she was a message light i this dark world. that is what she was about, sh was just a cup of love and i am like, who saw thi coming a beautiful young student gunned down. things like that just didn happen there why? who? who would want to do this? i thought i had my man. her fiance was a police officer. anyone knew how to do thi and get away with it, wouldn t it be him? then someone told polic what he saw. he told me he saw a femal that was about 5:10, she pulls off and takes off at the complex. what did she know she said i m in fear of m life the story starts to unravel. a secret tape why are you whispering? you know why. because somebody s listening. a secret lover he wanted her to come bac to him and she didn t. and a secret reveal as we re getting ready to finish up, someone hands me note who killed denita you ve told me some thing you d only admit to a priest and you can t tell me this las little piece of the puzzle. why? t
verdict came down? all the life just drained out of her like she had seen a ghost. across the aisle shannon family was also stunned, and then furious and now my daughter who i the perfect victim for someone like jamir s drought is no being convicted of a murde that he committed. of course mitt smith s leas olympic to and we pray for the constantly, they lost a chil and so heavily nearly five years after tha verdict shannon herself has lot more to say about jamir trout and about what happene the day denita died. coming up i never knew that he had girlfriend, had i known it would have never escalated t anything else. her very first interview. i don t know jahmir but the voice on the tapes does no sound to me like him
shannon s family was encouraged. i didn t feel that the d.a. proved his case. there were some damaging things, yes, but there was no preponderance of evidence, and i thought that she was going to be acquitted. reporter: for shannon crawley it all came down to this decision. would it be a life of freedom or life in prison? denita s mother braced herself as she stared at the woman accused of killing her daughter. i really think all the way to the end that shannon thought she was going to walk away. we the jury return the unanimous verdict as follows, guilty of first-degree murder. she didn t think she would hear what she heard, guilty. reporter: how d she look when that verdict came in? like all the life just drained out of her, like she d seen a ghost. reporter: across the aisle shannon s family was also stunned, and then furious.
but clearly there was something. he was always there for shannon. if shannon was distraught or wanted to call in the middle of the night, you know, and knew that jermeir was working, she would call him and he would put up with it. maybe he didn t want to be the bad guy? maybe didn t want to be the bad guy. he doesn t see that he s leaving the door open. as long as you keep doing all the things that a boyfriend would do, then in her mind she still has a chance. there s still a shot. exactly. i honestly thought hubris made him believe that he could control it. reporter: but police say jermeir wasn t able to control the situation with shannon. some three months before denita was murdered, shannon bought this house near where jermeir lived. and when police searched that new home shannon s, they were surprised by what they saw and what they didn t see. kids rooms, beds, everything you expect to be in a nice children s room.
i kind of thought selfishly. reporter: jermeir confessing under oath the shameful sin he d kept hidden for so long, his office affair with shannon crawley. he even revealed that when he heard something had happened to denita he immediately suspected shannon. and one of the things that popped in my head based on my recent interactions with shannon was that maybe she had done something. he told everything on the stand. reporter: but he didn t hold back? no, he really didn t hold back. the story is out. so you have to go ahead and tell the truth because if you don t you look like a liar now. reporter: so in that sense, jermeir did do the right thing? he did. reporter: the defense argued shannon was being framed for a murder jermeir alone committed. shannon crawley s lawyer was trying to paint jermeir as a crooked cop, you know, everything kind of elevates shannon crawley as she couldn t do anything like this. it has to be this bad cop over here.