december 1st, 2011, one o those days that make teeth chatter, joyce creek, rod, damp dismal. by then 21 years old was there in the end of his glas insulation shop at washington. half a mile north of spoke can when s phone messaged. it was from logan logan, his younger sister a school i remember she said i m cold, come pick-me-up. but where was their mother? wasn t she supposed to be there? austin dutifully trooped aroun to collect his sibling, as the cold gray afternoon darkened i couldn t take her to my mom s house because no one answered the phone and i had n way to get and so i just too them to my dad s house where i
alibi for that decembe morning. remember, clay s da started with car trouble and his text to chanin. asking her to take the kids to school. he said he spent much of december 1st walking between his home and the spot the car broke down, about a mile away. he told me that he had to g back and forth to his residenc four times that day to work on his car and get tools, to eat, to take a nap. reporter: but detective couldn t find anyone along tha route who remembered seein clay. and another odd thing, his cell phone was off for several hours, no pings to trace. but in the area cla said he walked, a little sho leather produced a stroke of luck attached to a house there was a camera on the side of the house. reporter: a hom surveillance camera pointed in the very direction the remembered clay telling them h walked. and no sign of clay as far as they could tell i mean, there s n indication that he ever passed by there that day.
her. it makes me mad who could be so cruel? well of course it s the homicid detective s job to figure that out. could mean many things. i could mean somebody close to her who is very upset and angr with her or it could mea something else the investigation began the very day chanin s body was found. and as luck would hav it, among those just beyond th yellow police tape that nigh was a man police surely woul have looked up sooner or later khan chanin s ex-husband cla was clearly looking for them his ex-wife was missing. was she okay he was asking to talk to th lead detective. he wanted some answers. first responders at the scene wouldn t tell hi anything about what was foun inside the house, not even tha chanin was dead. an ex-husband after all is no longer next of kin. he went to the sheriff station. i said come in. w need have a chat and he said your jacket says major crimes. what s going on? nobody will tell me anything the detective broke the
they could turn chanin into wa this awful person. she wasn t a sexual deviant she wasn t she wasn t running around sleeping with everybody in deer park and spokane. reporter: the state presented its case first argued in court by deput prosecutor larry steinmetz, an he began not with sex but with that other less titillatin root of all evil money. the jury heard from summer stark that chanin didn t have any. with respect to mis starbuck s financial situation how would you define that? dire. do you know whether or no miss star buck had bee receiving any child support or spousal maintenance from mr. starbuck during that tim period she had told me she did not reporter: clay owed mor than $9,000 in back chil support. eliminate the ex an his financial obligations woul die with her, thus a money motive said the prosecution.
a murder to put the intimate parts of life on this play they had tracked down tw suspicious man shannon was dating, one a teacher was at the house on the day she likel died, the other sense shannon racy text message that almos mimicked a crime scene they offered alibis, of course but since the detectives didn know exactly when shannon died they couldn t check them out funny. one little break could make al the difference it hit me really hard. it was like a rock in my stomach. detective mike ricketts wasn t expecting it, not at all, that piece of evidence tha suddenly surfaced weeks into the case. his colleague, detective lyle johnston ha just gotten a record of th calls dialed from chanin s phone, and there it was, staring back at him. the records that we get fro the phone company reflect a 91