All language subtitles for Forensic Files - 01x03 - The House That Roared

[music playing]

MAN: I'm going, OK.

I'm going.

Get out of my face!

NARRATOR: On a hot
summer evening in 1992,

neighbors heard the familiar
sound of an argument coming

from the Campano the residence.

-No way!
I quit!

I promise, I quit!

[screaming]

NARRATOR: According to
Christopher Campano,

his wife left the house
shortly after their argument

to calm down.

-Quick, get out here!

Go!
I quit!

NARRATOR: Caren Campano
was never seen again.

[theme music]

Caren Campano was just two
weeks shy of her 43rd birthday

when she disappeared.

She had just come
back to Oklahoma City

after visiting
her three children

who were living in New York.

Back to the home she shared
with her third husband, Chris.

-She had come back
to New York and she

went to talking about moving
back because of her family.

And-- And she was upset.

NARRATOR: Chris
and Caren Campano

were married in
December of 1987.

Friends described
them as an odd couple.

She was 15 years
older than Chris

and it was her third
marriage, his first.

They were introduced
to one another

by Caren's best friend, who also
happened to be Chris's mother.

Chris was a drifter,
worked construction jobs,

and spend some time in
jail for petty theft.

Caren was the main wage earner
working as a bill collector

for this credit adjustment
company in town.

On the evening of July
1, 1992, Chris and Caren

had one of their
frequent arguments,

this time over his use of drugs.

CHRIS: And I was into drugs
and she was, you know,

nagging at me and trying to
get me into drug programs,

and you know, just
trying to help.

NARRATOR: It was loud enough
for the neighbors to hear.

-I could hear Caren screaming.

No, please, please.

And, don't do that.

Couldn't make out a lot
of what's being said,

just a lot of screaming.

NARRATOR: According to Chris,
after the argument Caren left

the house for a walked,
headed to the Buy For Less

convenience store for
some personal items,

a few blocks away.

Chris left, too, driving to
a local bar for a few drinks,

staying until about midnight.

The next morning, Chris
called Caren's office

to see if she had
reported to work.

Her supervisor said, she hadn't
shown up, or even called in.

Chris then phoned the police
to report her missing.

When the police arrived
to take Chris' statement,

they looked around
briefly and reported

seeing no evidence of
foul play, or anything

out of place or unusual.

KUHLMAN: If a person is going to
run away or leave her husband,

she's not just
going to walk away

and leave everything behind.

She's going to take the things
that mean the most to her.

Especially when you're
dealing with a woman, things

of, you know, toiletries,
makeup, and that kind of thing.

And of course, we
found all those things

intact in the bedroom,
in the bathroom.

And it was if she
just disappeared off

the face of the earth without
taking anything with her.

NARRATOR: While the
police were there,

Chris mentioned that the house
had been burglarized the night

before while he was out
drinking and that some items

were missing.

Police asked Chris
to sign a waiver

to allow a search of the house.

DET NEILSON: And
he agreed to do so.

And thought that would be good.

And even commented that
he hoped that we found

something in the
house that would

help us with the investigation.

KUHLMAN: The first
thing I recall

seeing is, the bed was
against the south wall.

And right next to the bed
was a large white trash bag.

And underneath that
trash bag I could

see a very large
brownish-colored stain.

Of course, the next thing
we did was went and got

some Hemosticks, which we
carried in our vehicle.

NARRATOR: A Hemostick
is a chemical strip that

can immediately tell whether
or not blood is present.

KUHLMAN: You take
the dry Hemostick,

and with your finger, just
lightly smear it on the suspect

stain to where some of it is
transferred on the Hemostick.

Take a drop of distilled
water, put it on the Hemostick.

Flick off the excess water.

And you have a dark green,
which is a positive presumptive

test for the presence of blood.

NARRATOR: The stain on the
carpet was, indeed, blood.

But was it human?

And if so, whose was it?

-The first day we
were in the house,

I put on a pair of gloves,
and that spot on that carpet

was still moist.

This piece of carpet
and the padding

was completely
soaked with blood.

It was such a massive
amount of blood,

that there were still
actual moisture involved,

that it was not completely dry.

NARRATOR: The carpet was removed
and delivered to the Oklahoma

City Police Departments
Forensic Chemistry Lab.

-I went on to do
a Octalony test.

