it kirkland said he had watched karissa blossom into a gregarious teenager. a fashionista and inspiring model with a knack for selfies. i sing the song by bob carlile, it s called butterfly kisses. it told the story of him and a daughter, and i used to sing that song to her. and she would just look at me and she loved me singing a song to her. she was my butterfly. that s what i called her. now kirkland s butterfly was dead, and detective nelson recruited some of pg county s finest to help him solve the case. including detective anthony shirt near. this is a mother, hardworking, and her daughter. and they both think that there safely inside their home. and here comes a monster into your house with a glut. it shocked us all as a hunt for this brutal killer, detective started with the usual suspects.
you want to do from prying eyes, have? absolutely. and at night this is absolutely pitch. dark this is just a playground the jason sky had. the task force called in the forensic team. we walk down here through these rocks here and that s when i first initially saw the sweater, which was right down here in the rocks. it was the charred remains of a blue sweater, the kind ebony dewitts had worn the last time she was seen alive. once we saw, that we said hey this is it this is finally, something you were talking about a high five moment. you walk further down these rocks here, and gathered in these leaves where the other two pieces. jeans that seem to match the gene fragments covered from dolores dewitt body. detective sharpen are brought in expert to the spooky, house to identify the foliage. and he pulled up here and he
many people s heads, including during the botched home invasion of the ervin family. but he s cut this deal john. you can t go after him on those burglaries. the home invasions. at that point, your. correct he s home. he s off scot-free. home. free even better for jason, he believed his accomplice marcus hunter alone, would be left to take the fall for their crime spree. he figures, if i m the one who s willing to testify against marcus, that will be his opportunity to lessen his sentence. smart. cunning. how good was this guy? he certainly had a plan any at an idea of what he was trying to get away with. it really was a life cat and mouse game for him. back at the county, detective shirt near was floored when he heard from a colleague that the pipsqueak eaton been interviewed and dismissed the week before, had fest up to the majority of unsolved home invasions and burglaries of the neighborhoods of prince george is county. including one of his colleague had been investigat
unsolved home invasions and burglaries of the neighborhoods of prince george is county. including one of his colleague had been investigating. and i thought, oh good for. you you ve got your kids. close but i m still here with four dead women that we have not solved. and i said, hey. just out of curiosity. can you give me that list. when the detective plotted the addresses jason had pushed across the table on a map, he could not believe the picture that emerge. this is in awe moment in your investigation. this is the assam omit. this is our first break in the case. coming up. we don t know if we have our guy, but we certainly have something to investigate. the investigation was about to lead them here, something called the spooky house. and federal officer on this case would soon be spooked himself, when dateline continues.
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. we did bound ground checks on them. we found out where they were and there was nothing that would lead us to say that they were involved. as in the lawton case, when