Then No One Can Have Her (39 page)

A private celebration of Carol's life, just for friends and family, was held in Sedona.

Sheriff's detectives said they found bike tire imprints and shoe prints similar to Steve's on the ranch land side of this Glenshandra Drive trailhead.

Close-up of the barbed-wire fence, gate and decomposed granite sand at the Glenshandra trailhead.

Steve claimed he went riding on a different trail, here at the end of Love Lane, two miles west of the house.

Authorities said Steve put his bike in some bushes, stepped over this gate, which he'd built to keep out wild animals, and entered Carol's house.
(Photo by Rich Robertson)

The front and rear tires of Steve's trail bike had different treads. He said the rear got a flat the night of the murder.

The defense argued that Steve's bike tires were a very common brand and model: the WTB (Wilderness Trail Bike) VelociRaptor.
(Photo by Rich Robertson)

Sheriff's detectives bought a golf club similar to what was believed to be the murder weapon: a Callaway Big Bertha Steelhead III #7.
(Photo by Rich Robertson)

Steve gave his Big Bertha club cover to his first attorney, John Sears, to secure. Sears held onto it until Steve was arrested.

Investigators could tell from the blood spatter pattern around this ladder and on some bookshelves that they'd been moved after Carol was killed.

Carol's former tenant, Jim Knapp, was found fatally shot in this closet six months after her murder. Authorities ruled it a suicide.

The courthouse in downtown Prescott, across from Whiskey Row.