California woman accused of husband’s murder freed 20 years later after new look at evidence

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Ай бұрын

After nearly two decades behind bars for her husband's murder, a California woman's relentless quest for a reexamination of the evidence reveals flaws. “48 Hours” correspondent Erin Moriarty unravels her journey to freedom.
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@kbrown5218 Ай бұрын

Her defense team were incompetent! She should've never been found guilty. I'm so sorry they stole 20 years of her life and she needs retribution for those lost years.

@traybern 25 күн бұрын

SHE. KILLED. HIM.

@lindaadams2315 Ай бұрын

It's not going to get the years back that she lost, but it will bring financial stability to her for the years she has left. SUE THEM.

@lisadiconti 29 күн бұрын

So sad....all that time lost in jail.

@satya_satori 22 күн бұрын

California recently enacted a law which stipulates that any prisoner who has been wrongfully convicted and subsequently released is to receive compensation for every day they were imprisoned.

@lutomson3496 21 күн бұрын

a jury found her guilty of parracide..killing her husband as they were splitting up and she didnt want to give him any money..the bigger question is if not her who killed him? no one else had motive besides her...these over turned convictions on technical grounds are problematic..when Scott Peterson conviction is overturned are people going to be cheering? oh wait not, the media already convicted him

@boldmover Ай бұрын

This was not a mistake. This was deliberate, sending her to jail on lies. I wonder how these people sleep at night. Lying in court about finding her blood.

@DemPilafian 28 күн бұрын

Society judges prosecutors by their conviction rates. Prosecutors are highly motivated to seek a conviction even when they know the suspect is innocent. You're right that it's not a mistake. Voters choose this deliberately.

@MsPinkwolf 27 күн бұрын

And the real murderer is still out there and maybe killed others.

@marilynshelor1271 27 күн бұрын

You've got to be kidding! Look at the flaming 💩show going on in GA. DAs can lie and prosecute you for a crime, but THEY can do the same thing and nothing is done? Perjury is perjury, no matter what your title is.

@VerseauT-cm6tj Ай бұрын

If she did it in the bedroom and then had to drag him out to the road, surely there would be some blood elsewhere along path? Can’t believe this small woman could drag a man’s body that far. Also if she had cleaned up the dragging path, surely she would have cleaned bedroom too. The system owes her BIG Money for robbing her of 20 years

@DeeAnderson-oj2hr 24 күн бұрын

Exactly! Like she could drag out a man without any blood trail! It is the most absurd explanation!

@lutomson3496 21 күн бұрын

size makes no difference....she could have drug him easily..the bigger question is who killed him and had motive? she did all killers claim to be innocent I still think she did it and got out on a techinical piece

@DeeAnderson-oj2hr 19 күн бұрын

@@lutomson3496 I could not disagree with you more. DNA played a huge role in this. If she supposedly killed her husband in the house with such a blunt force to his head, there would be tons of blood. I'm not buying it that she would have done this.

@simplifyhandles Ай бұрын

She needs to sue them. It’s horrible. Poor woman.

@anglophils645 Ай бұрын

I feel sure she'll get a settlement from the state for wrongful conviction.

@traybern 28 күн бұрын

She IS 100% GUILTY!!!

@thelistener3844 28 күн бұрын

You and you alone: judge and jury@@traybern

@traybern 27 күн бұрын

@@thelistener3844 HER jury CONVICTED her. CORRECTLY!!!

@thelistener3844 25 күн бұрын

@@traybern why, of course! And sorry! @simplifyhandles disagrees. And that's who I attempted to reply to.

@lawrenceek Ай бұрын

How does a woman move a dead body without leaving evidence in the car?

@gmamose9152 28 күн бұрын

Or dragging it up the street?

@keepitsimple4629 27 күн бұрын

Perhaps she had a boyfriend who helped.

@MsPinkwolf 27 күн бұрын

@@keepitsimple4629or perhaps she didn't do it....

@poorthing 27 күн бұрын

@@keepitsimple4629a boyfriend was never brought up..or do you gave other valid information?

@keepitsimple4629 27 күн бұрын

@@poorthing No, I'm just looking at all possibilities.

@CUMBICA1970 29 күн бұрын

The another tragedy is that the real murderer got away and probably will never be caught because for the law enforcement that's self-incriminatory.

@ricr7289 29 күн бұрын

All the liars who sent her to prison must be put on trial if they are still alive.

@randomtees 24 күн бұрын

She lied and said that her daughter was the killer.

