27 migrants and three children died when they drowned trying to crosses english channel from france. france saying it will do more to monitor the shores opinion health officials are concerned by a coronavirus variant detected in south africa. the united kingdom is temporarily banning flights from six african countries while scientists examine the new variant. now back to dateline extra. reporter: detective evans knew he had to meet this mystery woman, a woman who was claiming she knew what happened to trent digiuro but was too frightened to talk about it. then finally with attorney tom bullock playing gatekeeper, they made a deal to at least meet face to face, but any more than that? maybe not. she agreed to do an interview.
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 miles an hour. a hundred miles an hour. and five hours later we, the jury, find the defendant guilty of intentional
choosers. so he gave you a name. so he gave me a name. he gave me the name of shane ragland. reporter: shane ragland. the woman s ex-boyfriend. but who was he? 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. reporter: 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. reporter: the fraternity in question was sigma alpha epsilon, sae. detective evans looked through
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. reporter: 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. reporter: and you fed him bits and pieces of information from her without telling who she was. correct. correct. he wasn t taking that information. he wasn t writing it down in notes. he wasn t putting it in official files or anything yet. we just wanted to see if what she said was credible. 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
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 were none, nor any other evidence. still, detective evans figured there was a party that night, so there were bound to be people who saw something. my thought was, as soon as i get em to headquarters and get em separated, someone s gonna tell me what happened. did they talk? everyone talked. but with each and every person that i talked to, they didn t see anything. 80 miles away, at 5:0