It's a species
determination test

to determine as
to whether or not

that blood came from a
human or an animal source.

NARRATOR: It was human blood.

-That was enough to convince
me that we weren't dealing

with a routine
missing persons case.

NARRATOR: The police needed
more you go on, and felt

the answers lay inside
the Campano's house.

When police discovered human
blood inside the Campano's

bedroom, they
suspected the blood

stain might belong
to Caren Campano.

They also suspected
that Chris knew more

about her disappearance
than he was admitting.

-She left at 7:30.

And what did you do then?
-I went to--

NARRATOR: Under
police questioning,

Chris maintained that he
knew nothing about his wife's

whereabouts, but
his alibi was weak.

The bartender
didn't recall seeing

Chris Campano on
the night of July 1.

And police discovered that
Chris had pawned some of Caren's

jewelry the morning
after her disappearance.

Without a body, the only thing
left for the police to do

was run more tests
inside the house.

There weren't any visible
signs of violence,

besides the bloodstained
they found in the bedroom.

DR. JORDAN: We saw a
typical little frame house

for central Oklahoma City,
that, as you went inside,

looked quite clean, quite neat.

Things had been
cleaned out of it.

The walls looked clean,
ceiling looked clean,

the floor looked clean.

So there wasn't
much to see at all.

NARRATOR: So they decided to
look for blood which may have

been cleaned up, or wasn't
visible to the naked eye.

To do so, investigators used
a special chemical solution

called luminol, an extremely
sensitive test which can detect

blood which has been
removed by water,

or even detergents and bleach.

-Luminol is a
fluorescence-type chemical.

Spray it on a substance
that may contain blood,

it reacts with the heme
group in the blood itself.

The iron portions will
luminous of fluoresce.

NARRATOR: To do
the luminol test,

investigators needed
complete darkness,

so they waited until nightfall.

They began their chemical
dragnet in the bedroom,

where they discovered
the stain on the carpet

a few days earlier.

First, they took photographs
of the room the way

it looked to the naked eye.

Then they sprayed the luminol.

The results were astonishing.

-There were some instances in
that house where it glowed so

brightly that you could
actually see the person standing

next to, there was so
much blood in there.

NARRATOR: The luminol
told a horrific tale.

Blood had been everywhere--
on the walls, the ceiling,

on the doors.

DR. JORDAN: It looked like a
bloodbath had occurred there,

something from a horror movie.

NARRATOR: Even more telling
was the blood spatter,

which is the placement
of the stains.

Where they were located,
the size of the drops,

and the trails of
blood all told a story.

Someone had been beaten in the
bedroom with a blunt object.

-They we're in two trails, what
we refer to as castoff trails.

So if you had an object,
for example, in your hand

and that object
was blood covered,

and if you were swinging
that object overhead,

the centripetal force of
pulling the blood down

to the end of the object will
pass the blood in the direction

that the object is being swung.

And in this case, it's
going to the ceiling.

There are two distinct trails.

And you can tell that
there's at least two swings

with the blood covered object.

NARRATOR: Luminol
was then applied

to the rest of the house.

And even to the outside
steps and walkways.

CAPTAIN BEVEL: At one point,
there's a swipe of blood

that was on the kitchen door
leading into the utility

room that would have
been about head level

if you were carrying a body,
had to turn the body sideways

to get through a normal door.

And then, at that point, it
appeared the body was laid down

on the ground, and then
drug from the utility room

down the back steps.

DR. JORDAN: And you could
see pooled luminescence

on each step.

And then drag marks that were
luminescent and all the way

down the walkway until
you get to the point

that you were at the driveway.

And at that point,
they disappeared.

Very, very dramatic
presentation.

NARRATOR: The house
was telling it's story.

One of an apparently
gruesome attack.

But there was still
unanswered questions.

Where was the body?

And the weapon?

And was the blood
Caren Campano's?

Police still couldn't prove
a murder had been committed.

Although the police knew someone
was violently attacked inside

to Campano residence,
they couldn't

be sure a homicide
had been committed.

Was there enough blood
in the Campano house

to prove that someone was dead?

And was that someone
Caren Campano?

-The investigators,
at a later time,

decided that we would go back
and try to do a measurement

test to see how much blood
had to have been bled out

on that carpet to make
that size of a stain.

