Terror At The Morgue

Did A Medical Examiner Strap A Bomb To His Own Neck?

(CBS) 
But it's what she didn't see that bothers her the most: "Even if a cat scratches you, you’re gonna see something. There’s gonna be some blood. There wasn’t any that night.”

There was no blood, and no serious injuries, even though Smith's wrists, ankles and head had been wrapped in barbed wire. "There would have to be some kind of injuries," says Moore. "It just doesn't add up."

And it wasn't adding up for U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins. Could Workman have orchestrated such a strange attack from behind bars on death row? "He was interviewed," says Cummins. "Investigators looked at any members of his family that might have had an interest in doing something like that."

But that trail eventually came up cold – and Workman was eliminated as a suspect. Cummins, however, was struck by something else when he walked through the crime scene with the investigators.

"This is a pretty complex crime," says Cummins. "This person is going to have to be standing out there in the middle of the night with all this stuff."

OC's assailant had to bring along a grocery list of items to carry out his crime: a bottle of lye, barbed wire, a bicycle cable, padlocks and a homemade bomb.

But after an exhaustive 15-month investigation, and more than 100 leads, authorities still hadn't come up with a suspect.

At the same time, Smith's story just wasn't making sense to investigators. Was it possible that Smith had lied about the attack? Had he actually staged the attack himself? They asked Smith to come in for one more interview.