i m gonna leave the house and the phone rings. you could see the area where heidi was. i was lost for words just doesn t make sense. a vibrant young woman stalked by killer. i cringe every time i think about it found dead by her boyfriend my brother was just a mess. he was devastated. the most ominous clue, u on the wall to the left of you heidi s body was, was a number one. she s number one and get ready because here comes trouble exactly it was not a break-in the windows, the door, nothing was broken did the killer have a? keith the question always was, how did the person ge into the house a decade later, in a stat 1500 miles away, detective finally found their answer got a dna hit. and more questions. we knew there was more of the story than just some guy come in colorado to meet a murder and go back home again. did someone closer to hom want her dad you are 99% sure he had something to do with it. but, there s no smoking gun. so many secret
evidence, in this whole entire trial that points to stephen other than the confessed murde and these detectives with thei belief when it came to motive, the turned the case on its head. the defense version. this isn t about stephen searching for a contract kille online but rather, heidi looking for love on the dating website and finding alexande bennett. you surprised her by showing u to baltimore we thought that he met he online, came here to be with her, he rejected him, and he killed her it made sense to us, it made sense with the forensics, it made sense with the physical evidence to backup theory, the defense pointed to this police photo of heidi s keys and bag. if, as bennett testify, he jumped or what you walked in the door, how did her door key and makeup bag and up tightl on the kitchen table in anothe room so the bag on the kitchen table is not a trivial thing for you. no, i think she made it t the kitchen. i don t think he attacked he
was the client they show a photo array of six suspect, assistant state attorney matt broke. he immediately separates fo photographs and say, it is definitely not these for, an he is left with two. and he takes a couple of moments, and stares at them. and eventually he says, yes, this is him. i remember him bennett picked out steven cook he was arrested for firs degree murder. deep in our hearts, we al had a feeling that he ha something to do with it. steven s trial began in june, 2015 he pleaded not guilty. glenn and burrow had the tas of convincing a jury tha stephen was capable of orchestrating a cold, murder for hire their case would rely heavil on the word of one man, th killer himself, alexande
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