On the final morning of 4-year-old Christopher Milke's life, his
mother sent him off to visit Santa Claus at a Phoenix shopping mall in a
triceratops sweatshirt and cowboy boots. Within hours, the little boy
with the blond bangs and dark eyes was dead, shot three times in the
head, his body curled in a dry desert wash on the fringe of the
city.Investigators quickly zeroed in on the mother, Debra Jean Milke,
later condemned by her own family for treating Christopher with
contempt. She was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.But nearly
24 years after the crime, the case returns to a courtroom Monday _ with
the verdict and the detective who cemented it effectively on trial.The
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day after the killing, then-Phoenix police Detective Armando Saldate
Jr. sat down alone with Milke to question her. A half-hour later, the
young mother was arrested for plotting Christopher's murder based on a
detailed confession, one whose veracity she and her defenders have
refuted ever since.But Saldate, a 21-year veteran of the force, proved a
most convincing witness. Listening to him, jurors looked past the fact
that he had ignored a directive to record the interview,The heating
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has a safety cut-off and built in digital control with a thermostat and
timer. failed to secure a witness to observe it and destroyed his
notes. And prosecutors did not share with them, or Milke's own lawyer, a
personnel record that included previous allegations of misconduct.
It
came down to his hard-boiled version of the truth over hers, based on
words uttered in an interrogation room turned "into a black box, leaving
no objectively verifiable proof as to what happened inside,"Granite tiles
an appellate court opined in a scathing March decision setting aside
Milke's conviction.This month, Milke was released on $250,000 bond as
prosecutors prepare to bring her to trial once more. But holes in the
case feed doubts that linger among both those certain of her guilt and
those convinced of her innocence. Confronting those questions cannot
bring Christopher back, but it is forcing reexamination of the system
sworn to do him justice.
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