DNA Doesn’t Lie
NEW VIDEO: A woman is dead, and the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office has been hiding a potentially embarrassing scandal. We’ve been asked to get justice. Our investigation includes DNA testing, and the results are shocking. But DNA DOESN’T LIE…
DNA Doesn’t Lie
We normally wouldn’t show you a body inside a casket at a funeral home.
But Kathy Hatcher wants you to see this.
That dead woman is her daughter.
“Why did you come to us here at Dolcefino Media?” Andrea Palacio said.
“I would like to know who did it,” Kathy Hatcher said.
The Liberty County Sheriff’s Office says they know who did it. That there was no crime here.
That 60-year-old Sherry Novosad killed herself.
A gunshot wound to the right side of her neck.
The medical examiner in Beaumont, Texas ruled Sherry’s death a suicide in this report in November of 2024.
But her family believes someone is hiding something, like a possible murder.
“Her lip was busted, somebody hit her and knocked her out and knocked her down, while she was down they shot her,” Carl Hatcher said.
“They don’t want to accept the fact that it was a suicide that’s all I can say,” Captain Myers said.
“And I guess they’re all in cahoots together and nobody really wanted to do any real investigation,” Kathy Hatcher said.
“Maybe this was just a tragic suicide, but the family has come to us. They want an independent investigation,” Wayne Dolcefino told the camera.
“My name is Bobby Rader and I’m the sheriff in Liberty County,” Bobby Rader said.
The sheriff who refuses to talk, hiding body camera video and crime scene photos. The investigative reports from us and her family.
“We are not going to play attorney cop here ok,” Captain Meyers said.
Who is that charmer?
“My name is David Myers. I’m Captain David Meyers of the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office.”
He runs the Criminal Investigation Division at Liberty County Sheriff, and he’s the sheriff’s PR guy too.
“I don’t care who you’re with,” Captain Meyers said.
“We all watch true crime shows,” Nikki Meyer said.
Let’s get justice for Sherry.
We turn off the lights inside this trailer home in Dayton, Texas, east of Houston.
We are looking for something, we check the walls, examine a curtain.
A Go Texans clock hanging on the wall.
We shine our light across the ceiling.
The guy in the white protective clothing is Bruce Jeffries of the National Screening Center.
What are we looking for is blood, because DNA doesn’t lie.
“The family doesn’t feel the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office did an appropriate and thorough investigation on this,” Nikki Meyer said.
Samantha Novosad and her four-year-old son came here to check on Sherry that traumatic day.
She was sitting upright against this front door.
“I peek through the little door hole of the window and I see her legs,” Samantha Novosad said.
“People do not go to the front door to shoot themselves,” Carl Hatcher said.
“I touch her and she was hard as a rock. I said this is a crime scene,” Samantha Novosad said.
In part because of the way Sherry was positioned, it looked staged.
“She was just straightened up. Her legs looked together her shoes were off perfectly sitting right next to her,” Samantha Novosad said.
The weapon recovered was a Bond Arms Rough and Rowdy .410.
“Very uncomfortable to shoot the hammer is very hard to pull back the trigger is horrific.”
A derringer that fires shotgun-size shells, and emits a six-inch flame.
“She shot a 410 pistol right here, against her neck. It would have burned the hell our of her. There were no burns,” Ted Novosad said.
And then there were the bruises on Sherry the family saw at the funeral home.
Both her wrists and her nose.
“She had a busted lip. You can look at the pictures on my phone I can show you,” Ted Novosad said.
Ted and Sherry knew each other since the 80s, but they married other folks first. Eventually found their way back to each other.
But as you can see it was a rocky marriage. Ted was badly injured in an industrial accident.
“A big light plant fixture fell and struck me in the head,” Ted Novosad said.
He was accused of mental health issues.
And he was charged twice with alleged domestic abuse of Sherry, the first case was dismissed. The most recent charge was July 2024, four months before that shotgun bullet ended her life.
“I would do nothing to hurt my wife I gave her everything she wanted,” Ted Novosad said.
But Ted suspected his wife was cheating on him, setting him up as an abuser to get him sent away so she could then cash in on the proceeds from his ongoing lawsuit.
“I’ve located two spots of DNA. We have it on the curtain we have it on the pendulum of the clock,” Bruce Jeffries said.
We measure, much of the blood was cleaned up. You can still see the discoloration on the molding.
But we don’t believe Liberty County ever tested the blood.
And bloodstains remain, do they match, and is it the blood of a woman?
Because Sherry was living alone.
But Jeffries questions why he doesn’t see a blood trail.
He knows how the bullet traveled from her neck into her spine.
“It should have been on the TV it should have been here on this table, but there’s not any,” Bruce Jeffries said.
“The family feels like they walked in and said oh suicide and threw their loved one in a bag and walked out,” Nikki Meyer said.
The blood on the curtain you see is fourteen feet three inches away from where Sherry’s body was found.
“This is the first time I’ve ever been asked to collect a DNA sample from a death case where there’s perfect DNA that was left behind. For what reason I wouldn’t know that,” Bruce Jeffries said.
We send the samples to a laboratory out of state, and the results fuel this investigation.
Of course we expected the blood to be Sherry’s.
And now we have the results.
The DNA from that blood on that curtain is a man’s. One hundred percent certainty.
We asked Ted Novosad if he would take a DNA test to see if he was a match, despite his denials of any involvement, and he agrees.
“I’m going to swab the inside of each cheek three seconds per cheek.”
“No problem.”
He knows even some in his own family consider him a suspect.
“I don’t want anybody to have any doubt about my innocence in all of this,” Ted Novosad said.
“And because of that DNA test we have a deeper mystery on our hands. Because the blood on the curtain, it’s not Ted’s blood either,” Dolcefino told the camera.
Then whose blood could it be?
“I think there is a lot more to this story than is being told,” Ted Novosad said.
Ted thinks he knows.
“There’s a lot of things that have been covered up and hidden instead of a real investigation,” Ted Novosad said.
Ted tracked his wife when he suspected infidelity.
And we have pictures of where she was going.
And that’s why the lack of cooperation from the Liberty County Sheriff smells more like a cover up, a potential embarrassing scandal.
Because they know, that guy, works for the sheriff.
“And that’s the excuse for this law enforcement secrecy on a suicide case from Liberty County,” Dolcefino to the camera.
In a letter to the Texas Attorney General, Liberty County claims Sherry’s death is still under “active death investigation by the Texas Rangers.”
The plot thickens.
“I felt like Sherry deserves justice I love Sherry very much,” Ted Novosad said.
Stay tuned.
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