they re saying it was a homicide. then police found something else. revealing recordings. everything changed like instantly. it s weird. brittany is essentially speaking from the grave. you could see the emotions she went through. could she point police to her killer? i am scared to death. all at once just in a flash your life just changed. hello, welcome to dateline. it started with a little flirtation in the office and bloomed into a full-blown romance. problem was, brittany eldridge was married to another man then brittany found out she was pregnant and it was just weeks before her due date that strategy struck. investigators would home in on the two men in brittany s life but was either capable of murder? here s andrea canning with deadly circumstances. imagine all of your phone conversations being recorded for posterity? how would you feel. what secrets would they tell? why are you talking like you re trying to hide something. reporter: this sto
to me when i looked at it it looked like a burglary that was interrupted and went bad. prosecutor leslie nassios had been on the case from the very start. baby zeke was born clark would be exposed for exactly what he was. the birth of this baby threatened his way of life and that was his motive. she was very emphatic that norman clark was not only guilty but was kind of a sleazy human being. did you worry that the jury would not like norman? absolutely. because of his lifestyle. yes, that was a big worry and i addressed that from the very beginning. what i want you to pay attention to is the evidence. after six days of testimony it all seemed to come down to norman clark and what kind of man he is. because you don t the fact he had multiple partners it shows control and desire to control the victim. norman clark is a killer. he killed brittany eldridge. he killed his baby. those same argument has led
no eyewitnesses, no proof clark was a killer. he gave dna. he gave a statement. he gave hair samples. they all came back negative. the defense aggressively attacked the state s case and witnesses. starting with leeanne hawn. the question was when did he get to her house? you have no idea when you saw him at 10:35 as to what time he arrived. correct. you were asleep with your television on. yes. the defense drove home the point. since leeanne was sleeping her testimony was meaningless. isaac said clark arrived much earlier and watched monday night football alone before getting into bed. the defense argued there was no way clark could have committed a violent murder, cleaned himself up and the crime scene, staged a burglary and made it across town in less than an hour. the state s fbi expert said clark s cell phone signal placed him near her apartment the night she was killed. the defense countered with its
remember, clark s alibi was that he was at a friend s house the night of the murder. that friend, leeanne was one of his many girlfriends. her testimony seemed to shred his alibi. your testimony is that he comes into your bedroom without calling you, without any notice and you recognize the time as around 10:30. the prosecutor said if clark was at brittany s at 8:30 and arrived at leeanne s two hours later that gave him plenty of time to commit murder, stage the crime scene to look like a burglary and clean himself up. after presenting a circumstantial case, the state rested. norman clark s defense attorney deride the state s case as all theory. they had no physical evidence,
friendship with him become intimate. yes, ma am. did he have a particular way of referring to a part of your anatomy? yes, ma am. what did he say? ownership. it was his. he must have been stretched so thin to be attentive to 15 different women. that is one of the reasons that the prosecution said he was he broke and now here s this baby and brittany s saying i m going to take you to court. next the prosecution established a time line to place clark at brit any s apartment at the time she was killed. here s brittany leaving work at 8:05 p.m. the medical examiner estimated her time of death as early as 8:30 and an fbi cell phone expert testified clark s phone pinged off a tower near her apartment at 8:28 and again at 9:05. where was his phone was? in brittany s cell tower.