they had gone to dinner, he, kate, and heather. after they went to dinner, he dropped kate back off at her parents home here in downtown charleston and spoke with her a couple times via text message that night. and he didn t talk to her again after that. so it was all on heather. and with her as ethan s chief accuser, how could any jury convict him? but just days before the trial was to start, solicitor scarlett wilson finally uncovered something the case lacked. a clear motive. she found it, she said, in letters kate wrote to her friend before she disappeared. she s talking about how someone has tried to extend her credit limit or has tried to assume her identity and mess with her money in her bank. and she was livid. and i think kate was threatening to get her father involved. that was a new dimension. sure. for heather kamp. i mean didn t need katie as an enemy. and i have no doubt katie confronted heather kamp with that. and that, the prosecutor said, is when hea
he d already tracked ethan to his job at a local hotel and attached a gps locator on his car as it sat in the parking lot. now there was no minute of the day when the team didn t know where ethan and heather were and what they were doing. and almost immediately, they got a surprise. when ethan was at work, heather sneaked over to visit the man living next door. rode around town with him. they were going to the bank a lot. and i called one of the investigators of wachovia. as a result of that, they found that they were kiting checks. they were actually stealing money from the bank. despite what bobby told the bank, it never resulted in charges against anybody. but that wasn t all he discovered. the gps tracker on ethan s car led bobby to a couple of local pawnshops. pawning jewelry. the jewelry was a red flag to us. was it kate s jewelry? they couldn t be sure yet without more surveillance, that is. and then the landlord called gene again, another tip. this one bad.
sort of remained stealthy as much as possible. time to keep a careful, quiet eye on ethan mack and heather kamp. so gene frazier persuaded his church friend, ethan s landlord, to allow surveillance specialist bobby minter to tuck a hidden camera into the corner of the kitchen window. a camera trained right at ethan s front door. it was a motion detected just like the light that they ve got over the door is. when they drove in, it would light up, and it would light up for our camera. the whole camera itself, keith, was about the size of this little flashlight. it was pointed directly at the apartments. and that s enough illumination to illuminate to see what they would be carrying. and that would lead us to know that they had something to do with kate s disappearance. and when ethan and leather left the apartment, bobby had that covered, too. he d already tracked ethan to his job at a local hotel and attached a gps locator on his car as it sat in the parking lot. now there w
he d already tracked ethan to his job at a local hotel and attached a gps locator on his car as it sat in the parking lot. now there was no minute of the day when the team didn t know where ethan and heather were and what they were doing. and almost immediately, they got a surprise. when ethan was at work, heather sneaked over to visit the man living next door. rode around town with him. they were going to the bank a lot. and i called one of the investigators of wachovia. as a result of that, they found that they were kiting checks. they were actually stealing money from the bank. despite what bobby told the bank, it never resulted in charges against anybody. but that wasn t all he discovered. the gps tracker on ethan s car led bobby to a couple of local pawnshops. pawning jewelry. the jewelry was a red flag to us. was it kate s jewelry? they couldn t be sure yet
though lori pressed charges and pushed hard for a prosecution, nobody followed through and lori eventually gave up. lives with the guilt now. i think it was a month or so after i gave it up, that s when she came to d.c. and had met kate. and i always feel if i could have hung on one more month, i could have have helped them get her. now as she prepared to defend ethan, david aler was feeling much better. his crimes chief accuser, it appeared, was a practiced con artist. would any jury believe her? ethan might be naive, but his story, after all, had never changed. they had gone to dinner, he, kate, and heather. after they went to dinner, he dropped kate back off at her parents home here in downtown charleston and spoke with her a couple times via text message that night. and he didn t talk to her again after that. so it was all on heather. and with her as ethan s chief