One of the most extraordinary cases. A murder just months after her wedding. She gave me a big smile and i remembered that smile for years. All the time the killer was hiding in plain sight. No indication she was ever spoken to . No. And then a new detective took a look at an old lead. He said its a match. A person no one would have ever suspected of murder. We were going to end this. Was suddenly suspect Number One. Perfect murder. Almost. Hello and welcome to dateline. She was found murdered and what happened to her remained a nightmare. But when detectives reopened the case, they discovered it wasnt a burglar, but a suspect that led to their own front door with the Smoking Gun. Arriving before dawn at the police departments police station. I was tired. Reporter he hosted a super Bowl Party the night before, and the beer flowed freely. That is a good way of spending the day, getting caught up on my reading with a couple of aspirins, maybe. Reporter he reached for a file that had been
actually, would appear that she ises trying to go out the door or make it to the alarm box where there s a panic button. and at that point, we believe that sherry went down in the foyer due to the fact that you could see marks in the as with well as broken finger nails from her hands. reporter: so there s a tremendous fight going on. yes, the killer is dragging her back in the area and then the killer takes a vase and hits her in the head with it. knocking her out and grabs a blanket and muzzels the gun and puts a contact shot in the victim. reporter: so that s an execution. that would be correct. reporter: as for motive, it seemed to be in plain sight. a few feet are from her body. they found a vcr and disk player that was stacked up one on top the other, near the front door. reporter: as if they were stealing it. as if it was a burglary or
actually would appear that she s trying to get out the door or make it to the alarm box where there s a panic button. at that point, we believe that she went down in this foyer area due to the fact that you could see marks in this as well as broken finger good fingernails from her hands. the killer is dragging her back into this area, and then the killer takes a vase and hits her in the head with it, knocking her out. then grabs a blanket, husband else the gun muzzles the gun, and does a contact shot into the victim. that s an execution? that would be correct. as for a motive, it seemed to be in plain sight. a few feet from sherri s body. they found her vcr and disc player stacked up by the front door. as if somebody were about to steal them? yeah. giving the indication this was burglary or home invasion gone
she tries to get back downsta s downstairs. she gets down these steps and actually would appear that she s trying to go out the door or make it to that alarm box where there s a panic button and at that point we believe sherry went down in this area due to the fact that you could see marks in this as well as broken fingernails from her hands. so there s a tremendous fight. yes, the killer is actually dragging her back into this area and the killer takes a vase and hits her in the head with it knocking her out, then muzzles the gun and does a contact shot into the victim. so that s an execution. that would be correct. as for a motive, it seemed to be in plain sight, just a few feet from sherry s body. they found a vcr and a disk player stacked up on top of the other right by the front door.
tries to get back downstairs. that s correct. she s bleeding profusely and she s very wounded and she gets down these steps and she s trying to either go out the door or make it to the alarm box where there s a panic button. at that point we believe she went down in this area due to the fact that you could see marks in this as well as broken fingernails from her hands. so there s a tremendous fight going on on the floor. yes, the killer is dragging her back into this area and then the killer takes a vase and hits her in the head with it knocking her out and then grabs a blanket, muzzles the gun and does a contact shot into the victim. so that s an execution. that would be correct. as for a motive, it seemed to be in plain sight, just a few feet from sherry s body. they found a vcr and disk player stacked up by the front