did one of several cameras see someone enter after greg left? there may not have been a trail of blood, but with a little luck, those cameras just might give them a portrait of their killer, or killers, suitable for framing. coming up she sees the wallet on the side of the road. the missing wallet and that mystery clump of hair. what might it reveal? if you re in a fight and pull someone s hair out, you re going to find root hairs. so the scenario that occurs to me is that this is a woman that s in this assault. exactly. when dateline continues.
courtroom and she looked like she owned the place. she loved defending those clients. she loved law. reporter: she d stayed late at work to read up on a murder case. but the next murder police wound up investigating was hers. she s representing some really hardened criminals. maybe somebody had a beef with her. it was personal. reporter: the clues? a missing gucci wallet. mystery strands of hair. it suggested that a female had maybe killed her and she d pulled the hair out. whodunit? who came up here and did it? somebody planned this murder. somebody wanted her out of the way. i told her, i will make this right. i will make this right for you. reporter: i m lester holt. and this is dateline.
blood on what about that? that s a problem for you. well, practically it s not a problem. in the normal course of living a little blood on a clorox bottle is really not that big a deal. chiquita lived there. of course her dna would be on that bottle. reporter: as for the hair that the prosecution said was planted? the defense argued that was just an unproven theory. those two female clients may not have been involved but the long strands suggest another woman may have been there. it suggested that a female had maybe killed her and that in the middle of the fight she d pulled the hair out. between that and the amount of cleanup, that would have been required, we always believe two people were involved in this murder. reporter: and as for that visit to gardere lane? the defense lawyers say greg was reluctant to admit it, but not because he had tossed the wallet. well, because he was buying steroids. he was discussing buying steroids, which is illegal. reporter: kill her f
track his cell phone. in fact, did you have anything like that? no, we did not. we were just bluffing him. you know we do phone records? your phone records, her phone records. it tells every tower that you hit when you make your phone calls. that s fine. that s fine. reporter: and so, with greg thinking the cops knew his every move, they confronted him with an important question about the place where chiquitas wallet had already been found. when s the last time you been on gardier lane? gardier lane? i went to gardier lane last night. really? yes. what time did you go to gardier lane? i don t know what time it was. approximately. what s he say he s doing there? he said he went to buy steroids. he s a big guy and he lift weights and he said that s where his steroid dealer lived. little street transaction. right. reporter: whatever the explanation, greg harris had put himself in the neighborhood where the wallet had been
for a wallet taken from a victim s purse and then tossed, chiquita s id and her credit cards were all inside, which got investigators thinking. maybe the killer planted the wallet there, hoping some street person would find it and stumble right into a homicide investigation. when you take a nice gucci wallet, loaded with credit cards, to gardere lane and leave it in the streets, somebody s going to pick it up and start going to the mall, spending some of those credit cards. and the first thing that s going to happen is that the police are going to have a film of the transaction and go to that person and say, you killed chiquita tate. there s our suspect. absolutely. reporter: so, this killer unknown started taking on some traits in the detectives minds. the person was good or lucky enough to get out of the office building without leaving a trail of blood, and after what had to have been a frenzied attack, still had the composure to think up the red herring of the tossed wall