as police combed the south hil looking for evidence and suspects in the murder of doug carlile, his wife elberta ha no idea that her behavior ha raised alarms. who cares about stupi evidence but police 101. the victim s nearest and dearest often becomes prim suspect number one and elberta, with her wild story, was no exception. then detective burbridge was able to get a close look at th early evidence, and especially that video of the running ma in black and immediately it became apparent to me that whoever di this had reconnoitered the scene and spent time plannin it because of the very elaborate escape route it made me concerned tha elberta was probably telling the truth about who wa involved and what happened when he saw all tha planning including the videotape showing the man in black he felt it was far les likely that elberta carlile wa anything but a victim. but in her brain, whil detectives kept going over thi question or that, two thoughts blocked out all else, he des
elberta s story that night tha did make sense before the murder as she and doug drove to church she sai they saw something out o place. there was a van kind of sitting up against the curb. a white van. like it didn t belong there or something yeah. a white van as police canvassed th neighborhood after the murder, a witness across the stree said she saw it too. she had come home aroun 5:00 that evening and noticed white van parked in front of her house. and it was parked in a way tha made her nervous to the point she thought maybe someone was breaking in. why would she be suspicio of a van a van she d never see before, and in tha neighborhood, everyone knows everyone the question was, what di the white van have to do wit the murder of doug carlile, or the cops wondered with his wife, elberta. coming up, a neighborhoo security camera. what tales would it tell we actually saw that suspec and saw the path that he ran could you tell who it was all you could really see
the paperwork that claimed h was worth millions, a facade doug carlile was flat broke. hadn t even bought lif insurance. do you ever feel angry at all at doug for not providin more for like a insuranc policy or something? no, not at all. because he was a very good provider all the days that h was alive. and i really didn t believe in insurance policies like that i believed in trusting the lor for our finances, and that s what we did. secrets, just another casualty, as the little army o detectives searched th neighborhood for clues, like for example the strange find that turned up in the killer s escape path. that weirdly out of plac welding glove. they swabbed it for dna on the off chance, really, just a sho in the dark, that something in or on that glove might match dna on a felon stored in a dat bank and it did timothy suckow what did you think when you found this out i thought this could be our guy. was he local? he was local. he was working at irs environmental, an
paranoid, but it s really bizarre that a van would be in this neighborhood. but this is the south hill, after wall. nondescript white vans don t just show up and hang around here. so the neighbor noticed. and then doug carlile winds up murdered. we didn t know if it was related or not, but it was obviously something that we considered immediately. and again, this being the south hill, another neighbor had the wherewithal to provide a special kind of help. a homeowner in the neighborhood had a video camera that covered his driveway, and we picked up what we thought was the van about two hours before the murder. here it is, that video. and sure enough, a white van coming and going on the streets of south hill that night. but did it have anything to do with the murder? and what about that man in black elberta said she saw? if he actually existed. hired killer or whatever. he must have waited somewhere around the house for the carliles to get back from church.
investigation in about eight different directions trying to eliminate a lot of business partners, seeing if mr. carlile had a secret life, did he owe somebody else some money, because he had a lot of failed business dealings in his other businesses. and so i had a lot of concerns. angry ex-business partners? angry current business partners? what, if anything, did she have to do with it? yeah. i mean, obviously, i didn t know at the time what he was doing. coming up detectives learn about a charismatic couple knee-deep in doug s oil venture. they looked like ken and barbie, their perfectly white teeth and tans. did they know anything about the murder? and then finally, investigators have someone to question. i researched his criminal history and knew he had a very significant criminal history. so i was concerned, was he my hit man? we re going to start talking about some things honestly here. okay. that s fine. people tell me you re the shooter. when dateline con