And a grudge. I felt that when this shooter crossed steve off, he was moving down a list. A long list. She came running towards my vehicle. There was Blood Dripping from her face. Six murders. My gut just dropped. In four days. This was a Homicide Investigation in overdrive. It was. A city under siege. There was a lot of fear, there was a lot of unrest in the community. People were desperate for a suspect. Who else could have been on that list . I had my own personal terrorist. And why. People dont get gunned down their offices. There had to be a link. The most haunting question of all could those six lives have been saved . Steve always said these things never happened in a vacuum. There are always Warning Signs. So, losing him the way that we did was stunning to me. Hello, and welcome to dateline. Forensics psychiatrist steve pitt was well known for his work on high profile criminal cases. When he was shot outside his phoenix office, it was a big story. Nobody knew it yet, but his de
on tuesday. five adults and a teacher are dead after a house explosion in pennsylvania. the cause of expulsion is under investigation by county officials who say more information is not expected for quite some time. now, back to dateline. back to dateline. welcome back to dateline. i m craig melvin. four people had been gunned down just miles apart and private investigator rick anglin was convinced dwight jones was the killer. rex insight into dwight s mental state had developed over time, in the aftermath of that terrifying i-20 dunes managed to escape her husband s rage. here again is josh mankiewicz with unraveled . doctor connie jones spend 22 years married to a mentally ill
closer. i m convinced we are dealing with dwight jones at this point. recognized that all the crime scenes related back to dwight and connie s divorce and custody battles from nearly a decade earlier. plus, forensic analysis had already told police all four victims had probably been killed with the same weapon, and there is a critical piece of evidence that might link that weapon to dwight. that bit of dna on a shell casing recovered from the scene of steven pitt s murder. dna tests can take weeks or months. that was time police didn t have. we had some family members of mr. jones that were in northern arizona, with help of the phoenix police department area unit. we flew a detective up there. at the same time, other investigators were on the hunt for dwight. we had a bagel description for mr. jones, and a 2001 gold
that he s not about hiding in the shadows. i am not going to let him have died for nothing, and i will find a way to make him proud. no one can say for sure exactly what s set off dwight jones. after the bloodshed was over, some video surfaced that jones had posted before the murders. hello, youtube, and welcome to my channel. and them, dwight raged against his wife and the professionals who worked on the custody case. you ve rolled i have a psychiatric problem based on some piece of (bleep) she hired? the videos underscored some troubling questions. dwight jones is obviously disturbed, so why wasn t he stopped? did the legal system fail everyone? could six murders have been prevented? i do you feel very strongly that the court system did not protect me. connie jones says her ex husband was violent for years, but that courts ignored one red flag after another. my life wasn t valued. my son s life wasn t valued enough to stop him which inadvertently harmed other people.
that gun was not a match for any of the homicides. it was not. if it s dwight jones, he still has that gun with him? right and they don t necessarily have enough yet to link dwight jones to these four murders. but there is still the dna. a detective who flew late sunday night to get dna samples from dwight s family now rushed those swabs back to the lab and within about four hours, we had a positive it on mr. jones. we at dateline cover a lot of murders. some of which take years to solve. this case was not one of those. less than 84 hours after this homicidal rampage begin, investigators were confident they had ided their killer. we knew he was our suspect and murder. at the same, time the dna was being analyzed, detectives were retracing dwight steps via cell phone data. sometime before he d been placed under surveillance,