realizing that it s amber. how could that be? her life was just beginning. amber meet friends for life. there was just no trying with our friendship. it just was. but that life didn t last long. amber is on the floor, face down, and she has a plastic bag wrapped around her heads. it still is open, the door is open. most people who rob a store don t kill anybody. my whole world just died right there. for months, the murder stayed cold. didn t have witnesses, didn t have video, didn t have the any. we had everything going against us. we go down and talk to the detective, we would not let it go. then a break. another victim. he would duct tape me, duct tape my mouth. and she knew a secret. could she risk revealing it? something is going to happen tonight. a killer ready to run, face to face with the one person who might be able to stop him. he just reached over the glove compartment and he pulled out a gun. and i said, please don t kill me. i m go
wrapped around her heads. it still is open, the door is open. most people who rob a store don t kill anybody. my whole world just died right there. for months, the murder stayed cold. didn t have witnesses, didn t have video, didn t have the any. we had everything going against us. we go down and talk to the detective, we would not let it go. then a break. another victim. he would duct tape me, duct tape my mouth. and she knew a secret. could she risk revealing it? something is going to happen tonight. a killer ready to run, face to face with the one person who might be able to stop him. he just reached over the glove compartment and he pulled out a gun. and i said, please don t kill me. i m going to get out of their. alive. hello, and welcome to dateline. i m natalie morales. amber belken was a force to reckon with. a pet young woman whose big dreams and drive made her seem unstoppable. then she was found murdered. was amber the victim of a
and then i m looking at brandon like, i do understand how this happened. you know, i don t want to blame anybody but your first thought is, who was around. who can you look and see? maybe he had something to do with it? it s got to be a pretty shocking thing to discover. i mean, is hard to describe. you just have 1 million emotions running through. you don t know what to do. the police came. took one look and called raymond ray bob roberts. then a detective with the san antonio police department. it looks like a robbery gone bad. the store is in disarray. the clerk was found in the back office. she s dead. if i can get some information on her. any witnesses. so we hold the scene down, get the crime scene detectives out there. the news, indistinct, unconfirmed, spread through the texas afternoon. somebody dead in amber s store. but most people did not know who. including amber s father as he
of two told him their marriage was over, he raped her then begged her to kill him. she couldn t do it and now geovany was on the run. here is keith morrison with the conclusion of everything she knew. the day veronica called the police was the beginning of the end for geovany rivera. i wanted to get him. not that easy. all they knew was he had gone somewhere. probably mexico. but it was a full six weeks before they tracked him down. surprised him at a relative s house, sure enough, in mexico. as he played one of the video games he stole from ambers store. detective roberts got his suspect exactly where he wanted him. we re in a jail, a cold stinky loud jail, i m detective roberts all this background noise i read him his rights, you have the right to remain silent. and he starts talking. i ve had this guilt for a
alibi and phone records placed him miles from the crime scene. police initially played out a hunch that the culprit must have had a game store connection. now, a call from an anonymous tipster was about to breathe new life into that theory. once again here is keith morrison with everything she knew . that brandon biel did not kill his boss amber belken was, very clear. which meant that the detective ray bob roberts had a big problem. we had everything going against us. didn t have witnesses, no video, no danny, didn t have fingerprints. nothing. he went public then, had to. we held a big news conference with the parents, them and at. pleading for help. crime stoppers put up a lot of money. nothing. i was hoping, you know, money talks. 100 grand reward. a hundred grand reward is a lot. but nothing.