever killed Floyd

was likely motivated by rage.

BEAU: For someone to stab someone multiple times

is heinous enough as it is.

But then on top of that,

to bludgeon someone to death is,

I would say, overkill.

That says that it's a crime of passion,

and most likely that the individual, the killer,

knew the victim.

MICHAEL: It's particularly telling that the person

who finds the body, Craig Miller,

is a self-admitted friend of the victim.

Naturally, investigators' first person of interest is

therefore going to be Craig Miller.

♪

MARTY: That night when detectives were free,

they went to interview Craig Miller about

what he had seen more in depth,

but when they arrived at his apartment,

shockingly, he was not at home.

RESHMI: Suddenly, Craig Miller's a suspect.

He clearly had the opportunity.

And in spite of telling police he'd wait at his

apartment until they came for him, he's gone.

Investigators wonder if the same man

who made the 911 call...

♪

...was in fact Floyd's killer.

...was in fact Floyd's killer.

We couldn't find Craig at his apartment,

so we called him on the telephone,

and he said that he had left and gone to a friend's house

because he's so upset by what he's seen.

But that his friend, John Mills, lived close by,

and he would return home shortly.

♪

He did return to his apartment shortly thereafter.

So, we check to see if he has any fresh injuries on him.

We also collect his DNA with his consent.

He says that he has actually changed clothes

since the time of the murder,

so he retrieves the clothes that he was wearing at the

time that he found Floyd's body and gives those to us.

Mr. Miller is not dishevelled.

He's composed.

His clothing is not in disarray.

He does not appear to have been in a struggle.

Investigators just aren't satisfied that the evidence

is there pointing to Mr. Miller as the actual killer.

Investigators subsequently interviewed Mr. Miller in

his home in order to obtain further information about

Floyd and who may have wanted to kill him.

MARTY: Craig's well-spoken, an intelligent person.

Craig identifies himself as

a retired fire captain.

He had formerly worked in a fire department back east.

BEAU: He comes from Illinois.

He's been living at the apartment complex

for 8 to 10 months.

Craig had been friends with Floyd for

maybe six weeks.

MARTY: They had just fallen into a friendship because

they lived so close together.

BEAU: Craig would come over.

Floyd would make him coffee.

And, Floyd would typically have a beer or two

while they conversed.

MARTY: We learned that Floyd is almost

exclusively homebound.

BEAU: Getting up out of chairs, sitting, you know,

getting into his bed, out of his bed.

Things like that were difficult for him.

So, Craig would help Floyd out.

MARTY: Craig had begun running

small errands for Floyd.

So he would run up to the grocery store,

and purchase items and bring them back to Floyd.

♪

BEAU: Craig tells us that

Tuesday November 7th, 2015,

started out as a normal day.

MARTY: Craig said that Floyd had asked him

to bake a pot roast.

Floyd, as was his usual course,

went to take a nap...

in the late morning, early afternoon.

And at that point, Craig said that

he left to run some errands,

and set an alarm on his watch so that

he would be back in time to take the...

roast out of the oven.

BEAU: He provided receipts to...

both Safeway and Walgreens to confirm that

he had been there for Floyd.

MARTY: Craig says that he returns to

the apartment complex and finds

Floyd's door unlocked, which is unusual.

He enters Floyd's apartment at approximately 4:42 PM.

He said he takes the roast out of the oven first,

sets it on top of the stove,

and then goes back and finds Floyd.

♪

He immediately calls 911.

MARTY: And that call is logged 4:44 PM.

Based on their conversation with Craig,

investigators believe Floyd was killed sometime between

2:30 and 4:30 PM on November 7th.

Given that cash and some kind of drugs

were present at the crime scene,

detectives consider whether someone entered

Floyd's apartment looking for these items

during that two-hour window.

So the morning after the murder,

investigators canvass the neighbourhood

looking for leads.

MARTY: We heard from the neighbours that Floyd

primarily was living on social security,

but as is the case with a lot of people that are

on social security as their sole source of income,

it makes things kind of tough.

And he had begun selling his medication on a regular basis

for cash on the street.

♪

RESHMI: Another neighbour tells investigators

she saw Floyd's grandson Jordan Slate arrive in

a Volvo at the apartment complex

around 3 o'clock on the afternoon

Floyd was killed, an hour and 45 minutes before

Craig Miller discovered Floyd's body and called 911.

The neighbours saw Jordan enter the complex,

and he stayed for a short time and he left very quickly.