NARRATOR: Police
made sure their test

was as accurate as possible.

They used a piece of
the original carpet,

as well as a weight to
simulate a human head.

Next, they poured human
blood around the weight

until they created a stain
measuring 887 square inches,

the same size stain they
originality discovered.

-Statistically, one could say
that between 1,300 and 1,400

cc's of blood would create
that-- would create that stain.

NARRATOR: That's more than
40% of the blood volume

of a woman Caren Campano's size.

No one could survive with
that amount of blood loss.

-So at that point, it
became pretty apparent to me

that, if this lady was missing,
and if this lady was dead,

that this lady probably
was killed right there.

NARRATOR: The authorities
now knew a homicide had been

committed in the
house, and that someone

had died in the bedroom
in a pool of blood.

But was the victim
Caren Campano?

Police didn't have a sample
of Caren Campano's blood

to compare to the blood stain.

If Caren's mother and
father were still living,

it would've been a simple
matter to examine their DNA,

since Caren would
have received half

of her DNA from her mother,
and half from her father.

But Caren's father was deceased.

The Oklahoma City
Police Department

asked the FBI to get
involved, to see if there was

any way they could figure
out whether the blood found

in the house belonged
to Caren Campano.

The police obtained
blood samples

from Caren's mother, her two
sisters, her three children,

and one of her ex-husbands.

-And so in this particular case,
the object of the examination

was to see if this DNA from the
blood stain of unknown origin

was matching-- at
least half of the DNA

was matching-- to the
relatives from Caren Campano.

NARRATOR: Hal Deadman of
the FBI's DNA Analysis Unit

conducted what is called RFLP
analysis, analyzing pieces

of DNA from four
different chromosomes.

This is the DNA profile
of Caren Campano's mother.

And next to it, on
either side, are

two of her daughters,
Caren Campano's sisters.

Both daughters share half of
their DNA with their mother.

This lane shows a
DNA sample from one

of Caren Campano's ex-husband's.

The next lane shows a
sample from his son,

whose mother was Caren Campano.

The father and son both
share the upper band.

The son would have received
the lower band from his mother,

which matches the band from his
grandmother, Caren's mother.

The next autorad compares
the family members' DNA

to the unknown blood stain
found in the Campano home.

The top marker matches
the genetic profile

from the first of Caren
Campano's children.

And the markers
from the blood stain

also matched the bands
from Caren Campano's two

other children from
another marriage.

-The results were more
fairly straightforward.

They were totally
consistent with the blood

coming from Caren Campano.

NARRATOR: Eight months after the
disappearance of Caren Campano,

police concluded that
Christopher Campano

murdered his wife,
and was arrested.

All of the evidence pointed
towards Chris Campano--

the forensic evidence, the
argument neighbors heard

on the night of
Caren's disappearance,

Chris' lack of an alibi
for the entire evening,

and the fact that he
pawned some of her things.

The prosecution believed
that Caren Campano never

left her house for a walk,
as her husband had suggested.

[yelling]

Neighbors heard Caren and
Chris arguing that night.

And the forensic evidence
suggests that the argument

moved to their bedroom,
where it escalated to

and turned violent.

As Chris stood near the window,
he struck Caren in the head

with a blunt object at least
three times, possibly more,

producing the
castoff blood trails

on the ceiling and walls.

Caren fell to the floor, her
head striking the bedpost,

where her blood was also found.

As Caren lay bleeding from
her massive head injuries,

Chris left and went
to a local bar.

He needed to wait until
the neighbors were

asleep before
removing Caren's body.

When he returned home,
he wrapped Caren's body

in a sheet with a telephone
wire and carried her

through the house.

Luminol tests showed
that Caren's head brushed

against the door
leaving a blood smear,

later cleaned with detergent.

Chris then dropped the
body onto the floor

and dragged it through the side
door and out towards the car.

He probably disposed of
her body late that night

in a deserted location.

After returning home, Chris
removed all visible traces

of blood, both inside and out.

The DNA analysis showed the
blood found on the carpet

belonged to Caren Campano.

And the medical examiner would
testify that Caren Campano

suffered horrendous
head injuries

during the attack, which
no one could survive.

Prosecutors were
confident of a conviction,

even though they didn't have
a body, or a murder weapon.

-I thought it was
very likely we might

never find the body victim.

