[captioning made possible by cosgrovemeurer productions, inc. ] 6 00 pm. 18year old leroy drieth has just left his girlfriends house. He is killed instantly. The coroners ruling . Suicide. His sister, vickie, has always been convinced that her brother was murdered. I took a vow that i would do this for my brother. And i dont feel like i can stop until its done, because i would be letting him down. And i already feel l le the authoritieielet him down, and obviously someone took his life and someone has to stand up and talk for him. For vickie mahrling, time has stood still since the day her brother died. Her goal is simple to bring leroys killer to justice, no matter how long it takes. Leroy drieth was the oldest of four children. At the agegef 17, he fell in love with a 16yearold girl named patty. A year later, they were engaged. On the day he died, leroy went to a party at pattys house. How are you . Good. Good. A block and a half away, his car smashed headon into a tree. The first pe
Out a crime like this without leaving behind some sort of evidence. Zl that was the key with finding out who did it. Extrord ntraordinary. He may have committed the perfect crime. They thought they knew who he was looking for. This was different than what they expected. Youd have to include all possibilities. Create a picture of this person based on the dna in the case. Trace evidence analyzed. There was something there. She saw it coming. She saw who her killer was. Shocking. Absolutely shocking. On this episode of death row stories shocked. Blood everywhere. Two men are dead on chicagos south side. It was intimidation, blow his head off and smile. The Africanamerican Community had problems with the police. Possible motives, suspects. They never went after these guys. But the case reveals corruption at the highest level. A judge was convicted of fixing murder cases. There had to be Police Reports missing. You make that mistake. It aint no coming back. Theres a body in the water. He wa
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