there was a murder on a colleg campus a beating so brutal, that th victim couldn t be identified. with a killer on the loose police were desperate fo answers. and they were about to get them, thanks to an unexpected phon call once again, here is andrea canning with after midnight. early saturday morning, steven peglo, a vetera homicide investigator with the monroe county sheriff s office has been called to the campus. the cops there had seen murder on their hand, a body they couldn t identify, and a kille on the loose everyone thought they kne what was going on, but nobod really did until you got there and started to put the piece together you didn t know. as he drove to the campus investigator peglo reviewed th facts as he knew them. one young woman was dead another was missing. it was reported there was a young lady still alive, an needed help. right then, that was m priority in my mind when i wen to the office. do you think that clayton had taken alex and had her t her? sh
growing up with my dad one man i despised your dad? in the minutes before he wa arrested, clayton wrote bizarre apology to alex and th family, sorry to the family an you, he texted, nothing will ever fix or undo what i did. i became my father in court, clayton sister too the stand and supported he brother s story. their father, scott whittemore did not respond to datelines calls. there is no records of complaints against him, but defense expert, a psychiatrist testified, scott admitted that as a former marine he may have been rough because of that abuse, the expert concluded that clayto was suffering that extreme emotional disturbance an snapped in the dorm room the prosecution begged t differ it s sad and tragic, yo know, we never discounted or deny and his past but that doesn t excuse what he did
peoples minds too. at her parents house, samantha turner, alex s best buddy, was phoning all her friends. when she got to a roommate, college official got on th line, and told her that ther was a situation. and i broke down. and i grabbed my sister and was like, we need to go back right now. and i rushed here. four in the morning four in the morning i got here i saw police cars. you didn t know at this point what had happened still? i didn t know exactly which was. hundreds of miles away, a frantic mother, waited desperate for answers, but whe those answers came, they would be unbearable, and they were coming soon from the kille himself. coming up - two frantic phone calls from a mother he said she was breathing then she stopped and a son what is going on their bug?
just one more person, alex s roommate when she did call in, finally, they learned she d been stayin in another dorm room we had her come to us, so w could speak with her positive that the girl on the dorm room floor with ale kogut. bubbly, happy, lovely alex only 18 years old. best buddy samantha turner rushed back to college early that morning, devastated i broke down. and i knew at that point in my life, my life was changed. we just knew what s happene without even anyone telling you? i didn t know how i didn t know who. i didn t know anything i just know she was gone, and could never see her again. sandra whitney and he daughter page our family friends of the koguts.
wasn t so good after all the couple had dinner, and then, the party. clayton said he and alex drank moderately, but at the party he got annoyed with her, and said he felt disrespected. she d like raise her voic at me and said anybody els said anything to her, she d be all giggly as they walked back from th party, clayton got that open container ticket so i was already aggravated and it aggravated me more. clayton, remember, walk t the other side of the street t cool off and then alex posted that fina cryptic tweet, should have known. we ll never really know wha that meant but - what do you think it meant? maybe that they shouldn t b together maybe we should perk up. at 12:17 am, alex went to her dorms. she and clayton entered he room clayton said they were fightin about cheating old stuff, he called it. what was she saying she s like i saw a pictur on your phone, way back, you know november of last year o