NARRATOR: But just
preliminary hearing

was set to get under
way, everything changed.

The police found Caren Campano.

-This part right here
wasn't quite so grown up

with all this ivy, and she
was laying right down there

by that large cottonwood
tree, north to south.

And there were some
blankets around her.

There was no greenery
at that time.

If there had been
greenery at that time,

you would never
know she was there.

NARRATOR: The body
lay in a remote area

off a major interstate
highway, until some youngsters

on dirt bikes
stumbled across it.

KUHLMAN: All we knew was that we
had a female's body out there.

We had no idea who it was.

Of course we were hoping it
was Caren, but we didn't know.

NARRATOR: There was
another important find.

Police discovered a piece of
the check underneath the body.

Although they couldn't determine
to whom the check was issued,

it was from the
Shell Oil Company,

and mailed to
someone in New York.

The check was for $83.34.

Caren Campano was from New York.

And her family had a part
interest in a gas station

there.

KUHLMAN: This was the first
definitive piece that we had,

that we knew, at
that point, there

was a great possibility
that it was Caren.

And of course, we
wouldn't know for sure

until they made identification
through dental records and DNA.

NARRATOR: Dr. Tom Glass
heads the Forensic Odontology

Department at the
University of Oklahoma.

With the help of Caren
Campano's dental records,

and an almost
complete set of teeth

found in this skull
of the body, Dr.

Glass' task was fairly easy.

DR. GLASS: What I do, in
making the comparison, then,

is simply go frame by frame
by frame of the patient's

antimordem dental x-rays, the
x-rays made by the dentist,

with the frames
of the same areas

made from the
skeletonized remains.

She had a very
thorough dentist, who

documented what he had done.

And that documentation
allowed to the identification,

in Caren Campano's case,
to be very profound.

NARRATOR: And the DNA
analysis of the bone marrow

confirmed it.

The last doubts
had been removed.

KUHLMAN: Personally, I'm glad
she was eventually found,

because of the family
back in New York.

I talked to them at
length over the phone.

Later on, during the
investigation, I met them.

They're really great people.

And I really had strong
feelings for them,

hoping one day she would
be found so they could

put their own fears to rest,
and give her a decent burial.

NARRATOR: And Christopher
Campano confessed.

The remarkable thing
about, the autopsy

confirmed the prosecution's
theory of how Caren died.

And that theory,
remember, was based only

on the luminol,
the blood spatter

analysis, and the
blood volume tests.

-The maxilla were fractured.
The mandibles were fractured.

The nose was fractured.

The sinuses were fractured.

The skull was
extensively fractured.

And yet, the cervical
spine was intact,

and there are only three
fractures in the ribs.

So this is not the hallmark of
somebody that's been run over

by a car, or
somebody who has had

a train wreck, or
something like that.

This is the hallmark
of someone who

has sustained a severe beating
about the head and face.

So it was obvious that
this was an assault.

NARRATOR: Police
and forensic science

had solved a difficult puzzle.

DET NEILSON: It
all told a story.

If it was just more the pieces
of the puzzle coming together,

even all the way to the end,
when the body was actually

found.

It's like, you know, we've
got most of the puzzle there.

You know what it is.

Even with some missing
pieces, you know what it is.

But then, with
that body found, it

was like that was the very last
piece that just fit in there.

NARRATOR: In January of
1994, a year and a half

after Caren was killed,
Christopher Campano

went on trial for his life.

His defense attorney couldn't
refute the forensic findings.

They were just too strong.

-Once I had decided to make that
leap and embrace the evidence,

then my task became easier.

It was a matter, then of looking
at the psychological aspects

of the case, rather than the
hard forensics of the case.

I suggested to the
judge and jury,

if it was going to be
deliberately planned out

and methodical, that kind
of blood wouldn't be there.

There would have been none
in the house, probably.

The homicide would
have occurred elsewhere

if it had been a
coldblooded killing.

NARRATOR: The jury bought at
least part of the argument.

It found Campano
guilty of manslaughter,

not the first-degree murder
charge the State was seeking.

CHRIS: I feel sorry for her.

I feel sorry for
what I did to her.

I can't bring her
back, you know?

I just to pay for
what I've done.

NARRATOR: Christopher
Campano was

sentenced to 1,000
years in prison.

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