SAN DIEGO -- As part of their strategy to create reasonable doubt, Richard Tuite's defense team will present 30 hours of videotaped interrogations of others who were originally charged in the murder of Stephanie Crowe, 10News reported.

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The Richard Tuite murder trial resumed Monday as jurors watched more of a 1998 videotaped interview of Aaron Houser. During an interview on January 27, 1998, Houser told Escondido police that the victim's brother, Michael Crowe, had a list of people to kill. He said the list included mostly teachers and other children he didn't like.

It could take all week for jurors to watch the 30 hours of interrogations in their entirety.

Michael Crowe, Josh Treadway and Houser originally were charged with Stephanie's murder, after police determined there was no forced entry into the rural Escondido home.

Tuite, a transient and diagnosed schizophrenic, was dismissed as a suspect because investigators thought he was too clumsy to have committed the killing.

He was charged two years ago, however, after the San Diego County Sheriff's Department took the investigation over from Escondido police.

Prosecutors said Tuite was in the area of the Crowe residence the night of the murder, asking for a friend named "Tracy." Evidence also has been presented in the trial that the defendant liked to carry a knife.

Michael Crowe and Treadway gave detailed confessions about the killing, but prosecutors told the jury the admissions were coerced.

Charges against the three boys were dismissed in 1999 when Stephanie's blood was found on a red sweatshirt Tuite had the night of the killing. The victim's blood also was found on a white T-shirt Tuite was wearing beneath the sweatshirt.

Tuite's attorneys told the jury a tripod used to take photos in the victim's room may have gotten blood on it, then come into contact with Tuite's sweatshirt in the lab.

The defense also said two Escondido officers at the crime scene came in contact with Tuite in a police holding cell and could have contaminated the T-shirt.

Tuite's defense team contends that since no one heard the victim scream, she must have been attacked by two assailants, one holding her down and one stabbing her nine times through a comforter.