scene with a distraught woman behind the wheel. >> so if the maintenance guy doesn't see the burgundy suv, then you never ask jermeir about the burgundy suv. >> exactly. i've -- wouldn't have went to greensboro looking for a suspect when durham has plenty of people here. >> reporter: so the day after the murder, detective pate headed westbound on interstate 40, anxious to speak with shannon crawley, the other woman in jermeir stroud's life. by now, shannon's parents, her father keith and her mother were shocked to hear their daughter was about to be interviewed by police. she was a responsible single mom who lived quietly, raising her children. >> being a young mother, you know, she worked six months straight, 12-hour shifts, to buy a house at 27 years old. that's quite an accomplishment for -- for a single mother. >> it sounds undeniable that all of you were really proud of her.