@juju-xx5xn Ай бұрын

I hope she sues the police and prosecutors, and her own lawyers. They dealt her a bad hand, a crooked hand. Prosecutors should face possible disbarment as a result, they lied in court. They lied just to get the conviction.

@audreydaleski1067 Ай бұрын

They humiliated her. Women generally do not bludgeon.

@margo3367 29 күн бұрын

And how could she have dragged her husband onto the open road? Wouldn’t there be a bloody trail? Plus that, a dead body of a man has got to be heavy. Her attorney was wrong not to do separate tests of the blood spatter.

@b.l.8611 29 күн бұрын

20 years of a person’s life gone! How terrible.

@margo3367 29 күн бұрын

That’s why the death penalty is flawed on its face. People get wrongly convicted!

@JH-lz4dh 29 күн бұрын

Wow. "Never give up" has a new meaning 😮

@michelleeggers719 29 күн бұрын

Maybe those investigators need to go to prison.

@todddanforth8853 27 күн бұрын

Of course they do but they are protected by full immunity.

@alanlewisIslandchemical 28 күн бұрын

There is no amount of money for 20 years of prison that poor lady endured😢I'm so sorry mam 😢

@carolaguilera6911 28 күн бұрын

But she needs it to rebuild her life perod

@EmmaDee 26 күн бұрын

There’s is no amount of money for a week in the slammer. This lady is a heck of a lot stronger than I could ever be.

@varrick1226 29 күн бұрын

Erin Moriarty one of the very very few real journalists left at CBS. Perhaps one of 5.

@kevinbarry3548 28 күн бұрын

Obviously you're connected to her in some way. Nice try, but fail.

@phoebevanderhorst7760 28 күн бұрын

Jane is so tiny, it is insane to think she could have moved him an inch. In prison she was always helping the women with their cases, and fighting for human rights within the prison system. She is a great person.

@rachelwarren8142 29 күн бұрын

I remember this!! They convinced me she was guilty!! How horrible

@fremontpathfinder8463 Ай бұрын

I wonder how the jury feels now? The prosecutor and detectives need to be fired.

@Jannett-ik5lh 13 күн бұрын

They need to be in prison

@paulabrown5243 29 күн бұрын

Time is something you can never get back.

@mochasweetie7580 28 күн бұрын

Prosecutorial misconduct. Who engaged in the frame up? The police crafted the case around her. Did the lab lie to support the prosecution’s case?

@GodsSparrowSpeaks 2 күн бұрын

Good point

@thedingo8833 Ай бұрын

And yet real murderers with evidence I have no doubt of their guilt end up getting out at eight years. The justice system needs an overhaul

@drexlspivey3047 Ай бұрын

Can you give us examples of what you say?

@thedingo8833 22 күн бұрын

@@drexlspivey3047 “””” More than 7 in 10 violent ofenders released in 2016 served less than fve years in state prison Persons serving less than one year in state prison represented 40% of frst releases in 2016 (table 2). Almost a ffh (18%) of persons served less than six months. More than 7 in 10 of violent ofenders (72%) served less than fve years in state prison before their initial release, and nearly 9 in 10 violent ofenders (88%) served less than 10 years. About a quarter (24%) of ofenders released afer being sentenced for rape or sexual assault served between 5 and 10 years before initial release; most (57%) served shorter terms than that.”” TheBureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice

@FiatVoluntasTua888 6 күн бұрын

@@drexlspivey3047 Yeah, just do a KZfaq or Google search on the millions of cases.

@JD-cd5sq 12 күн бұрын

The Prosecutor needs to be sued civilly. What a disgusting person to knowingly frame an innocent person. Only a psychopath would do that.

@ljeff237 23 күн бұрын

Her sons testified against her and the defense team was horrible, even going so far to accuse the daughter. I hope the relationship with her children has been re-established/maintained.

@northwest7064 6 күн бұрын

that's horrible

@MT-im7hx 27 күн бұрын

I would sue everyone who put me in jail!

@Katie-vy5rd 27 күн бұрын

She's strong... losing a loved one then wrongly accused is bad enough then to have to be treated like a criminal for 7,300 days! I don't know if could've kept up hope.

@Violet316 14 күн бұрын

losing not loosing

@user-ri5pj3iq9l 8 күн бұрын

@@Violet316 Sadly your comment is a nothing burger.

@Violet316 8 күн бұрын

@@user-ri5pj3iq9l it wasn't a comment, but you taking the time to say that, says what about you?

@user-ri5pj3iq9l 7 күн бұрын

@@Violet316 Don’t care for correction police. Most folks could get the message.LOL You just didn’t add any value.

