Jaffe said he had been at the house earlier that evening, helping Burnside install a dishwasher while Lord was painting the doors and baseboards, and that he had left before midnight. The officer identified him as Brian Jaffe, a thirty-year-old civil engineer who had been Burnside’s best friend since high school.
He was wearing a T-shirt, khaki shorts, and sandals. “Who’s that?” Thompson asked, pointing to a man kneeling beside Lord in the front yard. Although she had her own apartment, she was planning to move in with him as soon as he finished remodeling the house. The way Lord had described it, she and Burnside were deeply in love, and they had been talking about marriage. She had started dating Burnside, the co-owner of a company that retrofitted homes to make them energy-efficient, about a year earlier. Lord was 33 years old and worked as a loan officer for a mortgage company. The officer looked at the notes he had jotted down. She was wearing a blue T-shirt and gray sweatpants, her knees stained with blood. The officer pointed to a woman sitting on a chair in the front yard, her face in her hands. When the paramedics arrived, Burnside had faint vital signs, but he died shortly after reaching the emergency room at Parkland Memorial Hospital. She identified herself as Olivia Lord, Burnside’s girlfriend, and said she had just found Burnside lying on the kitchen floor with a gunshot wound to his head. At around twelve-thirty, the officer continued, a woman had called 911 from the house. A uniformed officer walked over and told Thompson that the house belonged to a man named Michael Burnside, age thirty. A light drizzle was falling in the early morning hours of May 9, 2010, when detective Dwayne Thompson pulled up in front of a modest home on Spring Grove Avenue, in a tree-lined neighborhood in North Dallas.
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