didn t take long to find out. shane was the son of a wealthy businessman. just so happened, shane attended the university of kentucky at the very same time as trent digiuro. but after college, he didn t do so well. he ran up at least a dozen convictions, drug charges, multiple duis, and so on. so detective evans went back to attorney bullock. is there any more? can you get me any more? and ultimately he started talking about a motive. and that s when the whole story took a turn into the twilight zone. he told me that it was concerning shane ragland being blackballed from a fraternity. what d you think when you heard that? that s a stupid reason to kill somebody. the fraternity in question was sigma alpha epsilon, sae. detective evans looked through sae s records, and there it was, a pledge list with shane s name crossed off. and then it hit. this could be the reason that we never could find out why trent was killed, is because it was something this weird.
trent was officially pronounced dead at 3:00 a. m. just about the time don evans arrived. evans has retired now, but was a rookie detective back then. this was his first homicide case. what d you find when you got here? there were three young men in this very yard, and they just looked distraught, and they were consoling each other. on the porch, trent s chair was turned over and evans could see blood and debris left by the ambulance crew. what was your first idea of what appeared to have happened here? you know, when i first walked up, i went with what appeared to be the obvious. that someone had simply walked from the side of the house, fired the shot, and then exited back toward the rear of the house. so this is almost like an alley here. so it would provide concealment. take advantage of surprise. yeah. if someone was gonna take a shot, that made the most sense. believing the shot came from a handgun, police looked for shell casings. and yet for all they looked, there
harmed? there was still, after all, that incriminating airport recording. or was it incriminating? you never did ask him, though, if he had shot and killed trent, did you? why would i when he had already told me? and if i said to him, did you kill trent, when he already knew he told me five years ago, he would have he would have known that i was that i was there in fact to to set him up? to get him to admit it. hadn t you rehearsed that? rehearsed what? with detective evans and others. don t give him an opportunity to deny that he had shot trent. no. had the defense planted a seed of reasonable doubt? maybe. the jury adjourned to think about it. and trent s friends waited. i ve never been so terrified and so scared in my life. uh-huh. your heart s going 100 mile as an hour. a hundred miles an hour.
about it, and it touched her. but she was so frightened of him, she said. she was determined to remain anonymous. they know each other intimately. she knows how he would react to certain situations. yep. and she was terrified. he certainly would ve remembered his conversations with her. if you told someone that you committed a murder, you would certainly remember having told them that. yes. so, tom bullock went to detective evans. we agreed that whatever information i would give him would be anonymous, because for all we know, the whole thing could ve been hogwash. that s sort of tricky, isn t it? i mean, when you ve got somebody making an accusation, you have to be able to talk to that person. well, yeah. but at that point, beggars can t be choosers. so he gave you a name. so he gave me a name. he gave me the name of shane ragland. shane ragland. the woman s ex-boyfriend. but who was he?
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - Police in Atlantic City investigating a shots fired incident on Thursday encountered a fugitive wanted for a previous gun possession