RESHMI: Police learn more about Floyd's grandson Jordan

during Craig's formal interview at the police station,

on November 8th, the day after the murder.

BEAU: Craig Miller, he informed us that...

when he would be at Floyd's,

Jordan would come over frequently.

He'd always asked for money.

And many times, this would cause arguments

between the two.

He said that he manipulated him.

He would steal from Floyd.

BEAU: Was this one of those situations where

Jordan arrived, wanted some money from his grandpa.

His grandpa said, "No, not this time,"

and then they get into a physical fight,

and it goes too far?

♪

MARTY: We do some background research on Jordan and we

find that he has an unrelated warrant for his arrest.

The warrant's for a failure to appear on a drug charge,

and a look into Jordan's history finds that

he's got an extensive career with...

drug-related offences.

♪

BEAU: The day after the murder,

investigators go to Jordan's house.

He lives with his mother, Laura Bennett,

and he's only about four miles away

from Floyd's residence.

When investigators arrived, they were met by

his mother, Laura Bennett.

Jordan was not home.

They delivered the message that Floyd had passed away.

MARTY: She was very shocked.

We found out that on the day of Floyd's murder,

Laura and Jordan were hosting a birthday party

at their house for Floyd's youngest son,

who was turning eight that day.

BEAU: Floyd had another ex-wife, Tessa Caldwell.

And they had started dating when he was in his early 70s,

and were married for several years.

But, Floyd and Tessa were not

speaking to one another at that time.

So, he wasn't invited to the party.

MARTY: We learned that Jordan had borrowed his mother

Laura's car on the day of Floyd's murder in order to

go to Floyd's house and pick up a bike that Floyd had

purchased as a birthday present for his son.

BEAU: That was somewhere in the ballpark of

3:00 to 3:15 PM.

MARTY: Which was during the time period

of Floyd's death.

Laura explained that Jordan returns after a short time

being gone, and rushes into the house acting strangely.

BEAU: Laura told investigators

he immediately went into the bathroom,

and he was just acting erratic.

He took off all of his clothes,

threw them in the tub,

then poured Lysol all over 'em.

And then took his shoes and threw them in the dryer.

Laura asked Jordan what was going on, and...

he wouldn't answer.

She asked, "Well, how was Grandpa?"

And he said he never made it to Grandpa's.

And then he left.

MARTY: We know that Jordan is lying because we have

several witnesses at the apartment complex that

saw him arrive at Floyd's apartment that afternoon.

BEAU: So, you know, he looked good

for this murder.

MARTY: Jordan at this point is absolutely

our number one suspect.

♪

Jordan Slate was located

and was arrested on a drug charge.

♪

He was brought back to the police station

where he was questioned.

MARTY: Jordan's cooperative when

he's initially brought in.

He understands he's under arrest for his warrant.

MARTY: Jordan absolutely denies it.

Says, "I was never there."

MARTY: When he starts getting questioned about his...

grandfather's demise...

his attitude changes.

BEAU: He begins speaking...

in...

odd quasi-religious...

type analogies.

MARTY: We challenged Jordan with the information that

he had told his mother he was going to visit

his grandfather that day,

and borrowed the car to do that.

MARTY: He continues to insist that he was never in the

parking lot and never went to his grandfather's house.

♪

BEAU: We secured a warrant and got DNA from him.

We swabbed his hands.

And took photos of him.

MARTY: Eventually Jordan asked for a lawyer and

questioning is ceased.

MARTY: At this point, we 100% thought that

he was our guy.

At this point, he's been booked on his drug warrant,

and he's being held on that warrant.

We got a search warrant for his house,

and got the clothes that he had been wearing

when he visited his grandfather's house.

And all the stuff is tested at the crime lab

for Floyd's DNA.

♪

On January 29th,

12 weeks after Floyd's murder,

investigators finally get the lab results back

of the clothing that Jordan Slate

had dumped in his bathtub,

doused in Lysol and hot water...

which was presumed to contain

DNA from the crime scene.

BEAU: Unfortunately, there was no evidence of...

Floyd's DNA on any of those items.

If those clothes were worn

during the course of this savage beating,

even if Jordan poured Lysol all over 'em,

there definitely would've been

DNA from Floyd on 'em.

MICHAEL: Not fully satisfied that the lab results

necessarily exonerate Jordan, investigators now begin to

wonder if maybe they were looking in the wrong place.

Rather than Jordan having perhaps taken DNA from

the murder with him, perhaps he left

something of himself at the actual scene...

