When a graduate student is shot dead outside of her North Carolina home, a 911 caller leads detectives to believe the victim s fiance is the key to solving the.
not much. no weapons certainly. no blood-soaked clothes. they took dna swabs and bagged various items for lab analysis. and then in a closet they found a really oddball souvenir. an audio recording made by greg, of him and chiquita engaged in a screaming match. you said, i m going to leave you with the end tables. i m leaving you with that sofa. i m leaving you with all this because i don t need it. you can have it. that s what you told me. you can have it. reporter: this sounded like a couple splitting the sheets, divvying up the household goods. oh, that s all i had when you came here? yes, it is! reporter: denita was aware that her sister, chiquita, was unhappy. but realistically she didn t think her strong-willed sister would ever be happy in a marriage. you know in a relationship you have to compromise. i don t think she was willin to do it. it was her way or no way. reporter: denita says her tempestuous sister was always threatening to storm out of the marr
in a nice building a few blocks from the courts complex. lessie hookfin went with her. reporter: what areas did she start to stake out for herself? criminal. she wanted to do criminal so bad. reporter: prem burns watched her in action. chiquita was one to speak her mind and dress how she wanted in conservative lady lawyer pantsuits one day and stilettos and spiky hair the next. she would walk into a courtroom and she looked like she owned the place. reporter: you could hear her coming before you saw her, huh? you could, you could. and we always joked, because chiquita would wear four-inch heels and just strut in and you knew chiquita tate was in the courtroom. reporter: another thing, chiquita was all about family. she hired her sister denita to help in the office. and denita knew better than anyone that hard-driving chiquita could be sunny one minute and a gulf coast storm the next. she fired me, like, every week. reporter: she fired you? yeah, every week, and then
would do it because he was in had some financial stress. we didn t buy into that for a minute. reporter: the defense argued cops didn t look hard enough at the list of scary clients who may have wanted chiquita dead. and that unknown male dna under her fingernails? the source, still unknown. we believe there was just more to this than was presented to the jury. reporter: the trial lasted 16 days. and then the jurors were given their instructions. after listening to the evidence, denita was torn. and she remembers how she felt when, after three and a half hours of deliberation, the jury announced it had a verdict. reporter: now, take me right through your mind and your stomach as you re walkin back into the courtroom. shakin badly. barely could stand on my feet. we holdin hands, walkin back in there. reporter: did they see greg as a stone killer capable of premeditated murder? or an innocent, grieving husband? the answer is, neither. the verdict they reached was someth
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