wanted to do this. then it happened again to another mother and another daughter. somebody is killing mothers and daughters. that is about as scary as it. gets who is out there. and who would be next. something you would never imagined would happen. the clues lie here, in abandon mansion, erie, haunting. where was this killer? hiding cold calculating eyes, lifeless. he was almost a ghost. could they catch him? could they stop him? i get chills all over. i m kind of on the edge of my. seat he truly thought he could outsmart us. hello and welcome to dateline. would you recognize danger, if it was lurking nearby? this story that you are about to hear, is a tale of true terror. a killer was stalking victims in a quiet neighborhood, leaving residents panicked that they would be next. police were determined to catch him, unaware he was hiding in plain sight. but soon, a stolen set of keys would help investigators unlock a mystery and unmask a murderer. here is d
detectives bernie nelson and tony sharpton or hope that their collective experience would help crack two of the most horrific murder cases they had ever encountered. when you back up and look at what you ve got, the scary fact is somebody is killing mothers and daughters, right? that s the commonality. yes and within close proximity of where the duets were found burned in the vehicle it was just two blocks away from where the often s were shot in their house. . the detective suspected they were dealing with the same murder and both cases, especially when they realized dolores the wit was a single mom and a nurse, just like karen loft in. but first, they exhausted the usual suspects. dolores had an ex husband and an ex girlfriend, but both had solid alibis. we had given them polygraph tests. they passed.
four knocks. a barking crazy dog who closet the windows if he hears a doorbell ring. there was no peace in the house. i was like, we have to turn some of this stuff down. i can t live like this because he s, like i don t care if this is going to save our, life you know? just the fear that spread was absolutely amazing. by july 2009, four months after the debate murders and six months after the lofted murders, detectives were stumped. we kept calling them and they weren t giving us no answers so that pisses me off because i felt like we deserved to know something. it was wild. we had nothing. we were out of the investigative playbook and that s when it got scary. the detective had made a promise to patricia that he would take down her sister s killer. with that turnout now to be an empty promise? at this point, what he needed was luck. and luck was about to come his way from the most unexpected source. coming up, an unassuming
investigators with the first lead in the lofton and dewitts murder investigations. why happens up here as you continue to go? up these other various dots along the map other locations where jason s got admitted to breaking into the houses here on woodland. here is what the detective found strange. jason had admitted to every unsolved burglar on the block. all but one, the house where those nissan spare cues were stolen. for me the most important part of this puzzle, was to find out who broke into this house, right here, where the vehicle cues were stolen. in the interrogation he did not give you that. adjusts he did. not in anonymously, or to jason know-how import in the car cues were deliberately keep the house office. list we don t see guys they break into houses and steal a tv, then morph into a serial killer. we don t know if we have our guy. but we certainly have something to investigate. detectives sharpen are and nelson teamed up with detective agents to create
late at night, i would go and sit in the yard and just hoping that he would come back. i would sit there with a knife and my hand. and i will hold, i will hold it. like real tight just in case he came up on me or something. because it would be him or me. either him or may. and i told the detectives what i did. she couldn t sit still and do nothing. she wanted to be involved in the investigation from day one. she would actually go door to door in the neighborhood and talk to neighbors, try to ask them questions but i had to repeatedly explain to her that we can t have her interrupting our case. she s a thorn in your side. she is. but i understood because if my sister were killed, it would be hard for me to sit still to. so detective shot near made patricia a promise. we were sitting in the car and i remembered just crying and crying and crying. and then he promised me, he said i m gonna get him. he said if it s the last thing i do. he said i m gonna get. him to do that, dete