BEAU: All the items collected at

Floyd's apartment- the sheets...

the bat...

the knife blade-

there was no foreign DNA found.

MARTY: At this point Jordan's still in jail.

But there's nothing that ties him directly to

the murder other than his opportunity,

which isn't enough to hold him.

But he's also not been eliminated.

He had the opportunity,

and he's lied about his opportunity.

So he remains a suspect.

Soon after Jordan's released,

crime lab technicians make a new

forensic discovery on an article of clothing

police recovered from the man who found

Floyd's body, Craig Miller.

MARTY: Craig Miller's clothing was sent to the

Washington State Crime Lab for analysis.

♪

No blood or DNA from the crime scene was found on

any of Craig Miller's clothing,

except for one single spot of blood

on the insole of one shoe.

Detectives bring Craig into the station to ask him about

the spot of blood they found on his shoe.

♪

MARTY: Craig said that he just assumed that

one spot of blood on his shoe was because

he was so close to the crime scene.

But he confirmed that he had not gotten closer

to Floyd than arm's length.

During his interview, Craig brought up

his own girlfriend, Claire Prescott.

BEAU: He tells us Claire frequented

Craig's apartment, and...

she had met with Floyd

at least two times.

♪

MARTY: Craig tells us that his relationship with Claire

is on again, off again.

When she's on drugs, they don't get along.

BEAU: Craig paints the picture of Claire as...

a drug abuser.

She frequently hangs out with...

criminal vagrants.

She is in the life of crime, herself.

♪

MICHAEL: Based on Craig Miller's new information,

investigators begin to wonder whether Claire Prescott,

given her background,

access, and opportunity,

may have been drawn to Floyd's apartment

in search of cash or drugs.

MARTY: Craig told us that...

Claire was a likely suspect because she knew that

Floyd sometimes sold his pills and

had a large amount of money on him.

This rang true with investigators because

we found a large amount of cash on Floyd

at the time that he was murdered.

So, for Craig to connect Claire to Floyd

made sense to us.

Craig also tells us that he thinks Claire was involved

in a similar attack on an elderly man

in Bainbridge Island,

which is about 45 minutes from Bremerton.

BEAU: He said that...

Claire told him

the reason she hit the man over the head

was self-defence.

MARTY: At this point, Claire seemed like

a good suspect to us,

because she not only knows Craig,

who is the last person to see Floyd alive,

but she's also got a connection to

the drug business.

BEAU: Then, on top of that, Claire had assaulted...

another elderly male with a 2x4,

beating him in the head.

We did a background check on Claire Prescott,

and we found that she and Craig Miller had

a significant history with the police.

We know that the relationship between

Craig and Claire was an acrimonious one.

Claire had called police on Craig several times and

accused him of holding her against her will.

MARTY: But police are unable to locate

any reports related to...

the attack by Claire

on a man on Bainbridge Island.

♪

After some investigation,

we are finally able to identify him.

BEAU: He is 70-year-old Grant Mitchell.

KELLIE: He lives on Bainbridge Island and has

several DUI-related offences,

but no other serious crimes.

♪

MARTY: Once we make contact with Grant,

the first thing he does is show us the scar that

runs the length of his head where it's been split open,

and he's had it put back together.

KELLIE: Grant Mitchell had four surgeries,

spent several months in rehab,

and is permanently disabled as a result of the attack.

MARTY: He was so out of it for so long, you know,

he just assumed that somebody was investigating it,

even though it had never been actually

reported to the police.

In reference to Claire,

Grant says that they were friends

and would occasionally meet up.

But then she attacked him out of the blue with a 2x4.

He just laid out the whole story and,

when we asked him if he'd be willing to follow up

with charges, he said that he would.

KELLIE: Claire Prescott is charged with Assault-1

of Grant Mitchell,

and an arrest warrant is issued for her.

♪

MARTY: Claire was arrested in a nearby county...

a number of weeks later.

And I transported her from the jail that

she was being held at to our local jail.

♪

She was actually...

still drug affected.

So, she was what we refer to as 'on the nod'.

She was actually falling asleep.

At first Claire denies any involvement

in Grant's assault.

But eventually admits that

she did hit him with a 2x4.

But adds that he provided her drugs,

and once she was asleep,

she woke up with his hands in her pants

and it was self-defence.

KELLIE: But she's adamant she had nothing to do

with the attack on Floyd.

MARTY: We did ask Claire whether or not

she'd been at Floyd's apartment.

