hello i m craig melvin and this is dateline. oh god please. ma am. oh god. oh god. i just knew that she was gone. she was a bright, young mom to be. she was beautiful, confident. strong. it was a smile that really got me. moving on from a messy divorce and jumping into a new romance. no one could believe it when they found her. they re saying that it was a homicide,. then police found something else. recordings. everything changed. like instantly. it s weird. he is essentially speaking from the grave? you can see the emotions that she went through. could she point police to her killer? scared to death. once, just in a flash, the life just changed. hello. and welcome to late lane. it started with a little flirtation in the office, that bloomed into a full blown romance. problem was, brittany eldridge was married to another man. then, she found out that she was pregnant. and it was just weeks before her due date that the tragedy struck. inv
from the grave? you can see the emotions that she went through. could she point police to her killer? scared to death. once, just in a flash, the life just changed. hello. and welcome to late lane. it started with a little flirtation in the office, that bloomed into a full blown romance. problem was, brittany eldridge was married to another man. then, she found out that she was pregnant. and it was just weeks before her due date that the tragedy struck. investigators would quickly hone in on the two men in her life. but was either capable of murder? here s andrea canning with. deadly circumstances. imagine all your phone conversations being recorded for posterity. how would you feel? what secrets what they tell? why were you talking like you re trying to hide something? this story begins here. at a suburban office outside of knoxville, tennessee. it looks like any of us in america. but when workers here talked on their desks, phones every word was captured
investigators believed an entry from brittani s diary provided a hint. she wrote that she planned to take norman to court to get child support for her baby. she knew that he had a child with somebody else and that he did participate there. so why wouldn t he here? andrea says the night before the murder, she was on the phone with brittani who was texting with norman at the same time. she says that he wants to meet monday after work. and, i said tell him no. but brittani said yes. norman insists that he blew off their date. and did not go to her apartment monday. the date that she was murdered. but her family did not believe him. they had grown very suspicious of norman. and wondered why police had not moved in on them. how frustrated were you that he was walking around? very frustrated, and even call the police investigator at one point and said if you do not get, him i will take care of myself!
where you being serious? i was being dead serious. despite the frustration, the case was moving forward. and almost two and a half years after she was killed, prosecutors presented their evidence to a granary. they charged norman clark with the murders of both brittani, and their unborn son. clark was arrested on may 14th, 2014. he pleaded not guilty. when you re arrested, for something that you did not do. and then there s no evidence to even show that you should have been arrested. that s when things really hit hard. that s when i really got scared. norman clark had reason to be scared. if a convicted, he could spend the rest of his life behind bars. coming up! they ve taken a good, young man. and they have destroyed his life. norman clark on trial. and on the stand? i thought he was my boyfriend. girlfriends. many, many girlfriends. but where was the evidence?
like bipolar-ism. i mean on a daily basis. i mean, how can it not for one thing. he s a guy. that s why not. brittani was still in love with norman, and pregnant with his child. she seemed desperate to figure out her future as a mother. and how norman would fit into her life. norman, to put it mildly, was not acting like he was ready for a commitment. how are you doing? i am great. investigators had access to all of norman s recorded work calls too. they were very revealing. you know, i want to ask you. you ever get with ? oh yeah. bang that out last week. did you? yeah. yeah. that was only my second time seeing her. congratulations dude. oh thank, you thank you. you re wild man. you re wild dude. norman, it turns out. was in other relationships at the same time that he was with