@Violet316 6 күн бұрын

@@user-ri5pj3iq9l Neither did you correcting me.

@motherofthreeb6337 6 күн бұрын

Prosecutors should be in jail for making false allegations to the court, jury, and to the public!

@sherrykao978 Ай бұрын

This really sucks.

@matlew1960 25 күн бұрын

I've seen a lot of these cases where the prosecutor has made their own careers out of and eventually got into higher office. And decades later when the truth comes out nothing happens to them. There should be consequences.

@KeivaJones-nf3jd 25 күн бұрын

Tough on crime. More like tough on bearing false witness. Hey but the taxpayers don't care so......😂😂😂😂

@nicolettedavis2030 27 күн бұрын

This is sad. I worked with Jane for a number of years. She was kind, and so good to others. I’ve been to her house, knew her children, rode her horses. She gave us a Shetland pony for our kids. I’ve followed her tragedy since I learned she was arrested. Crappy justice system.

@deefrost5695 27 күн бұрын

20 years of this woman's life ruined bcuz of a lazy incompetent judicial system & DA that knowingly railroad her. She didn't get to grieve in peace and they let some murderer walk free. They should be the ones in jail

@michelleeggers719 29 күн бұрын

So wrong!

@KohalaLover Ай бұрын

Blood spatter on the ceiling? No one confirmed the ceiling blood was or wasn’t Bob’s.

@TheMpo1986 28 күн бұрын

why was there blood on the ceiling though?

@KohalaLover 28 күн бұрын

@@TheMpo1986 I don’t know.

@user-sj1nz8zb9m 28 күн бұрын

They didn't address each spot of "blood". They just said not all of it was tested originally. When it was tested, some wasn't his, some wasn't even blood. I suppose you have to watch the episode.

@Lommy9999 27 күн бұрын

Maybe it's not even blood.

@TheMpo1986 27 күн бұрын

@@user-sj1nz8zb9m How do you mistake blood for something else? Could've it have been water stains? Did the police actually fabricate evidence? These episodes sometimes just paint broad strokes.

@carolecampbell8813 28 күн бұрын

This was NOT a mistake on the prosecutor's office and DNA testing. This was lies told to help get a guilty charge. This is not the first case recently found to have lies told about testing. If you can't trust the law enforcement then you can't convict as the person can't be found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Do you want this in your local system, for your family member on either side of the courtroom? Son found guilty while innocent or murdered daughter's killer free due to faulty testing found by the defense after trial and sentence is vacated but no one else ever charged. 😮

@mochasweetie7580 28 күн бұрын

His family was robbed of justice for 20 years. They decided she did it and framed her.

@debbielighthall9671 27 күн бұрын

This makes me so mad!!! Thank God she is out, but what a price to have paid!!!

@SeeCopsLie 27 күн бұрын

Tunnel vision is a weird way of saying the cops committed felony perjury.

@suzanne296 Ай бұрын

Unbelievable

@sunshineland 28 күн бұрын

If they believed that she killed him in their bedroom, at least they should have considered a 2nd, 3rd or 4th suspect because it would have been impossible for her to dispose of his body all by herself. So senseless.

@in4cer457 28 күн бұрын

Crooked cops, crooked DA, crooked....... sad😢

@audreydaleski1067 Ай бұрын

Not very much blood in bedroom.

@michellejessup6618 29 күн бұрын

Sue sue sue!!!!!!

@lovesallanimals9948 27 күн бұрын

Its scary this can happen to anyone

@mangafq8 27 күн бұрын

She had a lousy defense team.

@audreydaleski1067 Ай бұрын

Overturned!

@LS-kg6my 11 күн бұрын

I no longer trust our legal system

@evelyntaylor4470 27 күн бұрын

That's why you shouldn't have the death penalty for circumstantial evidence cases 😮

@robinperronjones5024 25 күн бұрын

You never hear that people are held accountable for these justice system mistakes. These incidents need reverse justice and punish the people responsible.

@Lommy9999 27 күн бұрын

Life is short. She will never get those precious 20 years back.

@user-ct6nu8qz5e 28 күн бұрын

The system is so flawed. How awful that she had to suffer even more …thank goodness she’s free at last. Prosecutors just want numbers, crooks

@KnockOut242 25 күн бұрын

I saw a true crime show featuring this story. One can definitely see how the media tilts the scales in whichever direction they want. I was convinced she was guilty but now, not so much…

@dalejohns2758 28 күн бұрын

Lawyers gotta keep their Win/Loss record high on the Win side.