And, although she claimed to know and wave at Floyd

as she was in the area visiting Craig,

she claimed that she had never been in his apartment.

After Claire's interview, she was booked

into jail for the assault on Grant Mitchell.

♪

MARTY: But Claire had an alibi for Floyd's murder

that she was at a friend's house.

We confirmed with that friend that she was at

his house at the time that the murder was going on.

KELLIE: And investigators can't find any evidence

that Claire is linked to Floyd's murder.

BEAU: Claire is eventually convicted for

the assault on Grant Mitchell.

KELLIE: But investigators rule her out as a suspect

in Floyd's Zumwalt's murder.

With Claire Prescott ruled out,

detectives review the evidence against

Floyd Zumwalt's grandson, Jordan Slate.

Floyd Zumwalt's neighbours told police they saw Jordan

at Floyd's house around the time of the murder,

but that's something Jordan adamantly denies.

MARTY: So we went back and took another look at

the statements of the neighbours from

the night of the homicide.

♪

BEAU: A neighbour that lived next door to Floyd,

Avery Sinclair, stated she

heard thumps coming from his apartment.

KELLIE: She had said she heard that around 4:24.

MARTY: We bring Avery in for questioning,

and she's a perfect witness.

She describes herself as a nosy gossip.

MARTY: She said that she quieted the TV to hear

anything additional that might be happening,

but she didn't hear any cries for help

or any additional noise.

At that point, she gets up to see

if she can tell what's going on.

BEAU: She looked out her window and

saw Craig leaving Floyd's apartment.

KELLIE: That puts Craig there in Floyd's apartment,

contradicting his story that he didn't get there

until 4:42.

RESHMI: Now, almost 12 months into their investigation,

detectives turn their attention back to Craig Miller,

the neighbor who made the initial 911 call.

MARTY: When we run his criminal history,

we find that...

he doesn't have any local criminal history,

but he does have criminal history from another state,

Illinois...

where he has actually served some time in jail and

is a registered sex offender.

♪

He was convicted of placing secret cameras in his house

to record his stepdaughter,

and also of molesting his stepdaughter.

♪

Craig's the only person in this investigation

that we ever located any physical evidence on.

So at this point Craig goes from being

the most helpful of witnesses

to now our number one suspect.

♪

♪

the top of the suspect list,

we re-evaluated people he was in contact with

on the day of Floyd's murder.

When investigators went to interview Craig at his

apartment the night of the homicide,

he wasn't at home.

He had actually gone to visit his friend, John Mills.

Police also spoke to John Mills

in their original canvass,

so now they reach out to him again.

MARTY: When we re-interviewed John Mills,

he told us that Craig had said

Floyd had been beaten and stabbed.

♪

And the significance of this is that it was unknown to

investigators at this point that a knife was even

involved in the murder because of the positioning of

the body and the knife blade hidden under his body.

How would Craig know that Floyd had been stabbed

when trained investigators didn't even know?

MARTY: So at this point, I decided to go back and

take a look at the evidence from the crime scene.

[Camera shutter clicking]

One of the first photos taken was of Craig standing

in front of the apartment by the first officer

that arrived on scene.

I examined that photo under magnification.

I noticed in the picture that the stitching

on the fly of Craig's jeans...

was curved, and the stitching on the fly of

the pants that he had given us was straight.

They were not the same pants.

This was the first hard proof that we had that Craig

had actually tried to deceive investigators.

I knew at that point that Craig had been

lying to us all along.

Craig led us down the wrong path with Jordan,

and he's also led us down the wrong path

with his own girlfriend.

RESHMI: Now investigators review everything Craig

shared with them on the night of the murder,

and they consider more closely how a drop of

Floyd's blood landed on Craig's shoe if he really

did keep his distance from Floyd's body,

as Craig himself claimed.

BEAU: The blood drop is important.

So, there's no way physically possible that

blood could have gotten on the inside of his right sole

if he had not been closer to Floyd.

It was also a droplet...

that was in movement when it hit his shoe.

MICHAEL: The teardrop shape, for lack of a better word,

of the blood drop also indicated that it was moving

in a centrifugal pattern away from the body consistent with

medium velocity, cast off, which strongly suggests that

Mr. Miller was not only at the scene at the

time of the murder, but got close enough to Floyd

for the blood to be cast off onto him

in the fashion that it did.

BEAU: Investigators speak with Craig again.

BEAU: And Craig's reason behind the blood

on his shoe changed several times.

He kept dancing around his answers.

