job, so to speak. they were looking at people close to shelley, someone who had a key, like a boyfriend or a roommate, someone who knew she would be asleep and then surprised her, attacked her with a knife. she was small in statue. it wouldn t take much. but to? as detective tough as detective ellzey was with boyfriend nathan, he was not much farther along than when he started, and how he spent some time with a few of nathan s friends, like his roommate, daniel william. you are older than the other kids. and yes, i was 26 years old. he too was a little different. for one thing, he had been born in indonesia, and struggled with some wheel culture shocks when it s family moved to america. still, he put on a brave face and served in the navy, and
former reporter scott goldstein cover the story for the dallas morning news. other pieces of key evidence that pointed to him even more so. perhaps most startling was a remarkable piece of evidence that police discovered in daniel and nathan s apartment. and paying attention to what was found in the bathroom. and your bathroom? no, not my bathroom. nathan s bathroom. a plastic baggy with blood on it in nathan s bathroom. the changes this whole case. and when he s asked about that piece of evidence, he locks up. now he is not that little boy i have been talking to. now, he is a man. and he understands his situation. and he says, i need a lawyer. just like that? absolutely. he locked up tight. he sure did. also, remember, whoever had killed shelley must have had a key to her apartment. there was no sign whatever of forced entry. and shelley told her mother she
nathan. or less i actually did it. and let s look at the evidence. and, there s that bear fruit. or is that something where you look at them and it just doesn t work, because we want to make sure we got the right person. could you have prosecuted nathan? absolutely. absolutely. i mean, it would have been an easy case. really? absolutely. come in and say he did it, he is the boyfriend anytime you have a stabbing, you mediately look to whoever that person s romantically involved with. so we called in nathan yet again. multiple time. actually? too yes. they finally arrived to the same conclusion the police did that neither ashli nor nathan killed shelley, had to beat daniel. daniel alone. but making a case in court, it might not be so easy. this is one of those cases where circumstances are kind,
around, and looked after him. but, it turned out, nathan was at home in suburban dallas, the night before the murder. his mother drove him to school that thursday morning. he said he was doing homework at a computer lab at the time of the murder. but was he? and he was in school from wartime to wartime? i don t know. what time did you pick him up thursday? thursday, i picked him up 10:00. routine questioning. from starbucks, i went that s when i texted actually, if she wants to go get lunch. from there i went to white rock lake and because i was supposed to take a picture. but i forgot to bring my camera for an assignment. in from their, i thought
by jealousy. we couldn t just say here s the physical evidence, found the circumstantial evidence. and he did it. we had to deangelo the evidence that we had that showed that nathan didn t do it. we knew that was going to be the defense. and, ask for daniel i told them an opening statement it is bizarre as it is brutal. i wanted him to know that they would be hearing a case where their first reaction was going to be how could this happen? this is crazy. i didn t want to be in the middle of a case and then trying to figure out what is going on, why are we looking at this guy, not that guy. then the prosecutor presented his theory. a story of how it went down. surely, unknown night owl had been appalled wednesday night into thursday night on her computer until 6 am, when she went to sleep. ashley left for school. then daniel enter the apartment, possibly with ashley ski the