@laurafarr636 29 күн бұрын

Wow terrible glad she is out I'm surprised more crap like this doesn't happen with the education system in USA pesticide eating country totally wrong as soon as I heard the word bludgeon

@suzanneryan9896 28 күн бұрын

So happy she is out of jail

@Buy.YouTube.Views.839 Ай бұрын

I can see how much effort you put into every video.

@dawns4641 29 күн бұрын

Awful, poor lady!

@amandaathanas4027 20 күн бұрын

They should have put COLUMBO on the case from the start.

@irenemak1302 28 күн бұрын

Could you go back to the prosecutors at the time and question them? Including her defense team?

@krutherfful 12 күн бұрын

I remember this case. Guilty as sin. Glad she at least served the time she did.

@user-ri5pj3iq9l 8 күн бұрын

Please point me to facts that back up your statement.

@DemPilafian 28 күн бұрын

For some prosecutors a conviction is more important than innocent until proven guilty. Who's to blame? Society judges prosecutors by their conviction rates. Prosecutors are highly motivated to seek a conviction even when they know the suspect is innocent.

@jeffschroeder4805 7 күн бұрын

Prosecutors are paid to convict SOMEONE for a crime within their jurisdiction. If they can arrange facts to make it appear that someone they have in custody may have committed the crime, they see their job as convincing gullible jurors to convict - that is the goal, not justice!

@patriciapalmieri1771 13 күн бұрын

She needs justice for her husband and herself.

@northwest7064 6 күн бұрын

never gave up, she filed motion after motion... it took them 20 years to test for her DNA on this thing? oh my

@teddyjam8134 28 күн бұрын

Ask her surviving son if she's innocent.

@MsPinkwolf 27 күн бұрын

Was he there when it happened?

@nicolettedavis2030 26 күн бұрын

@@MsPinkwolfHer son who she was close to testified against her saying she could have dragged her husband’s lifeless body down the stairs and into the pickup truck before. These prosecutors ruined this family just to add another conviction to their running balance. Just horrible.

@teddyjam8134 25 күн бұрын

@@MsPinkwolf So her son needed to be present when the murdered occurred to know his mother is guilty? Don't tell the police they can't arrest anyone for a crime if they're not present when it happens. Smh

@SpotTheBorgCat 28 күн бұрын

Poorly trained people and just plain L A Z Y when it comes to doing " due diligence" .

@garbagestarkaloyan 19 күн бұрын

The people responsible should go to jail for life. They destroyed her life. And I can't imagine how many other inocent people are in jail. This could happen to anyone of us if we don't bring justice.

@cherylsaxon243 27 күн бұрын

Great introduction to 48 Hours report Erin!! I was very saddened by the description of CA resident Jane Dorotik who was in prison for 20 years for a crime she didn’t commit ; of killing her husband Bob Dorotik. The evidence of blood and other evidence not matching or not being tested and Loyola College finding proof of her innocence that she fought 20 years for was explained. I’m so sorry this happened to her. I’m wishing Jane the best in her recovery stages and future endeavors. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

@theresehopkins1581 14 күн бұрын

Thank you for following up!!! ❤🙏 Now... will the individuals that manipulated the evidence be charged and imprisoned as long as she was??!!!🤔 After all, they allowed the real murderer or murderers go unpunished!!

@ChocolateTinkerbell 27 күн бұрын

These are the people they want us to trust!?!?

@evelyntaylor4470 27 күн бұрын

SMH!!!

@jillionairess 20 күн бұрын

I always knew she didn't do it. This was a big case in our town. Poor thing.

@QueenReina6419 28 күн бұрын

Our justice system is one of the most grotesque and broken. Many innocent incarcerated.....even ONE is too many amd its THOUSANDS. so disgusting!!!!!!!!

@gingerfeliciano9531 13 күн бұрын

Meanwhile the actual murderer has been out there this whole time

@lynnyhen 26 күн бұрын

I remember the original airing of this show and not believing her!! I feel terrible.

@ms.mojo_risin 3 күн бұрын

Oh, I remember this case vividly. They even went as far as to accuse the daughter of helping her mother clean up and back the truck up to where his body was to unload him, etc. and now the correspondent is going to say she thought she was credible 🤥 when horses fly, quit lying, 😒 you’re one of the people who put her in prison. The media surrounding this case helped put her in prison along with her incompetent defense team.

@steveconn 27 күн бұрын

Was some of the blood pizza sauce? Lazy forensics.

@roselynn816 23 күн бұрын

How often is this happening in this broken system?!

