if she was alive, i had to do all i could for her. i heard this guy yelling and i thought it was a drunk college kid. reporter: hailey lived across the hall from alex s room. the commotion woke her up. i noticed the man was yelling for help and stuff. so, i woke up and started looking through my peep hole and it was a police officer yelling. lieutenant worked with officer johnson on the campus force. he radioed me for the ad what s that? the defibrillator. what did you think when you saw what you saw? i couldn t believe it. you never come to work thinking you re going to see something like that. hailey was glued to her peep hole. she saw people everywhere. they were saying keep your door shut, don t come down the hall and we didn t know what
alex and didn t deny this was years in the making. they say he was guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter. why? because he was under extreme emotional disturbance because clayton whittemore is a victim himself. reporter: that s clayton talking to the 911 dispatcher hours after the murder. he s talking about his dad. telling the dispatcher his dad abused him and his family for years.
the female he was with and was able to make her laugh a little bit. if anything was bothering her, she didn t let us know. so, just a normal couple out on a friday night? he just dropped it to the ground and i made a comment that could be another $100 fine and he complied and picked it up and that s when i saw him cross the street here. and at the same time the female stayed on this side of the street and they both continued to walk on separate sides of the street. they were both from the town of new hartford in central new york. they got together when alex was in high school. clayton had already graduated. now they were trying to make a
we ll never really know what that meant. what do you think it meant? maybe we weren t meant to be together. maybe we should break up. reporter: clayton said they were fighting about cheating. old stuff, he called it. then he told the cops she got physical. she started pushing me and pushing me and kept doing it. reporter: but the investigator pointed out clayton was a strong guy, alex was tiny.
we have them at trial. reporter: voicemails were not admitted in court, but they read an excerpt. i ll kill you next time i see you. you re a slut and a skang, so don t call me. i m sick i m sick of you and i left a lot of words out. when you add in the expletives, it s really hard to hear. these were voicemails that really were scary. reporter: those close to alex and her family say they never knew about the voicemails or knew there were red flags from clayton whittemore. that s why it s out of the blue. never saw that coming. nothing. totally caught me off guard. reporter: perhaps there s a lesson to be learned. ask questions, know what s happening, even if there are no warning signs.