Maybe he was close to Floyd, maybe he wasn't.

RESHMI: There's also the issue of Floyd's neighbour

Avery hearing and seeing Craig both inside and

outside Floyd's apartment 20 minutes before

the 911 call was placed.

MARTY: Craig's story was that he arrived just before

he called 911, another inconsistency.

BEAU: And this is enough to arrest him for Murder-2

and book him into jail.

RESHMI: While Craig is in jail,

police keep digging for more hard evidence

to secure a conviction.

MARTY: I recalled that an open bank statement had

been found on the kitchen table at the crime scene.

MICHAEL: Investigators proceed to check Floyd's

phone records and determine that he actually

telephoned his bank at approximately 11:30 AM

on the day of his murder.

MARTY: I reached out to the bank to see if

they had a recording of that call.

And they do.

MARTY: Craig would often take Floyd's debit card to

the store to buy beer and cigarettes for Floyd.

But it turned out he was also

making cash withdrawals for himself.

BEAU: I think that Floyd realised that Craig

had been stealing from him.

Craig, I believe, wanted to save face.

We think that was his motive.

But, we don't have to prove motive here in Washington.

We don't have to prove the why,

but we have to prove that...

Craig intended to kill Floyd.

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MARTY: Four months after Craig Miller's arrest,

his cellmate came forward with some information.

MARTY: He then told him he got rid of the knife handle

by throwing it in the bushes

outside of Floyd's apartment.

MARTY: So, we get permission from the owner of the

apartment complex to cut down the bushes

next to Floyd's apartment and look for

that handle of that knife.

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We get search and rescue out there,

followed by detectives with metal detectors,

who survey the area.

And within an hour,

we get a hit on a knife blade handle

that's there in the bushes 22 months

after the original murder.

I was actually very shocked that it was still there.

KELLIE: The cellmate also tells police that

Craig told him that he had worn one of

Floyd's shirts during the murder.

And after he was done, he took it off

and hung it back in Floyd's Closet.

BEAU: Floyd's shirts were found in

his granddaughter's basement.

MARTY: She had taken the shirts because

she heard about making a memory pillow

out of a deceased relative's shirts,

but she had never gotten around to doing it

and they were still in her basement.

MICHAEL: At this point, detectives believe

they know exactly what happened to Floyd Zumwalt.

MARTY: On Tuesday, November 7th, 2015,

Floyd Zumwalt got his mail.

In it was a bank statement.

BEAU: We think Floyd opened his bank statement,

realised there were ATM withdrawals

that he did not make, and immediately

got on the phone with the bank to question it.

MARTY: Craig Miller can hear Floyd on the telephone.

KELLIE: And he panicked.

Craig puts Floyd to bed and goes on his errands.

BEAU: He comes back and finds Floyd asleep.

Craig finds one of Floyd's shirts.

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Puts his shirt on.

KELLIE: The fact that Craig put on Floyd's shirt

before he committed this murder,

tells us that he was

thinking about what he was doing,

and that he was intending to kill Floyd and

did not want to get caught.

Craig was able to grab a knife.

MARTY: During the attack, the knife handle broke off

of the knife and Craig panicked.

He grabs the bat that Floyd kept next to his bed

for his own protection,

and ironically used it to end Floyd's life.

KELLIE: But he doesn't realise he gets

a spot of blood on his shoe.

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BEAU: Later, Craig switches out of the pair of pants

he was wearing and...

gives investigators a different pair of jeans.

MARTY: Craig admitted to his cellmate that he wore the

pants that he wore during the murder

to a local charity thrift store,

where he switched into the new pants,

and hung up his murder pants back on the rack

for somebody else to purchase later.

They were never located.

The shirt's recovered from Floyd's granddaughter

as well as the knife handle recovered from

the bushes outside of his apartment

are never tested for DNA because Craig admits

his involvement and takes a plea deal.

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KELLIE: Craig Miller pleads guilty to murder in the

second degree, and is sentenced to 20 years

for Floyd Zumwalt's murder.

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MARTY: Floyd was murdered over

the theft of a couple of hundred dollars.

Probably wouldn't even have resulted in

Craig's doing any jail time if he had

been found guilty of stealing from Floyd.

And instead, Craig decided it was easier to

end Floyd's life

than take responsibility for his crime.

BEAU: This was a particularly heinous

and violent attack on

a vulnerable man.

And anytime we're able to get justice for victims,

especially murder victims, is...

one of the best things I think we can do

as investigators.

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