and he was denise s next door neighbor and was unemployed. but when police went to interview caballero, he wasn t home. i happened to knock on door 737 which was right across the hall from her apartment, 738. while knocking on the door i heard a dog bark. [ dog barking ] through a window, investigators saw the dog and its coloring. seeing a black chow with my own eyes, the hair on the back of our necks stood up. detectives asked another neighbor about caballero. the guy said the only guy i know is the guy, and he points up to the guy that lives up there. you know, the guy with the chow and the boa constrictor. i said wow. for the adult.. and kid - in all of us. (supergrass alright ) (plays throughout)
investigators now had two men in custody for the abduction and murder of denise o neill. luis caballero and isac brown. not surprisingly each man identified the other as the killer. complicating things further, investigators discovered that a third man was with caballero and brown on the morning they disposed of the body. it is absolutely shocking. the defense now can say the real culprit is out there. the real culprit is the person who you haven t charged. but who was this third man? when police did a background check on luis caballero they learned he had been arrested a month earlier for car theft. and he had an accomplice. he was with an acquaintance of his.
other important items. we found a pair of scissors. and trapped within the hinge of the scissors appeared to be blue-colored fibers. we knew that ms. o neill had been wearing a blue-colored garment that had been cut. caballero maintained denise had never been inside his apartment. but under a cardboard box investigators found a gym membership card. and when i picked it up and turned it over and it had denise o neill s name on it, i was ecstatic. detectives believe this clue was left at the scene by a desperate denise o neill. my first question was, have you ever detailed denise s vehicle? luis caballero s response was he never has been in her car or never detailed her car. but analysts found caballero s prints inside denise s car.
he described her as being snooty. caballero denied being involved with her murder and said he had no relationship with her other than to say hello. we discovered that mr. caballero was in serious financial trouble. he had a phone bill of $6,000 from phone sex lines that he had had been calling. that he was behind on his rent. and that he could be evicted at any time. detectives obtained a search warrant for caballero s apartment. what struck me immediately was the large amount of pornography inside the closet. the type of pornography that was there dealt with a lot of violence. it was real, real sick stuff. we did not find denise o neill s fingerprints inside caballero s apartment. but they did discover other clues. i walked into the actual bedroom area, and as i started
but when dna results came back only one of the three, luis caballero, was tied to the sexual assault. based on the forensic evidence and witness interrogations, investigators believe that caballero planned the attack on an afternoon when denise was doing her laundry. when no one was around, he grabbed her and forced her into his apartment. and with isac brown s help gagged and tied her up. he took her atm card and forced her to divulge her p.i.n. number. caballero then left to get some money and on the way back picked up robert messer.