it was like oh, wow. he did it. he took off and we didn know where he was. he took off, and we did not know where he was. call it a mother intuition. she had a sign. i don t know how, something wa wrong. her daughter away at colleg was not answering her phone. she was scared. she did not know where ale was. then, terrible news, student had been murdered, i young woman, but apparently it was not alex the girl on the floor had very dark, almost black colore hair she had much lighter hair. so, who was it, and where was alex at that point, it was one that, and perhaps anothe missing. the color could be roaming campus of students we were really scared in a serious tweet. what did you think? i don t exactly know. a terrifying phone call my son just called and told me he killed somebody. and a terrible truth. i did not know how, and i did not know who and i did not know anything. i just knew she was gone hello, and welcome to dateline
tell them? they wanted to check th trunk. they didn t know there was a body in the trunk, because a that point, they still hadn determined, you know, who it was actually on the dorm roo floor of 108 that was about to change. the cops back in brockport, wh initially thought the victim might be alex kogut s roommate had learned the roommate was staying elsewhere that night but where? they started an urgent search. until they spoke to her, the couldn t be certain of the victims identity, because of the hair color, investigator steven peglo the girl lying on the floor had very dark, hair. and when you saw the photo that alex had put up in he dorm room, of her and clayton, she had much lighter hair. the roommate had darker hair investigators knocked o students doors, questionin them then, a nugget buried in a conversation they learned that alex had recently died her hair brown they had what they needed to i d. their victim. now, they want to hear fro
blew it over that one was scary. hunter fernandez was called to the stand hunter had played hockey on th college florida team wit clayton. and he had a scary experienc too. it happened after clayton drin a half dozen beers he walked into the kitche and got the knife. and it looked like he wa possessed, he took a ste towards us, our host mom she was like clayton put the knife down defense attorneys didn dispute that clayton whittemor killed alex kogut, didn t even try. and they didn t dispute that his anger was years in the making but they argued this wasn t case of murder, their client was guilty of the lesser charg of manslaughter. why? they said he was under the influence of extreme emotional disturbance when he killed ale kogut, because clayton whittemore was a victi himself. i m turning myself in for
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