@joyceeasmon636 28 күн бұрын

I'm sorry this victim had to go through this injustice over the last 20 years. I hope she sues her incompetent prosecutors! However, this should not be touted as some kind of unique case of miscarriage of justice perpetrated by another US prosecutor cos it isn't - it happens routinely to African American men, in particular, across the US!

@pierceaero3005 28 күн бұрын

Wow. I remember watching this. It had not looked good for her. Where her DNA was not was clearly critical. It was not on the strangling rope. I wonder, who's was?

@pourfront7201 24 күн бұрын

What a nightmare. You would feel like this couldn't possibly be happening.. then boom- u lost ur husband and are being convicted and going to prison.

@water2wine1 28 күн бұрын

Wow 😮

@KevaFlores 25 күн бұрын

She wasn’t found innocent there just wasn’t enough to convict her!

@ElethuDuna 21 күн бұрын

Tunnel vision happen whe the police want to arrest someone rather then actually solve the case. This is usually influenced by wanting to increase their rate of arrests and or convictions. Very careless.

@KatMa664 24 күн бұрын

It’s preposterous that anybody would care so little about another human life that they would prosecute this woman without completely testing all the evidence. And that it would take the court 20 years to look at this case. How outrageous. Her life is gone.

@laurae2489 25 күн бұрын

I remember this. The system is not perfect.

@traybern 28 күн бұрын

ALL my nosebleeds end up ON THE CEILING.

@Chichilovee 27 күн бұрын

Right

@teddyjam8134 26 күн бұрын

Who would believe a nosebleed is going to leave blood on the walls and ceiling. And the people who believe she is innocent have absolutely no ability to think critically.

@bipolarcollie 25 күн бұрын

Except that it wasn't tested. And some of what they said was blood turned out not to be blood. You're no better than the lazy investigators who jumped to conclusions and then lied about it, . probably rationalizing it because they "were sure" she was guilty. What's a few lies under oath to get a conviction, eh? Cops & lab techs have gone to jail for those crimes when they get caught.

@traybern 25 күн бұрын

@@teddyjam8134 “some of the blood wasn’t tested” in NO WAY indicates that SHE didn’t DO it!!!!

@teddyjam8134 24 күн бұрын

@@traybern totally agree with you. I'm angry that she's getting away with it.

@NoNameNumberTwo 27 күн бұрын

Police misconduct.

@CrystallyLavender 23 күн бұрын

What graphic images?

@charlenecardwell8288 24 күн бұрын

Thank God she was finally released. Sadly, she will never be able to get those 20 years she spent in jail back.

@rabblerousin8981 28 күн бұрын

Wow, prosecutors should do 20 years and have a live feed where they cry about their situation to other prosecutors. “Scared straight” for the people who play god.

@libiure 27 күн бұрын

not surprised this happened in san diego county - its court system is horribly corrupt ..

@vanessa4u4evr 25 күн бұрын

They owe her big time.

@MarikaCorreia-kc6ey 11 күн бұрын

Wow wow. Just think. All the people in jail. THAT. ARE inccent wow how can you say there guilty in Three days. To investigate. WOW

@agl5132 Ай бұрын

He probably did go jogging and after he got home someone stopped by. He could have been in the bedroom changing. Or it was someone who did indeed catch up with him while he was jogging. They were so quick to railroad her they never looked elsewhere or into other possibilities. Yes, there are always exceptions to the rule but how many women have the hand strength to stangle someone, rope or no rope? Someone needs to look into all the other cases her legal team ever represented. They have possibly sent others to prison falsley. Loyola Law School has stepped in and helped many men obtain their freedom after years of false imprisonment. Those students need to sitin on more cases.

@elizabethsolomon2864 29 күн бұрын

Still guilty.

@DickNasty480 28 күн бұрын

So, where did the rope found around the husband's neck that was identical to the rope found at her house come from? They just glanced over this. Way too much evidence points to her and nobody else.

@higher_pwr8178 24 күн бұрын

Canton, Mass.

@freedomtoday743 25 күн бұрын

Will the state compensate her for twenty years of her life? They can’t give her back twenty years of her life.

@suzanbeverlyhills2310 27 күн бұрын

I remember this

@dawnatkinson7704 20 күн бұрын

Im confused - Were the original DNA tests not correct or the prosecutors flat out lied with no rebuttal?

@conradsieber7883 28 күн бұрын

Stopped watching 48 hours because they present biased pro prosecution episodes on cases where reasonable doubt is evident. It's often the spouse but not always and it's important to remember this for the integrity of solid cases.