don t believe you right now? all i can say is what i know. i know that i did not kill her. she was a beautiful person. a wonderful friend. a lover, a confidant. she meant the world to me. it is the end of a long trial after more than two weeks of testimony and argument, judge meersman was ready to give his verdict. timothy mcvay, i am finding you guilty of first degree murder, and consume a lot of homicide death. i jumped out of my seat. i was so excited and happy. tim mcvay was stoic, showing no emotion. and three months later, he was just asked stow it when the judge sentenced him to 45 years in prison. i believe you killed her. and the saddest part is, you have killed her for a car and some money. for justin mueller, the cloud of suspicion finally lifted. for carrie s families and friends, the verdict meant justice, and bittersweet relief. i just started crying. and it felt just, like, this huge weight was gone. but justice for carrie still could not expl
get $400 out. the pin is not working. the pin is not working. why was tim driving carries car, and using her debit card? tim told detective voy there was a simple explanation, even after they broke up, he and carrie always had each other s backs. she is the kind of friend where if she called me, i would drop whatever i was doing to help her off, kind of thing. tim said that s why he had taken care of carrie when she came to his house after storming out on justin. and it also wasn t unusual that she lent in her car, and debit card, he said. she gave me her debit card. she said go to the ih mississippi valley atm, and get me out four hundred dollars. then, go up top off the gas tank, whatever it takes to fill it up. can set, she also promised him to drive him to the airport in minnesota that sunday, but then, she changed our mind at
tim drove straight to police headquarters when he flew back from las vegas, saying he wanted to help. i want to talk to you about carrie. absolutely. that s why you are down here, right? anything you want to know. i don t know where she is. i don t know what she s doing. i very much want to know, because i m concerned. it turns out, tim also had a lot of concerns about justin, which he shared with detectives. he said the problem started even before justin moved into carrie s house. she called me out of the blue one afternoon, freaking out because this guy, justin, that she had been dating, was kind of stalking her. it was something best friend amanda also worried about, when carrie went missing. who did you think would want to hurt her? i immediately thought justin. have you ever heard anything about justin stalking carrie? she had told me that he would drive by her house,
you chose to in hot pink handcuffs. how did it feel seeing him in pink handcuffs? good. was it an extra little jab? yes. for tina. tim mcvay pleaded not guilty he was denied bail and put in the county jail. that s where dateline found him for his first television interview. i did not kill carrie. and i did not dump her body. tim said the wrong guy was behind bars, pointing to the fight carrie told him that she and justin had that saturday morning. did she say what the fight with over? romantic issues, i guess, that would be the best way to put it. of a sexual nature? that was my impression, yes. and then, what happened after that? there was some throwing, a couple of things have gotten broken. there was a little bit of a physical altercation between the two of them. tim said the last time he saw carrie was when he drove her back to her house, just before he went to the airport.
justin said she never came in that house. she s home his home. i don t know. she didn t walk into the garage and then walk away? i am thinking justin is probably not being very truthful at this point. it was clear, one of them wasn t telling the truth. and it was time to find out which one. did you ask tim to take a polygraph? we did. did you give justin a polygraph? we did. but when justin and tim took those lie detector tests, they both passed, and then, they both went back to their lives. still, detectives kept an eye on them, hoping one might slip. one night, later that winter, tim mcvay, the karaoke king of the quad cities was back, sinking in front of a crowd. he sent, i used to love her by guns n roses. i used to love her, i had to kill her. a woman at the bar who was aware of the case knew he was a