she was a message light i this dark world. that is what she was about, sh was just a cup of love and i am like, who saw thi coming a beautiful young student gunned down. things like that just didn happen there why? who? who would want to do this? i thought i had my man. her fiance was a police officer. anyone knew how to do thi and get away with it, wouldn t it be him? then someone told polic what he saw. he told me he saw a femal that was about 5:10, she pulls off and takes off at the complex. what did she know she said i m in fear of m life the story starts to unravel. a secret tape why are you whispering? you know why. because somebody s listening. a secret lover he wanted her to come bac to him and she didn t. and a secret reveal as we re getting ready to finish up, someone hands me note who killed denita you ve told me some thing you d only admit to a priest and you can t tell me this las little piece of the puzzle. why? t
maybe someone like jermeir fiancee, denita smith. detective pate now thought shannon crawley had the means, the opportunity, and the motiv to commit murder it got to the point we w thought this is all we re goin to get right now. and it s mor than enough. well, was it enough? police had no dna, no fingerprints, n murder weapon, and no forensic at the crime scene that linked shannon to denita s murder. bu detective pate was als thinking about denita s family the family is suffering let s go ahead and give them a little peace right now five days after denit smith s murder, detective pate drove back to greensboro with warrant to arrest shanno crawley. she and her childre were staying at her sister s house when police arrived. shannon comes out. they cuf her. she walks out the door as though she s going to check th
even know denita smith. then detective pate zeroed in on th last time shannon was in durham. the city where denit was murdered she said she s never been t durham. i ask her about owning a gun. and she tells me that i ve never owned a gun. i can stand guns. i m scared of them i said, okay. i can understand that. a lot of people feel tha way. and as for where she was on that chilly january morning? she told me she was at doctor s appointment with on of her children. that was easy to check out. her supervisor was on scene and she did tel her supervisor that she wa taking her child to the doctor shannon s story seemed to add up. maybe she wasn t the distraught woman the eyewitnes saw leaving the scene of denita s murder 50 miles awa from where shannon lived and worked. detective pate was jus about out of questions. an then an interesting thin
a close eye on this now, hig profile case when that he might actuall prosecute. if the killer was ever caught. it was so obvious that it was not a robbery, and so if she was targeted for som reason, there was a very, very very, very limited number of people who would target denita for something like this. and jermeir certainly could ve bee one of em. jermeir stroud. denit smith s fiance. on the day o the murder, stroud had reveale to police his romance with shannon crawley. the woman who owned an suv similar in mode and color to the one see leaving the crime scene with a distraught woman behind th wheel. so if the maintenance guy doesn t see the burgundy suv then you never ask jermeir about the burgundy suv exactly. wouldn t have went to greensboro looking for suspect when durham has plenty of people here so the day after the murder detective pate headed westboun on interstate 40. anxious to
didn t really say a whole lot. jermeir and denita had me back in college and became the it couple on campus. they had been dating for few years. and, you know before i even met him, denit spoke very highly of him what d she say? like, he s a gentleman. he intelligent. he s active involved, well-rounded, he s kind, he respects me, he protects me. he s loving the perfect guy the perfect guy. the perfec guy. he was, apparently, eve perfect enough for denita cautious mother, sharon smith. who came to trust that jermeir was the right guy for he precious daughter. i knew what he would be getting. but i didn t know wha she would be getting. so i tried to find every reason t not like him how d you do? i failed because he was ver