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May 16, 2008 5:41 pm US/Central
Cops: Blood Evidence Points To Man In Wife's Death
Police Initially Thought Death Was Suicide
Husband Not Suspected Until Later
FARMERS BRANCH (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
There are new documents from Farmers Branch in connection with the arrest of the husband of a murdered woman.
Timothy Henry Werner was picked up at his Dallas practice Thursday on an arrest warrant signed Monday in Dallas County.
In an affidavit supporting the arrest warrant, Farmers Branch Police say Sara Zombola Werner was shot in the shoulder from a distance of no more than 46 inches at the home the couple shared in the 13,000 block of Glenside in Farmers Branch.
The woman was murdered on April 19, 2004.
The affidavit further states investigators found her blood on Werner's clothes, which he had attempted to conceal, and that trace amounts of her blood were found on a shower floor after Dr. Werner showered following the crime.
Police initially thought Sara Werner's gunshot wound was self-inflicted. But after further investigation, police found enough evidence to charge her husband with murder four years later.
The Dallas County Medical Examiner has ruled her death a homicide.
Following his arrest on Thursday, Dr. Werner was still in his scrubs when police escorted him to his cell. Sources say he wouldn't answer police questions after his arrest.
Three years ago Werner was arrested and charged with the same murder, but charges were dismissed by prosecutors. This week, the new arrest warrant that was issued was almost word-for-word like the previous one.Law enforcement officials won't comment on the difference between the two, but say they are confident in their case. "He's been the primary suspect from the beginning of the case," said Deputy Chief Mark Young, with the Farmers Branch Police Department.Werner once told neighbor Wayne Nail that he was in another room of the house, working on television speakers, when his wife killed herself.Nail told CBS 11 News Friday that Werner told him he had, "Heard what sounded like a backfire and he came outside. Then he came back in and found that he had shot herself. He said he panicked and probably let her bleed out more than he should have."The earlier case against Werner was dismissed partly on the basis of a successful polygraph. Werner's attorney at the time, Reed Prospere, told CBS 11 News Friday, "He's as distraught over her demise as anybody."
As of Friday afternoon Werner remained jailed on $150,000 bond.
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