she was walking into the garage at her house, alive, happy, as well as could be. tim said he still loved carrie, even though they had broken up. how could he explain the seemingly damning lyric, i used to love her, but i had to kill her, that he sent at the karaoke bar when she was still missing? maybe not the best choice of song, given what s actually happened. i told my brother in law, he was with me that night. i said, why did you slap me when i put that sound in. it s kind of a bonehead move. had nothing to do with carrie. it has nothing to do with anything, it was a song. but to prosecutors, it was more than a song. it was a look inside the mind of a killer. and they were determined to prove that in court. tim mcvay was about to stand trial for murder. and he was about to face a showdown in court. one boyfriend accusing another on the stand. coming up the way she stormed out of the door, i thought, maybe i upset her.
investigation as hard as they could. for detective tina noe, solving the case became a mission. finding someone quickly is very important. it is very important. it was bothering me where is she? what could have happened to her? we need to find answers. in murder investigations, eight out of ten, suspects and victim know each other. and that meant taking a harder look at carrie s boyfriend, justin mueller. detectives started by talking to carrie s family about him. we rely heavily on the information that families give us early on in the investigation. but carrie didn t share details of her love life with her family. they didn t even know justin had moved in with her. it turns out, the person carrie did confide in was her ex boyfriend, tim mcvay. to me, it appeared that they were best buds. they talked daily, sometimes, they would talk over 20 times a day. their main way of communicating was text messaging.
death. the prosecutor also used mcvay s internet searches to show how he was constantly checking the website of the newspaper in the distant town where carrie s body was found. he knew that he had concealed her body in hastings. so, he started accessing the hastings star gazette in january. wanting to know the headlines, when her body would be discovered. he accessed that website 100 times. that is an action of a guilty man. what were you looking for? you don t live in hastings? it s kind of a i m not gonna answer any questions about that. and why not? all i can say is the newspaper is a newspaper. i don t have any other comments about that. just interested in hastings? move on to our next question. finally, prosecutors called to the stand, carrie s boyfriend, justin mueller. he testified about the last
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to tell. he said he wasn t in milan, and insisted the fight with carrie was no big deal, but it was about something trivial. there were some burnt eggs. and she had left that day, slammed the door, called him stupid. yes. justin insisted he never saw carrie again after that fight. and in the morning, tim said he dropped her at home, watched her go into the house, justin said that never happened. one guy tells us, i dropped her off here at 6:30 in the morning. and the other guy says, she never came in the door. we know there is a problem. a boyfriend who had a blowout with carrie, and an ex who gave her a shoulder to cry on. one of them was lying. but which one? coming up a caught on camera stunner. who is that using carrie s bank guard? you see him on video trying to get $400 out. when dateline continues.