they re saying it was a homicide. then police found something else. revealing recordings. everything changed like instantly. it s weird. brittany is essentially speaking from the grave. you could see the emotions she went through. could she point police to her killer? i am scared to death. all at once just in a flash your life just changed. hello, welcome to dateline. it started with a little flirtation in the office and bloomed into a full-blown romance. problem was, brittany eldridge was married to another man then brittany found out she was pregnant and it was just weeks before her due date that strategy struck. investigators would home in on the two men in brittany s life but was either capable of murder? here s andrea canning with deadly circumstances. imagine all of your phone conversations being recorded for posterity? how would you feel. what secrets would they tell? why are you talking like you re trying to hide something. reporter: this sto
no eyewitnesses, no proof clark was a killer. he gave dna. he gave a statement. he gave hair samples. they all came back negative. the defense aggressively attacked the state s case and witnesses. starting with leeanne hawn. the question was when did he get to her house? you have no idea when you saw him at 10:35 as to what time he arrived. correct. you were asleep with your television on. yes. the defense drove home the point. since leeanne was sleeping her testimony was meaningless. isaac said clark arrived much earlier and watched monday night football alone before getting into bed. the defense argued there was no way clark could have committed a violent murder, cleaned himself up and the crime scene, staged a burglary and made it across town in less than an hour. the state s fbi expert said clark s cell phone signal placed him near her apartment the night she was killed. the defense countered with its
remember, clark s alibi was that he was at a friend s house the night of the murder. that friend, leeanne was one of his many girlfriends. her testimony seemed to shred his alibi. your testimony is that he comes into your bedroom without calling you, without any notice and you recognize the time as around 10:30. the prosecutor said if clark was at brittany s at 8:30 and arrived at leeanne s two hours later that gave him plenty of time to commit murder, stage the crime scene to look like a burglary and clean himself up. after presenting a circumstantial case, the state rested. norman clark s defense attorney deride the state s case as all theory. they had no physical evidence,
own expert who said the state got it wrong. we had a one of the nation s pre-eminent experts on this, he and the fbi agent testified against each other all over the country. it feels like a scenario where the experts kind of cancel each other out. exactly. i ll give you anything you want. it was a rush to judgment to pip the killing on norman clark, the defense said claiming investigate earls overlooked the most obvious explanation for the crime. the killer was a burglar who was caught in the act. there were 12 break-ins that occurred within a three to four-week period in a very close proximity and 10 of the 12 involved flat screen tvs. also there was a break-in that very same complex four days
attacked the state s case and witnesses. starting with leeanne hawn. the question was when did he get to her house? you have no idea when you saw him at 10:35 as to what time he arrived. correct. you were asleep with your television on. yes. the defense drove home the point. since leeanne was sleeping her testimony was meaningless. isaac said clark arrived much earlier and watched monday night football alone before getting into bed. the defense argued there was no way clark could have committed a violent murder, cleaned himself up and the crime scene, staged a burglary and made it across town in less than an hour. the state s fbi expert said clark s cell phone signal placed him near her apartment the night she was killed.